Tower Pinball

Privacy Policy

Effective 16 October 2026. Applies to Tower Pinball for iPhone and iPad, made by Tim Mueller (Sleep Laugh).

In short

Tower Pinball does not collect, store, or share any personal information. There are no accounts, no ads, no tracking, and no third-party code in the app. The game sends anonymous play statistics — how many games are played on each table, and similar counts — so we can tell what players enjoy; nothing in them identifies you. This page says what the game keeps on your device, what those statistics contain, and what Apple's Game Center does if you use it.

On your device

The game remembers a few things so it can pick up where you left off: your settings (music, haptics, difficulty, how much the backdrop moves), your best scores, which tips and tour screens you have already seen, and which Game Center achievements have already been reported. All of it lives in the app's own storage on your device. The game never sends it anywhere. Delete the app and it is gone. If you back your device up to iCloud or a computer, it is part of that backup the way every app's settings are.

Anonymous play statistics

To learn which tables people play and whether the free daily game of a paid table is useful, the game sends a small number of anonymous events: that the app was opened, that a game started or finished (with the table, the score, the highest floor reached and roughly how long it lasted), and that a table's free game, its preview, or its buy button was used, with the result of a purchase attempt. Each event carries the app's version, a random identifier created by the game on your device and scrambled before it is sent, and an identifier for the current session. They do not include your name, your Apple Account, your location, your device's advertising identifier or anything you type, and they are not used to track you across other apps or websites or for advertising.

The statistics are received and counted by TelemetryDeck, a privacy-focused analytics service in the EU, on our behalf. The game sends them in small batches when you are online; offline, it simply plays and sends them later. Deleting the app deletes the random identifier, and a reinstall starts a new one.

Game Center

Game Center is Apple's service, and using it is optional. If you are signed in to Game Center on your device, the game sends Apple your final score after each finished game, for that table's leaderboard, and reports achievements as you earn them. Apple sends back your rank, how many players are on the board, and the top score, and the game prints those on the menu. Apple handles all of it under Apple's privacy policy. The game never sees your Apple Account, your name, or your friends.

To stop scores from being posted, sign out of Game Center in the Settings app on your device. The game then keeps your best score on the device only. Parents can turn Game Center off for a child's account with Screen Time.

Motion

You can nudge the table by leaning your phone. To feel the lean, the game reads the device's motion sensors while you play, and it uses the same reading to shift the backdrop a little as you move. The readings are used in the moment and thrown away; nothing about how you move is recorded or sent anywhere. If you would rather not, a two-finger tap nudges the table the same way, and the game respects the Reduce Motion setting in the iOS Accessibility settings.

Nothing else

The game does not use your camera, microphone, location, contacts, photos, or notifications, and never asks for them. It has no login, no advertising, no crash-reporting service, and no third-party software development kits. It does not track you across other apps or websites. It plays entirely offline; the only network traffic it makes is the anonymous statistics described above, the Game Center traffic when you are signed in, and Apple's App Store when you buy or restore a table.

Children

Tower Pinball is a game for anyone old enough to hold a phone in two hands, and it collects no information from anyone, children included. It has no chat and no links out to the web, except the RATE THE GAME button in Settings, which opens the App Store. A paid table is bought through Apple's App Store, where Ask to Buy and Screen Time apply.

Purchases

Rocket Range is complete and free. Clockwork Tower is a one-time in-app purchase through Apple's App Store, and you can play it free once a day before deciding. Apple handles the payment; the game never sees your payment details. It only learns that the table is yours, and remembers that on your device so the table works offline. Restore Purchases in Settings asks Apple again.

Changes, and questions

If the game ever changes what it keeps or sends, this page will change with it and the date at the top will move. Questions about any of this: support@sleeplaugh.net. Everything else about the game is on the support page.