Pebble Pop Privacy Policy

Last updated: 13 October 2026

Pebble Pop is a free chain-reaction puzzle game for iPhone and iPad, made by Flow Apps. It is the 2026 remake of Break Four, and replaces it on the App Store. This page explains what the app collects, why, and what it never collects.

There is no account, and we have no server of our own. Your settings, runs and stats are saved on your device, and your progress syncs through your own iCloud, which we can't see.
The game is free because it shows ads. The ads come from Google, and Google collects some data from your device to show and measure them. In Europe, you choose how Google may use it.
Pebble Pop may ask to track you, so the ads can be personalised. If you say no, Google never gets your device's advertising identifier. We never ask players we know are minors.
Google's Firebase records how the game is played and when it crashes, so we can fix problems and make the game better. None of it tells us who you are.

On your device

Pebble Pop has no account, and we have no server of our own. Nothing you type in the app is collected. Your settings, runs and stats are kept on your device.

Daily reminders are off until you switch them on. Your device then schedules them itself, so nothing is sent to a server.

Sharing a score uses the iOS share sheet, and sends only what you choose.

Coming from Break Four

If you are updating from Break Four, your old high score, Shuffles and settings are moved into Pebble Pop on your device. Nothing is sent to us. The Facebook and Unity Ads code that Break Four used is gone.

iCloud

Your game progress, Shuffle balance, streaks and Daily results sync between your devices through your own iCloud account. Apple stores them for you, and we can't see them. You control iCloud in your device's Settings.

Game Center

Game Center is Apple's service for games, and using it is up to you. If you do, your scores go to the Pebble Pop leaderboards (all-time, weekly and daily), where other players may see them with your Game Center name, and your achievements are saved with Apple.

The first time you open "Friends today", iOS asks whether Pebble Pop may see your Game Center friends, so it can show their scores. You can say no.

Apple runs Game Center under its own privacy policy. We don't store any of it.

Purchases

You can buy Remove Ads and packs of Shuffles. Apple handles the payment, so we never see your payment details. The app uses your purchase history from Apple only to add the Shuffles you bought and to restore your purchases, and this happens on your device. Firebase also records each purchase, as described below.

Pebble Pop shows ads through Google Mobile Ads (AdMob), a service run by Google. There are two kinds:

Rewarded videos, which you choose to watch for a reward.
Full-screen ads between levels, in Classic only. Never in the Daily, the tutorial or the shop, and never after you buy Remove Ads.

The ads are limited to Google's G rating, meant for general audiences, and we block sensitive ad categories. If you see an ad that seems wrong, you can report it in the app, under Settings → Report an ad.

To choose the ads, to count how often they are shown and tapped, and to spot fraud, Google's advertising software inside the app collects data about your device and how you use the app, and sends it to Google. The details are listed below. Google shares some of this data with the advertising partners it works with.

Google is the only ad network in Pebble Pop today. If we add others through Google's mediation, we will list them here.

In the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK and Switzerland, the app first shows a consent form from Google. What you choose there decides how Google may use data from your device for ads, for example whether the ads can be personalised. You can change your choice at any time in the app, under Settings → Privacy choices.

Tracking

Apple calls it tracking when data from one app is combined with data from other companies' apps and websites, for ads. Pebble Pop may ask for your permission to track you. Before iOS asks, the app shows its own screen to explain why. We never ask players we know are minors.

If you allow tracking, Google receives your device's advertising identifier (the IDFA) and can use it to personalise the ads you see. If you don't, the IDFA stays hidden from Google. The ads may still be chosen from things like your country, your language, your type of device and how you use this app, but never from what you do in other companies' apps and websites.

You can change your answer at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

Analytics and crash reports

Pebble Pop uses Google's Firebase to see how the game is doing and to fix problems:

Google Analytics for Firebase records how the game is played: runs, Daily puzzles, purchases, ads watched and tutorial steps. Each event comes with a random installation ID, your device model, iOS version and language, and roughly where you are, worked out from your IP address.
Firebase Crashlytics sends a crash report when the app crashes.
Firebase Remote Config and A/B Testing download game settings, so we can tune the game without an update. They may put your installation ID in an experiment, so that you get one version of a setting and other players get another.

In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Analytics follows the choice you made in Google's consent form.

What Pebble Pop collects

Some of it is recorded by Firebase and some by Google's advertising software, as described above. The groups are the ones on the App Store privacy label.

