Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 30, 2026

Fizztap Games ("we", "our", or "us") operates mobile applications including Block Fizz. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, why, and how you can control it.

1. Information We Collect

Information we do NOT collect:

• We do not require account creation, login, or a password
• We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, or address
• We do not access your contacts, photos, camera, microphone, or location

Information stored only on your device:

• Game progress and settings: your high score, statistics, trophies, streak, saved games, and preferences are stored locally. They are deleted when you uninstall the app.

Information stored on our servers (leaderboards):

Block Fizz includes online leaderboards: a weekly league, a global board, a daily challenge board, and a Hall of Fame. To take part, the app creates an anonymous player ID for you (a random identifier issued by Google Firebase Authentication). No account, email, or personal details are required, and the ID is not linked to your identity. Together with that ID we store:

• Nickname: a randomly generated two-word name (for example "FizzyOtter"), or a nickname you choose in Settings. Please do not use your real name or other personal information as your nickname.
• Leaderboard results: the scores of your Classic, Timed, and Daily Challenge games, together with basic gameplay statistics for that game (lines cleared, blocks placed, best combo, game duration, and game mode) which we use to validate that a score is genuine.
• League standing and history: your league, tier, weekly totals, rank, promotions and demotions, and career league statistics (for example weeks played, league wins, and streaks).
• Timestamps of your submissions, used for rate limiting and abuse prevention.

Your nickname, tier, scores, and placings are visible to other players in the app's leaderboards. Nothing else listed above is shown to other players.

Information collected automatically:

• Device information: device model, operating system version, and screen size may be collected by our advertising and analytics partners to serve relevant ads and improve performance.
• Advertising ID: your device's advertising identifier may be used by our ad partner (Google AdMob) to show personalized or non-personalized ads based on your preferences.
• App integrity checks: when the app talks to our leaderboard servers, Google Play Integrity / Firebase App Check verifies that the request comes from a genuine, unmodified copy of Block Fizz. This sends device and app attestation data to Google; we only receive a pass/fail result.
• Usage analytics: anonymous events such as games started, game mode, leaderboard opened, or a trophy unlocked, used to understand how the game is played and to fix problems.

2. How We Use Information

• To run the leaderboards: rank players, form weekly leagues, apply promotions and demotions, and display the Hall of Fame
• To detect and prevent cheating, duplicate submissions, and abuse (for example implausible scores, rapid-fire submissions, or offensive nicknames)
• To show optional reminder notifications on your device (these are generated locally by the app; no notification service receives your data)
• To display ads and measure app performance

We do not sell your information, and we do not use it for advertising profiling beyond what our ad partner does under its own policy.

3. Third-Party Services

Our games use the following third-party services that may collect or process data:

• Google Firebase (Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Functions, App Check, and Analytics): provides the anonymous player ID, stores and processes leaderboard data, verifies app integrity, and collects anonymous usage statistics. Firebase may collect device identifiers and app usage data. See Firebase's privacy documentation and Google's Privacy Policy.
• Google Play Integrity: used to verify that leaderboard requests come from a genuine copy of the app. See Google's Privacy Policy.
• Google AdMob: used to display ads. AdMob may collect device identifiers and usage data. See Google's Privacy Policy.

4. Advertising

Our games display ads served by Google AdMob. You may see personalized ads based on your interests, or non-personalized ads. You can opt out of personalized advertising in your device settings:

• Android: Settings > Google > Ads > Opt out of Ads Personalization

5. Children's Privacy

Our games are not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information (for example as a nickname), please contact us and we will delete it.

6. Data Storage, Retention, and Security

Leaderboard data is stored in Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore) in the asia-south1 (Mumbai, India) region and is encrypted in transit and at rest. All writes go through our server-side functions; the app itself can only read leaderboard data.

We keep leaderboard data only as long as it is needed:

• Weekly league and global board data: deleted 90 days after the week ends
• Daily challenge boards: deleted 30 days after the day ends
• Submission and rate-limit records: deleted within 30 days
• Your player profile (anonymous ID, nickname, league history, and career statistics) is kept until you delete it — in the app or by asking us (see Deleting your data). Hall of Fame entries (the nickname and score of each week's champion) are a permanent record; when you delete your data, your entries are anonymised (the score stays, shown as "Deleted player")

7. Your Rights and Choices

You can:

• Change your nickname at any time in Settings > Profile
• Opt out of personalized advertising via your device settings
• Turn reminder notifications off in Settings, or in your device's notification settings
• Delete all local game data by uninstalling the app
• Delete your leaderboard data at any time, directly in the app (see below)
• Request information about data collected by our third-party partners

Deleting your data

In the app: open Settings > Profile > Delete leaderboard data and confirm. This immediately and permanently removes everything our servers hold about you — your anonymous player ID, nickname, scores, league placings, league history and career statistics — and deletes the anonymous account itself, so the old ID can never be linked to you again. Hall of Fame entries you won are kept as an anonymised record ("Deleted player"). Your local progress (best score, statistics, trophies, streak) stays on your device; your next game joins the leaderboards as a new player with a new nickname.

Without the app (for example if you have already uninstalled it): email hello@fizztap.games with the nickname you used and, if you can, roughly when you last played. Because player IDs are anonymous we may need to ask a question or two to find the right record. We will delete it within 30 days and confirm by email.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights (such as access, correction, or portability) under local law. Contact us to exercise them.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify users of significant changes by posting the new policy on this page with an updated revision date.

9. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
hello@fizztap.games