Privacy Policy

Last updated: 15 October 2026

Refrakt is a puzzle game for iPhone developed by Christoph Weidinger in Austria.

Refrakt has no user accounts, no sign-in, no analytics of its own, and no server of its own. Your progress stays on your iPhone. All 400 levels are free to play; a short ad from Google AdMob runs between levels, and a one-time purchase removes the ads. Google (advertising and consent) and Apple (purchases) are the only outside parties involved.

Your game progress

• Solved levels, stars, which element introductions you have seen, and whether you have finished the intro tour are stored in Refrakt's own storage on your device.
• None of it is sent to the developer, and this version of Refrakt does not sync it to iCloud or to any other service — it exists only on the device you play on.
• Deleting Refrakt removes that data from your device. The Remove Ads purchase is tied to your Apple Account rather than to the saved game, so it can be restored afterwards.

Advertising

• The free version uses Google AdMob to show an interstitial ad after a level is solved. There are no banner ads and no ads during play.
• Google's advertising SDK may process your IP address and approximate location, device or app identifiers, ad interactions, crash information, and performance data to deliver, measure, and improve ads and to help prevent fraud. Advertising partners may process information under their own policies.
• The developer does not receive this data in a form that identifies you. See Google's Mobile Ads data disclosures, how Google uses information from apps that use its services, and Google's Privacy Policy.

Your advertising choices

• Refrakt uses Google's User Messaging Platform to ask for your consent where the law requires it (for example in the EU, the UK and Switzerland) before any ad is requested. If you decline, ads may still appear, but they are not personalised.
• Where required, Privacy choices in the field manual (the ? button on the main menu) lets you review or withdraw your consent at any time.
• Refrakt does not access the advertising identifier (IDFA) itself. If Google's consent flow shows Apple's tracking prompt, you can allow or decline it, and change your answer later in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
• Buying Remove Ads stops all ads. Once Refrakt knows you own it, it no longer loads the advertising SDK's ads or shows the consent form.

Purchases

• Refrakt offers a single non-consumable in-app purchase, Remove Ads, which switches off the ads between levels. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Every level is playable without it.
• Anyone who bought the earlier Full Spectrum unlock keeps an ad-free game; nothing needs to be bought again.
• The purchase is processed by Apple through StoreKit. Refrakt asks iOS whether the product has been bought and switches the ads off accordingly; it never sees your name, your payment details, or your Apple Account.
• Apple's handling of the transaction is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.
• Remove Ads supports Family Sharing, so members of your family group can use it under Apple's rules.

What Refrakt does not do

• No analytics, crash reporting, or usage measurement run by the developer. Google's advertising SDK can process diagnostics as described above.
• No accounts, no email collection, no leaderboards, no social features.
• No access to your contacts, photos, microphone, camera, or precise location.
• The developer does not sell your data.

Children

Refrakt is a puzzle game for all ages. It has no chat and no user-generated content, and the developer does not knowingly collect personal data from anyone, children included. Ads are delivered by Google AdMob under Google's policies. The only purchase is the one described above, protected by Apple's own purchase controls — Screen Time can restrict or disable in-app purchases entirely.

This website and contacting support

This static website sets no cookies of its own and uses no analytics or advertising. It is hosted on GitHub Pages, whose infrastructure may process technical request information such as IP addresses; see GitHub's Privacy Statement. If you email support, your address, message, and any attachments are used only to answer you. Please don't send passwords or payment details.

Where your data is processed

Your game progress never leaves your iPhone. Google, Apple, and GitHub operate internationally, so information they process may be handled outside your country; their privacy statements describe their safeguards.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have rights of access, correction, deletion, restriction, and objection regarding personal data, and the right to withdraw consent at any time — for advertising, through Privacy choices in the field manual. The developer holds no personal data about you from the game, so there is nothing to retrieve or erase on the developer's side; deleting the app removes everything the game stored. Google and Apple provide privacy contacts for data they process. You may also contact the developer at any time, and you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority (in Austria, the Datenschutzbehörde).

Changes to this policy

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