Privacy Policy
Muttnik: Space Dog Runner · Last updated 13 November 2026
Developer and contact: Dan Steen, Victoria, Australia · dsteengames@gmail.com
The short version. The game has no ads, no tracking and no analytics. It keeps your progress on your own device. If you use the leaderboard, it sends a random player ID, an automatically generated player name (for example ASTRO1234) and your best score to our leaderboard server. That is all the game sends about you.
What the game stores on your device
Your progress and settings: gems, owned items and upgrades, mission progress, best score, sound, music, vibration and shake settings, and a random player ID. This stays on your device and is removed when you uninstall the game or clear its data.
What the game sends over the internet
- Leaderboard. When you finish a run, the game sends your random player ID, your generated player name and your score to our leaderboard server, which runs on Cloudflare Workers. Your player name is shown to other players on the leaderboard. The name is generated by the game and cannot be typed in, so it does not contain personal information. As with any internet connection, the server and its hosting provider can see your IP address in their normal logs. We do not use it to identify you.
- Game configuration. The game downloads weekly missions, shop prices and balance settings (plain JSON files) from a public GitHub repository. GitHub can see your IP address, as with any download. No data about you is sent in this request.
- Google Play Games (Android only). If you sign in to Google Play Games, Google handles that sign-in and any achievements under Google's own privacy policy. We receive only what Google Play Games shares with the game.
What we do not do
- No advertising and no advertising ID.
- No analytics or crash-reporting services in the game.
- No selling or sharing of your data with third parties.
- No collection of contact details, location, photos, microphone, contacts or payment details. Purchases are handled by the store you bought the game from (Google Play, Steam, Apple or itch.io) under that store's own terms.
This website
This website uses Google Analytics to count visits (pages viewed and the general region of visitors). Google may set cookies for this. You can block them in your browser settings or with a tracking blocker, and the website works the same without them. The game does not use Google Analytics.
Children
The game is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them. Players cannot type any personal details into the game, because the leaderboard name is generated automatically.
Your choices and deleting your data
- Clear the game's data or uninstall it to remove everything stored on your device.
- To delete your leaderboard entry, open Leaderboards, go to your personal tab, tap "Delete my entry" and tap again to confirm. Your entry is removed from our server and the game stops sending your scores until you turn online scores back on.
- You can also email dsteengames@gmail.com and ask for your leaderboard entry to be deleted. Please include the player name shown on your leaderboard entry so we can find it.
Changes to this policy
If the way the game handles data changes, we will update this page and the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about this policy: dsteengames@gmail.com.