Effective: 1 October 2026
Arcade is a collection of cosy mini-games made by Maxine Lotherington (“I”, “me”), based in Australia. This policy covers the Arcade app on the App Store and Google Play, and the Arcade website at arcade.maxythedesigner.com.
I built Arcade as a small, calm thing with no ads and nothing fighting for your attention. The way it handles your data follows from that: there are no accounts, no logins, no advertising, no third-party trackers, and nothing about you is ever sold or shared for marketing.
| App (App Store / Google Play) | Website | |
|---|---|---|
| Personal information collected | None | None |
| Analytics | None — the app makes no network requests at all | Anonymous, cookieless page counts |
| Account required | No | No |
| Ads / trackers | None | None |
| Your settings & progress | Stored on your device only | Stored in your browser only |
The app is built to work completely offline and does not transmit anything, anywhere. The website counts page visits anonymously so I know which games people enjoy.
The Arcade app does not collect, transmit, or share any information about you.
It has no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising SDKs, and no third-party services of any kind. It works with no network connection, and you can verify this yourself by putting your device in airplane mode — everything still works.
Arcade saves your preferences and progress locally so the app remembers you between sessions. This stays on your device, is never transmitted to me or anyone else, and is deleted when you uninstall the app. It includes:
I cannot see any of this. There is no server to send it to.
Arcade’s settings include a send feedback form — a box for your message, plus an optional box for your email address if you’d like a reply.
In the app, sending doesn’t transmit anything from Arcade itself. Tapping send hands what you wrote to your device’s own email app as a ready-to-go draft, which you then send yourself — so you see the whole message before it goes, and can edit or abandon it. This is deliberate: it’s what lets the app stay completely network-free. If you do send it, I receive your message and the address you sent it from, and I use them only to read and reply.
Arcade is free. There’s one optional purchase — a supporter unlock that adds decorative themes. It never affects gameplay: every game and every level is free for everyone, always.
Purchases are handled entirely by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). I never see or receive your payment details, card number, or billing address. The app asks the store whether this device has bought the unlock, and the answer is checked on the device itself — nothing about your purchase is sent to me or to any third party.
Apple and Google provide me with anonymous, aggregated sales figures (how many purchases were made, in which countries). These cannot identify you. Their handling of your purchase is covered by their own privacy policies: Apple · Google.
The website plays the same games in your browser. It stores the same preferences and progress locally in your browser, exactly as described above. Two things differ from the app.
The website uses Umami, a privacy-focused analytics service, to count page visits. I use this to see which games people actually play, so I know what to make more of.
Umami sets no cookies and does not track you across other websites. For each visit it records the page you viewed, the referring site, and general details like browser, operating system, device type and country. It does not store your IP address — your IP is used momentarily to derive your country and a daily-rotating anonymous identifier, then discarded. The result is aggregate counts, not a profile: I cannot identify you, single you out, or follow you from one visit to the next.
If you’d rather not be counted, visit any page on the site with ?notrack on the end of the address (for example arcade.maxythedesigner.com/?notrack). That switches analytics off permanently for that browser. Visiting ?track turns it back on. Analytics also never runs on local or offline copies of the site.
Umami Cloud processes this data on servers in the European Union (Germany). See Umami’s privacy policy.
The website has the same send feedback form, but here the sending is done by the website itself rather than handed to your email app. Your message — and your email address, if you choose to give one, which is optional — is sent through Formspree and forwarded to me by email. I use it only to read and reply. See Formspree’s privacy policy.
Arcade is suitable for all ages, but it is not directed at children under 13, and I do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone. Since the app collects nothing at all, and the website collects nothing that identifies a person, there is no personal information about a child for me to hold, use, or disclose.
Because Arcade holds no personal information about you, there is usually nothing to request, correct, or delete — everything is already in your hands, on your own device.
The one exception is feedback you’ve chosen to send me. For that, you can ask me for a copy, ask me to correct it, or ask me to delete it. Just email me.
Depending on where you live you may have specific rights — under the Australian Privacy Principles (Privacy Act 1988), the GDPR in the EU and UK, or US state privacy laws including the CCPA. Where those apply, I’ll honour them. To be explicit about a few:
Australian users who aren’t satisfied with how I’ve handled a privacy matter can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
If Arcade ever starts collecting something it doesn’t collect today, I’ll update this policy and change the date at the top before that change ships — not after. Meaningful changes will also be noted in the app’s what’s new.
Questions, requests, or anything else about privacy:
I’m one person making games in my spare time, so give me a few days — but I will reply.