Privacy Policy
This policy explains what GoBeast collects, why, who processes it, and the choices you have. It describes how the app actually works today, in plain language.
Who we are
GoBeast is developed and operated by Eden Raymond, an individual working under the trading name Top Layer Games. Top Layer Games is not an incorporated company. In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" mean Eden Raymond trading as Top Layer Games, and "you" means the person using the GoBeast app or this website.
We decide how and why the personal data described here is used. Privacy questions and requests go to privacy@toplayer.games.
Data we collect
Sign-in and account data
You sign in to GoBeast with Apple, Google or Facebook. We never receive your Apple, Google or Facebook password. The provider confirms who you are and gives us an account identifier, which we use to create your GoBeast account and connect it to your game save. Depending on the provider and what you agree to share, we may also receive your name, your email address and basic profile information. If you use Sign in with Apple and choose to hide your email, we receive Apple's private relay address instead.
Onboarding answers and profile
When you set up GoBeast, the app asks a few questions. Depending on the questions you answer, we store your age band (for example "Under 18" or "18–29"), gender, fitness level, height and weight, and your answers to "What are you training for?". That question lets you pick more than one option: Build a Daily Habit, Compete & Win, Stay Healthy & Active, Reach a Personal Goal, Discover New Routes and Join a Community.
These answers are saved to your cloud profile with your account. They are linked to your account; they are not anonymous. We use them to set up your game and, as described in section 3, to understand what motivates players.
Workout and activity data
GoBeast measures your training with your phone's own sensors. It does not connect to Apple Health, Health Connect or other health apps, and it does not read heart rate. With your permission, the app uses:
- Motion and step data from your phone, to count steps and to tell walking, running and travelling in a vehicle apart.
- Location during a workout (see below), to measure distance and draw your route.
From this the app records workout results, such as distance, duration, step count and when the workout was completed, and may calculate estimates such as calories. Workout results, totals and history are saved to your account so they can drive your beast's progress and sync across devices.
We keep two kinds of fitness data apart: data you enter (such as height and weight in onboarding) and data the app measures during workouts (such as steps, distance and duration).
Location and maps
GoBeast asks for location access to track your route while you train. If you allow "Always" access, tracking continues while a workout is running and your screen is locked or another app is open, so a run still counts with the phone in your pocket. The app uses location for active workouts only.
- The route line for the workout in progress is stored on your device, so it can be restored if the app is closed mid-workout, and it is cleared when the workout ends.
- The workout results saved to your account are summaries (such as distance and duration). Based on our review of the current app, route coordinates are not part of the saved workout history.
- The map is provided by OpenFreeMap. To show the map, your device requests map tiles for the area you are viewing. These requests reveal that area and normal network information, such as your IP address, to the map provider and the networks it uses.
Because maps, analytics and other services work over the internet, we do not promise that information about your location never leaves your device. Analytics services, for example, can estimate an approximate region from your IP address.
Game data
We store your game progress with your account: your beast and its evolution, missions and tasks, streaks, coins and other in-game items, settings and similar game records.
Analytics and diagnostics
Release versions of the app use Google Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics. They record how the app is used (for example installs, returns, workouts started and completed, and evolution milestones) and crash and error reports. These services may process device and installation identifiers, device model, operating system and app version. Error reports can include technical details about what failed. We do not describe this data as anonymous, because identifiers can link records to an installation or account.
We do not send your "What are you training for?" answers, height or weight to Google Analytics.
Purchases
GoBeast is free to download and play. The in-game shop is currently locked, and real-money purchases are unavailable, so you cannot buy anything in the app with money. You earn in-game coins and rewards by completing training missions.
If you took part in an earlier test version and made a test purchase, records of that transaction (such as transaction identifiers and what was granted) may be linked to your account so we can verify what you own. If we turn on real-money purchases in the future, Apple will handle payment, we will not receive your card details, and we will update this policy first.
Support messages
If you email us or use the form on the support page (which opens your own email app), we receive your email address and whatever you include in the message, and we use it to answer you. Please do not send passwords or sign-in codes.
This website
The website is hosted on Vercel, which processes standard request data such as your IP address to serve the pages. If you join the beta list, your email address is sent to our email service, Brevo, and used to send your beta invite. The GoBeast trailer is played through YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com), and YouTube receives data about the playback when you play it. This website does not currently load analytics. It remembers your cookie choice and accessibility settings in your browser's local storage, which stays on your device.
How we use your data
- To run the game: signing you in, saving and syncing your progress, turning workouts into in-game progress, and checking that rewards were earned.
