Privacy
NOVEMBER 2026
Rats With Wings is made by Clouthier Simulation Labs, a sole proprietorship run by Kyle Clouthier in Petawawa, Ontario, Canada. The short version: there are no accounts, no ads and nothing to buy. Trips are recorded as moves with no name attached, and those records may be used for research and licensed to AI and robotics developers. We never sell names or email addresses, because we never collect them.
What is stored
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| The moves of every player in a trip, 60 times a second: direction, grip, hand height and call buttons | It is the game (every device replays the same moves) and it is the research record |
| What happened: bumps, lost grips, whether the parcel arrived, how long it took | Rebuilt from the moves; part of the record |
| A scrambled player code: a random code your browser makes up, turned into a one-way hash before it is stored | So we can stop using or delete your trips if you ask, without knowing who you are |
| How you were playing (keyboard, touch or gamepad), and which version of the terms was in force | So records can be sorted and checked |
What is never stored
Your name, your email address, your IP address in any record, your voice, your camera, your location, your contacts. The name on your vest is shown to your crew during the trip and then forgotten. Voice goes directly between players' browsers and never reaches our server. To help two browsers find each other, a connection-setup service run by Google sees their network addresses for a moment; it does not see or hear the voice.
On your device
Your browser keeps two small things for the game: the name you typed, and the random player code. Clearing site data removes both. There are no advertising cookies and no tracking across other sites.
Who the records are shared with
Companies and researchers who build and test AI and robotics systems, under licence, and anyone they are allowed to share them with under that licence. Records contain moves and game events only.
Stopping or deleting
Email kyle@simgen.dev with your player code and say whether you want future trips left out, past trips deleted, or both. Your code is shown at the bottom of the first screen of the game. Trips you shared with other players are deleted for the research set as a whole. A dataset already delivered to a customer cannot be recalled.
How long
Records are kept for as long as they are useful for research, or until you ask for yours to be removed.
Adults only
The game is for people 18 and older. If we learn a player is under 18, their records are deleted and are not licensed.
Contact
kyle@simgen.dev