1. About this policy
This policy applies to Slingi, also identified as Slingi 3D in Apple’s app services. It describes the normal game configuration and identifies where a private test build behaves differently. Publishing this policy does not mean that the game, paid products or every platform version are publicly available.
Slingi is a general-audience slingshot game. It does not require a Slingi account. The current game has no publisher-operated cloud save, multiplayer service or public leaderboard.
2. Publisher and contact
Alligator IT & Transport GmbH, Bloch-Bauer-Promenade 20/18, 1100 Wien, Austria, is the publisher and the controller for personal data that it processes in connection with Slingi.
Company register: FN 670712 t · Handelsgericht Wien. VAT identification: ATU83127956. Managing director: Alex Csöregi.
For privacy questions or requests, use the support page below or write to the postal address above. The support website has its own privacy policy. Please do not send passwords, payment-card details or unnecessary sensitive information.
3. Game saves and preferences on your device
Slingi stores campaign progress, completed and unlocked levels, seen tutorials, earned-point balances, reward records, equipment and sight selections on your device. It also stores preferences such as language, music volume, sound and haptics. These records let the game resume progress, apply unlock requirements and avoid crediting the same round or video reward twice.
The current game does not send these saved game records to a publisher-operated game server. Local round and reward identifiers are used for bookkeeping; the app does not add a Slingi account identifier or game-save record to its Google advertising requests.
Local storage is not a cloud backup. Device backups may be handled separately by your operating system or account provider. Removing the app or clearing its data may remove your game progress and points; we cannot promise to restore a save that exists only on your device.
4. Google advertising and related data
The normal game uses Google AdMob for between-round advertisements and optional rewarded videos. The current app requests non-personalised ads. This does not mean that advertisements involve no data processing: Google’s advertising SDK may process IP addresses and approximate location derived from them, device and app identifiers, advertising interactions, and diagnostic or performance data for ad delivery, measurement, security and fraud prevention.
Google and the advertising partners applicable to an ad request process information under their own notices and the choices presented in Google’s privacy forms. Slingi does not include a separate general-purpose analytics SDK in its current configuration. This statement does not exclude advertising measurement or diagnostics performed by the advertising SDK or the platform.
An automatic ad opportunity occurs after every second completed round, whether the round is won or lost, when you choose an action on the result screen. Optional rewarded videos are requested from Tools. Actual display depends on the relevant privacy permissions, network connection and ad availability; no ad inventory is guaranteed.
5. Advertising privacy choices
Slingi uses Google’s User Messaging Platform to obtain current privacy information and show a consent form when required. Advertising is requested only when Google’s SDK reports that an ad request is permitted. Where available or required, the advertising privacy option in Settings lets you review or change the choices offered by Google. Changing these choices discards previously prepared ads before new requests are considered.
You can withdraw a consent-based choice through the available privacy controls without changing the lawfulness of earlier processing. A refusal does not itself lock a level or require a purchase. Depending on your region and choices, Google may permit limited advertising rather than personalised advertising. Non-personalised or limited ads can still involve technical data processing.
The current app does not request Apple’s App Tracking Transparency permission or configure personalised ads. Your device and platform privacy settings remain available. These facts should not be read as a promise that no third-party data is processed.
6. Connection checks and offline access
The normal free game currently requires an internet connection. It checks reachability using a small request to Google’s www.gstatic.com/generate_204 endpoint at startup, on relevant connection or foreground changes, and periodically while active. No game progress or Slingi account identifier is attached, but the recipient necessarily receives network information such as your IP address.
The connection check is separate from advertising consent: declining an advertising choice is not treated as a disconnected network. A specifically enabled all-access private test build bypasses this connection requirement and does not load the advertising or purchase SDKs. Platform testing services can process their own testing information independently.
7. Payments and paid features
Where offered on iOS, the optional one-time Remove Ads Forever purchase is handled by Apple through StoreKit. The app receives product, price, transaction and entitlement information to verify ownership, provide ad removal, restore eligible purchases and recognise refunds or revocations. Payment credentials remain with Apple; Slingi does not receive your card details or Apple Account password.
The app verifies the signed purchase on the device using StoreKit. This feature does not send transaction records to a publisher-operated validation server or add purchase details to advertising requests. Apple processes store and payment information under its own privacy notice. Removing the app does not erase Apple’s transaction records. Equipment remains earned through gameplay, and this purchase is not enabled in older versions or the current Android version.
8. Support, links and device features
When you contact support, the information you choose to provide is handled to respond to your request, investigate the issue and keep necessary records. Please include only information relevant to the problem. Opening the support site or another external link makes a separate connection to that service, whose own privacy notice applies.
Slingi’s current game does not request access to your camera, microphone, contacts or precise GPS location. Its background music is bundled with the app rather than streamed during play. Music-credit and licence links open the relevant external websites only when selected.
9. Purposes and legal bases
Where the activities described here involve personal data, the relevant purposes are providing the game and requested support, maintaining accurate progress and rewards, operating advertising subject to applicable privacy choices, and protecting the service against errors, abuse and fraud.
As applicable, our bases under data-protection law are performance of the service you request, compliance with legal obligations, and legitimate interests in reliable operation and proportionate security or support administration. Where consent is required for access to device information or advertising processing, we rely on that consent rather than treating use of the game as consent. Google’s privacy information describes the purposes, parties and choices relevant to its processing.
10. Recipients and international processing
Recipients can include Google and the advertising partners applicable to your advertising choices, the relevant app-store or platform provider, and service providers needed to operate the support website. We may disclose information when necessary to comply with a legal obligation or protect legal rights. This is not a claim that all of these services receive your local game save.
Third-party services may process information outside your country or the European Economic Area. Where a transfer is subject to European data-protection rules, an applicable adequacy decision, appropriate contractual safeguards or another lawful transfer mechanism is required. Google explains the transfer mechanisms it uses in its own documentation. We do not promise that every provider stores all information only in the European Union.
11. Retention and deletion
Local game saves and preferences remain on the device until removed, replaced or changed by the app or operating system. We retain support information only as long as reasonably needed to deal with the request and any applicable legal or dispute-related requirements.
Google, platform providers and other independent services apply their own retention rules and privacy controls. Deleting Slingi does not by itself delete information already held by those services, a support record, or an operating-system backup. Because the current publisher has no cloud copy of your game save, a privacy request cannot recover a lost local save.
12. Audience and children
Slingi is intended for a general audience and is not specifically directed at young children. The current app has no age-verification or parental-consent verification system. An app-store age rating does not replace any consent or parental authorisation required by law.
Where a child’s use or a particular processing activity requires permission from a parent or guardian, that permission must be obtained. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, contact support so that we can review the circumstances and take appropriate action.
13. Your rights and complaints
Depending on the applicable law and circumstances, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction or portability of personal data, object to certain processing, and withdraw consent. These rights are subject to legal conditions; they do not automatically require deletion of information that must lawfully be retained.
Contact us through support or the postal address in section 2. We may need proportionate information to identify the relevant record and verify the request. We will respond within the time limits required by applicable law. For data controlled independently by Google or a platform provider, its own privacy channels may be needed.
You may complain to a competent supervisory authority. In Austria, the authority is the Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde. You may also contact the authority available to you under applicable data-protection law.
14. Changes and further information
We may update this policy when the game or its services change. The date above identifies this version. Where a material change requires further notice or a new consent, we will provide it as required rather than relying only on continued use.
The references below explain relevant platform and provider practices. They do not replace this policy or guarantee that an app-store submission has been approved.