- To keep it working: finding and fixing crashes and errors, and preventing cheating and abuse.
- To understand players and improve the game: we look at combined totals of onboarding answers, for example how many players chose each "What are you training for?" option. We produce this with an internal, read-only report that counts how many people picked each answer and what share that is. The report does not include names, email addresses, account identifiers, height or weight. It is built only from profiles that were saved to the cloud, so it does not cover everyone who downloaded the app or people who left onboarding before their profile was saved. We also use aggregated analytics to decide what to build next.
- To support you: answering your messages and handling requests.
- To meet legal obligations: when the law requires it.
Where the EU or UK GDPR applies, we rely on performance of our agreement with you to run the game, on our legitimate interests to keep it working and improve it, on your consent where we ask for it (such as location and motion permissions), and on legal obligation where it applies.
We do not show ads in GoBeast, and we do not use your fitness data or onboarding answers for advertising. We do not make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you based solely on automated processing.
International transfers
Our service providers may store or process data in countries other than yours, including the United States. Where data moves across borders, we rely on the transfer safeguards that these providers offer under their terms. You can ask us about them at privacy@toplayer.games.
How long we keep it
- Account, profile, onboarding answers, workout history and game data: while your account exists. They are removed through account deletion (section 7).
- The route of an active workout: on your device only, until that workout ends.
- Test purchase records: while your account exists. They are removed with your account.
- Analytics and crash reports: kept by Firebase according to its retention settings. Deleting your GoBeast account does not by itself erase analytics or crash data that was already recorded.
- Support and privacy emails: kept in our mailbox for as long as we need them to handle your request and keep a record of it.
- Provider logs (for example hosting, map and website logs): kept by those providers under their own policies.
Your rights and choices
Choices in the app and on your device
- You can allow, limit or turn off location and Motion & Fitness access at any time in your device settings. Without them, workout tracking will not work, or will work only in part.
- Signing out or uninstalling the app does not delete your account.
Deleting your account
You can delete your account in the app: open the game menu, then Account → Delete Account. Here is what happens:
- You confirm, and you may be asked to sign in again so we know it is really you. If you use Sign in with Apple, the app also asks Apple to revoke GoBeast's access to your Apple ID. If you cancel at this stage, for example in the Apple window, no deletion request is created and your account stays as it is.
- Our server records your deletion request and removes your sign-in account before the app confirms the deletion. It then deletes the account data stored in our cloud database: your profile and onboarding answers, game save, workout history, coins and in-game items, and related purchase records. This remaining cloud cleanup may continue in the background.
- The app clears your local game data and returns to the Welcome screen. If you sign in again later, you start a new account from the beginning.
Deletion is permanent and cannot be undone. Once our server has recorded your deletion request, unfinished server cleanup is retried. These items are kept separately:
- A short record that a deletion took place (your former account identifier and when it was requested and completed). We keep it so the deletion can finish and so we can handle questions about it.
- Analytics and crash data already recorded by Firebase, and logs kept by service providers.
- Emails you sent us.
- Any provider backups, which follow that provider's own schedule.
You can also email privacy@toplayer.games to ask for deletion, including if you cannot open the app.
Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access your data, correct it, delete it, receive a copy in a portable format, object to or restrict some uses, withdraw consent, and complain to your local data protection authority. To use any of these rights, email privacy@toplayer.games. We may need to confirm that the request comes from the account holder.
If you are in California: we do not sell your personal information, and we will not treat you differently for using your privacy rights.
Children's privacy
GoBeast is made for a general audience and is not specifically aimed at children. The app does not have an age check: onboarding asks for an age band, and one option is "Under 18".
If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has given us personal data, contact privacy@toplayer.games and we will help, including by deleting the account.
How we protect your data
The app talks to our cloud services over encrypted connections (HTTPS). Access to your cloud data requires you to be signed in to your account, and database access rules plus checks on our server limit what each account can read and change. Rewards and account deletion are handled by our server, not decided by the app alone.
No system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If a security incident affects your personal data, we will notify you and the authorities where the law requires it.
Changes to this policy
We will update this policy when the game or our practices change, for example if we turn on real-money purchases. The "last updated" date at the top always shows the current version. If a change materially affects how we use your data, we will tell you in the app or on this website before it takes effect.
Contact us
- Privacy requests and questions: privacy@toplayer.games
- General support: the GoBeast support page, or support@toplayer.games
Top Layer Games is the trading name of Eden Raymond, an independent developer. We handle privacy correspondence by email. If you need a written confirmation of our answer, say so in your message.