Havenbrook ("the app") is developed and operated by Lapis Stone LLC ("we," "us," or "our"). This Privacy Policy explains how the app handles your information. By using Havenbrook, you agree to the practices described here.
The short version
We do not collect, sell, or share your personal data. Havenbrook has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no servers of ours for it to talk to. Your farm is saved on your device. If you are signed in to iCloud, a copy is also kept in your own iCloud account, so a reinstall or a new device can pick up where you left off. That copy is stored by Apple in your account, and we cannot see it. Apart from iCloud, the only thing the app contacts is the App Store, and only when you buy gems or restore a purchase.
Information the app stores
Havenbrook saves your progress so you can pick the game up where you left it. That save holds:
- Your coins, gems and Farm Level
- Your land, crops, animals and buildings
- Your bag, your order board and your Season progress
- Settings, and the App Store transaction identifiers for purchases already paid into your farm
All of it is written to your device's own storage, inside the app's private folder. If you are signed in to iCloud, the app also keeps a copy of up to three of your farms in your own private iCloud storage, using Apple's CloudKit. Along with the save, that copy notes the farm's level, coins and gems, when it was last saved, the app version, and whether it was saved on an iPhone or an iPad, so the game can show you which farm is which. It lives in your iCloud account under Apple's terms for iCloud. We have no access to it and cannot read, change, or delete it. If you are not signed in to iCloud, or turn iCloud off for Havenbrook, nothing leaves your device.
The transaction identifiers deserve a word, because they are the only thing in the save that came from outside the game. When you buy a gem pack, the App Store gives the app an identifier for that transaction, and the app writes it down so the same purchase can never be granted to you twice. It identifies a purchase, not a person, and it stays on your device and in your own iCloud. When you buy, the app also gives the App Store a code worked out from the farm's own id, so another of your devices can tell which farm the gems belong to. It says nothing about you and means nothing outside the game.
Information we do not collect
- We do not collect names, email addresses, contacts, location, or device identifiers.
- We do not use analytics or crash-reporting services.
- We do not use advertising or tracking technologies, and we do not track you across apps or websites.
- We do not ask you to make an account or sign in.
- We do not send your farm, or anything else, to us or to any third party. The iCloud copy goes to your own Apple account, not to us.
Purchases
Havenbrook sells optional gem packs. Gems buy speed; everything in the game is reachable without them. All purchases are processed by Apple through the App Store, and prices are set and shown by Apple in your own currency. We never receive or store your payment card details. Apple handles billing and may process transaction information under Apple's Privacy Policy. We may receive anonymous, aggregate sales information from Apple that does not identify you.
Your control over your data
- Deleting the app removes the save from your device. The copy in your iCloud stays, so reinstalling can bring your farm back.
- Reinstalling while signed in to iCloud offers to restore your farm. If you start a new one instead, the old farm stays in iCloud and can be loaded later from Settings in the game.
- To delete the copy in iCloud, open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad, tap your name, then iCloud, and manage your storage from there. Deleting Havenbrook's data removes every farm it keeps in iCloud, and the game stops saving to iCloud on all your devices until you turn it back on in the game's Settings on any one of them. Your farm stays on any device that still has the game. We cannot do this for you, because we cannot see it.
Data security
Your save is stored using the security protections provided by iOS, and the iCloud copy with the protections Apple provides for iCloud. Because we do not collect it or transmit it to any system of ours, it is not exposed to us or to third parties.
Children's privacy
Havenbrook is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Because the app collects no personal data at all, no such information is gathered from any user.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Effective date" above and posting the revised policy at lapisstonegames.com/FarmEmpire-privacy.html. Your continued use of the app after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.
Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at contact@lapisstonegames.com.
Lapis Stone LLC