Multi Modal collects almost nothing about you. The game has no accounts of its own, no analytics and no advertising. Game Center and iCloud sync are Apple services that work through your own Apple account, and we cannot see what they store. The one feature that talks to a server of ours is the optional Map Gallery, where players share the maps they make; section 6 lists exactly what it keeps, and you can remove all of it from inside the game. This policy explains all of that in full, because a policy that just said "nothing" would be hard to trust.
1. Information We Collect
None. We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, location, device identifiers, contacts, photos, or any usage or diagnostic data. We do not build a profile of you, and there is nothing for us to sell or share, because nothing ever reaches us.
Multi Modal has no sign-in or account of its own. The game is free to play, with a single optional in-app purchase that unlocks more cities; that purchase is handled entirely by Apple, and is covered in section 4 below. The game never needs a network connection: the free London and Stockholm campaigns play start to finish with the device in aeroplane mode. If you are signed in to Game Center or iCloud, the game uses them as described in sections 3 and 5.
The one exception is the optional Map Gallery (section 6). If you open it, our server keeps a random identifier for your copy of the game and, if you publish, the maps you publish and the nickname you choose. None of it is your name, email address or Apple ID.
2. What the Game Stores on Your Device
Multi Modal saves your progress locally so you can put it down and come back to it. All of this is written inside the app's own sandbox container on your device, and none of it is sent to us:
- Your saved run: the city you are part-way through, so Continue can resume it.
- Best scores and city unlocks: your best score and furthest day per city, and which cities you have unlocked.
- Your run log: a record of each finished run, which the Records screen adds up into per-city and lifetime totals.
- Settings: volume levels and whether in-game tips are shown.
None of this is sent to any server of ours or readable by us. If you are signed in to iCloud, your best scores and run records are also kept in your own iCloud account so they appear on your other Apple devices (section 5). If your device backs up to iCloud, Apple's normal device-backup behaviour and Apple's privacy policy apply to that backup. That is between you and Apple, and we have no access to it.
3. Network Access
Apart from the optional Map Gallery, the game does not talk to us: it does not phone home, check for messages, load remote content, or report a crash to us. It goes online in four cases only:
- Game Center, if you are signed in: your scores and achievements are sent to Apple's Game Center. They appear on leaderboards under your Game Center nickname, and the game reads the leaderboards back to show how your score compares with other players' (for example "Top 12%"). That comparison is worked out and kept on your device.
- iCloud, if you are signed in: your best scores and run records sync between your devices, as described in section 5.
- The in-app purchase: buying or restoring it is carried out by Apple's own App Store system component, which runs outside the game and reports back only whether you are entitled to the unlocked cities. No part of that exchange passes through us.
- The Map Gallery, only when you open it: the game talks to our server at southlondonsilicon.com, as described in section 6.
You can play without Game Center, iCloud or the Map Gallery. Signing out of Game Center or iCloud in your device's settings turns that feature off, and the Gallery is never contacted unless you open it.
4. Purchases
Multi Modal is free to download and offers one optional in-app purchase, which unlocks the cities and modes outside the free London and Stockholm campaigns. That transaction is handled entirely by Apple's App Store. We never receive or store your payment card details, billing address, or Apple ID. Apple's privacy policy governs all transaction data.
What the game itself sees is only whether the purchase has been made. That is a yes-or-no answer that Apple's system provides on the device, and we never send it anywhere. From Apple we receive only the anonymous, aggregated sales figures reported to every developer, which cannot be traced back to an individual.
The one exception is the optional Map Gallery: the first time you publish a map from the App Store version, the game sends your purchase to our server so it can be confirmed with Apple, as described in section 6.
5. Game Center and iCloud
Game Center and iCloud are run by Apple, and Apple's privacy policy, including its Game Center & Privacy page, covers what they store. We do not receive your Apple ID, your Game Center identity or your iCloud data. Like any player, we can see the public leaderboards, which show nicknames and scores. We do not copy or store them.
6. Map Gallery
The Map Gallery lets players share maps they made in the Map Maker and play other players' maps. It runs on our own server at southlondonsilicon.com, hosted by Cloudflare. It is optional: nothing is sent until you open it.
- When you open it: our server gives your copy of the game a random identifier and a secret key, which the game keeps on your device. We keep the identifier, a scrambled (hashed) form of the key, and which maps you like, play, report or block, so the Gallery can count likes and hide what you blocked.
- When you publish: the map, its name and the nickname you choose are public: anyone with the game can see and play them. Please don't use your real name as a nickname.
- Your network: to limit abuse, we keep a salted hash of a coarse part of your internet address, never the address itself, and it cannot be turned back into the address.
- Purchase check: when you first publish from the App Store version, the game sends your full-game purchase so our server can confirm it with Apple. We keep only a salted hash of its transaction number, so one purchase cannot make unlimited accounts. We never see your Apple ID or payment details.
- Reports: when players report a map, we look at it and may remove it, or stop its maker publishing.
To remove everything, choose Options → Remove my Gallery maps (in the browser and Windows versions, Map Gallery → Yours → Remove my Gallery maps). That deletes your identifier, nickname, published maps, likes and blocks from our server; maps saved in Your maps stay on your device. Reports you made about other players' maps are kept as a record of what was reported. You can also email us to ask for deletion.
7. Crash Reports and Analytics
We do not operate any analytics or crash-reporting service, and the app contains no third-party SDK of any kind.
If you have separately chosen to share analytics and crash data with developers in your device's own privacy settings, Apple may provide us with anonymised crash logs and aggregate usage statistics through App Store Connect. That sharing is controlled entirely by you, in Apple's settings, and can be switched off there at any time. We never receive anything that identifies you.
8. This Website and the Browser Demo
This site is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc. We run no advertising or tracking scripts and set no cookies on it. To count visits it uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and does not follow you across other sites, and Cloudflare processes standard server request logs as part of delivering and protecting the site, in accordance with their own privacy policy.
The free browser demo is hosted on itch.io. The demo itself contains no analytics, but the itch.io page around it is operated by itch.io and their privacy policy and cookie practices apply while you are on it. We receive nothing from them beyond the anonymous play and download counts shown on their dashboard.
9. Children's Privacy
Multi Modal is suitable for all ages and collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13. The Map Gallery shows maps and nicknames made by other players: they pass a word filter, and players can report and block, but they are not checked before they appear. Publishing asks for a nickname, which should never be a real name. A child's use of Game Center is governed by Apple's Family Sharing and Screen Time settings.
10. Your Data and How to Erase It
Almost everything stays on your device, so you are in control of your data.
- In the game: Options → Reset progress → Erase everything erases your best scores, run records and saved run, on this device and on your other iCloud devices. It does not remove the cities you have unlocked.
- Game Center: your scores and achievements are held by Apple. You can manage them through Game Center in your device's settings.
- On your device: deleting the app removes its container, and with it your saved run and progress on that device. Progress kept in your iCloud account stays until you erase it in the game or remove it in your iCloud settings.
- Map Gallery: Options → Remove my Gallery maps deletes everything the Gallery holds about you (section 6).
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we update the "Effective Date" above and describe exactly what changed. We will not begin collecting anything without saying so here first.
What changed on November 9, 2026: added the optional Map Gallery (section 6), the one feature that sends anything to a server of ours.
What changed on October 25, 2026: the game now uses Apple's Game Center for leaderboards and achievements, and iCloud to sync your progress between your devices. We still collect nothing.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this policy, or want to check anything in it, please get in touch: