Forgelings privacy policy

Who we are

Forgelings is made by Boring Game Studios, a DBA of Integral Cloud Solutions, LLC ("we", "us"). This policy covers the Forgelings app for iPad (including test builds on TestFlight) and this website, forgelings.com. You can reach us through our contact page.

What stays on the iPad

Forgelings keeps everything it needs on the iPad: the worlds your kid builds, the name and character they picked, their pet, their stickers and goals, and their settings. None of it is uploaded anywhere. Deleting the app deletes it all.

Each player's name is two words picked from lists built into the game, so a kid never types their real name. The game never looks at contacts, photos or location. It shows the iPad's own name only on its About screen, to help a grown-up tell iPads apart, and never sends it anywhere.

Playing with a nearby friend

When kids play together, iPads find each other directly over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. That's why the app asks for Local Network and Bluetooth permission. Nothing goes over the internet or through our servers.

A nearby iPad running Forgelings can see:

• the player's chosen two-word name and their player picture,
• how their character and pet look,
• the colour of the world being hosted,
• what happens in the game while they play together, like where players walk and which blocks change.

That's all. There's no way to send messages, and the kid hosting a game can send anyone home.

Feedback and diagnostics (only if you choose)

Sending feedback sits in the app's grown-ups area, behind a question for adults.

• "Tell us how it went" opens our feedback form in Safari. The link carries the app's build number, the iPad model (the kind of iPad, not which one), the iOS version, the app's language, and anything you typed. Because these travel inside the web link, they can show up in Safari's history and in our website's logs. Please don't put your child's name in the note.
• "Share diagnostics" creates a text file with the same details and a technical log. Your child's in-game name and the iPad's name are removed from it. You choose where to send it.

We use what you send only to fix and improve Forgelings. We don't sell it, share it for advertising, or combine it with anything else. Ask us and we'll delete it.

Apple

If you test Forgelings through TestFlight, Apple may send us crash reports and the feedback you submit in TestFlight, as part of TestFlight. If you've allowed your iPad to share analytics with app developers, Apple may give us anonymous crash reports. These are iPad settings, not something Forgelings does, and Apple's own privacy policy covers them.

Children

Forgelings is made for children around 6 years old. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children, and the app is built so that it can't. If you think a child's personal information reached us, for example in a feedback note, contact us and we'll delete it.

This website

forgelings.com uses no cookies, analytics or trackers, and loads nothing from other companies: its fonts and pictures come from this site. The site is delivered by Amazon Web Services, which handles each visit's IP address and browser type to send you the page, under its own privacy notice. We don't keep visitor logs.

Links to our studio site, boringgamestudios.com, are covered by its own privacy policy.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update it here and change the date at the top. If Forgelings ever starts collecting anything, we'll say so here before it does.