Privacy at Blokello.

Blokello is a block puzzle game made by Abdul Aktoğ and distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play. The core game is played offline and needs no account. Blokello also includes an optional online Leaderboard: only if you choose to join does the app send your chosen profile and score to our game server (hosted on Cloudflare). This page explains what is used, why, and how you stay in control.

Data used by the Leaderboard

Joining the Leaderboard is optional. If you join, the following is sent to and stored on our game server so public rankings can work:

• ✓Your chosen display name.
• ✓An optional Instagram username you enter (stored without the “@”; shown publicly with “@”).
• ✓Your submitted high score.
• ✓An anonymous, persistent player and entry identity that lets the game recognise your own entry without any account.
• ✓Reports you choose to submit about another player (a reason, and optional short details).
• ✓Moderation and audit information, where a moderation action is taken.

Data stored on your device

• ✓Your local high score — kept even if you never join the Leaderboard.
• ✓Whether you have submitted a score, and the last submitted value.
• ✓An anonymous ownership credential protected by the iOS Keychain or Android Keystore, used only to prove that an entry is yours.
• ✓Identifiers of players you have blocked locally.
• ✓Gameplay preferences and related state — board, theme, settings, joker inventory, No Ads entitlement and the local purchase-fulfilment ledger.
• ✓On Android, eligible local app data may be included in Android Auto Backup or device transfer according to your Google and device backup settings. The encrypted Leaderboard ownership credential is specifically excluded because its Android Keystore key is device-bound.

Why this information is processed

• ✓Showing public rankings.
• ✓Applying your profile and score updates.
• ✓Verifying that an entry belongs to you before it is edited or deleted.
• ✓Preventing abuse and misuse.
• ✓Handling reports and moderation.
• ✓Keeping the service secure.

What other players can see

If you join the Leaderboard, your display name, optional @instagram handle and score / rank are public and can be seen by other players in the app. Everything else — your ownership key, your blocked list and your local progress — stays private to your device.

Moderation and safety

• ✓Display names and Instagram handles are filtered before they are published.
• ✓You can report another player from the Leaderboard.
• ✓You can block or hide players locally on your device.
• ✓An administrator can review reports and take action.
• ✓Where needed, names or handles may be redacted or hidden, scores invalidated, entries deleted, or a player banned from the Leaderboard.

Deleting your data and your choices

You can delete your own Leaderboard entry at any time from inside the app — open your entry and choose delete. This removes the public profile, display name, optional Instagram username, score and ranking entry. Deleting your Leaderboard entry does not delete your local gameplay high score, which stays on your device. You can remove local data using the in-app reset options or your device's app-data controls; eligible Android backup data may be restored later under your Google/device backup settings. For any other privacy or deletion request, email abdul.aktog@icloud.com. Limited moderation, audit, security or legal records may be retained where needed to protect the service or meet legal obligations.

Advertising and consent

Blokello uses Google AdMob / Google Mobile Ads SDK for banner and user-initiated rewarded ads. Unity Ads may supply an ad as a bidding source through AdMob mediation; Blokello does not separately initialise Unity Ads. Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) requests and stores privacy choices where required, including for the EEA, United Kingdom, Switzerland and applicable US states, and provides an in-app privacy-options entry point when required. Depending on consent, region, device and the ad served, Google and Unity may process an IP address and approximate location derived from it, device or other identifiers (including Advertising ID or App Set ID where available), app and ad interactions, advertising data, diagnostics, and fraud-prevention or security signals for advertising, measurement, analytics, service delivery and security. Unity may also process purchase-history signals where applicable. The app does not request GPS or precise-location permission. App Tracking Transparency and IDFA apply only on Apple platforms; Android does not use an ATT prompt. Rewarded ads appear only when you choose to watch one, and closing an ad without earning its reward does not grant the reward. Buying No Ads suppresses banner and rewarded ad requests. An internal Review Access mode used only for Apple App Review or Google Play review also suppresses ad requests, but it is not a purchase and does not change the purchase ledger. Blokello does not provide ad partners with local game saves, board state, joker inventory, store passwords, payment-card details, contacts, photos, or camera or microphone data. See the Google Privacy Policy, Google advertising technologies and Unity privacy policy.

In-app purchases

In-app purchases (No Ads and consumable joker packs) are processed by Apple App Store / StoreKit on Apple platforms and Google Play Billing on Android under each provider's own privacy terms. Product identifiers, purchase tokens or transaction identifiers, purchase state, acknowledgement/consumption status and entitlement state are processed as needed to verify and fulfil purchases exactly once and restore eligible ownership. Blokello does not receive or store your payment-card or bank details, billing address, or App Store/Google Play password. The app keeps the local entitlement and fulfilment state needed to apply No Ads or joker inventory.

Third-party services

Blokello relies on Apple App Store / StoreKit and Google Play / Google Play Billing for distribution and purchases, Google AdMob / Mobile Ads SDK and UMP for ads and consent, Unity Ads only as a potential AdMob bidding mediation source, and Cloudflare for hosting and delivering the Leaderboard game server. No separate general-purpose analytics SDK is integrated by Blokello; advertising SDKs may perform ad measurement and analytics as described above.

Retention and security

Leaderboard data is kept while your entry exists. Deleting it removes the public profile and ranking entry; limited moderation, audit, security or legal records may be retained where needed to protect the service or meet obligations. No fixed retention period is stated where the service does not define one. Network transfers use HTTPS/TLS. Reasonable measures protect this information, but no method of transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure.

Children

Blokello is a general-audience puzzle game, is not directed to children, and follows its Apple App Store and Google Play age disclosures. Please avoid entering personal information — including an Instagram handle — that you do not want to be public.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new effective date will appear at the top of this page, and material changes may also be noted in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or a privacy request? Email abdul.aktog@icloud.com. See also the Blokello page and Support.