Privacy
// effective: 2026-08-23
This policy covers both the games and the apps PickBits Studio publishes. When a product ships to an app store, it also has its own product-specific privacy policy, which takes precedence for that product. You can find those policies in our legal directory.
How our games handle data
There are two kinds of PickBits Studio games:
- Fully client-side games — no accounts. Progress lives in your browser's local storage and never leaves your device.
- Connected games — identical when played anonymously; optional PickBits sign-in adds cloud saves, achievements, and leaderboards stored against your account.
Most builds in both groups also load third-party crash reporting (Sentry) and usage analytics (Google Analytics or PostHog) so we can find bugs and see which features get played. Those are marked diagnostics below, and each game's policy names exactly which services it loads and what they receive. None of them are advertising trackers, and none receive your save data. PostHog does create a pseudonymous per-visitor profile, so we describe it as pseudonymous rather than anonymous.
Account-level data (registration, billing, site analytics on pickbits.ai) is covered by the main PickBits privacy policy.
Cookies & analytics on this website
This section covers pickbits.studio itself — the marketing site you are reading — rather than the games and apps.
| Name | Type | Set by | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_ga, _ga_<id> | Cookie | Google Analytics | Analytics — distinguishes visitors and sessions | Up to 2 years |
ph_<key>_posthog | Cookie | PostHog | Analytics — page views and interaction events. Not set for EEA/UK/CH visitors | Up to 1 year |
pbs-theme | Local storage | PickBits Studio | Preference — your light/dark theme choice | Until cleared |
There is no advertising on pickbits.studio, and no advertising cookie is set by us or by anyone else.
Your choices about tracking
We do not show a cookie banner, because we apply the stricter setting to the EEA, UK and Switzerland by default rather than asking:
- Google Consent Mode v2 runs on every page and defaults analytics, advertising, personalisation and functionality storage to denied for visitors in those regions, so Google's tags operate without cookies unless consent is granted.
- PostHog is not loaded at all for those visitors — the script exits before the SDK is fetched, so there is no identifier, cookie, network request or event.
Everywhere else, analytics run by default. You can opt out with your browser's tracking-protection settings, the Google Analytics opt-out add-on, or by emailing owner@pickbits.ai.
If you are in the UK or EEA: we process account data to perform our contract with you, run security and diagnostics on the basis of our legitimate interest in a working service, and rely on consent for analytics cookies — which is why they are off by default in those regions. You have rights of access, correction, deletion, portability, objection and complaint to your national data-protection authority; email us to exercise any of them.
Per-game policies
- Steel Phoenix — Privacy Policy (optional account features)
- Street Fury — Privacy Policy (fully client-side · diagnostics)
- Drone Commando — Privacy Policy (optional account features · diagnostics)
- Cat Snack Bar — Privacy Policy (fully client-side · diagnostics)
- Cult Empire — Privacy Policy (optional account features · diagnostics)
- Dark Squares — Privacy Policy (fully client-side · diagnostics)
- Signal Lost — Privacy Policy (fully client-side)
- Steel Front TD — Privacy Policy (fully client-side · diagnostics)
- Platform Panic — Privacy Policy (fully client-side · diagnostics)
- Skee Time — Privacy Policy (fully client-side · diagnostics)
- Mmmunchers — Privacy Policy (fully client-side · diagnostics)
- Zombie Survival — Privacy Policy (optional account features · diagnostics)
- SomeCity — Privacy Policy (fully client-side)
- Stratis — Privacy Policy (fully client-side · diagnostics)
- Pinball Dreams — Privacy Policy (optional account features · diagnostics)
- NanoFormers — Privacy Policy (fully client-side · diagnostics)
- Cyber City — Privacy Policy (fully client-side · diagnostics)
- Little Grove — Privacy Policy (fully client-side · diagnostics)
- Kaiju City Smashers — Privacy Policy (fully client-side)
Contact
PickBits Studio
Glendale, Arizona, USA
Email: owner@pickbits.ai