Zippy Gecko privacy policy

Last updated: 12 November 2026

This page covers the iPhone app. For the Android version (Google Play), published by LCPA SARL: Android privacy policy.

In short: The game asks for no account, no name and no email address. Your progress stays on your phone. The game is free thanks to ads provided by Google AdMob, which processes certain data from your device according to the choices you make in the consent form and in Apple’s tracking request. If you are signed in to Game Center (Apple), your scores appear on the leaderboards, under your Game Center nickname.

1. Who is responsible?

The Zippy Gecko app is published by Ludovic Giacalone (France), the data controller. Contact: support@lcpastudio.fr (subject “Zippy Gecko”).

This website, which presents the app, is published by LCPA SARL under the LCPA Studio brand (see the legal notice).

2. What the game saves itself

Your progress (best score, fireflies, outfits, upgrades, missions, settings) is saved only on your device. It is not sent to any server of the publisher. Deleting the app erases this data.

3. Ads (Google AdMob)

Ads are provided by Google (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). To display ads, measure their effectiveness, limit how often they repeat and fight fraud, Google’s advertising kit may process: the device’s advertising identifier (IDFA, only if you allow it), an app-specific identifier, the IP address, technical information about the device (model, system version, language), an approximate location derived from the IP address, and your interactions with the ads.

Consent (Europe): on first launch, a Google form lets you accept or refuse personalised advertising and the other purposes. You can change your mind at any time: Settings › Privacy and ads.
Tracking (Apple): your iPhone asks whether the game may track you for advertising purposes. If you refuse, the advertising identifier is not shared. You can change this in Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
If you refuse, non-personalised ads may be shown.

Learn more: how Google uses data from partner apps · Google Privacy Policy.

Legal bases: your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR) for personalised advertising; legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f)) to show non-personalised ads, measure their effectiveness and fight fraud.

4. In-app purchases

Purchases (“No Ads”, fireflies, packs, outfit) are handled entirely by Apple. The publisher receives neither your name nor your payment method: only confirmation that a purchase took place.

5. Leaderboards (Game Center)

If you are signed in to Game Center (an Apple service), your score from each round is sent to the game’s Game Center leaderboards (weekly leaderboard and all-time leaderboard), under your Game Center nickname and photo: other players can see them. The publisher receives neither your name nor your email address. If you open the “Friends” tab of the leaderboard, your iPhone may ask you for access to your Game Center friends, only to compare your scores. Without a Game Center sign-in, your scores stay on your phone. Game Center is run by Apple: Apple’s privacy policy. You can sign out in Settings › Game Center.

6. Children

Zippy Gecko is a game for all ages that is not specifically aimed at children. It asks for no personal information.

7. Retention period

Game data stays on the device until the app is deleted. Advertising data is kept by Google according to its own rules (link above).

8. Your rights

Under the GDPR, you have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection and data portability, and the right to withdraw your consent and to give instructions on what happens to your data after your death. To exercise them: support@lcpastudio.fr. You can also lodge a complaint with the CNIL (www.cnil.fr).