Privacy policy

Spacetime Wars VR and stw.yikkie.com · Last updated 14 November 2026

The short version

We don't show ads, use analytics or tracking, or sell anything about you. There are no accounts to make, no chat or voice, and no servers of our own that the game talks to.
If you're 13 or older, your Meta user ID, Meta username and scores go on the game's online leaderboards, and your achievements go to Meta. Meta runs both for us. That's all the game collects about you: see What data the game collects.
If you're under 13, or Meta can't tell us your age group, the game stays completely offline: your scores and achievements stay on your headset and the game never reads your Meta username or user ID.
Anyone, anywhere, can have their data deleted, free. Email [email protected] with the subject "Delete my data". See How to delete your data.

Who we are

Spacetime Wars VR is made by Yikkie, the trading name of Daniel Brummitt, a sole trader based in the United Kingdom. In this policy, "Yikkie", "we" and "us" means Daniel Brummitt trading as Yikkie. We are the "controller" of the personal information described here, which means we're responsible for it.

This policy covers the Spacetime Wars VR game on Meta Quest headsets, and this website (stw.yikkie.com).

What data the game collects, and how it's used

Spacetime Wars VR uses these Meta platform features. This is the complete list of information about you that the game collects, processes or stores through them, and exactly what each is used for. The game doesn't send anything to us or to any other company.

1. Your Meta user ID (Meta's "User ID" feature): What it is: the number Meta gives your Meta account.
Collected: only if you're 13 or older. The game reads it from Meta when it starts.
Used for: attaching your score to your account on the game's online leaderboards, so each player has one entry and the game can show your own place. It is not used for anything else.
Stored: with your leaderboard entries on Meta's leaderboard service, which Meta runs for us. The game doesn't save it on your headset or send it anywhere else. Kept until you ask us to delete it (see How to delete your data).
Who can see it: Meta and us (on Meta's developer dashboard). Other players can't.
2. Your Meta username (Meta's "User profile" feature): What it is: your public Meta username. The game does not collect your profile photo, real name or any other profile details.
Collected: only if you're 13 or older. The game reads it from Meta when it starts.
Used for: showing your name next to your score on the online leaderboards.
Stored: with your leaderboard entries on Meta's leaderboard service, until you ask us to delete it. It isn't saved on your headset.
Who can see it: other players, on the leaderboards in the game; Meta; us.
3. Your score (sent with your user ID and username): What it is: your score, the level and wave you reached, the ship you flew and the difficulty.
Used for: the online leaderboards: one for Story mode and one for Endless mode. Sent to Meta at the end of each game; Meta keeps your best on each board.
Stored: on Meta's leaderboard service until you ask us to delete it.
4. Your age group (Meta's "User age group" feature): What it is: child (10–12), teen (13–17), adult (18+) or unknown. Never your date of birth.
Used for: deciding whether the game goes online at all. For children and unknown ages, the game doesn't read your user ID or username, and nothing is sent to Meta's leaderboards or achievements.
Stored: not stored. It's read each time the game starts and kept only in memory while it runs.
5. Your friends' scores (Meta's "Friends" feature, through the leaderboard): What it is: the usernames and scores of your Meta friends who also play.
Used for: the friends view of the leaderboard in the game. The game asks Meta's leaderboard service for friends-only entries; it never reads your friends list itself.
Stored: not stored. The game asks Meta each time it shows the board.
6. Your achievements (Meta's "Achievements" feature): What it is: which of the game's achievements you've unlocked.
Collected: only if you're 13 or older. The game sends it to Meta when you unlock an achievement.
Used for: showing your achievements in the game and on your Meta profile.
Stored: on Meta's achievements service, linked to your Meta account, until you ask us to reset them (see How to delete your data). A copy is also kept on your headset so the game can show it offline.
Who can see it: you, and other people as your Meta privacy settings allow; Meta; us (as totals on Meta's developer dashboard).

We don't sell, rent or share this information with anyone for advertising or any other purpose. Meta's own handling of your account is covered by the Meta Privacy Policy.

Details and legal basis

The game runs on Meta's Horizon platform and uses these Meta platform features: User ID, User profile (only your Meta username), User age group, Leaderboards (including Meta's friends filter) and Achievements. It also uses Meta's ownership check. Everything in the table is handled through Meta's services, and we can see leaderboard entries on Meta's developer dashboard.

Information	Who it applies to	What we use it for	Legal basis (UK GDPR)
Ownership check: whether the signed-in Meta account owns the game	Everyone	Making sure the game only runs for people who bought it (a Meta Horizon Store rule)	Contract (providing the game you bought); legitimate interests (preventing piracy)
Age group from Meta: child (10–12), teen (13–17), adult (18+) or unknown. Never your date of birth.	Everyone	Deciding whether the game goes online. Children and unknown ages play fully offline.	Legal obligation and legitimate interests (protecting children)
Meta user ID (Meta's "User ID" feature): the number Meta gives your account	Teens and adults only	Linking your score on the online leaderboards to your account, so it's kept as your entry and the game can show your own place	Contract (the leaderboard is part of the game)
Meta username (from Meta's "User profile" feature). The game doesn't use your profile photo or any other profile details.	Teens and adults only	Showing your name next to your score on the leaderboards	Contract (the leaderboard is part of the game)
Your score, plus the level and wave you reached, your ship and the difficulty	Teens and adults only	Posted to the online leaderboard (Story or Endless) at the end of each game. Meta keeps your best score.	Contract
Achievements: which achievements you've unlocked	Teens and adults only (children's achievements stay on the headset)	Showing your achievements in the game and on your Meta profile	Contract
Friends' scores: the usernames and scores of your Meta friends who also play, from Meta's leaderboard friends filter	Teens and adults only	The friends view of the leaderboard. Read from Meta each time; we never see or keep your friends list.	Contract

Everyone can see the online leaderboards in the game, so your Meta username and scores will be visible to other players.

