Local play.
Disclosed services.

The short version

No Turn Ahead account is required. Core game state is local, while Apple processes purchases and Google processes consent and ad data.

No accounts or ATT prompt. Gameplay, settings, scores, token balance, and processed transaction identifiers are stored locally. StoreKit and Google Mobile Ads/User Messaging Platform use networking for purchases, consent, non-personalized ads, and diagnostics.

Developer and scope

This policy describes Turn Ahead: Road Router version 1.0 beta for iPhone, provided by Y Corp Technologies. Y Corp Technologies is the developer and is responsible for the app’s integration of Apple StoreKit, Google Mobile Ads, and Google User Messaging Platform.

This app policy is separate from the Y Corp Technologies website privacy notice, which describes this website, email contact, and hosting logs.

Information stored locally by Turn Ahead

Turn Ahead uses the iPhone app container to store:

• The best score.
• The music on-or-off preference.
• The current Token balance.
• Whether the Remove Ads entitlement is active.
• Processed and reversed StoreKit transaction identifiers used to prevent a Token purchase from being credited or reversed twice.

Active road, car, level, score, and life state exists in memory during a run but is not a Turn Ahead cloud save. The app uses local records to resume preferences, show the best score and wallet, grant verified purchases once, restore Remove Ads, and prevent duplicate delivery of consumable value.

Google Mobile Ads data

Turn Ahead integrates Google Mobile Ads to request automatic interstitial ads at level breaks and optional rewarded ads for one life. The app explicitly marks its ad requests as non-personalized. Non-personalized does not mean no data is processed: a network connection, including an IP address, is still needed to send an ad to the device, and data can be used for ad delivery, frequency controls, reporting, security, fraud prevention, performance, and diagnostics.

Google Mobile Ads 13.7.0 declares the following categories in its embedded Apple privacy manifest:

• Coarse Location, Advertising Data, Product Interaction, and Device ID may be linked to a user for third-party advertising, developer advertising, and analytics.
• Performance Data and Other Diagnostic Data are declared as not linked to a user and used for advertising and analytics purposes.
• Crash Data is declared as not linked to a user and used for analytics.
• Device ID is the category that Google’s embedded manifest declares as used for tracking. The other listed categories are declared as not used for tracking in that manifest.

Actual collection depends on the SDK’s operation, device and region, consent state, ad availability, Google settings, and the ads served. Google can make aggregated ad performance and earnings reports available to Y Corp Technologies. Turn Ahead does not send the player’s road layout, destination choices, score, life count, Token balance, music preference, email address, or payment credentials to Google as custom ad-targeting fields.

Google User Messaging Platform data

User Messaging Platform 3.1.0 requests updated consent information at launch, presents a Google-managed message when required, reports whether ads may be requested, and tells the app when a Privacy Choices entry point is required.

Its embedded Apple privacy manifest declares Coarse Location, Performance Data, and Product Interaction for app functionality. Those categories are declared as not linked to a user and not used for tracking. Google or an applicable consent framework may store the user’s consent and privacy signals so later ad requests can respect those choices.

Tracking, ATT, and ad personalization

Turn Ahead does not request Apple App Tracking Transparency permission and does not ask for access to the ATT-protected advertising identifier. The app-owned privacy manifest declares no app-owned tracking domains and no app-owned tracking.

Google Mobile Ads is still a third-party advertising SDK whose embedded privacy manifest declares linked Device ID use for tracking. That disclosure applies even though Turn Ahead currently requests non-personalized ads. Depending on the law or platform definition, third-party advertising processing may be treated as tracking, targeted advertising, or sharing. The lack of an ATT prompt should not be interpreted as meaning that Google processes no identifier or advertising data.

When ads are requested

The app delays starting Google Mobile Ads until it has requested updated consent information and User Messaging Platform says ads may be requested. It can then prepare interstitial and rewarded inventory before the player chooses to show an ad. The rewarded ad itself appears only after an explicit player action.

Buying Remove Ads stops automatic interstitial inventory requests and presentations. Rewarded inventory remains available and may be prepared because a rewarded life is still an optional feature. Remove Ads therefore is an advertising-frequency purchase, not a request to disable Google, UMP, networking, diagnostics, or all advertising-related processing.

