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Your privacy choices

Updated 11 November 2026. How to change tracking and advertising choices in Reef Guardian, reset or delete your data, and contact us. Here, iPhone also means iPad. Full details are in our Privacy Policy.

Tracking permission on iPhone

Reef Guardian asks for tracking permission with Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt. On first launch, while the game is still loading and before the home screen, the app asks all its choices in this order: language, Share gameplay activity?, Apple's tracking prompt, and then, only in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google's consent message, also if you asked the app not to track. Google consent does not override Ask App Not to Track. Ads are personalised only if you allow tracking and, where Google's message applies, also consent to personalised ads there. iOS decides whether to show the prompt. It does not show it if permission was already decided, tracking requests are off or tracking is restricted on your device.

You can change your answer at any time:

1. Open the iPhone Settings app.
2. Go to Privacy & Security → Tracking.
3. Turn Reef Guardian on to allow tracking, or off to stop it.

You can also go to Settings → Apps → Reef Guardian → Allow Tracking. If Allow Apps to Request to Track is turned off, Reef Guardian cannot ask. If you had already allowed tracking, choose Ask Apps to Stop Tracking or turn Reef Guardian off in the Tracking list.

In the game, open Settings (the gear) → Privacy → Ad tracking. It shows Allowed, Not allowed or Not asked. This is the iOS setting. Tapping it opens iOS Settings, or asks for tracking permission if the app has not asked yet.

• Tracking allowed: our ad partners (Google, Unity and Meta) may use your device's advertising identifier (IDFA) and ad interaction data to personalise ads and measure them across other companies' apps and websites, within your consent choices where they apply. Where Google's consent message does not apply, Meta App Events can start after the consent check for that launch has finished. It measures installs and may report an app activation and previous session duration. Returning to the app does not always send a new app open event. It does not start in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, or on an installation where Apple's tracking prompt was already answered in an earlier version of the app. The app disables automatic event logging and automatic purchase logging, crash instrumentation, screen title and app link metadata, product improvement sampling, automatic AEM setup and Meta SDK SKAdNetwork reports. In Events Manager, automatic event logging and automatic advanced matching are off, and we have not set up codeless events. Codeless and suggested events also depend on Meta's server settings; the app does not have an independent switch for every such feature. See Measuring our own ads with Meta.
• Tracking not allowed, not asked or restricted: iOS does not make the advertising identifier (IDFA) available. The app marks ad requests as non-personalised, turns off Google's publisher first-party identifier, tells Meta that tracking is not allowed and does not start Meta App Events. Apple's separate SKAdNetwork attribution can still operate. Eligible ads may still be shown, depending on your consent choices and available ads, but they are not personalised with data from other companies' apps or websites. Ad providers still process limited information, such as IP address, approximate location, device and app information, ad views and interactions, to deliver ads in this app, limit how often an ad is shown, prevent fraud and count ad views and clicks.

Rewarded ads are always optional. Nothing in the game requires you to watch an ad.

Google's privacy options

Where Google requires them, in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, you can review or withdraw your advertising consent. If you do not consent to personalised ads, ad requests are non-personalised even if you allow tracking. Withdrawing does not change your tracking permission in iOS Settings. On iPhone:

1. In the game, open Settings (the gear).
2. Go to Privacy.
3. Tap Privacy options.

On Android, open Settings → Support → Privacy options. If Google does not require privacy options in your region, they are not shown.

On Android there is no tracking prompt. Where Google's consent or privacy options apply, ads are personalised only as your choices allow; elsewhere ad providers may personalise ads using your device's advertising ID, which you can reset or delete in Android Settings.

Gameplay activity

Share gameplay activity is optional. Change it at any time in Settings → Privacy → Share gameplay activity. Gameplay activity goes to our own game service and is not used for ads or tracking. On Android, Google Analytics also receives app-usage events only when you choose Share, as described in the Privacy Policy. Android versions released before 2 November 2026 sent them whatever you chose, until they are updated.

Reset or delete your data

1. In the game, open Settings → Delete account.
2. Read the deletion warning.
3. Confirm Delete account. If your game is connected with Apple, confirm with Apple when asked.

This deletes your game account, its save backups, activity events, purchase and refund records on our service, and the game data on your device. Reset progress in Settings runs the same full deletion and then starts a new game. Deletion is permanent and does not request a store refund. Deleting the app is not the same as deleting your account. See Account & data requests for what is deleted and what may remain.

Contact us

Email s.park.dxbb@gmail.com to request access, correction, deletion, restriction or information about your records, or to withdraw consent where it applies. You can contact us even if you cannot open the game. Please do not send passwords, verification codes or full payment details.