Privacy

Little Grids · updated 22 October 2026

Little Grids is a collection of small puzzle games, as an app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android. The short version: the games run on your device, and what you play stays there. On iPhone, iPad and Android the free version shows ads, which come from Google AdMob; the section on advertising below says what that involves.

What the app keeps

Everything the app records is written on your own device and is never sent to us: which boards you have finished and how many stars they earned, your best times, your achievements, your daily streak, and your settings. Deleting the app deletes all of it.

The app has no accounts, no sign-in and no analytics of its own. We never receive any personal information from it: the purchase records described below are anonymous.

Advertising

On iPhone, iPad and Android, the free version of Little Grids shows ads from Google AdMob, a service of Google. There are two kinds: an occasional full-screen ad between boards (never during one), and a short video you can choose to watch for one more hint when the day's free hints are used up. The Arcade Pass removes the ads between boards in every game, and buying a game removes them in that game. The Mac app shows no ads at all.

To show an ad, measure it and prevent fraud, the Google Mobile Ads software in the app sends Google information about your device and the ad: your IP address (from which Google can tell your rough location), the device model and operating system, the app and its version, and how you interact with the ad. It may also use your device's advertising identifier (IDFA on Apple devices, the advertising ID on Android). Google uses this as described in its privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy) and in how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services. We do not receive this information and cannot see it.

You choose whether ads may be personalised:

• On iPhone and iPad, the app asks for permission to track (Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt) after you have used it on a few days, never on first launch. If you say no, the advertising identifier is not shared and ads are not personalised. You can change this at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
• In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the app shows Google's consent form before any ad is requested, with a "Do not consent" choice. You can change your answer at any time in the app, under Settings › Privacy choices.
• On Android, you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your device's settings (Settings › Privacy › Ads, or Google › Ads).

Saying no does not change anything else in the app: every game, hint and purchase works the same, and ads may still be shown, only not personalised.

Purchases

Level packs are bought through Apple's App Store or Google Play. Apple or Google handles the payment; we never see your payment details, your name or your store account. "Restore Purchases" asks the store which items you own and unlocks them again.

To check each purchase and to restore it on a new device, the app uses RevenueCat, a purchase service. When the app opens or you buy something, RevenueCat's software in the app makes a random, anonymous ID for your copy of the app and, with it, sends RevenueCat your App Store or Google Play purchase records for Little Grids and basic technical details such as the app version, the operating system version, your store country and language, and your IP address. RevenueCat uses this to tell the app what you own, and keeps it as described in its privacy policy (revenuecat.com/privacy). It does not receive your name, email or anything you do in the games. We can see those anonymous purchase records in RevenueCat's dashboard, but they do not say who you are.

Game Center and Google Play Games

If you are signed in to Game Center (Apple) or Play Games (Google), the app can send your achievements and scores to that service so they appear there and on its leaderboards. That is Apple's or Google's service, under their privacy policies, and it only happens while you are signed in to it. The app never receives anything about other players beyond what those leaderboards show.

Sharing a result

If you tap Share, your device's own share sheet opens with a link and some text. Nothing is sent anywhere until you choose where to send it. The name on a challenge is one you typed, and it travels only inside the link you send.

Notifications and the icon badge

The badge for today's board is off unless you turn it on. On iPhone and iPad that needs notification permission, because Apple only allows an app to badge its icon once that is granted. Nothing is sent to your device from us; the badge is set by the app itself on your phone.

The website

The website at games.amithgc.com is a page about the app. It has no analytics, no cookies and no sign-in, and it loads nothing from anyone else. It remembers one thing in your browser — whether you chose light or dark — and that never leaves it. It is served by Google Firebase Hosting, which keeps standard server logs including IP addresses for security and reliability.

Earlier versions of the website played the games in a browser, with an optional Google sign-in to sync progress and to put a score on a public leaderboard. If you signed in then, the progress you synced and the display name and score on that board may still be stored. Write to us and we will delete it.

Children

Little Grids is suitable for all ages, but it is not directed at children. We hold nothing about any player, child or adult. The ads described above are Google's; if you believe a child's information has reached Google through them, Google's privacy policy explains how to ask for it to be deleted.

Changes

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