Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 1, 2026

This policy explains what data the game Tebing and this website use, why, and what choices you have. By playing Tebing, you agree to the practices described here.

1. Summary

• Tebing doesn't need an account and never asks for your real name, email, or phone number.
• Game progress is stored on your own device. The only things sent to our server are world ranking scores (nickname, score, and a random ID), anonymous statistics counts with no ID, a climb recording when you tap Challenge a friend yourself, a copy of your progress if you create a backup code yourself, a custom wall if you share one yourself, and a notification address if you turn on daily route reminders yourself. You can turn the ranking and statistics off in Settings.
• Page visits are counted with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies.
• Online versus and co-op modes use some third-party services to connect players. These services process your IP address.
• Tebing may show ads from Google. Google and its partners may use cookies to serve ads.

2. Data stored on your device

Tebing stores the following in your browser's local storage (localStorage):

• completed levels, stars, best times, and height records;
• daily challenge results and your streak;
• the Endless high score list;
• style choices (helmet, shirt, rope colors) and unlocked items;
• best-run ghost recordings (your fastest climb on each level);
• daily missions, badges, and game statistics (such as holds grabbed and meters climbed);
• language, sound, vibration, ghost, world ranking, anonymous stats, and notification settings (including the reminder time and the notification text in your language);
• your nickname and random ID for the world ranking;
• walls you build in the wall editor and your records on custom walls;
• your progress backup code, if you create one (section 4);
• the date of your first visit and the list of events already counted for anonymous statistics (section 5).

This data is not sent to our server, except world ranking scores and progress backups you create yourself (section 4), and anonymous statistics counts (section 5). The game also keeps a copy of its files on your device (a service worker) so it can be played offline. You can delete all of it at any time by clearing the site's data in your browser settings, or by uninstalling the installed app.

3. Data we don't collect

We don't collect real names, email addresses (unless you email us yourself), location, contacts, or any other personal data. The only statistics we collect are the anonymous counts described in section 5.

4. World ranking, friend challenges, custom walls, progress backup, and notifications

If World ranking is on in Settings (it is on by default), Tebing sends the following to our leaderboard server after you set a daily challenge or Speed mode time record, or finish an Endless run:

• the nickname shown on the board (by default Climber plus a random number; you can change it);
• the score (time or height), number of falls, play time, and which board it is for (date or week);
• a random ID created on your device so your score can be updated. This ID contains no personal data and is never shown to other players.

The leaderboard server runs on Cloudflare (Cloudflare Workers and the D1 database). To prevent spam, your IP address is used briefly to limit how often scores can be sent. Only a one-way random fingerprint of the IP address, which changes every day, is stored, and that record is deleted within two hours. Scores are deleted automatically after 60 days. Your nickname is visible to all players, so don't use your real name if you don't want to be recognized. You can turn off score sending in Settings at any time, or ask us to delete your scores by email, quoting your nickname.

Friend challenges. When you tap Challenge a friend (or Challenge back) on the results screen, Tebing sends our server your nickname, the route (level, Speed mode, or daily challenge date), your time, number of falls, and a recording of the climber's movements during that climb (body, hand, and foot positions). The server creates a random link and keeps this data for 30 days. Anyone with the link can see your nickname, time, and recording, so share it only with people you choose. Nothing is sent until you tap that button, and opening a challenge link only fetches the challenge from our server. As with scores, your IP address is used briefly to limit spam.

Custom walls. Walls you build in the wall editor are saved on your device. When you tap Share in the editor, Tebing sends our server: the wall's layout (height, rock type, and the position and type of each hold), the wall's name, your nickname, and your time and number of falls when you tested it. The server gives it a random 6-letter code; anyone who knows the code or link can see the wall's name, your nickname, and your time, and climb the wall. Shared walls are deleted if nobody plays them for 365 days. Wall names are filtered for offensive words. Nothing is sent until you tap that button. As with scores, your IP address is used briefly to limit spam.

Progress backup. When you tap Create backup code (Settings → Progress backup), Tebing sends a copy of the progress listed in section 2 to our server: levels, records, daily results, Endless and Speed scores, missions, badges, game statistics, style items, custom walls, your nickname, and your random world-ranking ID. Record ghosts, your language, sound, vibration, and privacy settings, and anonymous-statistics records are not included. You get a secret 12-character code to restore that progress on another device. The server only stores a one-way fingerprint of the code, plus a random device ID used to recognize updates from the same device. Anyone who knows the code can restore your progress, so don't share it. While the code is saved on your device, the backup updates automatically when your progress changes. The backup is deleted when you tap Delete backup, or automatically if it is neither updated nor restored for about 13 months. As with scores, your IP address is used briefly to limit spam and code guessing.

Reminder notifications. When you turn on Notifications (in Settings, or Remind me tomorrow after finishing the daily challenge), your browser creates a push address with its own push service: Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (Chrome, Edge, Samsung Internet, and the Android app), Mozilla (Firefox), Apple (Safari), or Microsoft. We store that address together with your device's time zone offset and the reminder minute you chose, only to send one daily route reminder per day. The message we send is empty; the notification text is prepared on your device, so our server doesn't know your language, name, or progress. If you have already finished that day's daily challenge, your device tells the server to skip that day's reminder. The push address is deleted when you turn notifications off, when the push service says it is no longer valid, or if you don't open the game for 45 days. As with scores, your IP address is used briefly to limit spam.

