Rails & Trains for iPhone and iPad · effective 8 October 2026
I'm Sergey Ilyevsky, the developer of Rails & Trains. The game has no account of its own and nothing to sign up for, and it never asks you for your name, email address, postal address, phone number, location, contacts or photos, and it shows no advertising.
The game itself sends two things off the device, both of them anonymous:
Neither is used for advertising or to track you across other apps and websites, and neither is sold or passed to anyone beyond the two providers above.
Leaderboards and achievements are provided by Apple's Game Center. Your scores and your Game Center nickname are handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy; no personal information reaches me through it.
Anything bought in the game goes through the App Store. Apple processes the payment — I never see your payment details, and am told only that a purchase was made.
Your progress, best times, settings and any levels you build are stored on the device itself and are not sent anywhere. Deleting the game removes them.
Usage statistics are kept as aggregate numbers and are not deleted; crash reports expire on Sentry's own schedule. Either way none of it carries an identifier that can be traced back to a person, so there are no records of yours for me to find, show or delete on request.
To stop the game sending anything at all, turn off Diagnostics under Privacy in the game's help.
European data protection law (the GDPR, and the versions of it in the UK and Switzerland) asks for a few more things to be spelled out.
Who is responsible. I am: Sergey Ilyevsky, an independent developer in Israel, reachable at the email below. The European Commission recognises Israel as protecting personal data adequately.
Why it is allowed. Usage statistics and crash reports are sent on the basis of my legitimate interest in seeing how the game is played, and in finding and fixing what goes wrong in it (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Only what those two purposes need is sent, nothing in it identifies you, and it stops as soon as you turn Diagnostics off.
Where it goes. TelemetryDeck is a German company with its servers in the EU. Sentry is in the United States, and is certified under the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework and its UK and Swiss extensions, which is what allows data to go there from Europe.
Your rights. You can ask for access to data about you, to have it corrected, deleted or restricted, to receive it in a portable form, and to object to its use. Since nothing the game sends identifies you, I usually have no way to tell which records are yours. To object to anything more being sent, turn off Diagnostics: it takes effect at once, and what was sent before is kept only as described above. You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live.
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