Privacy Policy

1. What stays on your phone

Bento Blox has no accounts and no sign-in. Your scores, unlocked themes, daily challenge progress, statistics and settings are saved only on your phone. If you delete the app, that progress is deleted with it.

2. The daily play summary

So we can tune how hard the game is, how often ads appear and when reminders arrive, the game sends us one short summary a day on the days you play. If you play more that day it may be sent again, and the newer one replaces it. It is tied only to a random code the game makes up when it is first opened. That code is not your advertising ID or any other device ID, and it is not linked to your name, email, or Apple or Google account. The summary contains:

• the date, your time zone, your phone’s platform (Android or iPhone), its region setting and the game’s language;
• how many days ago the game was installed, how many sessions and days you have played, how many games you have played, your average score and your best score;
• the hours of the day you usually play;
• how often a “watch to continue” video was offered and how often you chose to watch it, and how many of your games were adjusted;
• whether daily reminders are on, off or not yet asked, and how many times a reminder opened the game;
• whether you have turned ads off with a purchase;
• on Android, whether you were on Wi-Fi or cellular and whether your phone was charging or low on battery when you played, and how long you played each time;
• a rough performance level for your phone (low, mid or high), and on Android your phone's model;
• how smoothly each screen of the game runs on your phone, how long the game takes to start, and any technical errors, so we can find and fix slow screens. If you have not finished a game yet, this part may be sent anyway, so that we hear about phones where the game runs too slowly to play;
• how much the ads you saw earned us, by kind of ad;
• which reward videos were offered and which you chose to watch;
• how often you left in the middle of a game and came back, and how often you left right after an ad;
• how often you opened the shop or started a purchase, and what you bought;
• how often a starter deal was shown, set aside or bought;
• for a new install, which screens of the game you reached in your first go, how long that took, and where you stopped;
• when we are comparing two versions of a setting, such as how often ads appear, which version your game is using;
• which version of our tuning settings your game is using.

It never includes your exact location, contacts, photos, the name of your Wi-Fi network, anything about phone calls or anything you type. Our server needs your IP address to receive the summary but does not store it. We keep the summaries for up to a year, use them only for Bento Blox, and never sell or share them.

When it opens, the game also asks our server for its current tuning settings; that request does not carry your code. On your phone, the game uses your own play history to adjust how hard the next pieces are, how often ads appear and when a reminder arrives, and that performance level can change how often full-screen ads appear and turn off some effects so the game runs smoothly.

3. Advertising

Bento Blox shows ads from Google AdMob: a banner at the top of the screen, an occasional full-screen ad between games, and optional videos you can choose to watch for a reward (such as continuing a game or getting extra pieces). To show and measure these ads, Google may collect your device’s advertising identifier, IP address, approximate location, device and app information, and how you interact with ads. Google’s use of this information is described in Google’s advertising policy and Google’s privacy policy.

AdMob can also fill an ad from other ad networks that bid through it, such as AppLovin, ironSource and Unity Ads. Those networks may receive the same kinds of information to show and measure that ad.

Where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area and the UK), the game asks for your consent before ads are personalized. On iPhone, the game asks for permission before your device can be tracked across other companies’ apps; if you say no, you still see ads, but they are not personalized.

4. Purchases

Bento Blox offers one optional purchase, Remove Ads, which turns off the banner and the between-games ads; the optional reward videos stay. The purchase is handled entirely by the App Store or Google Play. We never see your payment details. The game only asks the store whether your account owns Remove Ads, so it can be restored on a new phone.

5. Reminders

The game may ask whether you would like a daily reminder. If you say yes, your phone shows one a day at the hour you usually play. It is scheduled by your phone itself, not sent from our server, and you can turn it off at any time in your phone’s notification settings for Bento Blox.

6. Sharing

If you share a score or a picture of your box, your phone’s own share sheet sends it to the app you pick. We do not see it.

7. Our other games and BlockTrade

Bento Blox can show cards for our other games and for BlockTrade, our trading-card marketplace. They are only links: nothing is sent to us or to anyone else when a card appears. If you tap one, your phone’s app store opens. On Google Play the link carries a tag naming this game, so Play can tell us which game an install came from; it says nothing about you. Gift codes between our games are made and checked on your phone.

BlockTrade is a separate service for adults 18 and over. It has its own privacy policy, and this page does not cover it.

8. Your choices

• Your progress. Deleting the app deletes everything it saved on your phone.
• The daily summary. Deleting the app stops it. A summary carries only a random code, so we cannot tell which summaries are yours or remove them one by one. All of them are deleted after a year.
• Ads. You can reset or limit your advertising identifier at any time in your phone’s settings.

9. Children

Bento Blox is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has used the game, contact us and we will help.

10. Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date above.

11. Contact

Questions about privacy in Bento Blox: admin@blocktrade.gg

BlockTrade LLC, 221 Main St #4209, Nashua, NH 03060, USA