Blinkin Studios Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 30, 2026

Blinkin Studios respects your privacy. This policy explains how Blinkin Studios applications handle information and how third-party services may process information when those services are included in an app.

Information collected by Blinkin Studios

Blinkin Studios does not directly collect, sell, rent, or trade users’ personal information.

Blinkin Studios applications do not require users to create a Blinkin Studios account unless an individual app clearly states otherwise.

Some apps may store user-created information locally on the user’s device. Blinkin Studios cannot access information that remains stored locally.

Your Way Orders

Your Way Orders stores order records, customized field names, appearance preferences, and other app settings locally on the user’s device.

Your Way Orders does not include:

Advertising
Analytics or tracking
Blinkin Studios user accounts
Cloud synchronization
Automatic cloud backups
A Blinkin Studios server receiving order information

Your Way Orders allows users to open their device’s email application with selected order information prepared for sending. Sending the email is a deliberate action performed by the user through an external email application. Blinkin Studios does not receive a copy unless the user intentionally sends the email to Blinkin Studios.

Users are responsible for protecting, maintaining, and backing up information stored on their devices. Uninstalling an app, clearing its storage, losing a device, or experiencing device failure may permanently remove locally stored information.

Advertising

Some Blinkin Studios apps use Google AdMob to display advertisements. Ad-supported apps may allow Google and its advertising partners to collect or process information such as:

Device and advertising identifiers
General location derived from an IP address
Device model
Operating-system version
App interactions
Advertising and diagnostic information

Blinkin Studios does not receive personally identifying account information from AdMob. Information provided through advertising services is generally presented as aggregated statistics, such as impressions, device types, countries or regions, and usage totals.

Google’s handling of information is governed by Google’s own privacy policies and terms:

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Not every Blinkin Studios app contains advertising. Removing or purchasing an ad-free version of an app prevents advertisements from being displayed where that option is offered, but it does not necessarily remove unused advertising-support code from the installed application.

Google Play services

Some Blinkin Studios apps may use Google Play services, including achievements, leaderboards, licensing, purchases, or other platform features.

Participation in optional Google Play features may be controlled through the user’s Google account and device settings. Information processed by Google Play is governed by Google’s policies and is not controlled by Blinkin Studios.

Purchases and payments

Purchases are processed by Google Play. Blinkin Studios does not receive or store users’ full payment-card numbers, bank information, or Google account passwords.

Google may provide transaction information necessary to identify and support a purchase, such as:

Order number
Transaction amount
Purchase status
Purchase date
Country, region, or postal-code information where applicable

Payment information is handled according to Google Play’s policies.

Information users voluntarily provide

Users may voluntarily contact Blinkin Studios for support. An email or support request may include the sender’s email address and any information the sender chooses to provide, such as device details, screenshots, order numbers, or a description of a problem.

Support information is used only to respond to the request, investigate the reported issue, maintain appropriate support records, or comply with legal obligations. Users should not send passwords, payment-card information, or other highly sensitive information.

Data sharing

Blinkin Studios does not sell users’ personal information.

Information may be processed by third-party services included in particular apps, such as Google Play or Google AdMob. Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to valid legal requests, prevent fraud or abuse, or protect users and the rights of Blinkin Studios.

Children’s privacy

Blinkin Studios does not knowingly collect personal information directly from children. Individual apps may have different intended audiences, which are disclosed through their Google Play listings.

Parents or guardians who believe that a child has sent personal information directly to Blinkin Studios may contact Blinkin Studios to request its deletion.

Data security

Blinkin Studios takes reasonable steps to protect information received through support communications. However, no device, storage system, email service, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Users are responsible for securing their devices, Google accounts, email accounts, and locally stored app information.

Data retention and deletion

Information stored only within an app remains on the user’s device until the user deletes it, clears the app’s storage, uninstalls the app, or the device removes it.

Blinkin Studios cannot retrieve or delete information that it never receives and that remains stored only on the user’s device.

Users who have directly contacted Blinkin Studios may request deletion of personal information contained in support records, subject to legal, security, fraud-prevention, and legitimate recordkeeping requirements.

