Bloomgrid · as of 1 November 2026
Stays on the phone: your scores, the game you are in the middle of, and your settings.
Leaves the phone: advertising requests to Google (in Europe, the UK and Switzerland only after you answer Google's consent message), and a purchase you make through Google Play or the App Store.
There is no account, no server of ours and no analytics.
The game keeps its data in the private storage the operating system gives every
app (Android: SharedPreferences; iOS: NSUserDefaults).
Other apps cannot read it, and the game never sends it anywhere. These are all the
entries it writes:
| Entry | Holds | Used for |
|---|---|---|
best_classic, best_daily_<date> |
Your highest score, overall and per day. | “Best” on the screens. |
save_classic, save_daily_<date> |
The board, pieces, score and trowels of an unfinished game. | “Continue” after you close the app. |
games, blooms_total |
How many games you finished and flowers you grew. | The line on the home screen, and spacing out the ads between games. |
seen_howto, haptics |
Whether you saw the short guide; vibration on or off. | Your settings. |
ads_removed |
Yes or no: did you buy “Remove ads”. | Hiding the banner and the ads between games. |
The advertising library and the store's purchase library keep small records of their own on the device (your consent choice, for example). Those belong to Google and Apple and are covered in section B.
Bloomgrid shows a banner under the pieces while you play, sometimes a full-screen ad between two games, and — only when you tap “Watch an ad, get a trowel” — a rewarded video. To fill them, Google's Mobile Ads library sends Google a request with technical information about the device: IP address (and the rough location Google derives from it), the advertising ID if your settings allow it (Android Advertising ID / IDFA), model, system version, language, screen size, this app's name and version, and whether an ad was shown, watched or tapped. Nothing from section A is added to it.
Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (EEA, UK, Switzerland); elsewhere Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. See Google's privacy policy and how Google uses information from apps that use its services.
Europe, the UK and Switzerland. Before the first request the game shows Google's consent message, with “Consent” and “Do not consent” side by side. If you refuse, the game works exactly the same; only the ads are no longer personalised. Change your answer at any time with “Privacy choices” on the home screen. Legal basis: consent, Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. Transfers to Google LLC rely on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses.
Other countries. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in paying for a free game, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. You can limit personalisation in the phone's settings (Android: Settings → Google → Ads; iOS: Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking). We do not sell personal information and have none to sell.
After “Remove ads” no banner and no ad between games is requested. The rewarded video is still offered on the game-over screen, and a request goes to Google only if you tap it.
Buying and restoring “Remove ads” happen entirely inside Google Play or the App Store. They hold your payment details and process the purchase as independent controllers (Google, Apple). The game learns only whether you own it. We see sales totals per country, never who bought.
Deleting the app deletes its storage. If Android Backup or iCloud Backup is on, the system may have copied that storage into your backup; that copy is Google's or Apple's to manage, and you can exclude the app from backups in the phone's settings.
Controller: Emir Ilkerli, trading as Adrina Software, Sattelmacherstraße 6, 21682 Stade, Germany · adrinasoftware@gmail.com.
Your rights. Access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability and objection (Articles 15–21 GDPR), and a complaint to a data protection authority (Article 77). US state laws give comparable rights. Because we hold nothing about you, a request to us will usually find nothing; for advertising data, use Google's tools linked in B1.
Email. If you write to us, we use your address and message to answer (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) and delete the thread once the matter is settled.
Children. Bloomgrid is a general-audience game and is not directed at children under 13. Ad requests are not flagged as child-directed. If a child has sent us personal information, tell us and we will delete it.
Updates. A version of the game that changes anything above ships only after this page is updated, and the date at the top moves with it.