Stored only on your headset

The game saves these on your headset and never sends them anywhere: your settings (difficulty, music, glow and graphics, the arena shape and size, which ship you picked and so on), the headset scoreboard (your scores only, with no name attached), your unlocked achievements, and whether you've seen the story intro. Uninstalling the game deletes all of this.

How to delete your data

Everyone can delete their data, wherever they live, at no cost. You don't need to give a reason.

Email [email protected] with the subject "Delete my data".
Tell us your Meta username, so we can find your entries. We may ask you to confirm that the account is yours.
Within 30 days we delete your entries from every Spacetime Wars VR leaderboard (your scores, the game details, your Meta user ID and username) and reset your Spacetime Wars VR achievements, and we email you to confirm.

Once your entries are deleted, we and Meta keep nothing else about you for this game. If you play again later, new scores go on the leaderboard as normal. We delete your email to us within two years.

Data on your headset never reaches us. To delete it, uninstall the game: on your headset open Library, find Spacetime Wars VR, open its … menu and choose Uninstall.

Players under 13, or whose age group Meta can't tell us, have nothing stored outside their headset. A parent or guardian can still email us and we'll check.

What the game doesn't do

No adverts, analytics or tracking, and no advertising IDs.
No servers of our own: the game only talks to Meta.
No crash reports or usage statistics sent to us or to anyone else. Error messages only go to your headset's own system log.
No accounts, chat, voice, multiplayer, photos or camera access.
Your head and hand movements never leave your headset.
No in-app purchases.
We never sell or share your information for marketing.

Children

Spacetime Wars VR is suitable for players aged 10 and over. We follow the UK Information Commissioner's Children's Code and the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

When the game starts, it asks Meta for the player's age group. If Meta says the player is a child (10–12), or can't tell us, the game stays completely offline. We don't ask for, read or send the player's Meta username, user ID, scores or achievements; they all stay on the headset.
We don't ask children for any other personal information. If you're a parent or guardian and think we have your child's information, email [email protected] and we'll delete it.
Meta accounts for children under 13 are managed by a parent through Meta's own tools. See Meta's help pages for parents.

Meta's role

Meta Platforms provides the store, your account, the ownership check, age groups, the leaderboard service (including its friends filter) and the achievements service. It stores leaderboard entries and achievements on its servers. Meta also collects information about how you use your headset and apps under its own policies, which we don't control. See the Meta Privacy Policy.

Meta may store and process this information outside the UK, including in the USA. Meta uses legal safeguards for these transfers, as its privacy policy explains.

Companies that help us

These companies handle some information for us, only on our instructions and under their data processing terms:

Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts the server this website runs on, in its Ireland (EU) data centre, so the website's server logs are stored on AWS's computers (AWS privacy notice). The game itself never connects to it.
Cloudflare delivers this website and runs the domain name service (DNS) for yikkie.com (Cloudflare's privacy policy).
Postale hosts our email.

Some of these companies may process information outside the UK. Their data processing terms include legal safeguards for those transfers.

This website (stw.yikkie.com)

No cookies, analytics or trackers. Fonts, images and video are served from our own server.
Server logs. Like every website, our web server records each visit: IP address, date and time, the page requested, and your browser type. We use these only to keep the site running and secure. They're deleted automatically after 14 days.
Cloudflare. The site is delivered through Cloudflare, which protects it from attacks. Cloudflare processes visitors' IP addresses for this on our behalf.

When you email us

If you email us for support or about your data, we use your email address and what you tell us to reply. We keep emails for as long as we need to deal with your request, then delete them within two years. Our email is hosted by our email provider, Postale.

How long we keep things

Leaderboard entries: while the game is available, unless you ask us to delete them sooner. Meta keeps them on our behalf.
Achievements: on Meta's service until you ask us to reset them.
Data on your headset (settings, scoreboard, achievements): until you uninstall the game.
Website logs: 14 days.
Emails: up to two years.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask us to:

give you a copy of the information we hold about you;
correct it if it's wrong;
delete it, including removing your scores from the online leaderboards;
limit how we use it, or object to how we use it;
send it to you in a format another service can use.

Email [email protected] and tell us your Meta username. We may ask you to confirm you own that account. We'll reply within one month. For deletion, follow the steps in How to delete your data.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, please tell us first. You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office: ico.org.uk, phone 0303 123 1113. If you live in the EU, you can contact your local data protection authority.

Players in the USA

We don't sell or "share" personal information as California law defines it, and we don't use it for targeted advertising. The rights above apply to you too. Email us to use them.

Changes to this policy

If the game starts using information in a new way, we'll update this page and change the date at the top before the update goes live. If the change is significant, we'll also say so in the game's release notes.