Privacy policy

Last updated 4 November 2026

Block & Bloom is a block puzzle game made by Riotic Studio. This page explains, in plain words, what the game keeps on your phone, what it sends to us, and the choices you have.

The short version

There's no account. The game never asks for your name, email, contacts, photos or location.
Your garden and progress stay on your phone.
To make the game better, it sends anonymous information about how it's played, tied only to a random number made on your phone. You can switch this off at any time in Settings.
Some adverts come from Google AdMob. They are never personalised to you, and the game never asks to track you across other apps or websites. We never sell your information.
Purchases go through Apple. We never see your Apple account or payment details.

What stays on your phone

Your game (your garden, levels, collections and settings) and a record of recent play are saved in the game's own folder on your phone. They are never sent anywhere, and they're removed if you delete the game.

What the game sends, and when

While Share anonymous play data is on in the game's Settings (it's on unless you switch it off), the game sends short reports about play, such as:

starting and finishing a game, a Journey level or the Daily Garden, with the score, how far you got and how long it took;
lines cleared, boosters used, and garden progress (projects chosen and finished, decorations, rewards collected);
stamps, Garden Journal tasks, Flower Book flowers and festival points;
whether you allowed reminders, and when you switch sharing on;
the shop: when it's opened, which item was bought or how a purchase ended (for example cancelled), Coins spent, and when the “more pieces” offer appears in a Journey level and whether it's taken;
when the game was opened and closed;
the game's version, and once each time the game starts, your phone's model and iOS version (for example “iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 27”) and how long the game took to start, so we can fix problems that only happen on some phones.

Each report carries a random ID that the game makes the first time it runs. It isn't your phone's advertising ID or any other ID from Apple, and nothing about you or your phone goes into it. If you delete the game and install it again, you get a new one. You can see your ID at the bottom of the game's Settings.

We don't collect your name, email address, contacts, photos, location or advertising ID. Every report also tells our analytics service not to work out where you are from your internet connection.

Why we use it

To see which parts of the game are fun and which are too hard or confusing, to balance levels and rewards, and to find and fix problems. If you're in the EU or the UK, we rely on our legitimate interest in improving the game. You can object at any time by switching sharing off.

Who handles it

The reports go to PostHog, the analytics service we use, on its servers in the European Union (Frankfurt, Germany). PostHog handles them for us and for no other purpose. We don't share them with anyone else, and there are no other advertising networks in the game besides Google AdMob (see Adverts).

How long we keep it

Up to one year, after which it's deleted.

Your choices and rights

Switch it off: turn off Share anonymous play data in Settings. Nothing more is sent, and reports still waiting on your phone are deleted.
See or delete your data: email us the random ID shown in Settings, and we'll send you what we hold for it or delete it.
If you're in the EU or the UK, you also have the right to ask us to correct or restrict your data, and to complain to your data protection authority.

Adverts

The game shows a short advert between some games, Classic games and Journey levels alike (never during a game, and never in your first days), and you can choose to watch an advert for a few extra pieces or to double the Daily Garden gift. Remove ads in the shop stops the adverts between games for good.

Adverts come from Google AdMob. They are non-personalised: Google chooses them from the game and your general location (estimated from your internet connection), not from a profile of you. The game never asks for your phone's advertising ID, so Google doesn't receive it. To show and count adverts, prevent fraud and fix problems, Google's software receives your approximate location, an identifier limited to this game, which adverts were shown and tapped, and crash and performance information. How Google uses it: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

If you're in the EU or the UK, Google's consent form asks for your choices first, and you can change them at any time in the game's Settings under Ad privacy choices.

Purchases

Coins and packs are bought through Apple's App Store, and Apple handles the payment. We never receive your name, Apple account, card or payment details, or the price you paid. The game keeps Apple's receipt number for each purchase on your phone, so a purchase is never given twice, and doesn't send it anywhere. Prices are set in the App Store and are the same for everyone in your country at the same time.

Game settings from our website

When the game starts, and when you come back to it, it downloads a small settings file from our website, so we can adjust things like festival dates and difficulty without an update, and it reads the time from the website's answer so that days in the game follow the real date. Nothing about you or your game is sent with it. As with any web page, the website's host, GitHub, receives your internet address in order to send the file.

Reminders

If you allow them, the game's gentle reminders are planned on your phone. Nothing about them is sent to us. You can switch each kind off in the game's Settings, or all of them in your iPhone's Settings.

Children

Block & Bloom is made for adults. It isn't directed at children, and we don't knowingly collect information from children.

Changes to this policy

If what the game collects changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top before the new version of the game is released.

Contact

Riotic Studio · support@rioticstudio.com