Road Swell
Effective 3 October 2026
No account, no login, no ads, and nothing that tracks you across other apps or sites. The game sends anonymous usage statistics and crash reports so we can see how it is played and keep it working. That is all, and this page says exactly what it is.
Your bests, your daily results and streak, your goals, your chosen sky, the sound setting and a short history of your runs are saved on your phone or tablet, in the game's own storage. The game never uploads them and nobody but you can see them. Delete the app and they are gone, unless your device's own backup brings them back. That backup is the one copy the game does not control: if your phone or tablet backs up to your iCloud or Google account, it can hold these values and restore them when the game is installed again, or on a new device. It is yours, and the game cannot read it.
Two services receive anonymous usage events: Firebase Analytics (Google) and PostHog (PostHog Inc., hosted in the European Union). The events are the game's own moments: the app opened, a run started and how it ended, a goal finished, a sky earned, a page opened, the rating prompt shown. With them go an identifier the service makes up for this installation, your device's model and operating system version, the app's version, your language, and the approximate location, to the city or region, that the service works out from the address your connection comes from. Crash reports go to Firebase Crashlytics (Google): where the program failed, plus the device model, OS and app version.
Nothing in any of it is linked to you as a person. There is no name, email, phone number, contact, precise location or advertising identifier, and nothing in the game tracks you across other apps or sites. The identifiers belong to the installation, not to you: delete the app and they go with it, unless a backup of your device restores the game's storage when it is installed again.
We use it to understand how the game is played, to measure whether our own advertising for Road Swell led to installs, and to find and fix crashes. Google and PostHog process it on our behalf under their own terms and keep it for the period their services are set to. We never sell it or share it with anyone else, and the game shows no advertising.
There is no switch in the game to turn this off; if you do not want it sent, the only way is not to play, and we would rather say that plainly.
Tapping Share opens your device's own share sheet with a few lines of text: the road, your distance and score, a sketch of the road, and a link to this site. Nothing in it identifies you, and where it goes is your choice.
The game is rated for everyone and collects nothing that identifies a person, whatever their age.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Questions: support@barkandolive.com.
