Effective date: 15 September 2026
Nine Lives is a single-player game. It has no user accounts, no login, no chat, and no social features. This policy describes what data the app handles and the services it uses.
Nine Lives shares pseudonymous play data by default so we can improve the game and diagnose problems. You can turn this off at any time under Settings → Privacy → Share pseudonymous play data. Turning it off does not stop anonymous analytics: it removes installation and session identifiers from future batches and erases queued batches that still contain them.
We receive play sessions and active time; level starts, completions, abandonment, checkpoints and crash locations in game coordinates; app errors; achievement activity; shop views, purchases and equipped items; and advertising offers and outcomes. App version, build and platform are included so failures can be tied to the affected release.
The game creates random installation and session identifiers. They let us measure retention without an account. We do not attach a name, email, advertising ID, precise location or contacts. Our collector replaces those random identifiers with keyed pseudonyms before storing an event and does not store request IP addresses or user-agent headers in the analytics archive.
When pseudonymous sharing is off, the same types of play and diagnostic events may still be sent, but the batch contains no installation ID, no session ID, and no advertising ID. We also count how often the setting is switched on or off. Those preference events are anonymous, so we cannot determine that an opt-out and a later opt-in came from the same person.
Requests are handled by Cloudflare and stored in EU-jurisdiction object storage. Cloudflare necessarily processes network information to deliver and protect the endpoint under its privacy policy. Event-level analytics are retained for up to 13 months; reports that no longer contain installation or session identifiers may be kept longer.
Game progress remains stored on your device. Analytics is a separate copy of the limited events described above; it is not a cloud save.
The app shows advertisements served by Google AdMob, a service of Google LLC. We have configured AdMob to serve non-personalized ads only: ads are selected from contextual information rather than from a profile of you, and the app does not request permission to track you across other apps or websites.
To serve and measure ads and to prevent fraud and abuse, Google may still process certain data from your device, such as your IP address, coarse location derived from it, device type and operating system, and device-generated advertising identifiers used for frequency capping (so you are not shown the same ad repeatedly). This processing is performed by Google under its own privacy policy:
Where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland), the app shows a consent message before any ad is loaded, and you can decline. You can revisit this choice at any time from Settings → Privacy → Ad privacy choices when that control is required in your region.
The current iOS version has no in-app purchases using real money. Items in the game shop use earned game currency. Shop activity is included in the play analytics described above. We do not collect payment-card details.
The app is not directed at children under 13. The play analytics described above apply to players of the game. Contact us if you have a question about a child's data or would like help requesting deletion.
You can stop future analytics from being linked across sessions and erase queued linked analytics by turning off Settings → Privacy → Share pseudonymous play data. Anonymous analytics continue as described above. Because the game has no account, we cannot identify an archive record by your name or email. Contact us for access or deletion questions about previously sent analytics. For data processed independently by Google, Apple or Google Play, their privacy controls and policies describe the corresponding rights.
If the app's data practices change (for example, when in-app purchases are added), this page will be updated and the effective date above revised before the change ships.
Nine Lives is developed by Nadiem El Sherif. Questions about this policy: info@blocksherif.com.