MapRally

Effective November 7, 2026

The short version: Single player works without an account, and your bests stay on your device. Groups, challenges and friends need a Google sign-in, so we keep your name, groups, friends and scores on our servers. When the game opens it also sends basic device or browser info, and our server works out an approximate city from your connection. No ads and no advertising ID.

MapRally is made by Gigawatt Games, the games label of Clocktower Development LLC ("we", "us"). This policy explains what the game collects and why.

What we collect

Account

Groups, challenges and friends need you to sign in with Google, in the app or on the website. We receive your Google account's email address and a user ID. Every single-player mode works without signing in.

Profile

The name you pick for yourself. Members of your groups, your friends, and anyone who opens a challenge you've played can see it.

Groups and daily challenges

The groups you create or join and their invite codes, and your answers, scores and times in each day's challenge. Members of a group see each other's names and daily scores. When you create a group, we use your device's time zone to time its daily drops.

Challenges

The challenges you create or play: the game, who it was sent to, and your score and time. Anyone with a challenge's link can see its leaderboard, which shows each player's name, score and time. Challenge scores are worked out on your device and checked by our server.

Friends

The people you add as friends, the name each of you uses, and your head-to-head record from challenges you both finished. Only you can see your friend list. Your friend link contains a code that lets anyone who opens it add you as a friend.

Device info

Each time the game opens or comes back on screen, it sends a random ID made for this install (or browser), the version, your platform (Android, iOS or web), OS version, device model and manufacturer (on the web, your browser's name instead), your language settings and time zone, and when you last played. If you're signed in, this is linked to your account. We use it for support, compatibility, and to count how many people play.

Approximate location

When the game opens, our server works out the approximate city your internet connection comes from, using its IP address and DB-IP's IP-to-city database (IP Geolocation by DB-IP, db-ip.com), which runs on our own servers. We save only the city, region, country, and coordinates rounded to about 10 km. We never store your IP address. The game doesn't use GPS and never asks for location permission, and if you use a VPN, the city is the VPN's. We use this to see where our players are, and other players never see it.

Notifications

If you allow notifications on your phone or in your browser, we store a push token with its platform, time zone and language, plus your notification choices, so we can tell you when a drop is live, send a last call before the day closes, share the day's results, and let you know about challenges and new friends. Turn them off on the You tab, or in your phone's or browser's settings.

What stays on your device

This is saved on your phone or tablet and never sent to us:

Single-player personal bests, and the places you miss most (so they come back more often)
Settings, and your sign-in session (on the web, in your browser's storage)

Camera

If you scan a group's QR code in the app, it asks for camera access and reads the code on your phone. Camera images are never saved, uploaded, or sent to us; only the invite code in the QR code is used.

Sharing

Sharing a group invite, a challenge or your friend link goes through your device's share sheet or clipboard. We don't see who you send it to. Anyone you send a challenge link to can see that challenge's leaderboard.

Our team

Our team can see players' names, groups, challenges, friend counts, platform, app version, approximate city, and when they last played, to support the game and see how it's doing.

Who we share it with

We don't sell your information or share it with advertisers. We use these service providers to run the game, and they only process data on our behalf:

Google Firebase (authentication, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Cloud Messaging, Hosting)
Google, for sign-in

We may also disclose information if the law requires it.

Children

MapRally has no ads and nothing to buy with real money. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 beyond what's described above. If you're a parent and want your child's data removed, use Delete account on the You tab in the app or on the website, as described below.

Keeping and deleting data

You can delete your account at any time, in the app or on the website: open the You tab, tap Delete account, and confirm. That removes you from all your groups (a group you were the last member of is deleted) and permanently erases your profile, sign-in account, friends, friend link, registered phones and browsers, and notification settings from our servers. Your name and scores stay in the past daily results of groups you were in and on the leaderboards of challenges you played, since they're part of every player's history, and the usage record for your install (device info and approximate city) is kept with no link to you. Otherwise, we keep your data for as long as the game is running.

Can't open the game? See how to delete your MapRally account.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update it here and change the date at the top.

Contact

Clocktower Development LLC
support@gigawattgames.com