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Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 27, 2026

This policy explains what information FLUX collects, what stays on your device, what is sent to our server, and what is visible to other players. It describes the game as it is actually built.

In short: anyone can play FLUX, including children, without giving any personal information. Every pilot starts with a name picked from a word list; a typed name can only be one word, never a full name, email, phone number or link. We keep only what the game needs to run: a random player identifier, your scores, your pilot name and the country you pick. We never know your precise location. FLUX has no ads and no third-party trackers; it counts anonymous gameplay statistics on its own server only (section 9).

1. Who operates FLUX

FLUX is operated by Jerome Tadaya, a sole proprietorship based in Union City, California. Contact: playfluxofficial@gmail.com.

2. Information you provide

Pilot name (FLUX ID)

Your pilot name, also called your FLUX ID, starts as a name made from a fixed list of safe words and a number, for example SWIFT COMET 42. FLUX gives you one when you first play, so you never have to type anything.

You can change it with EDIT. A typed name must be one word, letters and numbers only, up to 12 characters, so a full name cannot be entered. Names that look like an email address, a phone number or a web link are refused, and names on our blocked list are shown as PILOT. Please use a nickname, not your real name, because your FLUX ID is shown publicly (see section 6).

Our server only accepts names that follow these rules. If any other text arrives (for example from an older version of the game), the server shows that pilot's own name from the word list instead. Names typed in earlier versions of FLUX that do not follow these rules have been replaced this way, and their old text has been deleted from our server.

Country

You pick a country from a list. If you do not pick one, FLUX suggests one based on the country that Cloudflare, our hosting provider, reports for your connection, and you can change it. FLUX only ever uses a country, never a precise location. It does not use GPS or location services, and it does not look up your city, region, postal code or coordinates.

FLUX does not ask for a name, email address, phone number, date of birth, photo, contacts, or precise location.

3. Information generated as you play

• Your score, level reached, and chosen difficulty
• A randomly generated player identifier (playerId) created on your device the first time you play. It is not derived from your device, your account, or anything identifying you. It is used only to run the game (see section 10).
• Which skins you own, including a free Founding Pilot skin and its Founding Pilot number
• If you tap a topic under HELP in the menu: that topic (for example "I lost my pilot"), your pilot name and #TAG, and when you asked. You cannot type anything there, so nothing else about you is sent. It is deleted when the FLUX team has dealt with it, and always within 90 days.

4. What stays only on your device

FLUX stores the following in your browser's local storage. It is not transmitted anywhere unless listed in section 5:

Stored	What it is
Pilot name, country, difficulty	Your settings
Personal best score and level	Per difficulty
Player identifier	Random value described above
Restore in progress	Present for a moment while a restore code is being applied, then deleted
Move already tried (fluxMoveTried)	At FLUX's old address only, and only until the browser tab is closed: a marker so the move to fluxsparta.com is tried at most once per tab
Stay at the old address (fluxMoveStay)	At FLUX's old address only: a marker that this browser already has a different pilot at fluxsparta.com, so the pilot here stays here and is not moved
Owned skins	Local cache of purchases
Pending score submissions	Runs finished while offline, queued for later
Chosen background and selected skin	Appearance settings
Last submission error	A short diagnostic code, no personal content
Where you first came from	The "src" tag of the first FLUX link you opened (for example tiktok), or direct; used for the statistics in section 9
First run counted	A marker so your first run is counted once
Current sitting	When your current sitting started and how it stands (runs played, the last game over), so each sitting is counted once; used for the statistics in section 9
First run's length counted	A marker so the length of your very first run is counted once

Clearing your browser data or deleting the app from your Home Screen removes all of it. We cannot recover it, and we cannot see it. If you saved your restore code, entering it in FLUX brings your pilot back.

5. Information sent to our server

Moving to fluxsparta.com. When you open FLUX at its old address (flux-sparta-3.jeromevt72.workers.dev) in a browser tab, the game sends the FLUX settings, player identifier and personal bests stored there to our server once, so they can be copied into the same browser at fluxsparta.com; the server keeps them under a random one-time ticket and deletes them as soon as that ticket is used, and always within 10 minutes.

When you finish a run and a score is submitted, FLUX sends:

• your player identifier
• your FLUX ID (your pilot name)
• your score, level, and difficulty
• your chosen country

Our server additionally records the two-letter country code that Cloudflare reports for the connection, used as a fallback when you have not chosen a country. We do not store your IP address, and we do not store any device identifier, browser fingerprint, or user agent.