App Store products and transaction data

Apple provides product names, descriptions, localized prices, and verified transaction results through StoreKit. Turn Ahead processes product identifiers, transaction identifiers, entitlement status, revocation status, and whether a transaction still needs to be finished. The app stores the minimum local wallet and transaction-ID records needed to deliver 300 Tokens once, reverse a revoked Token purchase once, and keep Remove Ads active.

Apple processes the Apple Account, payment method, billing, storefront, tax, Family Sharing eligibility, purchase approval, receipt, and refund under Apple’s terms and privacy practices. Turn Ahead and Y Corp Technologies do not receive payment-card details or the user’s Apple Account password.

Permissions and Apple-protected resources

Version 1.0 does not request camera, photo library, microphone, speech recognition, precise location, contacts, calendars, motion, Bluetooth, local-network, notification, or App Tracking Transparency permission. Gameplay uses direct touch, visual output, audio output, and system feedback without recording audio or reading those protected resources.

Coarse Location in Google’s privacy manifests refers to provider processing such as approximate location inferred from network information; Turn Ahead does not request iOS Location Services permission.

Purpose, recipients, and sale or sharing

Local app records are used for gameplay, settings, scoring, purchase delivery, restoration, and fraud-resistant duplicate prevention. Apple receives purchase requests. Google and its advertising or consent partners receive data needed to provide ads, privacy messages, measurement, reporting, security, fraud prevention, performance, and diagnostics.

Y Corp Technologies does not sell Turn Ahead’s locally stored game data for money and does not upload that local wallet or score to a developer-operated server. Google’s advertising ecosystem can involve third-party advertising providers, and its processing can constitute sharing or targeted-advertising activity under some privacy laws. Learn how Google uses data from partner apps and read the Google Privacy Policy. Apple’s practices are described in Apple’s Privacy Policy.

Privacy choices and consent

Where required, Google’s consent message appears before ads are requested. When User Messaging Platform reports that a continuing privacy-options entry point is required, the Turn Ahead main menu displays Privacy Choices. That control opens Google’s form to review or change available ad choices.

Rewarded ads are optional. Remove Ads stops automatic interstitials but does not disable rewarded inventory or all Google processing. Turning off network access prevents live ad and purchase requests while offline, although the game itself remains playable. For local data and provider-specific choices, read the complete Turn Ahead privacy choices guide.

Retention, deletion, backup, and export

Local records remain until the app replaces them, a refunded Token transaction is reversed, or the app container is removed. Version 1.0 has no single erase-data or export control. Removing Turn Ahead removes its local app container. Apple-managed device backups may retain and later restore app data according to the user’s backup settings; Y Corp Technologies cannot access those backups.

Removing the app does not delete Apple’s purchase records or Google-held ad and consent records. Apple and Google determine retention and deletion for data they control under their policies and legal obligations. Y Corp Technologies cannot export a user’s local score or wallet because it never receives them.

Accounts and authentication

Turn Ahead has no app account, password, authentication profile, friends list, or account-deletion workflow. An Apple Account may be required by Apple to make or restore an App Store purchase, but it is not a Turn Ahead account.

Support correspondence

Contacting support is optional and happens outside the app through the user’s email provider. An email provides its address, message, and any device details or attachments the sender chooses to include. Y Corp Technologies uses that information to answer the request and maintain reasonably necessary support records; it is not used for ad targeting or sold.

A sender can request deletion of a support conversation by writing to the same address, subject to limited legal, security, or recordkeeping needs. Do not send passwords, payment credentials, full receipts, or unnecessary sensitive information.

Children

Turn Ahead is a general-audience arcade puzzle and is not presented as a service directed to children under 13. It does not ask for a name, birth date, or account profile. A parent or guardian should supervise App Store purchases and optional ad choices for a minor and use Apple’s purchase controls when appropriate.

Security

Local records are protected by Apple’s app sandbox and the iPhone’s operating-system, passcode, and backup protections. StoreKit transactions are accepted only after StoreKit verification. No security measure is perfect; keeping iOS updated and protecting the device and Apple Account helps reduce risk.

International processing

Apple, Google, their providers, and email services may process data in countries other than the user’s own, subject to their privacy policies, contractual protections, and applicable law. Local game records are not intentionally transmitted to a Y Corp Technologies gameplay server because no such server exists.

Changes and contact

This policy will be updated before a material change to Turn Ahead data practices is released. Privacy questions or requests can be sent to mannykin333@gmail.com. Include “Turn Ahead privacy” and avoid unnecessary sensitive information. App help is available from Turn Ahead support.