Descent — on the web and on the App Store — does not collect, store, transmit, share, or sell any personal information. Not your name, not your location, not your device identifiers, not your gameplay. Nothing.
Your save game (your pod, your money, how deep you got) is stored locally on your own device — in your browser's local storage on the web, or in the app's own on-device storage on iOS. Wiping the save from the title screen deletes it for good. The web version keeps everything on your device and nowhere else.
On iPhone and iPad, two of Apple's own features can carry parts of that save off the device — to Apple, never to us:
iCloud. If you're signed in to iCloud, your save, records, trophies and run history sync through Apple's key-value store so the same progress follows you between your own devices. It stays inside your personal iCloud account. Turning iCloud Drive off for Descent in Settings stops it; the game keeps working entirely offline.
Game Center. Descent has three leaderboards — career earnings, rockets launched and fastest launch — and a set of achievements that mirror the in-game trophy cabinet. This is entirely optional and off until you ask for it: the game never blocks on signing in, never shows a prompt on launch, and plays identically if you ignore it. Tapping LEADERBOARDS on the records screen is the only thing that opens Game Center. If you are signed in, your scores, your achievement progress and the nickname you chose for Game Center are handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy — we never see them, and we have no way to read who is playing.
Beyond those, the game has no third-party SDKs, no analytics frameworks, no advertising, and no in-app purchases. It doesn't request any device permissions, and it makes no network requests beyond loading the game itself.
The pages that show the Descent trailer — the front page and the press kit — embed the video from YouTube. Your browser loads that embed directly from Google, so Google sees the request: your IP address, and whatever cookies YouTube has already set in your browser. What they do with it is covered by Google's privacy policy, not this one. Nothing comes back to us — no view counts tied to you, no visitor data, nothing that says who you are.
The game itself embeds nothing. Playing it — in a browser or in the app on your phone — still talks to no one.
If you have any questions about this policy, email lloyd@lloydhumphreys.com.