To protect the game from abuse, the server briefly counts requests using a one-way code made from your network address; the address itself is never stored, and these counters are discarded within a few minutes.

If you play offline, completed runs are held on your device and submitted when you reconnect.

6. Information visible to other players

The global leaderboard and the World Grid are public. Anyone can see your FLUX ID, score, level, difficulty, and country, along with a short public tag (for example SWIFT COMET 42 #K7Q2MX8) that tells apart players who have the same pilot name. Choose a pilot name you are comfortable showing publicly. Your player identifier is not displayed. The tag is derived from it by a one-way calculation, so the identifier cannot be worked out from the tag, and the tag is never used to prove who you are. If you clear your browser data you get a new player identifier, and with it a new tag.

7. Offline storage and caching

FLUX installs a service worker that caches the game files on your device so it runs without a connection. The cache holds the game itself — HTML, icons and images. It does not cache leaderboard data, purchase data, or any server response about you.

8. Purchases and payment

Skins are purchased through Stripe. You enter your payment details on Stripe's own checkout page.

FLUX never receives your card number, expiry date, or security code. We receive from Stripe only a confirmation that a specific checkout session was paid, which we use to unlock the skin for your player identifier. Stripe's handling of your payment information is governed by Stripe's own privacy policy at stripe.com/privacy.

Purchase recovery. Purchases are linked to the player identifier stored on the device. FLUX does not provide accounts. The game menu shows a restore code for your pilot; entering that code in FLUX restores the pilot and the purchases linked to it, including on a new device. Anyone who has the code can use the pilot, so keep it private. If you lose both the restore code and your device data, we may not be able to restore your pilot or your purchases. The store will remain closed until this recovery process has been tested on real devices.

Stripe asks for your email address at checkout and sends you a receipt. FLUX does not store that email address. If you contact us about a purchase, we can use the email address you give us to look the purchase up in Stripe; it is used for that lookup only.

9. Third parties

FLUX uses:

• Cloudflare — hosting, and the country code described above
• Stripe — payment processing

FLUX contains no third-party analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels, and no cookies for players. This was verified against the source: there is no Google Analytics, no tag manager, no social pixel, no advertising ID, and no document.cookie usage anywhere in the game or the Gateway.

The only cookie is a security cookie for the owner's admin login. It is set only when the owner signs in to the private admin page, keeps that sign-in secure, expires within 12 hours, and is never set for players.

Anonymous gameplay statistics (in-house)

To see whether FLUX is fun and which links bring players who come back, the game counts a few things on our own server (hosted on Cloudflare). No third-party analytics or tracking service is used, and nothing is used for advertising.

• What is counted: the app being opened (and whether it is the Home Screen app), a pilot's first run, each finished run (its length, the level reached and the difficulty), level-ups, and taps on the share button. For each finished run we also count, for each speed of the ball reached in that run: the seconds played at that speed, the orbs hit, the wrong-colour orbs hit and the balls lost. We also count how each sitting goes (how many runs, whether a new run follows a game over and how many seconds later, and whether the sitting ended after a game over, mid-run or in the menu), how long a pilot's very first run lasted, and whether a run ended with two lives lost within 10 seconds. When FLUX opens, we note yes or no whether it was opened inside another app's built-in browser (such as TikTok or Instagram), never which app.
• What comes with it: the random player identifier, the country you picked (or, if none, the country Cloudflare reports), and the "src" tag of the first FLUX link you opened (for example ?src=tiktok or ?src=share).
• What is kept: our server does not keep the player identifier itself: it turns it into a one-way code, different from the leaderboard's tag, so statistics cannot be matched to a leaderboard entry or a pilot name. No name, no precise location, no IP address, no device or advertising ID.
• How long: the individual events are kept for 90 days, then deleted; only totals (for example "runs per day in the Philippines") are kept after that.
• Who sees it: only the FLUX operator, as totals on the protected admin page. It is never sold or shared.

If the statistics cannot be sent (offline, blocked), the game simply carries on; nothing waits for them.

