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Privacy policy

Last updated 2026-07-14

Blockmatic is operated by TLM Software Design, Inc., a Michigan corporation with offices at 27280 Haggerty Road, Ste C-6, Farmington Hills, MI 48331, USA ("we", "us", "our"). This policy describes what the app collects, why, where it goes, and the choices you have.

Summary

  • The game itself is fully offline. We don't run a server that your gameplay touches.
  • Your best score, selected difficulty, and audio toggle live only on your device and are lost on uninstall.
  • No account, no sign-in, no profile lookup. We never see your name or your score.
  • The only network traffic the app generates is to Google AdMob (ads), RevenueCat (purchase verification for the one-time Remove Ads unlock), and Google Firebase (crash reports and basic install/lifecycle analytics).
  • On iOS the app does not request App Tracking Transparency and does not read the IDFA. Ad personalization is otherwise governed by Google AdMob, applicable regional consent (GDPR / CCPA), and your device-level ad settings.

What the app stores on your device

The following values are written to platform key-value storage (SharedPreferences on Android, NSUserDefaults on iOS). None of it is transmitted to our servers, the ad network, or any third party.

There is no account, no cloud sync, no backup target. Wiping the data is one app-uninstall away.

Network behavior

Gameplay is fully offline. Piece dealing, drag-to-place, line-clear detection, scoring, and game-over all run locally. Only three external services receive traffic:

If the device is offline, the game runs normally. The banner slot remains reserved but blank, interstitials and the purchase flow retry once connectivity returns, and crash reports queue locally and upload on the next connectivity window.

Android permissions

The app itself requests only network-access permissions, both required for the ad network:

No camera, microphone, location, contacts, storage, calendar, or biometric permissions are requested.

Ad network — Google AdMob

The free tier of Blockmatic is ad-supported. Google AdMob serves a banner ad and an interstitial ad shown periodically between games, deliberately paced to stay non-intrusive rather than maximize ad density.

On iOS the app does not request App Tracking Transparency and does not read the IDFA, so iOS ads are served without that identifier. The app does not set ad-personalization flags itself — whether ads are personalized is governed by your Google AdMob settings, applicable regional consent (GDPR / CCPA), and your device-level ad preferences. AdMob's data practices are governed by Google's privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy and the AdMob & AdSense privacy and terms page at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Purchasing the one-time Remove Ads unlock permanently removes both the banner and interstitial.

In-app purchase — RevenueCat

The Remove Ads non-consumable purchase is managed by RevenueCat. When you initiate or restore a purchase, RevenueCat receives an anonymous, app-generated user ID and the store receipt to verify the entitlement. Payment itself is handled entirely by Apple App Store or Google Play — we and RevenueCat never see your payment method or financial details.

Crash reporting and analytics — Google Firebase

Firebase Crashlytics captures stack traces, device model, OS version, app version, and a Firebase installation ID when the app crashes. Firebase Analytics records a small set of install and lifecycle events, on both iOS and Android. Neither service receives gameplay data, board state, your score, or your saved settings.

Firebase data is governed by Google's privacy policy. Default retention is up to 14 months for Analytics; Crashlytics reports can be purged on demand from the Firebase console.

Children

Blockmatic is intended for a general audience aged 13 and up (16 in the EU/UK). It is not listed as a children's app and is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has interacted with the app and we have collected anything we shouldn't have, contact privacy@swtlm.com and we will delete it.

Your rights and choices

Because we hold no account data or personally identifiable information on our servers, most data-subject rights — access, portability, deletion — are satisfied by uninstalling the app, which removes all on-device storage. Ad-personalization preferences can be managed through your device's settings (Settings › Privacy › Ads on Android; iOS Tracking is never requested). For AdMob or Firebase data held by Google, see Google's privacy controls.

To exercise any rights or raise a privacy concern, email privacy@swtlm.com and we will respond within 30 days.

This website

These pages (apps.swtlm.com/blockmatic) are static and hosted on AWS S3 + CloudFront. As of this writing, no Google Analytics (or any other) tag is wired into this site — it loads no third-party scripts and sets no cookies at all. If GA4 is added in a future update, it will only load after you explicitly accept via a cookie banner, and this section will be updated to describe the consent-gated analytics cookies (_ga, _ga_*) and how to withdraw consent. The only data that flows today is standard CDN access logs (IP address, timestamp, requested URL) retained by AWS per their default logging policy — not joined to any in-app identifier.

Service providers

Changes to this policy

We will post material changes here and update the "Last updated" date above.

Contact

Privacy questions: privacy@swtlm.com. General support: info@swtlm.com.

TLM Software Design, Inc.
27280 Haggerty Road, Ste C-6
Farmington Hills, MI 48331
USA

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