Landslide

Landslide is a game you play by yourself on your iPhone or Android phone. The game itself collects nothing about you. The free game shows ads, which come from Google, and you can sign in to Apple's Game Center to compare your results with other players. This page says what each of those involves.

What the game stores

Your campaign in progress, your finished campaigns and your settings are kept in files on your own device so that you can come back to them. They never leave the device, except for the scores described under Game Center below. Deleting the game deletes them.

The free game shows a few ads: at most three breaks in a campaign, and ads you choose to watch in return for something in the game. They are provided by Google AdMob. To choose, show and measure them, Google's software in the game collects:

your IP address, which is used to estimate your general location;
an identifier for your device: Apple's advertising identifier only if you allow tracking, and otherwise an identifier limited to this developer's apps;
which ads you see and tap, and how you interact with them;
performance and crash information about Google's software.

In the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area and Switzerland, the game asks for your consent through Google's consent form before any ad is shown, and you can change your answer at any time from Ad choices on the title screen. In US states whose privacy laws give you the right, Ad choices also lets you opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for advertising. Apple also asks whether the game may track you. If you say no, the advertising identifier is not shared and ads are not personalized with it. The game plays the same whichever you choose.

Google uses this information under its own privacy policy. Google explains how it uses information from apps that show its ads here.

Landslide Plus, a one-off purchase, removes the ad breaks and the ads you would otherwise watch for extras.

Game Center

If you are signed in to Game Center, the results of campaigns you win (such as electoral votes, states won and money spent) and the achievements you earn are sent to Apple's Game Center, and your Game Center nickname and scores are shown to other players on the leaderboards. This is handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy. If you are not signed in, nothing is sent.

Purchases

If you buy anything in the game, the purchase is handled by Apple. The game is told only that the purchase was made. It never sees your name, your payment details or your Apple Account.

On Android

Landslide is also on Android. There the same applies, with these differences: the identifier Google's software uses is the Android advertising ID, which you can reset or delete in your phone's Settings under Google > Ads, and there is no tracking question, because Android leaves that to those settings. There is no Game Center on Android. Landslide Plus is bought through Google Play, which handles the payment; the game is told only whether you own it.

The people in it

The candidates are real nominees and primary candidates shown as historical public figures. Their portraits are photographs in the public domain, most of them official United States government portraits, or photographs used under Creative Commons licences and credited in the game. The events of each campaign are invented. Landslide is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any candidate, campaign, party or broadcaster.

Questions

Write to support@hardie.app.