Cutaroo LLC ("Cutaroo," "we," "us," or "our") operates the Cutaroo mobile game (the "App"). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we share it, and the choices available to you.
We built Cutaroo to collect as little personal information as possible. No account is required to play. Creating an account is entirely optional and exists only to let you save your progress and sign in on another device.
Cutaroo does not require an account. On first use, the App generates a random anonymous identifier that is not linked to your real-world identity, and assigns you a randomly generated display name (for example, "SwiftScissors42"). This identifier is what allows your coins, avatar, streak, and progress to be saved on the device.
Optional accounts. So that you can keep your progress if you change or reinstall your device, you may optionally create an account. An account consists of a username and a password. If you are 13 or older, you may also optionally add an email address to use as an alternate sign-in name and, in the future, to reset a forgotten password. Passwords are handled by our authentication provider and are stored only in a securely hashed form; we never see or store your password in plain text. Even with an account, we do not collect your real name, postal address, phone number, date of birth, photographs, contacts, or precise location.
Under 13. Accounts for users who indicate they are under 13 use a randomly generated username and a password (or recovery code) only — no email address is requested or accepted.
You can delete your account and its associated data at any time from within the App (Settings → account → Delete account). See Section 8.
(a) Information you provide
(b) Information collected automatically
Associated with your anonymous identifier:
(c) What we do NOT collect
We do not collect real names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, precise geolocation, contacts, photographs, microphone or camera data, or biometric information. We do not collect an email address from anyone who plays anonymously, and we never request or accept an email address from a user who indicates they are under 13. The only circumstance in which we hold an email address is when a user who is 13 or older voluntarily adds one to their optional account (see Section 2).
The App may display advertising and may offer optional in-app purchases. Both are described here so you know what to expect. At the time of this update the App does not yet show ads or sell anything, but it is built to support both, and this Policy already covers them — so their introduction is not a change in how we handle your information.
Advertising. Advertising, where shown, is served by third-party advertising partners (for example, Google AdMob). Depending on your age and your choices, ads may be:
Your advertising choices. You can reset or limit your device advertising identifier in your device settings (iOS: Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking and Apple Advertising; Android: Settings → Google → Ads). On iOS, if we ask for permission to track, declining means you will not receive personalized advertising. Where required, we will present a consent choice before any personalized advertising begins, and you will be able to change it later.
How the App is funded. Cutaroo is free to play. We earn revenue from advertising shown in the App and, where offered, from optional in-app purchases. We tell you this here so it is clear why advertising appears and what data it involves.
In-app purchases. The App may offer optional purchases of in-game coins or cosmetic items. All purchases are processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play — we never see or store your payment details. We receive only a record of what was bought and for how much. Users who indicate they are under 13 cannot make in-app purchases. Purchases are also governed by our Terms of Service (Section 6) and by the app store's own terms and refund policies.
Membership plans. The App offers two optional auto-renewing monthly subscriptions — Cutaroo Crew and Club Cutaroo — which unlock in-game items and daily coin bonuses, as described in Terms of Service Section 6. If you subscribe, we record that your app store account holds an active plan, which plan it is, its status and its expiry, together with the store's transaction identifier so the purchase can be restored on another device and verified with Apple or Google. We also store which scissor group or groups you chose and when you last changed them, so the choice survives reinstalling the App. None of this is linked to advertising profiles and none of it is ever used for ad targeting. Subscribing does not otherwise change what the App collects. Users who indicate they are under 13 cannot subscribe. Renewal, cancellation, and restoring a purchase are described in Terms of Service Section 6.
We will keep our Apple App Store and Google Play data-disclosure listings accurate and update them whenever what we actually collect changes.
Cutaroo is intended for a general, mixed audience — it is not directed primarily at children. We nonetheless take children's privacy seriously and apply the following protections.
For users who indicate they are under 13:
Parents and guardians: If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us at support@cutaroo.app. We will promptly review the request and delete the information. You may also request that we delete the anonymous game data associated with your child's device.
We use the information described above to:
We share information only as follows:
We do not sell your personal information for money.
A note on "sharing" for advertising. Some state privacy laws (notably California's) treat the use of an advertising identifier to deliver personalized advertising as "sharing" personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, even when no money changes hands. If and when we enable personalized advertising for users 13 and older, our doing so may fall within that definition. Where it does, you have the right to opt out — see Section 9. We never do this for users under 13, and we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising in connection with non-personalized advertising.
We retain anonymous game data for as long as necessary to operate the App and maintain leaderboards, or as required by law.
Because anonymous play is tied to your device, uninstalling the App or clearing your device's data will remove your local game data and end your anonymous session. Once an anonymous session is lost, we generally cannot identify or recover the associated data.
Deleting your account. If you created an account, you can permanently delete it and its associated data at any time from within the App: Settings → account → Delete account, then confirm. This removes your profile, username, sign-in credentials, saved progress, coins, streak, and leaderboard history from our systems. This action is permanent and cannot be undone.
You may also request deletion by contacting support@cutaroo.app. Please note that for anonymous sessions we hold little or no identifying information, so we may be unable to link a request to a specific individual and may need additional information (such as your in-game display name) to locate the relevant records.
California residents (CCPA/CPRA). You have the right to know what personal information we collect, to request deletion or correction of it, to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information, to limit the use of sensitive personal information, and to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. We do not sell personal information for money. As described in Section 7, enabling personalized advertising for users 13 and older may constitute "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising; you may opt out of that at any time by declining or withdrawing consent in the App, by turning off personalized advertising in your device settings, or by contacting us. We honor opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control, where we are required to. To exercise any of these rights, contact support@cutaroo.app. Because our data is anonymous, we may be unable to associate a request with a specific person; if so, we will explain why.
EEA and UK residents (GDPR/UK GDPR). Where applicable, you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection, and data portability. Our legal bases for processing are our legitimate interests in operating and securing the game, and compliance with legal obligations. You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.
Other jurisdictions. Residents of other U.S. states with comprehensive privacy laws may have similar rights. Contact us to exercise them.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect the information we hold, including access controls on our backend database. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
The App is operated from the United States, and information we collect is stored and processed in the United States or in other countries where our service providers operate. If you use the App from outside the United States, you understand that your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, which may have data protection laws that differ from those in your country.
Our backend and hosting providers maintain their own privacy policies governing their handling of data. Where advertising is shown, our advertising partners (for example, Google AdMob) also maintain their own privacy policies governing the data they collect through ads. Purchases and subscriptions are validated by us directly with Apple and Google; we do not use a third-party purchase-management provider, so no outside company receives your transaction records. If you choose to sign in with Apple Game Center or Google Play Games, that service tells us a player identifier which we store only as a one-way hash (see Section 3); Apple's and Google's own privacy policies govern those services. The App is distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play, whose own privacy practices apply to your use of those platforms.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date above. If we make material changes — such as beginning to collect a category of information that is not already described in Section 3 — we will provide more prominent notice within the App before the change takes effect.
The advertising and in-app purchases described in Section 4 are already disclosed by this Policy. Turning them on is therefore not a material change, and we may begin showing ads or offering purchases without further notice — though where consent is legally required before personalized advertising, we will always ask for it first, and we will keep our app store data disclosures up to date.
Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy:
Cutaroo LLC Email: support@cutaroo.app