Sinky Sub Privacy Policy

Last updated 8 October 2026

The short version

Sinky Sub has no accounts, no analytics, and does not track you. It does show ads, and the ad network receives a device identifier in order to serve them. Nothing you do in the game is tied to your identity, and nothing follows you into other apps.

What is stored, and where

The game saves your progress:

• your deepest dive, and the depth of your last one
• how many anchors you have earned at each rank
• which submarine hulls you have unlocked, and which one is equipped
• the submarines you have drawn yourself, and the names you gave them
• your music, sound, haptics and random-hull settings

All of it lives in your device's own storage. Most of it also syncs to your own iCloud account, so a new phone picks up where the old one left off: your deepest dive, your anchors, your unlocked hulls, your drawn submarines and your settings. That copy belongs to you, sits under your Apple Account, and is covered by Apple's privacy policy; the developer cannot see it or read it. Deleting the app removes the copy on the device. The iCloud copy is removed through your device's iCloud storage settings.

The submarines you draw

The game lets you draw your own hulls and give each one a name. A drawing is stored as a list of colours, and the name as plain text, alongside the rest of your progress, on your device and in your own iCloud.

Neither ever leaves your own Apple Account. There is no gallery, no sharing, no upload and no moderation queue, because nothing you draw or type is sent anywhere the developer or anybody else can see it. The names are not checked or filtered for the same reason: nobody but you will ever read them.

Advertising

The game shows a banner supplied by Google AdMob. Two things about how it is set up are worth stating plainly.

The ads are non-personalised. Every request the game makes asks Google for contextual ads only. No profile of you is built or used, which is why the app never asks for permission to track you.

Google receives a device identifier and basic advertising data, enough to serve a banner, count that it was shown, and avoid repeating the same one. It is not linked to your identity and is not used to track you across other apps or websites. Google's own handling of it is covered by Google's privacy policy.

Ad content is restricted to a general-audience rating, and sensitive categories are blocked.

Buying Remove Ads ends this. Once the purchase is active the game makes no ad requests at all.

Network use

Apart from those ad requests, the app talks only to Apple: iCloud, for the progress sync described above, and the App Store, for its two purchases: Remove Ads, and the four extra drawing slots.

Both are handled entirely by Apple's App Store and StoreKit. The developer never sees your payment details, your Apple Account, or any other identifying information, only whether this device is entitled to a purchase. That entitlement is read back from Apple rather than synced, which is why Restore works on a new phone without the game having stored anything about you.

Children

Sinky Sub is suitable for all ages. It does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If what the app collects ever changes, this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the App Store privacy details will be updated to match.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@sinkysub.com