10. Why we process this information

• To run the global leaderboard and World Grid, which is the point of the game
• To keep your purchases working for the player identifier on the device where you made them
• To reject implausible scores and keep standings meaningful

The player identifier is used only to run the game: keeping one leaderboard entry per pilot, remembering your best scores, applying the short cooldown between submissions, handling restore codes and purchases, keeping the leaderboard fair, answering deletion requests, and the anonymous in-house gameplay statistics described in section 9. It is never used for advertising, to build a profile of you, or to track you across other websites or apps, and it is never sold or shared for those purposes.

11. Retention

Leaderboard entries and purchase records are kept for as long as FLUX operates the leaderboard, so that standings remain accurate and purchases continue to work. If you ask us to remove an entry, we will remove it within 30 days of your request.

Backups. So that scores and purchases are not lost by accident, the leaderboard (the same information described above) is copied once a day into backup storage on the same service. The last 14 daily copies are kept, and any other copy for at most 28 days. When we act on a deletion request, your entry is removed from every backup copy at the same time.

Moderation records. To keep the leaderboard fair and free of abuse, we may keep:

• Restrictions — if a player is restricted from the public leaderboard, we keep their public tag's underlying one-way code, the date, and a short reason, for as long as the restriction is in force. It is removed when the restriction is lifted. A restricted player can still play; their scores are not shown publicly.
• Banned names — a list of exact pilot names that are not shown publicly, kept until the ban is lifted. A banned name is shown as PILOT; the player's scores are kept.
• Unusual-score notes — when a score is far outside the normal range, an informational note (FLUX ID, score, difficulty, date) is kept for up to 90 days so it can be checked. These notes never hide or penalise anyone on their own.
• Payment delivery records — if a paid skin could not be delivered automatically, a record of that purchase (reference, skin, amount, date) is kept until the problem is resolved.

12. Deletion and requests

You can remove everything stored on your device at any time by clearing your browser data or deleting FLUX from your Home Screen.

To request removal of a leaderboard entry or a purchase record, contact playfluxofficial@gmail.com and include your FLUX ID, its public tag if you know it (shown next to your name, for example #K7Q2MX8), and your approximate score. For a purchase, include the email address you used at Stripe checkout. We may be unable to identify your record without these, since FLUX itself holds no email address or account.

When we act on a deletion request, we erase your leaderboard entry and, if you ask, your purchase records. If your player is restricted, the restriction record described in section 11 is kept while the restriction is in force, because it could not otherwise be enforced.

13. Security

Data is transmitted over HTTPS. Payment credentials go directly to Stripe and never pass through FLUX. Score submissions are checked for plausibility before being accepted.

No service can promise perfect security, and we do not claim to. FLUX currently trusts the score reported by your device, subject to those plausibility checks; it is a game leaderboard, not a system of record.

14. Children

FLUX is a game for a general audience, and children may play it. FLUX is built so that nobody, of any age, has to give personal information to play. We collect no personal information beyond what is needed to run the game:

• FLUX does not ask for a name, email address, phone number, date of birth, photo, contacts, precise location, or an account.
• Every pilot starts with a name from a fixed word list (for example SWIFT COMET 42). A child can keep it and never type anything. A typed name can only be one word of letters and numbers, up to 12 characters, so a full name cannot be entered, and names that look like an email address, phone number or web link are refused.
• The random player identifier is used only to run the game (section 10), never for advertising or tracking.
• FLUX uses only a country, never a precise location (section 2).
• FLUX contains no advertising, no third-party analytics or trackers, no advertising ID and no cookies for players; the only cookie is the owner's admin login security cookie (section 9). Gameplay statistics are anonymous, counted in-house only, and kept individually for 90 days at most. We do not sell or share information with anyone for marketing.
• The store is closed. This policy will be updated before it opens.

Parents and guardians can ask us to remove a child's leaderboard entry by emailing playfluxofficial@gmail.com with the pilot name and, if you can, its public tag (for example #K7Q2MX8). We will remove it within 30 days, and sooner where we can.

15. International players

FLUX is available worldwide and is hosted on Cloudflare's global network, so information may be processed in countries other than your own.

Wherever you live, you may ask to see the information FLUX holds about you, or ask us to delete it, by emailing playfluxofficial@gmail.com with your pilot name. We will respond within 30 days. We do not sell your information. We keep only what the game needs to run its leaderboard and to honour your purchases.

16. Changes

If this policy changes, the effective date above will change. Material changes will be noted on the FLUX Gateway.

17. Contact

Jerome Tadaya
playfluxofficial@gmail.com