Tripwire Recon Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 18, 2026

Tripwire Recon is a capture-the-flag game for iPhone that you play by walking real streets. It is listed on the App Store under Christopher Wolff, the founder of Edge Orbital. In this policy, “we,” “us” and “our” mean Christopher Wolff and Edge Orbital Inc. This policy describes version 2.6.0, the version on the App Store.

Your account

We collect your email address, your username and any display name, bio and avatar settings you choose. If you sign in with email, we store your password as a hash. If you sign in with Apple or Google, we store the account ID that service gives us. Face ID is handled by your iPhone, and the app does not receive your face data. Leaderboards also use Game Center.

Location and movement

  • While you play, the app collects your precise location, the places where you stop and how long you stay, and your last known location for your profile.
  • If you allow “Always” location access, the app also notes major location changes and places you stop when the app is closed. You can change this at any time in your iPhone’s Settings.
  • Steps and floors. The app collects your steps, distance, floors climbed and pace from your iPhone’s motion sensors.

Optional sensors

Each of these is off until you turn it on, during setup or later in Profile, then Privacy & Data.

  • Sound clips. The app records short clips of background sound, 5 seconds each. Your iPhone deletes any clip it recognizes as speech before it leaves the phone. The other clips are uploaded and stored.
  • Camera frames. During augmented reality play and scans, the app captures still frames. Your iPhone blurs faces and license plates it detects before a frame is uploaded, and it drops the frame if blurring fails.
  • Depth scans. On iPhones with LiDAR, the app captures depth scans of your surroundings.
  • Bluetooth. The app counts nearby Bluetooth devices. Device addresses are scrambled on your iPhone before they are sent.
  • Ultra-wideband. During in-person play, the app measures the distance to nearby players.
  • Detailed motion. During active play, the app collects accelerometer, gyroscope, compass and air pressure readings.

Camera frames and depth scans can be turned into 3D models of places. Other signed-in players can see the 3D models for a location.

Gameplay, chat and purchases

We store your faction, clan, flags captured, points, experience, achievements, streaks, bounties and event history. Other players can see your username, faction and rank. We store clan chat messages. If someone reports a message, we keep a copy of it for review. If you buy coin packs, Apple handles the payment, and we keep a record of the purchase.

Device and app use

We collect your device information, your push notification token if you turn on notifications, diagnostics, and records of how you use the app, such as which screens you open and when a session starts and ends. When you turn a sensor on or off, we save that choice with your IP address and device details.

What Tripwire Recon does not collect

Tripwire Recon does not collect your contacts, browsing history or advertising data, and it does not track you across other companies’ apps or websites. It does not include outside analytics, advertising or crash-reporting tools.

Why we use it

We use this information to run the game, including the map, flag captures, clans, chat, leaderboards and alerts; to build a live map and 3D views of places; to prevent cheating; and to see which parts of the app people use.

Building history

The app can show a short history of a building. To write it, our server sends the building’s name, address and map coordinates to Anthropic and OpenAI, and searches public sources such as Wikipedia, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Digital Library. We do not send information about you to these services for this feature.

Who else handles your information

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with services that work on our behalf, or when the law requires it. We choose providers that commit to protecting personal information at least as well as this policy describes, and we let them use it only to provide their service to us.

  • Apple, for Sign in with Apple, Game Center, notifications and in-app purchases
  • Google, for Sign in with Google, if you choose it
  • Mailgun, which sends account emails such as sign-in codes
  • Anthropic and OpenAI, which receive building information, not information about you, for building histories

The app’s data is stored on servers that Edge Orbital runs.

How long we keep it

  • Precise location, steps and floors: 90 days.
  • Places where you stopped: 365 days.
  • Detailed motion, compass and air pressure readings: 30 days.
  • Sound clips, camera frames, depth scans and Bluetooth counts: until you delete your account. We do not delete them on a schedule.
  • Your account, gameplay, chat messages and purchase records: until you delete your account.

Turning a sensor off stops future collection. It does not delete what the sensor already collected. To delete that, delete your account or email [email protected].

Deleting your account

In the app, go to Profile, then Danger Zone, then Delete Account. This deletes your account and its data, including sensor data and files, consent records, chat messages, purchase records and app-use records. Flags you captured or created stay in the game without your name. If someone reported one of your messages, the report keeps a copy of that message but not your account.

If you played an earlier version of the app, some older location and IP address records may not be removed automatically. Email [email protected] and we will delete them. To get a copy of your data, or to ask us to correct or delete it, email the same address. We respond within 30 days.

Keeping your information safe

We use reasonable measures to protect the information we collect. No app, website or email system is completely secure.

Age

Tripwire Recon is rated 13+ on the App Store and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has given us personal information, email [email protected] and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. When we do, we change the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Questions about this policy can go to [email protected].