AirCoaster Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Ziconic built the AirCoaster app as a Commercial app. This SERVICE is provided by Ziconic and is intended for use as is.

This page is used to inform visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service.

If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

In general, while using our Service, you do not have to provide us with personally identifiable information. Under rare circumstances, as part of a feature that is incidental to the core functionality of the Service (e.g. for account recovery), we may request personally identifiable information, including but not limited to email address. The information that we request will be retained by us and used as described in this privacy policy.

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you use our Service, in a case of an error in the app we collect data and information on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing our Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

To facilitate our Service;

To provide the Service on our behalf;

To perform Service-related services; or

To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

We want to inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to their Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

This Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. We encourage all children to never submit any personally identifiable information through the Application and/or Services. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's Internet usage and to help enforce this Policy by instructing their children never to provide personally identifiable information through the Application and/or Services without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child has provided personally identifiable information to us through the Application and/or Services, please contact us. You must also be at least 16 years of age to consent to the processing of your personally identifiable information in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

This policy is effective as of January 1, 2023.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at support@ziconic.com.

iOS 11 Update

I know that AirCoaster looks weirdly squished on iOS 11. An update should be available in a week or so to fix this issue and to add iPhone X support.

AirCoaster Lingo

Over the years, the AirCoaster community has developed a unique vocabulary for describing their roller coasters. This guest post by long-time user NN explains what all these words mean. Thank you NN for the awesome writeup!

COASTER TYPES

Realistics
A type of coaster made to be realistic. Realistics usually try to replicate styles of tracks made by real life manufacturers and designers, such as B&M, Intamin, or PTC. They also commonly have scenery made out of track, but this is not a required feature in a realistic and is not found on all of them. Realistics have been around since the earliest days of AirCoaster.

Technicals
Technicals, or "techs" for short, are the least realistic type of track commonly found on AirCoaster. They feature track tunnels and fake outs, as well as other, more abstract, elements. They first came to popularity in 2011.

Scenics
Scenics were first created in 2010. They are generally unrealistic, and usually have slow-paced layouts that interact with lots of scenery. They could be described as sort of the dark rides of AirCoaster.

Threaders
Threaders came to popularity around 2010. They have tight, compact layouts where the track weaves around itself and features countless choppers. The best threaders tend to resemble a messy ball of yarn.

Simulators
Simulators have been around since the early days of AirCoaster. They try to simulate an action, activity, or other act of motion, like making riders the tennis ball in a tennis match or the marble in a marble run. They almost always feature scenery.

Slims
One of the more obscure track types, slims came about in 2011. They feature layouts that are long, thin, and unrealistic. Hybrid slim-threaders are common.

Fantasy Realistics
Fantasy realistics are made to resemble realistic coasters, but are unrealistic themselves, either due to speed or element choice. Despite having the word "realistic" in their name, they are generally categorized as unrealistics.

Support Runners
An unrealistic track type that came around in 2011. They feature invisible track and instead run along a line of track supports.

Unrealistics
An unrealistic is any track that could not be made or found in real life.  All of the above types, aside from realistics, are unrealistics. Any track that does not fall into any of the above types is also called an unrealistic.


ACRONYMS

NPP - "New Profile Pic", used when announcing a new picture on their profile.  Commonly used to show a track before release.

UOR - "Up On Reply", used when a user means to send a track to a specific user and that specific user only, usually for them to test and give feedback on.  The coaster is uploaded as soon as a reply is given, and is taken down as soon as the tester/reviewer has downloaded the coaster.

CC - "Chain Coaster", a coaster that was made by two or more people.

AC - "AirCoaster"

MPL - "Most Popular List"

MRL - "Most Recent List"

Z - "Ziconic", the app's creator


ELEMENTS

Fake Outs
Used commonly in techs, fake outs trick riders into thinking they will follow along on a normal track path but instead jump off the track onto another path.

Track Tunnels
Tunnels made out of track.

Teleportation
A point in the ride when riders are teleported from one point in the track to entirely different point.


OTHER TERMS

Updates
An upload made to give small announcements to one's followers. They can be about anything, although they are usually about current projects.

Projects
A term used for a large or ambitious track that is still under construction.

Keycodes
Keycodes are commonly found at the bottom of a track description. They are used to make the track easily searchable. Keycodes can be searched for in the app's search bar and the track will come up in the search results.

Short Segs
Segments that are 5 units in length.

Micro Segs
Segments that are less than 5 units in length.

E Segs
Segments that are less than 10 units in length and have 8 to 10 spiral.

Partial Loop Segments
Segments that are only a small portion of a loop segment.

0 Segments
Segments that have 0 length, and are used entirely for vertical distances only.

Zim
When a track reaches the first page of the Most Popular List in less than 24 hours.

First Pager
A track that reached the first page of the Most Popular List.

Stuck
When a track stays on the first page of the Most Popular List for more than 24 hours.

Chat Track
An upload made for users to simply have a chat in the comments section.

Topic Track
An upload made for users to chat about a certain topic in the comments section.

AirCoaster 2 Trailer

Watch the awesome trailer created by Mitch Creator!

AirCoaster 2: Getting Started

Learning the track editor

The AirCoaster 2 track editor is very versatile but may appear quite intimidating at first. If you are new to AirCoaster, you might want to start by tweaking the demo tracks to get a feel for the different tools.

Probably the most important rule of thumb to learn is that most 3D controls follow the same principle: tap once to activate the control, and then tap and drag it to modify it.

This is how you'd use the 3D arrows to nudge a track segment around. Or the red 3D pin to move the entire track to a different location. To select more than one segment, tap on one segment, then tap and drag away from that segment to select a range of segments. Once these segments are selected, you can copy and paste them.

All tracks are created using just two segment types, the basic segment and the loop segment. You can very easily create a realistic roller coaster by laying down just a few of these segments. When you are ready to take your roller coaster building skills one step further, try mastering all the different techniques you can apply to the basic segment. For example, you can use a series of very short basic segments to create almost any track structure. Or apply special "recipes" to turn and twist the track in unexpected ways. You will be able to learn many of these techniques by downloading and inspecting the tracks created by our more experienced users.

Changes from earlier AirCoaster versions

AirCoaster 2 creates tracks using a completely new file format. This means that tracks created with AirCoaster 2 cannot be downloaded and used on older versions of AirCoaster. However AirCoaster 2 will let you open and use files created with older versions of AirCoaster. You can use the Legacy option on the Settings tab to customize the colors and settings for these legacy tracks. Alternatively, if you can open the track in the track editor, you can apply the new AirCoaster 2 settings there and re-save the track using the new AirCoaster 2 format.

One of the most anticipated new features of the AirCoaster 2 track editor is the ability to add and manage more than one roller coaster track in a single file. Tracks that use the "Last Rideable Segment" feature in AirCoaster 1.6 will automatically be split into 2 tracks: the first track ends at the last rideable segment and connects back to the first segment, while the second track starts after the last rideable segment and ends up becoming a scenery track with no cars.

Another important thing to note is that all the ride settings and colors are now saved as part of the track file. These are no longer customizable by people who download and ride your tracks. The only thing they can change is the theme, which affects only the sky and ground color. This ensures that people who ride your tracks experience them the exact same way you designed them.