Apple Games & Privacy

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Apple Games & Privacy

Your game downloads and gameplay activity, including in the App Store, Game Center, and Apple Arcade, are used to personalize and improve Apple Games. Your nickname, avatar, Apple Arcade subscription state, and other activity information you choose to share are visible to Games and Game Center users.

Apple Games is designed to protect your information and enable you to choose what you share.

• Apple combines information about you from the App Store, Apple Arcade, and Game Center as well as information on your device to provide the Apple Games app to you.
• We use information about your purchases, downloads, and other activities in these services to tailor features and offer a personalized experience, and to send you communications. You can opt out of the use of App Store data for personalized recommendations, as described below.
• Your activities across these services are also used to improve and optimize the Games app and these services for you and others.
• To help identify and prevent fraud, information about how you use your device, including the approximate number of phone calls or emails you send and receive, will be used to compute a device trust score when you attempt a download or purchase. The submissions are designed so Apple cannot learn the real values on your device. The scores are stored for a fixed time on our servers. The Apple Games app allows you to discover new games and engage in gaming activities such as participating in leaderboards and multiplayer games, finding, viewing, and challenging friends, and tracking achievements.

In order to provide the best experience for you, the Games app combines information from and about your use of the App Store, Apple Arcade, and Game Center as well as information from your device about the game-related apps you launch. To get started with the Games app, you will need to sign in to your Game Center account and agree to allow Apple to combine your activity across these services. You can change your choice at any time by going to Settings > Apple Games. However, if you do not agree to Apple Games using information from these other services, you will not be able to use the Games app.

Providing the Games App

The Games app uses information about the game-related apps you’ve downloaded (from the App Store, within the Apple Games app, and on Mac) as well as Game Center and on-device information about which of these apps you’ve most recently played or launched to power experiences like those on the Home tab and your Game Library. We use this information to show you your games apps all in one place and allow you to easily pick up where you left off.

When you download a game-related app from within the Games app or the App Store, identifiers such as your device’s hardware ID and IP address are logged by Apple along with your Apple Account. Apple may use the IP address of your internet connection to approximate your location in order to determine whether certain apps that are subject to legal restrictions in some regions can be made available to you.

Profiles Your Game Center profile, including your nickname, avatar, your friends list and your gaming activity will be available within the Games app. Any privacy settings you have turned on for your Game Center profile and activity will also apply in Apple Games. Tapping on a player’s avatar will take you to the profile page for that player. On the profile page you may request to be friends, if you aren’t already, or contact the player if your and their settings allow.