Short version: we collect the bare minimum and we don't sell it.
Fast Wombat, LLC ("Fast Wombat," "we," "us"). Based in Austin, TX. Reach us at contact@fastwombat.com.
It covers our website and our apps, which are separate things and collect different information. The section just below applies however you reach us. After that, this website and each of our apps has a block of its own, and what a block describes applies only to that one product — the website's analytics have nothing to do with our apps, and each app's practices are its own. The sections at the end apply to all of it.
This applies wherever you write to us from — the website, an app, or your own mail app.
If you join a waitlist or mailing list, we collect the email address and name you provide. If you write to support, we receive your message and whatever you include in it.
We use it to send you what you asked for and to keep you informed. If you signed up via a product waitlist, that may include progress updates, beta access, launch announcements, and occasional news from Fast Wombat about that product and the other things we're building. We keep a single mailing list for the whole studio, so joining through one product's waitlist may mean hearing from us about another — every email includes an unsubscribe link, and one click stops all of it. Waitlist and newsletter emails are delivered through our email service provider, MailerLite, who processes your subscription on our behalf. We reply to your support email when you write to us. We don't use your email for anything else.
Everything in this block is about fastwombat.com only. None of it happens inside our apps.
Our website uses PostHog to measure things like page views, referrer sources, device type, and approximate location so we can understand how the site is being used and make it better. This information is used for product improvement, not advertising. We do not attempt to identify individual website visitors, and we do not combine analytics data with your waitlist or support correspondence.
PostHog sets a cookie to distinguish repeat visits from new ones. MailerLite may set a cookie when you interact with a subscription form. We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. You can clear or block these cookies in your browser at any time without losing access to the site.
Roll Play is a Fast Wombat app for iPhone and Android, currently in pre-release testing. BoardGameGeek is a separate service we don't control or affiliate with; the name is used here only to describe how Roll Play connects to it.
Roll Play works by reading a public BoardGameGeek ("BGG") profile. You enter a BGG username, and the app reads the public information on that profile — the display name BGG shows and your collection data, such as game titles, ratings, and play counts. You don't create an account with us: there's no password, and we don't ask for or verify an email address. Because a BGG username and profile are public, the display name may be anyone's, the same username can be linked by more than one person, and the information isn't something we can treat as belonging to a specific individual. To make the app work, we may keep cached copies of public BGG collection data on our server. We don't control BoardGameGeek; their handling of your profile is governed by their own policies.
The Roll Play app uses Mixpanel to record basic usage and activity so we can provide technical support and improve the app over time. When you've linked a BGG profile, this activity is associated with that public BGG username. We don't collect any other personal information in the app. The app has an optional name field; if used, it draws on the public BGG profile name, which — as noted above — may not identify the actual person using the app.
Roll Play includes optional AI features that are turned off until you enable them. If you turn them on, the app sends your BGG username, your display name, and your library data — game titles, ratings, and play counts — along with the messages you type into chat and the terms you type into search, to a third-party AI provider (currently OpenAI) by way of Roll Play's server. We use this to generate recommendations, chat responses, search results, game-night plans, and library insights based on what you own. We do not send your location, contacts, or photos. Your data is not sold and, per our arrangement with the provider, is not used to train AI models. You can turn AI features on or off at any time in the app's Settings. If you leave them off, the rest of the app — your library, search, filters, and sorting — keeps working; only the AI features are disabled.
Gravehoard is a Fast Wombat game for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. There is no account and no sign-in — you make a character and play. The game never asks for your name, your email, or anything else about you. The only thing it sends anywhere is the anonymous game data described below, and there is a switch to stop that.
Gravehoard sends a few anonymous numbers about your runs (how deep you got, how long it took, what ended the run, that sort of thing), about the offer to unlock the full game, and about your device kind, OS version, and game version, so we can tune the balance, the difficulty, and the way the full game is offered against real play instead of guesswork. When the offer to unlock the full game is shown, the game records which screen showed it, how long it was open, and whether a purchase or restore followed. Each install gets a random identifier that is not your device ID and is not tied to any account. It is about the run, not about you: never your name, your character's name, your location, your payment details, or anything that identifies you or your device. Your IP address isn't kept either — any internet connection shows it to the server on the other end, and we've configured PostHog so that it is neither stored nor turned into a location. None of this is used for advertising or for tracking you across apps or sites.
Sharing is on by default. The switch is in Settings ▸ Help Improve the Game; turn it off and nothing is sent. These reports are processed on our behalf by PostHog, on servers in the United States.
The purchase itself goes through Apple, and we use RevenueCat to verify it and keep track of what you've unlocked. RevenueCat receives an anonymous identifier generated on your device along with the receipt Apple issues — not your name, your email, or your Apple Account — and, as with any network service, its servers necessarily see your device's IP address. Apple's own handling of the purchase is governed by Apple's privacy policy, not ours.
If you write to us from the game's support panel, it attaches your current save so we can reproduce what went wrong, along with whatever you type. That is an email you choose to send.
Tilt Maze is a Fast Wombat game for iPhone and iPad. There's no account and no sign-in. It never asks for your name, your email, or anything else about you. It has no analytics of any kind, no advertising, and no tracking across apps or websites, and as the game stands today it makes no network connections at all — nothing you do in it leaves your device.
Your progress and your settings are stored on your device and nowhere else, so we never see them. There's no sync and no backup: deleting the app deletes them, and we have no copy to restore.
You can set one of your own photos as a background. The app has no access to your photo library — you choose an image in Apple's system picker, and the app receives a copy of only that one image and keeps it on your device. It's never uploaded, and we never see it.
When Tilt Maze's one-time purchase ships, the transaction itself will go through Apple, and we'll use RevenueCat to verify it and keep track of what you've unlocked. RevenueCat receives a random identifier generated on your device along with the receipt Apple issues — not your name, your email, or your Apple Account — and, as with any network service, its servers necessarily see your device's IP address. Apple's own handling of the purchase is governed by Apple's privacy policy, not ours.
These last sections apply to everything above — the website and every app.
We use a small number of trusted third parties to operate the site, deliver email, and run our apps. As of today, these are MailerLite (email delivery), PostHog (website analytics, and Gravehoard's game analytics), Mixpanel (Roll Play app analytics), OpenAI (AI features in Roll Play, when you enable them), and RevenueCat (verifying purchases in Gravehoard, and in Tilt Maze once its purchase ships). Each is bound by its own privacy policy and processes data on our behalf. If this list changes materially, we'll update this page.
We don't sell your information. We don't share it with third parties for advertising.
We keep your email on our mailing list until you ask us to remove it or unsubscribe. A waitlist for a specific product may continue as an ongoing mailing list after that product launches, so you'll keep hearing from us until you opt out. Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link. Cached BoardGameGeek collection data in the Roll Play app refreshes from the public profile and is kept only as long as it's useful to running the app. Gravehoard's run reports are kept while we're tuning the game; because they're tied to a random identifier and not to you, we have no way to single yours out — turning the setting off stops any more being sent. Tilt Maze stores nothing on our servers, so there's nothing of yours for us to keep.
Email contact@fastwombat.com at any time to access, update, or delete any information we hold about you. For the Roll Play app, note that there's no account to delete — the app reads a public BoardGameGeek profile rather than information you register with us — but you can write to us with any questions, and you can stop the app from reading a profile by unlinking it.
If we change anything material, we'll update the date at the top of this page.