Childhood Technology Ltd. provides Block Grove (Android package com.childhood.block). In this policy, “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Childhood Technology Ltd. Questions and privacy requests can be sent to shuvo4727@gmail.com.
You can play the core puzzle offline without creating an account. Game progress is stored on your device. Advertising services and support messages involve third-party processing, as explained below.
1. Information handled
Information stored on your device. The game saves your current puzzle, tutorial state, scores, session statistics, Garden progress, quests, petals, unlocked planters, preferences and advertising cooldown information. It also keeps a previous save snapshot for recovery. An unfinished support message may be saved locally as a draft. These game saves are not uploaded to a developer-operated account or cloud leaderboard. Device or operating-system backup features may separately back up app data according to your device settings.
Support messages. When you choose to send a message through the in-game support form, the app sends the message and the installed app’s display name in the subject through Formspree over HTTPS. The form does not require your name, email address or phone number. Anything you voluntarily type into the message is included. Please do not include passwords, payment details or unnecessary sensitive information.
If you email us directly, we receive your email address, message and any attachments you choose to send. Email and form providers may also process standard technical information, such as IP addresses, request times and delivery or security logs.
Advertising information. Google Mobile Ads and Google’s User Messaging Platform may process device or advertising identifiers, IP addresses, approximate location derived from technical information, app or ad interactions, diagnostic information and privacy preferences. Processing depends on the service, device settings, region and your choices. The game does not request precise device-location permission.
Local diagnostics. The app maintains local counters for events such as game results and ad outcomes. These counters are not sent to a separate developer analytics or crash-reporting service. Advertising providers may perform their own measurement and diagnostics.
2. Why information is used
- To run the game, restore sessions and remember your progress and preferences.
- To track gameplay goals, prevent duplicate claims and apply rewards and unlocks.
- To receive, investigate and respond to support or privacy requests.
- To provide advertising, manage applicable privacy choices, measure ad delivery and help prevent fraud or misuse.
- To protect the service and meet applicable legal obligations.
Where applicable law requires consent for particular processing, the relevant privacy choices are presented through the advertising consent service. Other processing may be necessary to provide a service you request, maintain security or comply with law, depending on the circumstances and applicable requirements.
3. Advertising and choices
Block Grove uses Google AdMob. Ads may appear at eligible Home breaks or foreground transitions. A rewarded ad is an optional way to receive a limited Classic rescue. Declining that offer does not prevent you from starting a new game. Core offline play does not require an advertising connection.
Google’s User Messaging Platform checks applicable consent requirements. When a privacy-options entry is required by that service, you can open Settings → Privacy choices in the game to review or change your selections. You can also use your Android device’s advertising privacy controls, where available. Restricting personalized advertising does not necessarily remove all ads or all processing needed to deliver and protect advertising.
Learn more from Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s advertising information.
5. Retention and deletion
Local game data: your saves, preferences and support draft remain on your device until replaced or removed. You can remove app data using Android’s app-storage settings or uninstall the app. This can permanently remove your progress. Device backups may retain a separate copy; manage those through your backup provider’s settings.
Support correspondence: we retain messages for as long as reasonably necessary to handle the request, follow up on an issue, maintain security or meet applicable legal obligations. Retention in Formspree, email systems and their backups also depends on those providers’ policies and available controls. Contact us to request deletion of correspondence we can identify and control.
Advertising data: retention and deletion are governed by the advertising provider’s policies and applicable law. Clearing local game data does not automatically delete information already processed by an advertising or support provider.
6. Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion or a copy of personal information; object to or restrict certain processing; withdraw consent; or opt out of certain advertising-related sharing. You may also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.
To make a request, email shuvo4727@gmail.com with the subject “Block Grove Privacy Request.” Explain the request and provide enough information for us to locate relevant correspondence. Do not send sensitive identity documents unless a necessary, proportionate verification method has first been agreed. We may need to verify a request and will respond as required by applicable law.
We cannot remotely retrieve or erase a game save that exists only on your device. Use your device’s storage controls for that data. Requests concerning information controlled independently by Google or another provider may need to be directed to that provider. Where you withdraw consent, this does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.
7. Children’s privacy
The game does not ask players to create an account or provide their age, name or contact details to play. We do not knowingly solicit personal information from children through support messages. Children should not include personal details in a message without help from a parent or guardian.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us without any consent required by applicable law, contact shuvo4727@gmail.com. We will review the matter and take appropriate action, including deletion where required and within our control. Advertising providers’ processing and available privacy choices are described above.
8. Security and international processing
Support submissions from the game use HTTPS. Access to information is limited according to the needs of operating the game and handling requests. No method of electronic transmission or storage can be guaranteed completely secure.
Our advertising, form and email providers may process information in countries other than your own, including the United States. Those countries may have different data-protection laws. The providers’ privacy notices describe their international processing and relevant protections. Contact us with questions about information handled for Block Grove.
9. This page and external links
This policy page contains no analytics scripts, advertising scripts, tracking pixels or embedded third-party media. When this page is hosted, the hosting provider may process ordinary web-request information, such as your IP address and browser details, to deliver and secure the page.
Following an external link opens a service governed by its own privacy notice. This policy explains Block Grove’s practices; it does not replace the notices of Google, Formspree, your email provider or your device’s backup provider.
10. Policy updates
We may update this policy when the game, its services or applicable requirements change. The revised policy will show an updated date on this page. Where additional notice or consent is required, we will provide it through an appropriate channel.