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Privacy Policy

Last updated 2026-10-20

Follow Suit Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 6, 2026. Updated September 14, 2026: Likeness Stacks is now Follow Suit; the name changed and nothing about your data did. Updated October 11, 2026: added Talk to the Developer, the game's public discussion board. Updated October 19, 2026: added crash reports, from version 1.8.

Follow Suit and your data

I firmly believe in privacy and in the principle that your data is your data. This is how your data are used.

A) Identifiable data

What do I store and how do I store it?

When you first open Follow Suit, the game signs you in anonymously using Firebase Authentication. That anonymous account is a random token with no identifying information about you — I cannot tell who you are by looking at it.

Stored against that token, on a Google Firestore server, are:

  • your current level in the progression,
  • your coin balance (the piggy bank),
  • whether your account owns the level unlock,
  • your results on the daily and all-time leaderboards, under a made-up name (see Leaderboards below), and
  • a snapshot of your in-progress game, so you can pick up the same deal on another device, and
  • if you use Talk to the Developer, what you post there and the few records the board keeps (see Talk to the Developer below).

That is the complete list. Everything else about your play stays on your device.

If you link an account

You can optionally link your anonymous progress to Sign in with Apple so your progress follows you across devices. If you do, Apple shares your account email (or, if you choose Hide My Email, a private relay address) with the game's Firebase Authentication service. I use it only to recognize your account when you sign in on another device. I never use it for marketing, never share it, and never sell it.

If you never link an account, no email address or name is ever collected.

What do I do with your data?

I treat it with respect. Apart from what is needed to run or support Follow Suit, I will never share your personal data with a third party and I will never sell your personal data.

If you contact support by email, your email address and our conversation are stored on my own helpdesk, which runs on Google's Firebase platform inside my project. No third-party helpdesk company is involved.

Data captured to improve Follow Suit

I use an analytics service called Firebase Analytics. It records which features are being used — levels started, moves made, wins and losses, settings toggled — as aggregated technical events. There is no personal identifying information collected through analytics. I use these data to understand how the game is being played and where to focus development effort.

Crash reports. From version 1.8, if Follow Suit crashes, it sends a crash report to Firebase Crashlytics (Google). The report holds what the app's code was doing at that moment, the device model and iOS version, the app's recent log lines (the moves of the game in play, nothing personal), the level and game being played, and your Follow Suit account ID, so a crash can be matched to what happened in the game. Crash reports are used only to find and fix problems in the app, and Crashlytics keeps them for 90 days. Deleting your account does not remove a report already sent; it expires on that schedule.

Follow Suit contains no advertising SDK.

Advertising and tracking

There is none.

  • Follow Suit shows no advertisements.
  • It does not track you across apps or websites, does not use the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA), and therefore never shows Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt.
  • Device identifiers and analytics data are not linked to your name or email address, and I do not build user profiles.

Leaderboards

The daily challenge and the all-time leaderboard show every player under a made-up name — something like "Amber Otter 12" — built from fixed, family-safe word lists. You can pick your own combination from those lists in the game; you can never type a free-form name, and your real name, email address, and account ID are never shown to other players. A board row contains only that made-up name and game numbers (score, time, moves, or level), and boards are visible only to signed-in players of the game. Asking me to delete your data (below) removes your leaderboard entries too.

Talk to the Developer

Talk to the Developer is the game's public discussion board, at liveflatout.org/follow-suit/talk. Anyone can read it on the web; you can post only from inside the game (Settings → Support → Talk to the Developer), which signs you in to the board for you — there is nothing to fill in.

What is public. Everything you post — threads, comments and their edits — is public, shown under your made-up leaderboard name (never your real name or email). Your votes are private; only each post's totals show. Each post and comment also carries your game account's ID, the random token described above. It is part of the board's public data, so anyone reading that data can see it; it identifies the account, not you. Please don't put personal information in a post: posts are checked automatically and refused if they contain an email address, a phone number, or offensive words.

What I keep privately. That you agreed to the board rules (and when), the players you have blocked, the reports you file, how many things you posted today (for the daily limits), and — if I ever bar you from posting — that fact.

Reports and blocks. When you report a post, I see the report, its reason and the post, and I review reports within 24 hours. A report or a block also sends me a short notification in my team chat (Slack) with the made-up names involved, the post's ID and, for a report, the post's words. A report from an account at least a day old hides the post while I look.

Analytics on the board's page. The board's web page uses Firebase Analytics for web (Google Analytics) to count visits and actions such as posting or voting. When you use the board from the game, those events carry your game account's ID, so I can see how the board is used alongside the game; they carry no name or email.

Deleting. You can delete any of your posts or comments yourself at any time. Deleting your account removes everything you posted on the board — your threads with everything under them, your comments and your votes — along with your blocks and the board sign-in. Reports you filed that I haven't finished reviewing stay with me, with nothing identifying you left on them. If you sign in with Apple to an account that already exists, what you posted from the anonymous account on that device is removed.

Purchases

Follow Suit offers one optional purchase: a one-time unlock that opens every level. It is bought through Apple's App Store, and payment is handled entirely by Apple — the game never sees your payment information. Whether your account owns the unlock is stored with your progress so it follows you across devices.

The coins in Follow Suit are still earned by playing and only spent inside the game. They can never be bought with real money.

Refunds

Refunds are requested from Apple (Settings → Purchases → Request a Refund in the game, or through Apple directly), and Apple alone decides them. When you request a refund, Apple may ask me how much of the purchased content you have already used. If that happens, I answer with a single percentage — how many levels you have played beyond the free ones — and nothing else: no name, no email, no identifier, and no purchase history travels with it. By requesting a refund through Apple, you consent to Apple receiving this figure to process your request. If you would rather I send Apple nothing at all, email likenessstacks@help.liveflatout.com and I will turn that off for your account.

Your rights: access and deletion

You can delete your account yourself, instantly: in the game, Settings → Account → Delete Account removes your progress, coins, saved game, leaderboard entries, and everything you posted on Talk to the Developer, along with the account itself. (A purchased unlock stays with your Apple ID.)

You can also ask me at any time to delete the data tied to your account (your level, coins, saved game, leaderboard entries, Talk to the Developer posts, and — if you linked an account — the email on file), or to send you a copy of it.

Contact me at likenessstacks@help.liveflatout.com and I will action your request within 30 days, as required by UK/EU GDPR Articles 12(3) and 15. Your data live in Google Cloud Firestore inside my project, hosted in the United States; Google's standard contractual clauses apply to any EU/UK to US transfer.

Summary

Follow Suit is designed to respect your privacy.

  • You play anonymously unless you choose to link an account.
  • Only your level, coin balance, unlock status, in-progress game, and leaderboard results (under a made-up name) are stored in the cloud — so your progress can follow you.
  • What you post on Talk to the Developer is public, under your made-up name and your account's random ID; deleting your account deletes it.
  • Analytics data are technical and non-identifying.
  • Crash reports are used only to find and fix problems in the app.
  • No ads, no tracking. The one optional purchase — the level unlock — is handled entirely by Apple.

If you have any questions about privacy, email likenessstacks@help.liveflatout.com.