TAILFLIP · UPDATED 15 NOVEMBER 2026
Your privacy.
This notice covers the Tailflip app and tailflip.app website. Tailflip is published by the following controller:
Mohamed Mechkour, trading as mamechkourBoterpotstraat 6
8530 Harelbeke, Belgium
Enterprise number: 1027.830.212
VAT: BE1027.830.212
Privacy contact: info@tailflip.app. Game support: support@tailflip.app.
The short version
No email or password is needed to play. Your public nickname and best score appear on the leaderboard. A private device key identifies your player. Online game events help us check scores and ad rewards. Optional ads are supplied by Google. We do not sell player data or include a separate analytics or social-login SDK.
What we use and why
| Information | Purpose and legal basis | Retention |
|---|---|---|
| Random player ID, hashed installation key, nickname, best score and timestamps | Provide the online game and leaderboard you request; performance of the game service. Security and abuse prevention are also our legitimate interests. | Until you delete your player, except justified legal obligations or claims. |
| Moves, elapsed thinking time, run state and reward references | Calculate and verify runs; provide the service and prevent invalid scores or rewards. | Inactive runs and their reward references are removed by daily cleanup after seven days without an update. |
| Reports about player names and player IDs linked to reports | Moderate public names and handle complaints; legitimate interests in a safe and fair leaderboard. | While the associated players exist and moderation requires them. Deleting an associated player removes the linked report from the active database. |
| Optional ad reports: player reference, reason, details, platform and last ad response/time if available | Investigate unsuitable or misleading ads and handle complaints; legitimate interests in user safety. A response reference may be provided to Google to identify the reported ad. | Up to 30 days, with daily cleanup, or earlier when you delete your player. |
| Short-lived hashed network identifiers and request counters | Limit registration abuse and protect the service; legitimate interests in security. | Time-limited buckets, cleaned daily after expiry. |
| Support messages and information you choose to send | Answer requests, deliver support and meet legal duties; legitimate interests, service performance or legal obligation as applicable. | While open, normally up to twelve months after resolution; longer only when a legal obligation or unresolved claim justifies it. |
The server receives your IP address when you connect. We hash it for registration limits and do not intentionally log installation keys, full ad callback URLs, request bodies or nicknames. Cloudflare processes network information to deliver and protect the service. Provider security logs and backups follow their own limited retention cycles.
Public and private players
For players aged 13 or over, nicknames and best scores are public in the worldwide leaderboard unless hidden by moderation. Do not enter your real name, contact information or other identifying details. The under-13 option uses the fixed nickname Little Tail, makes the score private and disables ads.
We ask for a broad age group, not an exact birth date. The age choice is stored on your device. The game server receives the private-score setting, not your birth date. For ages 13–17, Google receives the relevant restricted under-age ad treatment settings. A parent or guardian can contact info@tailflip.app about a child’s data. Tailflip does not use children’s private scores for public rankings or behavioural advertising.
Storage on your device
A randomly generated installation key is held in protected device storage. Settings, age choice, current run, best score and pending reward records are stored locally to keep the game working. The most recent ad response reference and time are available locally for up to seven days to help you report an ad; these details are sent to Tailflip only if you choose to send a report. The server stores a hash of the key rather than the original. If the key is lost, there is no password-based recovery or automatic transfer to another device. See Cookies & storage for the distinction between necessary game storage and optional ad technology.
Optional Google AdMob ads
You may choose an ad for a revive, up to three per run, or 1.5× points during sixty seconds of active thinking time. Starting a new run does not depend on watching an ad or granting optional ad consent. Ads may not be available. Google’s SDK may process IP address and approximate location, app/device identifiers, ad interactions, diagnostics and privacy choices. Non-personalized ads are requested; that does not make this processing anonymous.
Tailflip does not request Apple’s tracking permission, disables publisher first-party IDs and has no mediation network configured. These choices do not eliminate all device information processed by Google’s SDK. Google’s regional consent interface offers choices where required. Use Pause → Privacy & support → Ad privacy choices to revisit available choices, including withdrawal. Consent is relied on where required for optional storage or processing; withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.
Google sends Tailflip a signed transaction and a random offer reference to verify an earned reward. It does not need your nickname. Read Google’s privacy policy, information about partner apps and Google’s retention information.
Service providers and international transfers
Cloudflare hosts the website, game API, database and the publisher’s Mailflare email system. Mailflare is software used for email; its developer is not a recipient merely because we use that software. Google supplies optional advertising and consent services. These providers receive information necessary for their functions, and authorities may receive information if legally required. We do not publish support messages.
Providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. Applicable protections include adequacy decisions where available and contractual safeguards such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses. See the Cloudflare Data Processing Addendum, Cloudflare privacy policy and Google transfer frameworks. Contact info@tailflip.app for information about the safeguards relevant to your data.
Visiting the website
This site does not include advertising, analytics trackers, embedded social feeds or a mailing-list form. Fonts and artwork are served from this site. Cloudflare receives the network and request information needed to serve and secure it. Ordinary browser caching is used. Opening an external link or sending email is subject to the destination service’s practices.
Your choices and rights
You can change your nickname, hide or report a leaderboard name, report an unsuitable ad, change available ad privacy choices and delete your player in the app. Uninstalling alone does not request server deletion.
Depending on applicable law, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction and portability; object to processing based on legitimate interests; and withdraw consent. Some rights depend on the processing and legal basis. We normally answer within one month and explain any permitted extension within that time. We may request proportionate verification. Contact info@tailflip.app; you can also complain to your local supervisory authority, including the Belgian Data Protection Authority.
Automated rules check game moves, scores and reward validity. They do not make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects. You can contact support to contest an incorrect score or moderation decision.
Changes
We update this page when our practices change and show the revised date. Material changes will also be communicated through the app or other appropriate means before they apply where required.