Data used to track you

Only your device's advertising identifier (the IDFA), and only if you allow tracking.

Data linked to you

Apple calls data "linked to you" when it is tied to you or your device. Google ties this data to identifiers for your device, or for this installation of the app. None of it tells us who you are.

Device ID. Identifiers that tell your device, or this installation of the app, apart from others, such as the random installation ID from Firebase. Each one is limited to this app, or to apps from the same developer. If you allow tracking, Google also gets your device's advertising identifier (the IDFA), which is the same in every app.
Product interaction. How you play, such as runs, Daily puzzles, ads watched and tutorial steps, and how you respond to ads: whether an ad was shown, tapped, closed or watched to the end.
Advertising data. Which ads you have seen in this app, and how you responded to them.
Coarse location. Roughly where you are, worked out by Google from your device's IP address: your country or region, and sometimes your city. Never your exact position.

Data not linked to you

Purchase history. If you buy something in the app, Google Analytics for Firebase records which product you bought and its price, with the random installation ID. Apple handles the payment, so we never see your payment details.
Crash data. When the app crashes, Firebase Crashlytics sends a crash report: where in the code the problem happened, the app version, the device model, the iOS version, and the state of the device at that moment, such as free memory. The report carries a random installation ID created by Firebase, so we can tell one installation from another. It is not your Apple ID, your name or your email address, and it is never used for advertising. Deleting the app resets it.
Performance data. Google's advertising software records how quickly the app and its ads load and respond, and whether an ad played smoothly.
Other diagnostic data. Technical details that help find problems, such as the device model, the iOS version, the app version, your language, the screen size and the type of network connection. Both Firebase and the advertising software send some of these.

What Pebble Pop never collects

Your name, email address, phone number or contacts. There is no account, so the app never asks for them.
Anything you type in the app.
Your Game Center profile or your friends. Apple keeps them, and we don't store them.
Your precise location, your photos or your health data.
Your payment details. Apple handles every payment, so we never see them.

How we use it

Analytics events and purchase records are used to see how the game is doing and what to improve. Crash reports are used only to find and fix crashes. Remote Config and A/B Testing are used to tune the game.

The advertising data is used by Google to choose ads and to measure them, as described above. We only ever see totals in our Google account, such as how many ads were shown and what they earned, never what any one person did. We don't sell your data, and we don't combine it with anything that could identify you.

Who processes it

Everything Pebble Pop collects goes to Google, in two different ways.

Analytics events, purchase records and crash reports are stored with Firebase, a Google service. Google keeps them for us and only does with them what we ask. You can read more in Privacy and Security in Firebase.

The ads are handled by Google and the advertising partners it works with, under Google's own rules. You can read more in Google's Privacy Policy, Google's advertising technologies and how Google uses data from apps that show its ads.

All of it may be processed anywhere Google has servers, including in the United States. Google takes part in the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks.

Apple runs iCloud and Game Center, and handles downloads and payments through the App Store, under Apple's Privacy Policy. If you chose to share analytics with app developers in your device's settings, Apple also gives us crash and usage statistics. They contain nothing personal.

How long it is kept

Crash reports are deleted after 90 days, and analytics events, purchase records included, after 14 months at most. Totals, such as how many people played the Daily, may be kept longer. Google keeps advertising data for the periods described in How Google retains data it collects.

Your choices and rights

Ads and analytics. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, you can change the choice you made in Google's consent form at any time in the app, under Settings → Privacy choices. Analytics follows it too.
Tracking. You can allow or stop tracking at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
iCloud and Game Center. Both are up to you. You can turn them on or off in your device's Settings.
Deleting the app stops all collection and resets the installation ID. It does not delete your progress in iCloud or your scores in Game Center.

Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to ask for access to your personal data, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to its use, and to complain to your local data protection authority. Because there is no account, we can't find one player's analytics data. Where the law asks for a legal basis, ours is your consent for the ads, tracking and analytics where we ask for it, and our legitimate interest in running the game and keeping it working for everything else. Email us and we will help. For data that Google holds, Google's Privacy Policy explains your choices.

Children

Pebble Pop is rated 13+ and is not meant for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

On iOS 26 and later, the app may ask iOS for your age range. You can decline to share it. The answer is used only on your device. If it shows that you are a minor, the app never asks to track you, shows only non-personalised ads, and tells Google that you are under age.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. The address of this page stays the same.

Contact

Flow Apps
privacy@flowapps.xyz