Privacy

The short version

Everything you do in Chicane happens on your device and stays there. The developer never receives your saves, your results, your device identifiers or any information about how you play. There is no account to create and nothing to opt out of.

What the app stores, and where

Chicane writes your career saves — teams, drivers, results, championship standings, settings — to your device's own storage, inside the app's private container. Deleting the app deletes them.

iCloud sync

Chicane can optionally sync your careers between your own devices using your personal iCloud account. This is off by default and only runs if you turn it on.

• Synced data goes to Apple's iCloud under your Apple Account, governed by Apple's privacy policy. The developer has no access to it and no way to read it.
• Sync is additive and never destructive: a genuine conflict between two devices keeps both copies rather than picking a winner, and nothing is deleted on your behalf.
• Turning sync off stops it. Your local saves are unaffected.

Race narration

On devices that support it, Chicane can narrate races using Apple's on-device language model. The text is generated on your iPhone. Nothing about your race is sent to the developer, to Apple, or to any other server, and no internet connection is involved. Narration is optional, and the game is complete without it.

What Chicane does not do

• No analytics or telemetry of any kind — no crash reporting SDK, no usage statistics.
• No advertising, no ad identifier (IDFA), and no App Tracking Transparency prompt, because there is nothing to track.
• No third-party SDKs, no social logins, no embedded web trackers.
• No account, no email address, no name, no location.
• No data is sold or shared with anyone, because none is collected.

Children

Chicane is suitable for general audiences and collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13. There is nothing in the app that could identify a player.

The online series

If you join the online series, the app creates a random key on your device and keeps it in your iCloud Keychain so your entry follows you between your own devices. Your entry is identified only by a code derived from that key. The series server assigns your team and driver names from the game's own name lists; nothing you type is sent.

When you race a series round the app sends your chosen livery and crest, your race inputs (the setup, the tyre choices and the timeline of your calls), the result, your app version and the round being raced. This is used to compute the standings, to show results on playchicane.com, and to replay your race on the server to confirm the result. It contains no name, email address, device identifier or location.

Standings and results are public and are kept as the series' record; race inputs are deleted twelve months after the season ends. Leaving the series from the app deletes your key and race inputs and replaces your entry's names with “Withdrawn entry”. The server is hosted on Microsoft Azure, which processes IP addresses to serve requests; the developer keeps a salted hash of the registering address for 30 days to prevent abuse, and nothing else.

The career game is unaffected: it needs no connection, sends nothing, and works in aeroplane mode from first launch to the last race of a season.

This website

playchicane.com sets no cookies, runs no analytics, embeds no third-party scripts, and has no forms. Fonts are served from the site's own domain rather than fetched from a font provider, so loading a page does not tell anyone else that you visited.

The series pages show a live season, and they still do not make your browser talk to the series server: the pages are rebuilt on a timer on the server side and delivered to you as ordinary prerendered pages. Nothing about your visit reaches the game's API.

The site is hosted by Vercel, which — like any web host — processes standard server request data such as IP addresses in order to serve the page and to protect against abuse. See Vercel's privacy policy. The developer does not receive or review those logs for any analytics purpose.

App Store purchases

If Chicane is offered for sale, any transaction is handled entirely by Apple. Payment details never pass through the app or reach the developer. Apple may provide the developer with aggregate, anonymised sales figures, which contain no information about individual customers.

Your rights

Regulations such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export and delete personal data a company holds about you. Chicane holds none: there is no database, no user record and no identifier tied to you, so there is nothing for the developer to retrieve or erase. Your own game data is under your control on your device and, if you enabled sync, in your own iCloud account.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of Chicane ever collects anything, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the change will be described here rather than buried. The date at the top of this page is the date of the last substantive change.

Contact

Questions about privacy go to privacy@playchicane.com. The data controller is Arsenie Coseac, the independent developer of Chicane.