External services and links

Blinkin Studios apps may open or interact with external services, such as Google Play, an email application, a web browser, or a third-party website. Those services operate under their own terms and privacy policies.

Blinkin Studios is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, availability, or content of third-party services.

Changes to this policy

Blinkin Studios may update this Privacy Policy when apps, services, legal requirements, or business practices change. The effective date at the top of this page will be updated when material changes are made.

Contact

Questions or privacy requests may be sent to:

support@blinkinstudios.com

(old version below)

Here is the short and simple, plain sweet English version of the new Blinkin Studios Privacy Policy. (Other translations can be utilized using Google Translate)
Established 5-22-2014, Edited 8-3-2026

1: Ad Removal – Ad Removal WAS an In App Purchase only option for most if not all games and applications published by Blinkin Studios. Ad Removal was and is NOT available for every product I produce, as such would make some games no longer able to update. Ad Removal removed the ads for a purchase price, from displaying in a game or application. Due to some recent confusion, it must be clarified that the purchase does NOT remove the entire Admob extension from the game (and arguing that it should is a silly argument). That’s not how games and ad removal works. Ad Removal is only intended to prevent ads from displaying. (Highly edited 8-3-2026)

2: What we use, what we see, what we don’t see etc – Nothing. WE, Blinkin Studios, do NOT collect any information from the user. Period. We’re not interested in it, we don’t want it. ( We do want ad revenue but that goes through Google Admob )
That’s not to say that GOOGLE, or ADMOB, do not! Please do not misunderstand! Please see Google Admob’s privacy policy for more information. What I see through ad services or bug reports as provided by users, is Countries of origin, phone model and type, what operating system is used, total number of users in a day, week or month, and total sessions played for numbers of users in a day, week, or month (as provided via Admob).
No personal identification is provided to me, even in purchases. In short, I don’t care.
UPDATE: 2-7-2017
Google has informed me that “Phone_read_state” or something similar could possibly be read as “storing your contacts or getting your contact info” .. I interpreted that setting to be for “hey is the phone ringing, ok answer it”.

3: User information – Google Play services – Some games are starting to use Google Play services such as Leaderboards. This is information that is controlled by YOU. You don’t have to use it and can deny it if you want. I’m still learning how to implement leaderboards and achievements, so this is still developing. Again, Blinkin Studios is uninterested in selling your information. I currently don’t use this information although it is available for future use in keeping scores and save data. Again this is not currently used but this may change in the future, with user consent on a case by case basis as is NOW the norm. (edited 8-3-2026)

4: User information – Billing and payments – The only information that is shared between Google Wallet and Blinkin Studios is an amount of the transaction, a postal code and an order number. All other information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, are strictly confidential between you and Google Wallet or your mobile company, of which I see nothing.
Again, no personal information is ever exchanged to me as a third party from Google. You pay them, they pay me. (And actually it kinda sucks for me ’cause I gotta wait to get paid!)

5: Refunds – Refunds are generally not given unless a genuine problem that cannot be fixed with an update within the user’s device or game is found. Password protecting your phone to prevent unauthorized purchases from a family member or other person or persons is not the responsibility of Blinkin Studios, it is the responsibility of the device owner. Fraudulent refunds will be considered on a case by case basis in accordance with the Google TOS.

Games and Ads Philosophy

Can I even spell philosophy? ????

At Blinkin Studios, my philosophy is simple: games should be fun.

I’ve played a lot of Android games over the years. Some are great. Some… not so much. Too many games interrupt the action with full-screen ads or make you watch videos just to continue. It often feels like you have to watch ads in order to win.

That’s not how I design games.

Years ago, I offered an in-app purchase to remove ads. Today, I use simple banner ads instead. They stay out of the way, don’t interrupt gameplay, don’t suddenly take over your screen, and never prevent you from enjoying the game.

Most importantly, you never have to watch an ad just to keep playing or to win.

I hope you’ll enjoy the games—and if you do, thank you for supporting an independent developer.