5. Anonymous statistics and visit analytics

Game statistics. So we can tell which parts of the game people enjoy or find too hard, Tebing sends anonymous event counts to our server (Cloudflare Workers and the D1 database), for example:

• opening the game that day, and whether it's in English or Spanish, in an app installed from the browser, or in the Android app from Google Play;
• your first visit and where it came from (for example Google, TikTok, an invite link, or direct), and opening the game again 1, 3, 7, or 30 days later;
• starting or finishing the tutorial, finishing a level for the first time, playing the daily challenge, Endless, versus, co-op, or a seasonal event, sharing a result, creating or using a progress backup code, opening the wall editor, sharing or climbing a custom wall, turning on reminder notifications or opening the game from one, and installing the app.

Each report contains only the date and the event names. No player ID, nickname, score, or device data is sent, and the server only keeps a daily total for each event, so events from different players can't be told apart. To count each event only once, your device stores the date of your first visit and a list of events already counted. As with the world ranking, your IP address is used only briefly to limit spam. Counts are kept for about 13 months at most. These statistics are not sent if you turn off Anonymous stats in Settings (the record on your device is deleted too), or if your browser has Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control turned on.

Site visit analytics. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page visits: which pages are opened, the referring site, country, device and browser type, and how fast pages load. It uses no cookies or local storage and doesn't build visitor profiles. Cloudflare processes your IP address to produce these statistics under the Cloudflare privacy policy.

6. Online versus & co-op modes

To connect players in a room, Tebing uses these services:

• PeerJS (the peerjs.com signaling server), to introduce the players' devices to each other;
• STUN servers from Google and Cloudflare, to find a direct connection route;
• Cloudflare TURN, to relay data when the network doesn't allow direct connections;
• public MQTT brokers (HiveMQ, EMQX, and Eclipse Mosquitto) as a backup route.

During a race or a co-op climb, the only data sent is the room code, player number (P1–P10), and the climber's position and movement (in co-op also the rope load and which teammate's harness is being held). No names, chat, or personal data. The services above process your IP address and technical connection data. On direct device-to-device connections, your IP address may also be visible to the devices of other players in the same room. If you don't want this, don't use online versus or co-op. Solo mode, the daily challenge, Endless, versus against the computer, and co-op with the computer don't use these services.

7. Ads and cookies

Tebing may show ads provided by Google (for example Google AdSense) to support development of the game.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
• How Google uses data from sites that use its services is explained on this Google policy page.

Visitors from the European Economic Area, the UK, and Switzerland will be asked for consent to advertising cookies through a consent form before personalized ads are shown.

Rewarded ads only play when you choose them yourself, for example to continue from where you fell or to unlock a style item. Tebing never shows ads in the middle of a versus race or a co-op climb.

8. Sharing results

When you tap Share, the result card image is created on your own device and sent only through the app you choose, such as WhatsApp. If your device doesn't support sharing, the text and link are copied to the clipboard. We never receive a copy of what you share.

Fall clips. If this feature is on (it is on by default and can be turned off in Settings), the game records the gameplay screen in your device's memory while you climb and keeps only the last few seconds when you take a big fall or reach the top. Recordings are never sent to our server and disappear when you close the page, unless you share them yourself through an app you choose or save them to your device.

9. Hosting

This site is hosted by Cloudflare. Like almost every web server, the hosting provider may log technical request data (IP address, browser type, and access time) for security, attack protection, and service operation. Cloudflare may use technical cookies to tell visitors apart from bots; these cookies are not used for advertising.

Android app. The Tebing app on Google Play opens this site through Chrome on your phone (a Trusted Web Activity), so it uses the same data described on this page. The app does not show web ads. Google Play itself processes app installation and update data under the Google Privacy Policy.

10. Children

Tebing can be played by all ages, but it is not directed specifically at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal data from children. If you are a parent or guardian and have questions, please contact us.

11. Your choices

• Clear the site's data in your browser to delete all saved progress.
• Turn off World ranking in Settings so no scores are sent, or ask us by email to delete your scores.
• Friend challenges are only created when you tap Challenge a friend. To delete a challenge before 30 days, email us its link.
• Custom walls are only sent when you tap Share in the wall editor. To delete a shared wall, email us its code.
• A progress backup is only created when you tap Create backup code, and you can delete it any time in Settings → Progress backup → Delete backup.
• Reminder notifications are only on if you turn them on, and you can turn them off any time in Settings or in your browser's site settings.
• Turn off Anonymous stats in Settings, or turn on Do Not Track / Global Privacy Control in your browser, so the game sends no counts at all.
• Avoid online versus and co-op if you don't want your IP address processed by the connection services.
• Manage or turn off personalized ads in Google Ads Settings.

12. Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated, for example when features or ad providers change. The date of the latest update is always shown at the top of this page.

13. Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent to adeardian1994@gmail.com.