Privacy Policy

This policy explains how Boplings (the “App”), provided by Todd Lahman LLC, handles your information. The short version: the App has no account and never asks for your name or email. It sends us no gameplay statistics. The one optional ad may use your device's advertising identifier, but only for players 18 and older who allow tracking when the App asks.

What stays on your device

Your progress — levels beaten, stars, coins, boosters, rescued Boplings, wardrobe choices, and settings — is stored on your device. If you are signed into iCloud, that progress also syncs through your own iCloud account so it follows you between your iPhone and iPad. It stays within your Apple account. Apart from the coin counts described under Coin balances in Japan, it never touches our servers, and we cannot read it.

No account

Boplings has no sign-up and no login. We do not collect your name, email address, contacts, precise location, photos, or files from your device.

No gameplay statistics

The App doesn't send us statistics about how you play. If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers in your device's Settings, Apple shows us totals, such as installs and sessions, that can't be linked to you.

Game settings the App downloads

The App downloads game settings and new level packs from Apple's iCloud (CloudKit) public storage. This download sends nothing about you.

Purchases

In-app purchases are made through Apple's App Store and billed to your Apple account. Apple processes the payment and keeps the transaction record under its own privacy policy. The App receives only a confirmation that the purchase succeeded so it can deliver what you bought; we never see your payment details.

Coin balances in Japan

Japan's Payment Services Act requires us to know how many unspent coins players in Japan hold on 31 March and 30 September. For players 18 and older using the Japanese App Store, the App sends us the number of unspent coins, bought and earned counted apart, with a random code that counts one player's devices once, the time and the App's version. It includes no name, Apple ID or device identifier. Apple's App Attest confirms each report comes from the genuine App. We keep the latest report for each code, and each code's report and the totals as they stood on each 31 March and 30 September, for five years after the end of that year. Players under 18, or whose age the App doesn't know, send nothing.

Game Center

Leaderboards, the weekly Star Tournament and the Popmaster Cup use Apple's Game Center, which is optional. If you are signed into Game Center, the App submits your scores (stars, best score, crowns, highest level, mastery crests and your Cup league score) to Apple so they can appear on the leaderboards under your Game Center nickname. To show the Star Tournament, your Cup standing and the team goal, the App reads the week's top scores, your rank on your Cup league board, and your Game Center friends' weekly stars; it shows them in the game and doesn't keep or send them anywhere else. The App never shows other players' nicknames; Game Center's own pages, which the App can open, do. Apple handles that data under its own privacy policy; you can sign out of Game Center at any time in your device Settings.

Rewarded ads you choose to watch

No ad ever interrupts play. From level 21 of the Cloud Lab on, the App may offer one optional rewarded ad (for example, to keep going after running out of moves), and it plays only if you tap to watch it. These ads are served by Google AdMob. For players 18 and older, the App gets the next ad ready in the background so it can start at once: when an ad is loaded, even if you never watch it, and again when it plays, Google may receive your device's IP address and basic device information, and the advertising identifier if you allow tracking, to deliver the ad and count the view. The first time an ad could play, an adult may see Google's consent form (where the law requires one) and Apple's “Allow tracking?” prompt. If you allow tracking, Google may use the advertising identifier to show more relevant ads; if you don't, the identifier isn't shared and the ads are not personalized. Either way the game is the same. You can change your tracking answer any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking, and, where Google's consent form applies, your consent choices under Privacy choices in the App's Settings. Players under 13, or whose age the App doesn't know, are never offered an ad, and the App sends Google nothing for them. For players 13 to 17, nothing is loaded until they tap to watch, Google's consent form and Apple's tracking prompt are not shown, and the ads are never personalized. You can learn how Google uses this information at policies.google.com/technologies/ads, and you can limit ad personalization in your device's privacy settings.

Crash reports

If you have opted in to sharing analytics with app developers in your device Settings, Apple may send us anonymous crash reports and aggregate usage statistics. These contain no personal information and cannot be linked to you.

This website

boplings.com uses Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights, which measure page views and performance without cookies and without identifying visitors. If you write to us through the contact, support, or launch-list form, your name, email address, and message are delivered to our inbox by a third-party email provider so we can reply. We keep that correspondence only as long as needed to answer you, and you can ask us to delete it at any time.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, the App sends one kind: a note when your lives are full again. It is scheduled on your device and sends nothing to us. You can turn it off in the App's Settings or in iOS Settings.

Information sent to other companies

When you play, the App sends some information to these companies:

Google (AdMob), to show the optional ad, count it and prevent fraud: your IP address, basic device and app details (model, system version, language, app version), how the ad was viewed, and, only if you allow tracking, your advertising identifier, which Google may then use to personalize ads. For players 18 and older this starts when an ad is loaded ahead; for players 13 to 17, only when they tap to watch; never for players under 13.

Apple, to run the services the App uses: iCloud (your saved progress, and downloads of game settings and new levels), Game Center (if you're signed in) and the App Store (purchases).

No tracking unless you allow it, no selling

Boplings itself never tracks you across apps or websites and never builds a profile of you. The only tracking is Google's ad identifier described above, and only if you allow it. We don't sell your data or share it with data brokers.

Children

Boplings is rated 4+ and is suitable for all ages. It has no chat, no user-generated content, no social features beyond Apple's optional Game Center, and no links out of the game other than to this website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13. The App asks every player's age: first through Apple's age-range sheet and, if that isn't shared or isn't available, by asking for a birth date. It uses the answer only to set the game up for the player's age. Players under 18, or whose age the App doesn't know, can't make purchases and get no tracking prompt and no Google consent form. Players under 13, or whose age the App doesn't know, are never offered an ad; for players 13 to 17, ads are never personalized and are loaded only when they tap to watch. An age range from Apple is never saved or sent. A typed birth date is kept only on the device, in its keychain, so the question isn't asked again, even after the App is deleted; it is never synced or sent. If you let a child play on your device, you're responsible for their play, including purchases and the answers given to the App's questions. If you believe a child has sent us personal information through this website, contact us and we will delete it.

Deleting your data

There is no account, so we hold nothing that names you. Deleting the App removes its data from your device. The one exception is the typed age answer, which iOS keeps in the device's keychain. To remove the synced copy from your own iCloud, open Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage and delete the Boplings entry, or use Erase all progress in the App's Settings, which keeps only the coins you bought. For data Google holds about ads, see Google's policy linked above.

If something goes wrong

If data from the App is ever exposed by mistake, we will tell affected users as the law requires, here and in the App's release notes.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with an updated date. Material changes to what the App collects will also be noted in the App's release notes.

Contact

Privacy questions or deletion requests? Reach us through our contact form.