Privacy policy

Who we are

Blocksmith is a mobile game published by Digital Cowboy, based in South Africa. In this policy "we" means Digital Cowboy, and "the game" means the Blocksmith app for iPhone, iPad and Android. We are responsible for how the game handles personal information. You can reach us at support@blocksmith.win.

This policy covers the game and this website. The website itself sets no cookies and runs no analytics.

What stays on your device

The game keeps the following on your phone or tablet. None of it is sent to us.

• Your best score and the number of games you have finished
• Your settings: sound, haptics and theme
• The game in progress, so you can continue it later
• Whether you have bought Remove ads

Deleting the app deletes all of it.

Advertising

Ads in the game are provided by Google AdMob. To deliver them, Google's software inside the game collects and receives:

• Your device's advertising identifier, where you or your device settings allow it
• Your IP address, from which an approximate location such as country or city can be worked out
• Device details such as model, operating system version, language and screen size
• Which ads were shown and whether you interacted with them
• Diagnostic information used to keep the ad service working and to detect fraud

Google uses this to show ads, limit how often you see the same one, measure how ads perform, prevent fraud and, where you allow it, make ads more relevant to you. Google and its advertising partners are responsible for their own use of that data. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services and the Google privacy policy.

Your choices about ads

• Consent form. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the game asks for your choices the first time it starts. You can change them at any time under Settings, then Privacy choices, in the game.
• iPhone and iPad. The game asks through Apple's tracking prompt before it uses your advertising identifier. If you decline, the game cannot read that identifier. Ads still appear, but without it. You can change your answer in the Settings app under Privacy & Security, then Tracking.
• Android. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in the Settings app under Google, then Ads.
• Remove ads. Buying Remove ads stops the ads between games. The optional ad you can choose to watch to revive a game remains available.

Purchases

The game sells one thing: Remove ads. Payment is taken by Apple or Google through your store account. We never see your card or bank details.

We use RevenueCat to check that a purchase is genuine and to restore it later. RevenueCat receives a random identifier created for your copy of the game, the details of the transaction (the product, the time, the store and the country of your store account), your device type, operating system and app version, and your IP address. It does not receive your name or email address from us. See the RevenueCat privacy policy.

Analytics and crash reports

This version of the game does not send analytics or crash reports to us. If that changes, we will update this policy first.

What we do not collect

The game does not ask for and does not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, precise location, microphone or camera. There is no account to create and no way to sign in.

Who receives data

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not pass it to anyone else.

Why we are allowed to use this data

Where the law requires a legal basis, such as in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, we rely on:

• Your consent for personalised advertising and for reading or storing advertising identifiers on your device. You can withdraw it at any time, as described above.
• Our contract with you for delivering and restoring a purchase you have made.
• Our legitimate interests in funding a free game with advertising that is not personalised, preventing fraud and keeping the game working.

Children

Blocksmith is not directed at children under 13, or under the age at which your country lets a person agree to data processing on their own. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the game, contact us at support@blocksmith.win and we will help have it removed.

How long data is kept

We hold no personal information about you in systems of our own. Purchase records are kept by RevenueCat for as long as they are needed to restore your purchase and to meet accounting and legal duties. Google keeps advertising data according to its own policy.

Where data is processed

Google and RevenueCat process data in the United States and other countries, which may have different data protection laws from yours. They use recognised safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses, for these transfers.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, laws such as the GDPR, the UK GDPR, South Africa's POPIA and United States state privacy laws give you rights over your personal information. These can include the right to see it, correct it, delete it, object to or limit its use, withdraw consent and complain to your data protection regulator. In South Africa that is the Information Regulator.

To use any of these rights, write to support@blocksmith.win. Because the game has no accounts, we do not know who you are, so we may ask for details that help us find the records for your copy of the game. We will not treat you differently for using your rights.

Selling and sharing. We do not sell personal information for money. Under some United States state laws, letting an advertising provider personalise ads can count as "sharing" or "selling". You can opt out by declining tracking on iPhone and iPad, deleting your advertising ID on Android, or using Privacy choices in the game where it is offered.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app removes everything the game stored on your device. To ask for the purchase record linked to your copy of the game to be deleted, write to support@blocksmith.win. Deleting it means the purchase may no longer be restorable.

Security

Data sent by the game travels over encrypted connections. No method of sending or storing data is completely secure, but we choose providers that follow recognised security practices.

Changes to this policy

When the game changes in a way that affects your privacy, we will update this page and the date at the top before the change reaches you.

Contact

Digital Cowboy, South Africa. Email support@blocksmith.win.