Blockstead

Last updated 10 November 2026

Privacy Policy

Blockstead is a puzzle and town-building game. It has no account and no sign-up, and we don't run a server that stores anything about you.

Your town and your progress stay with you. Your buildings, materials, gems, scores and settings are saved on your phone and, if you use iCloud, backed up to your own iCloud account. We never receive them.

Two partners do see some data so the game can show ads and sell items: Google AdMob (ads) and RevenueCat (purchase validation). Apple handles all payments. This page explains exactly what each one gets.

Data on your device

The game saves your progress, purchases ledger, daily limits and settings in local storage on your device. It is never uploaded to us. Deleting the app deletes the local copy (the iCloud backup below and device backups may keep a copy, under Apple's and your control).

Blockstead has no analytics service of its own and no account system. It does not access your contacts, photos, microphone, camera or precise location. The only list of people it can see is your Game Center friends, and only as described below.

iCloud backup

If you are signed in to iCloud, the game backs up your town to your own iCloud key-value storage, so you can restore it on a new iPhone or after reinstalling. The backup lives in your iCloud account, which Apple runs; it is never sent to us and we cannot read it. If you are signed out of iCloud the game works the same and nothing is backed up.

To delete the backup, open iPhone Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Storage (or Manage Account Storage), find Blockstead and delete its data, or turn off iCloud for the app.

Game Center

Game Center is optional. The game only asks you to sign in when the Daily Challenge unlocks. If you use it, your Game Center nickname, your Daily Challenge and town scores and your achievements are shown on Apple's leaderboards, under Apple's privacy policy.

To show your rank among friends, the game may read your Game Center friends list after Apple asks for your permission. This happens on your device only; the list is never stored or sent to us. You can change this permission in iPhone Settings → Game Center, and you can play every part of the game without Game Center.

Notifications

If you allow them, the game schedules a few reminders on your phone (for example when a building is done). They are all local: nothing is sent to us or to any push service, and none of them are ads. You can turn them off in the game's Settings or in iPhone Settings.

Advertising (Google AdMob)

Blockstead is free and is paid for partly by ads served by Google AdMob: optional reward videos you choose to watch, and short ad breaks between runs. To show and measure ads, Google's SDK may collect:

Device identifiers
The Advertising Identifier (IDFA) only if you allow tracking in Apple's prompt; otherwise an app-specific identifier that cannot be used across other companies' apps.
Approximate location
Derived from your IP address (country or city level), used to pick ads and meet local law.
Ad interactions
Which ads were shown, watched, tapped or closed.
Diagnostics
Crash and performance data about the ad SDK.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the UK or Switzerland, the game asks for your consent through Google's consent form before any personalised ads. Residents of US states with privacy laws can opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information in the same place. Google's use of this data is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Ad content is limited to a general-audience (PG) rating.

Purchases (Apple and RevenueCat)

All payments are handled by Apple. We never see your name, Apple ID, payment card or address.

To confirm a purchase is genuine and to restore your items on a new device, the game uses RevenueCat, which receives an anonymous app user ID it creates, your purchase receipts and history (product, price, date, country/currency) and basic device information (model, OS version, app version). RevenueCat's policy: revenuecat.com/privacy.

Your choices

Children

Blockstead is rated for ages 13 and up and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has used the game and you'd like data deleted, email us.

Retention and deletion

We hold no data about you on our own servers. Deleting the app removes your local save; your iCloud backup (if any) stays in your iCloud until you delete it as shown above, and Game Center scores stay with Apple. Google and RevenueCat keep data under their own retention policies; to ask RevenueCat to delete your purchase records, email us with the Apple order ID from your purchase receipt and we'll pass the request on.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR or the CCPA), you may have rights to access, correct, delete or object to the processing of your personal data. Email us and we'll help, including with requests to our partners.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too, and important changes will be shown in the game. Questions: agagan057@gmail.com.