Grids Privacy Policy

Last updated: 23 October 2026

Grids itself collects nothing about you: your games, streak, stats and settings stay on your device. Grids shows ads from Google AdMob, and Google's ads software in the app collects some information about your device to show those ads, as described below. Without an internet connection Grids works fully, shows no ads and sends nothing.

Who makes Grids

Grids is a puzzle game for Android made by Aeroleaf, an independent developer. You can reach us at contact.aeroleaf@gmail.com.

What stays on your device

To let you continue where you left off, Grids keeps a few things on your phone or tablet:

• the puzzles you have started, with your moves, so you can resume and undo them;
• the size and difficulty you chose for your next puzzles, and which game you played last;
• your day streak and your best streak;
• a history of the puzzles you have solved (the puzzle, its game, size and difficulty, your time, the hints you used and when you solved it), which the Stats screen shows, and from which the streak reminders learn the time you usually play;
• your choices in Settings, and how many puzzles you have solved since the last ad;
• when the last streak reminder came, and how many times Grids has asked to show notifications.

This information never leaves your device through Grids, and we cannot see it. Uninstalling Grids, or clearing its storage in Android's settings, deletes it.

Ads

After every few puzzles you solve, Grids shows a banner ad from Google AdMob at the bottom of the screen while the "Solved" window is open. To show ads, count them and prevent fraud, Google's ads software (the Google Mobile Ads SDK) collects the following when your device is online, and sends it to Google:

• identifiers of your device and the app, such as the Android advertising ID and the app set ID;
• your IP address, from which your approximate location can be worked out;
• how you interact with the ads, such as views and taps;
• diagnostic information, such as how the app and the ads perform.

Google may use this information, under its own policies, to show ads that suit your interests where you allow that. We do not receive this information about you: AdMob gives us only totals, such as how many ads were shown. You can read how Google uses it in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services and in Google's Privacy Policy. The ads in Grids are limited to content suitable for a general audience.

Your choices about ads

• In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Grids shows Google's consent message the first time, where you can choose whether Google may use your information for personalized ads. You can change your choice at any time in Grids, under Settings → Privacy options.
• On any Android device you can reset or delete your advertising ID, which also stops personalized ads based on it. You find this in your device's settings, usually under Privacy → Ads, or Google → Ads.
• Playing offline shows no ads, and nothing is sent.

Device backups

If backup is turned on for your device, Android may include the information Grids keeps in the backup it keeps in your Google account, so it comes back when you set up a new device. Those backups are made and stored by Google under Google's Privacy Policy; we do not have access to them. You can turn backup off in your device's settings.

Permissions

Grids asks Android for internet and network access and the advertising ID, which Google's ads software needs (with basic phone information such as the network type); for vibration, for the light ticks you feel while drawing in Trace and Tiles; and for notifications, for the streak reminders. Only notifications need your permission: on Android 13 and newer, Android asks you after your first solved puzzle. The reminders are worked out on your device from your streak and the times you play, and nothing about them is sent anywhere. You can turn vibration and the reminders off in Settings. Grids never asks for your location, contacts, camera, microphone or files.

Children

Grids is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The ads in Grids are limited to content suitable for a general audience.

Changes to this policy

If Grids changes how it handles information, this policy will be updated before that version of the app is released, and the date at the top will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about Grids: contact.aeroleaf@gmail.com.