Blocora privacy policy

Effective 28 October 2026

Blocora (“the game”) is made by Rickartics (“we”). This page explains what data the game handles, why, and the choices you have. Questions: support@rickartics.com.

In short: you can play without an account. If you create one, we store your email, display name and game progress so you can keep your borough, appear on leaderboards and play duels. You can delete your account and its data from inside the game. The game is free thanks to ads from Google AdMob, and uses Google Firebase to run accounts, leaderboards and analytics.

Playing without an account

Your progress, settings and statistics are stored on your device. Uninstalling the game deletes them.

Your account

If you sign up, we use Firebase Authentication (Google). We store:

Your email address and password. The password is handled by Firebase and is never visible to us.
Your display name and avatar. They are public: other players see them on leaderboards, in duels and in friends lists.
A backup of your game progress, so you can restore it on another device.
Your scores on the global leaderboard and the Daily Block leaderboard, which other players can see next to your display name.
Duels and friends: duel codes, both players' scores and results, and the players you have duelled with.

This data is stored in Google Cloud Firestore. Firebase App Check checks that requests come from a genuine copy of the game, using your device's integrity services (Play Integrity on Android, App Attest on iPhone).

Deleting your account

In the game, go to Settings › Delete Account. This deletes your account, your cloud backup, your entry on the global leaderboard and your local progress. Past Daily Block scores and finished duels may keep showing your display name; to have those removed too, or if you cannot open the game, write to support@rickartics.com from the email of your account and we will delete them.

Advertising (Google AdMob)

The game shows ads served by Google AdMob, mostly videos you choose to watch for a reward, and occasionally an ad between rounds. The Daily Block and duels never show ads. To show and measure ads, AdMob may collect your device's advertising identifier, your approximate location (derived from your IP address), device and app information, and how you interact with ads.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the game asks for your consent through Google's consent form before personalised ads are shown. You can change your choice at any time in the game's Settings.
On iPhone, the game asks for permission to track (App Tracking Transparency). If you decline, ads are not personalised using your advertising identifier.
On Android you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings.

See how Google uses information from apps that use its services.

Analytics and settings (Google Firebase)

We use Firebase Analytics to understand how the game is played, for example rounds started and finished, scores, tutorial progress and how often ads are shown, together with the revenue they earn. It uses an app instance identifier and device information. Firebase Remote Config lets us adjust settings such as how often ads appear without an update. See the Firebase privacy information.

Why we use this data

To run the game and your account, to show leaderboards and duels, to show ads that keep the game free (with your consent where the law requires it), to protect the game against cheating and abuse, and to improve it. We do not sell your personal data.

Children

The game is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, including under the GDPR, you may have the right to access, correct, export or delete your data, to object to or restrict its use, and to withdraw consent. Write to support@rickartics.com. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and its effective date.