Joyner Labs LLC makes small games. Each game's privacy terms are below, in its own section. Questions about any of them: admin@joynerlabs.org.
Holiday Alliance My First Ant Farm
Holiday Alliance is a single-player tower-defense game. We designed it to respect your privacy: we operate no servers of our own, run no analytics, and never sell your data. On phones and tablets the game offers an optional rewarded video ad, described under Advertising below; that is the only feature that involves anyone else's servers.
Joyner Labs LLC collects nothing. We operate no servers, no analytics and no tracking SDKs, and no information about you is sent to us.
The one exception to data leaving your device is the optional rewarded ad on the mobile versions. If you choose to watch one, Google's advertising service receives information from your device in order to serve it — see Advertising below. The Steam / desktop version contains no advertising of any kind and sends nothing anywhere.
To let you keep playing where you left off, the game saves the following locally on your device only (in your device's app storage):
This data never leaves your device, is not readable by us, and is removed if you uninstall the app or clear its data.
If a future version connects to your platform's game service (for example Google Play Games or Apple Game Center) to show achievements, that sign-in and any data it involves are governed by that platform's own privacy policy (Google / Apple), not by us. We would receive only an anonymous player identifier used to record achievement unlocks — never your name, email, contacts, or location. (As of the initial release, achievements are handled entirely on-device and no platform sign-in occurs.)
Holiday Alliance is intended for a general audience aged 13 and older. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect any information from children under 13. The game is not published under Google Play's Families programme, advertising is configured for a teen-and-older content rating, and we do not tag any user as being under the age of consent.
Mobile only (Android and iOS). The Steam / desktop version shows no ads.
Holiday Alliance shows one kind of ad: a rewarded video you choose to watch, and only in one place — after you lose a level, if you want to continue that run. There are no banner ads, and no ads that interrupt play. Declining costs you nothing but the continue.
Ads are served by Google AdMob (Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC). When an ad is requested, AdMob receives information from your device — typically your device's advertising identifier, IP address, device and OS type, and general location derived from the IP address — which Google uses to select and measure the ad. That processing is governed by Google's own privacy policy and Google's advertising disclosures. We never receive that information.
Your choices.
Chapter 1 of Holiday Alliance is free to play on mobile, with a single optional in-app purchase: an ad-free unlock that permanently removes advertising. The Steam / desktop version is a paid game with no in-app purchases.
Purchases are handled entirely by the platform's own billing system (Google Play or the App Store), which processes the payment under its own privacy policy. We do not receive or store your payment details. Your device keeps a local record of what you own so the game can honour it offline, and the platform can restore it if you reinstall.
We do not sell your data, and we never will. We collect none ourselves, and we share none with anyone — the only third party involved is Google, and only for the optional ad described above, under Google's own policy rather than through us.
If this policy changes, we will update the effective date above and post the revised version at the same URL. Material changes will accompany an app update.
Questions about this policy? Email admin@joynerlabs.org.
My First Ant Farm is a single-player ant farm that runs on your computer. We operate no servers of our own, show no ads, use no tracking or advertising SDKs, and never sell data. Two things can leave your computer, both described below: anonymous play statistics, which you can switch off, and feedback you choose to send.
While the game is open it sends a short summary of the current play session every fifteen minutes and when you quit. We use it to find bugs and to see which parts of the game people actually use. A summary contains:
It contains nothing that identifies you. No name, email address, Steam account or ID, file paths, or hardware identifiers. There is no lasting ID either. Each session gets a new random number, used only so that a summary sent twice is counted once, so two sessions cannot be linked to each other or to you.
The summaries are sent to a Google Form owned by Joyner Labs and stored in a private spreadsheet. Like any request on the web, Google receives your network (IP) address in order to deliver it; it is not part of the summary and we do not see or store it. Google's handling is governed by Google's privacy policy.
To switch it off: open the settings plate (the knob in the top-right of the tank) and untick Send anonymous play statistics. Nothing further is sent, including any summary still waiting from an earlier session.
The feedback box in the game sends only what you choose to send: your message, the face you pick, an email address if you type one, and a block of game details shown to you in full before you send it (version, platform, the colony's day and size). It goes to a private Google Form owned by Joyner Labs. We use an email address only to reply to you.
Your colony is saved as a file on your computer (and, if you use Steam Cloud, in your Steam Cloud storage under Valve's own policies). Your settings are saved there too. None of this is sent to us.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. The statistics above are anonymous, and the feedback box asks for nothing personal.
If this policy changes, this page will say so with a new effective date. Questions: admin@joynerlabs.org.