Ad-free edition privacy

About this policy

Lightway is a route-planning puzzle published by Southwind AB, Sweden. We are responsible for the game, support correspondence and dedicated website. Contact us at viktor.sunnersjo@gmail.com. This policy covers the ad-free Android edition and Lightway website. Last revised 12 October 2026.

A short explanation

Southwind AB makes Lightway. Contact viktor.sunnersjo@gmail.com for support or privacy questions. No player account is needed. Progress, planned routes, opened help and settings stay on your device unless you export them. This edition has no advertising SDK and all help is free.

If you email us, Gmail receives your message. Opening our website sends technical connection information to Cloudflare. See the details below and our support page. Reading this policy or continuing to play does not give consent.

Your game on your device

The game stores completed charts, your current planned route, tutorial progress, opened help and your choices for music, sound effects, mute and reduced motion. These records allow you to continue playing and remember your preferences. Music and effects are included in the app and play locally. There are no purchases, social features, chat, developer-operated player analytics, player accounts or cloud saves. We do not ask for contacts, precise location, camera or microphone access. The campaign works offline.

Moving or deleting your progress

Help & privacy → Move progress lets you export or import a file using the Android file picker. The file contains your journey, settings and opened help, including your own current plan. It does not contain the authored solution library, age declaration, advertising identifiers, consent records, the local advertising-objection restriction or ad-operation receipts. Import requires confirmation. We do not receive the file unless you choose to send it to us. A cloud folder you select is handled by that service. You can delete an export at its destination and remove local game data in Android settings. Uninstalling or clearing app data can erase your journey. Normal Play updates preserve compatible progress.

Local retention and backup

Progress, opened help and preferences remain until you remove or replace them, or incompatible or obsolete records are discarded.

Android cloud backup is disabled. A device maker can offer separate device-to-device transfer, which we do not operate or guarantee. Export lets you keep a separate copy under your control.

Ad-free edition

This edition contains no advertising or consent SDK. Gameplay and all help work offline. Following a support or website link uses the service you open.

Email support

Email to viktor.sunnersjo@gmail.com is received by Southwind AB in a Google Gmail mailbox. We use your address, any name, message, attachments and email metadata to reply, investigate the issue and handle privacy requests. Support is optional. Do not send passwords or unrelated sensitive information; send a progress file only when relevant and when you choose to do so.

We delete closed support conversations and attachments no later than 12 months after closure, sooner when they are no longer needed. This includes sent messages, trash and any other copies under our control; moving a message to Trash does not extend the deadline.

For a specific legal duty or ongoing dispute, we keep only the material needed, review the exception at least annually and delete it when that reason ends. Evidence of handling a statutory rights request is assessed for that particular duty, not used to retain every support message. Google's separate service and security records follow its own retention criteria.

The Lightway website

Cloudflare Pages delivers and protects the Lightway website. Requests reveal IP address, requested address, time, browser details and traffic-routing information to Cloudflare. Web Analytics is disabled. Our static site has no account, upload form, advertising scripts or website-analytics scripts. It does not receive game progress, and Southwind does not create a separate visitor database or request-log archive.

Cloudflare processes hosting data on our behalf under its Customer Data Processing Addendum. That contract limits retention to the earlier of the end of the service relationship or the end of the need to perform the contracted obligations, subject to legal requirements. This is a contractual limit, not a verified deletion schedule for individual visits. We have not confirmed whether identifiable request records remain for us after a normal page request or a delivery or security incident, or the operational retention rule for any such records. These records could contain an IP address, requested address, time and technical connection details. Published pages and images are website content, not a visitor history.

Cloudflare separately controls some service and security information. That independent processing and its retention criteria are described in Cloudflare's privacy policy; they are distinct from hosting data handled for Southwind.

Why information is used

Game, support and website

Our GDPR basis is legitimate interests: to provide the local resume, preference and portability features you request, answer optional support requests and investigate issues, and deliver requested website pages and resist misuse. We balance these interests against your rights, including younger players' interests.

Legal duties

A specific legal obligation, such as handling a statutory rights request, supplies the basis for that duty. It is not a blanket reason to retain all support messages.

Service providers and international processing

Gmail and Cloudflare

Southwind is responsible for its own purposes. Support uses ordinary Google Gmail under Google's consumer terms and privacy policy, not a Workspace processor arrangement. The support setup has no delegated access, automatic forwarding or separate Southwind support archive.

Cloudflare hosts and protects the website under its Self-Serve Agreement and incorporated Customer DPA. It separately controls service and security processing described in its privacy policy.

International transfers and retention

The services operate internationally. For covered transfers to certified Google LLC and Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States, the EU–US Data Privacy Framework provides the protection recognised by the European Commission's adequacy decision. Standard contractual clauses provide safeguards where the relevant service terms use them for transfers not covered by an applicable adequacy mechanism. See Google's transfer framework and Cloudflare's DPA and privacy policy. These mechanisms do not promise EU-only storage. Ask viktor.sunnersjo@gmail.com for recipient and transfer details and information about or a copy of relevant safeguards.

Provider-controlled records follow their separate retention criteria, including Google's retention explanation. Deleting the app does not delete support email or provider records. Southwind's local, support and website retention rules are described above.

Your choices and rights

Contact viktor.sunnersjo@gmail.com to ask about data held by Southwind AB or exercise applicable rights to access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, objection or withdrawal. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on that consent before it was withdrawn.

For legitimate-interest processing you can object for reasons relating to your particular situation; continued processing requires the grounds specified by law. Depending on your location and the applicable law, an appeal can be available. Reply to our decision at the same address, identify the request and explain what you want reviewed. We will explain the outcome and any further route under that law.

We do not charge or reduce game access for rights requests. We can ask for proportionate information to confirm a request; do not send unnecessary identity documents. You can complain to Sweden's Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten or your competent local authority. Device-only saves must be removed through Android settings or at your export destination. We can help with provider controls but cannot promise deletion of their independently controlled records. There is no Lightway account to delete.

Changes

Changes to this policy will be published with an updated revision date on the dedicated Lightway website and in the app. Material changes requiring a new choice or notice will be presented as required. This policy does not cover unrelated websites or services you choose to open.