Privacy

DigDig · updated 1 October 2026

DigDig is a map game about your own city, for iPhone and Android. It is a game you play against other people, so a lot of it is public on purpose: the squares you hold, your name and your character on them. This page says what DigDig keeps, what other players can see, who else is involved, and how to delete your account.

Signing in

You can look around the map without an account. To dig, you sign in with Apple or Google. From them, DigDig keeps an account ID and, if they share one, your email address (with Sign in with Apple this can be a private relay address). DigDig does not take your name or photo from Apple or Google: the name on the map is one you choose inside the app. The email address is not shown to anyone and DigDig does not send you email.

What other players see

This is the game itself, so it is shown to everyone who plays, and on the web pages that open when someone shares a link:

• Your display name, your character or photo, and your colour, on every square you hold and on the boards.
• The squares you hold and the digs you have made on them: how many digs you have on each square, when you took it, and a history of digs on each square (who dug, how many, and when).
• Your home square, which carries a house mark, and any crown you have won.
• Your rank and counts on the boards: squares and digs in an area, and results such as the Golden Square.
• Your activity in the Feed, for example "Rahul K took 12th Main from Meera S", for players who dig or follow that area.
• Your invite code. It is made from the first letters of your display name (before you choose a name, from the first letters of your sign-in email address) and a few digits. Anyone you give it to can see it.
• Friends and dares. Your friends see you on the Friends board. A dare you send is seen by the friend you dare, or by anyone who opens a dare link you share.

What DigDig keeps

• Your profile: display name, photo if you upload one, character and colour, home square, streak, and your notification settings.
• Your game: your balances of free, bonus and bought digs, every dig you make (the square, how many digs, which kind, the result and the time), your friends, dares, invites and Golden Square wins.
• Your devices: a random installation ID for each phone you sign in on, whether it is an iPhone or Android phone, its app language, the token used to send it notifications, its time zone, and a check from Apple or Google that the app on it is genuine. These are used to send you notifications at a sensible time of day for you, and to stop one person running many accounts.
• Notifications sent to you, which also appear in the app's inbox. They are kept for 90 days.
• Reports. If you report a player or a square, the report and its reason are kept so it can be reviewed. If you are reported, the report is kept with your account.

Like any server, DigDig's sees the IP address your phone connects from. It is used to keep the service running and to stop abuse, such as too many requests in a minute.

Photos

You can use a photo instead of a character, from your camera or your photo library. Only the photo you pick is uploaded. The server re-encodes it as a small square image, which removes the location and other data a camera stores inside a photo. Your photo is shown to other players on your squares, on the boards and on share cards. Photos are checked only if someone reports them.

Location

You never need to share your location to play: any square on the map can be dug from anywhere, and digging does not send your location.

If you allow it, the app uses your phone's location to centre the map on you and to find squares near you to practise on. Your exact location never leaves your phone. Like any map app, the app downloads the map for the area you are looking at, so the server sees which part of the map is on your screen, not where you are.

When you search for a place, the words you type are sent to DigDig's server, with the centre of the map you are looking at rounded to about 10 km, so places near it come first. The server looks them up with a place-search service, which does not see who you are.

Digging from a share page

A shared square or dare link opens a web page where you can dig once a day without the app. To do that you sign in with Apple or Google, the same account as in the app. The page then keeps you signed in with a cookie that is used only for this. Before you sign in or dig, a check by Cloudflare Turnstile makes sure you are a person; Cloudflare sees your browser and network details for that check. Your internet address is used to limit how many web digs and sign-ups happen from one network in a day. Visiting a share page without signing in sets no cookie; we only count the visit.

Purchases

Digs you buy are paid for through the App Store or Google Play. DigDig uses RevenueCat to handle purchases: the app tells RevenueCat your DigDig account ID, and RevenueCat tells DigDig's server which pack you bought so the digs can be added. DigDig keeps a record of each purchase (the pack, the number of digs, the price and the store's transaction ID). We never see your payment details. RevenueCat's handling is covered by RevenueCat's privacy policy.

Notifications

If you allow them, DigDig sends notifications such as "your square was taken", dares, Golden Square results and streak reminders. They go through Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google), which delivers them through Apple's service on iPhone. You can turn each kind on or off in the Me tab.

Sharing

When you share a square, a rank or a dare, the app makes a card with your name, character and the squares around it, and opens your phone's share options. Nothing is posted anywhere until you choose where to send it. Share links open a DigDig web page with the same card, which anyone with the link can see.

Crash reports and analytics

When the app crashes or hits an error, it sends a crash report to Sentry: what went wrong, the app version, the phone model and system version, and some timing information. It does not include your name or email address.

DigDig also measures how the game is used, to make it better: for example when the app opens, when a square sheet or the shop opens, digs, shares and sign-ups, and which share links bring new players in. These events are sent to PostHog, hosted in the EU, with your DigDig account ID. You can turn this off in Me › Account › Usage analytics; after that the app sends nothing to PostHog and the server stops sending your events there.

DigDig does not use an advertising ID, does not track you across other apps or websites, and has no ads.

Who else is involved

Apple and Google (sign-in, the stores and notifications), RevenueCat (purchases), Sentry (crash reports) and PostHog (analytics). The map itself is drawn from map tiles that the app downloads, which, like any website, sees your phone's IP address. DigDig does not sell your data or share it with anyone else, except where the law requires it.

How long it is kept

DigDig keeps your data for as long as your account exists, except notifications, which are deleted after 90 days.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account in the app: Me › Account › Delete account. This removes your display name and photo, your sign-in details (including your email address), your devices and their notification tokens, and signs you out on every phone. It cannot be undone.

So that the map's history holds together, the digs you made stay on their squares, and your game record stays with them, under a placeholder name with no name, photo or email address attached. Purchase records are kept, as the stores and tax rules require.

Deleting the app from your phone does not delete your account. Your language choice and other settings on the phone are removed with the app.

Children

DigDig is not directed at children under 13, or under 16 where the law where you live requires a higher age, and we do not knowingly keep data about them.

The website

This page is part of games.amithgc.com, which has no analytics, no cookies and no sign-in. The website section of the Little Grids privacy page covers it.

Questions

The support page answers the usual questions about your account and your data.

Terms

The rules for playing DigDig, including fair play and purchases, are in the terms.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.