Privacy
Bracket does not collect, transmit, or share any of your data — with us or anyone else. There are no accounts and no servers of ours, and the game has no networking code of its own. The one thing that does leave your device is a Game Center match, which travels through Apple, is entirely optional, and carries nothing but the seed and the shots of the duel itself.
Bracket is a two-tank artillery game for iPhone. You set an angle and a power, read the wind, and correct your next shot from where the last one fell. It can be played against the computer, against somebody sharing your phone, or a turn at a time against another person through Game Center.
None. Bracket has no user accounts of ours, no sign-in of ours, no analytics, no advertising identifiers, no crash-reporting service and nothing to buy. There is no networking code in the app: it never opens a connection to send us — or anyone else — anything at all. We do not know how many people play it, how well they play, or whether they play, because none of that is ever sent anywhere.
Your record is kept in this app's own preferences on your device, and nowhere else. That is: which badges you have earned and your best results, the match you are in the middle of if you put the phone down during one, whether the sound is on, and how many turns of each online match you have already watched.
These preferences belong to Bracket alone — there is no app group and no shared container, so no other app can read them — and they are protected by iOS Data Protection like anything else on your device. Nothing is synced to a server we operate, because there is no server we operate. A standard iPhone backup you make yourself, to iCloud or to a computer, is between you and Apple and is governed by Apple's policies rather than this one.
Game Center is optional, and refusing it is a supported way to play the whole game: every part of Bracket that is about firing a shell works signed out, including today's field. What it adds is the leaderboards, the badges kept under your Apple Account, and matches against other people.
If you are signed in, Apple's Game Center — not us — handles your alias, your player identifier, the scores you post and the badges you earn. We operate none of that and receive none of it: we cannot see your alias, your scores, or who you played. What Apple collects through Game Center is governed by Apple's Privacy Policy. You can sign out, or turn Game Center off entirely, in the Settings app.
It is worth being plain about what other people can see, because it is more than nothing:
What it does not mean: there is no chat, no message and no way to send anything to another player. A turn in Bracket is an angle and a power, and that is the whole of what passes between two people. Nothing about you moves in either direction beyond the name Game Center shows.
None of it is required. Signed out, everything except the leaderboards, the badges and matches against other people works exactly as it does signed in.
A match in Bracket is a seed and a list of shots. The landscape, the wind and everything that happens are worked out from those numbers identically on both phones, so that is all there is to send: a few hundred bytes of numbers, through Apple's Game Center, with no field, no score and nothing about you inside it. It is passed to your opponent's copy of the game and to nobody else.
When it becomes your move in a turn-based match, the notification comes from Apple's Game Center. Bracket runs no notification server of its own and never receives or stores a device token. Notifications can be turned off for Bracket in the Settings app.
Any match can be sent to somebody as a link, which they can open to watch the duel play out. The whole match is inside the link — the seed and the shots — so nothing is fetched from anywhere when it is opened, and nothing about you travels with it. Not even the names: the tanks are called Left and Right on the other phone.
Where the link goes is up to you. Once you have sent it through Messages, Mail, or anything else, its handling is governed by whatever you sent it through rather than by us.
There are none. Bracket has no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no advertising and no third-party SDKs of any kind, so there is no payment or advertising activity to describe.
Deleting the app removes everything it has kept on your device. There is no remote copy of it for us to delete, because none was ever made. Anything Game Center holds — your alias, scores and badges — is Apple's to manage, from the Settings app under Game Center.
Bracket does not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age. Since the game collects nothing at all, this applies equally to every player.
If this policy ever changes, we will update the date at the top of this page. Given how the game is built, we do not expect that to happen often: a game whose entire online exchange is a seed and a list of shots has nothing to collect even if it wanted to.
Questions about this policy or how Bracket handles your data?
support@pablin.me