Privacy

Torch is a small game about passing a flame from one person to the next. This page says exactly what the app keeps about you, in plain words.

What Torch stores

• Your first name, as Apple shares it when you sign in with Apple. You can change it in the app at any time. If Apple does not share a name, you are called "Carrier".
• The city of each hand-off. When a flame changes hands, Torch records the city and a rounded location (to about one kilometre). It never records your exact position, and it never tracks you between hand-offs.
• A push token, so the app can tell you when your ember is about to go out. It is removed when you sign out.
• Purchases, if you buy anything in the app, handled by Apple. Torch only keeps a record that the purchase happened.
• The flames you have carried: which flame, when, and your place in its chain of hands.

What Torch does not do

• Nothing is sold. Nothing is shared with advertisers.
• No contacts, no photos, no precise location, no background tracking.
• No email address is required. Sign in with Apple lets you hide it.

Who can see what

Other players can see your first name and the city where you received a flame, as part of that flame's history. That is the point of the game: every hand is remembered.

Deleting your account

Open the app, go to the Me tab, and choose Delete account. Your name and push token are removed right away. Your place in a flame's history stays, shown as "Carrier", so the chain stays whole.

Where data lives

Torch runs on Google Firebase, in Canada. Firebase handles sign-in, storage and notifications on Torch's behalf.

Questions

Write to hello@torch.app.