Privacy policy

• No account, and we receive nothing. Breakwater has no sign-up, no analytics and no tracking of its own. We never receive your progress or anything else from the game.
• Your progress stays on your phone. Pearls, boats, perks, settings and your saved voyage are kept in the game's private storage on your device.
• Ads only when you choose. The only ads are short rewarded ads from Google AdMob, shown only if you tap to watch one for a bonus. There are no banner ads, and an ad never interrupts a wave.
• No tracking across apps. Breakwater doesn't track you across other companies' apps and websites and doesn't show Apple's tracking prompt. In the UK, EEA and Switzerland we ask for your consent before any ad is requested.
• We never sell your information, because we don't have any to sell.

Breakwater is a game made by Richard Booth, trading as CompoID (“we”, “us”). Under UK and EU data protection law, we are responsible for how the game handles your information.

You can contact us about privacy at any time: admin@compo-app.com.

To work, Breakwater keeps the following on your device. None of it is sent to us or anyone else.

Your progress

Your best wave, your pearls, the Admiralty perks and boats you've bought, the boat you sail with, and how many runs you've played.

Your saved voyage

Saved each time you reach the Harbour, so you can continue later: the wave and world you reached, your gold and light, your towers, your boat's upgrades and your escort ships. It's replaced at the next Harbour and deleted when the run ends or you start a new voyage.

Your settings

Sound, music volume, haptics, auto-fire, auto build menu and left-handed controls, and whether you've finished the tutorial and seen the Harbour and Shipyard hints.

Your ad choice

If you're in the UK, EEA or Switzerland, your answer to Google's ad consent form, stored on your phone by Google's consent tool.

Everything is kept in the game's private storage, which other apps can't read.

Breakwater doesn't ask for any permissions. It doesn't use your camera, microphone, photos, contacts or location, and it doesn't ask to track you. Sound follows your phone's silent switch and plays alongside your own music.

The game itself never sends your progress or settings anywhere. Information only leaves your phone here:

• Ads. Only when you tap to watch a rewarded ad. Before any ad is requested in the UK, EEA or Switzerland, Google's consent tool checks whether it needs to ask you. See Advertising. If you never watch an ad, the game makes no ad requests.
• Phone backups. If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your phone may include Breakwater's progress and settings in its backup. Backups are handled by Apple under your account and settings, not by us.
• Links. Links in the game, such as to this page, open in your browser. The website, not the game, is what your browser connects to.

The only ads in Breakwater are short rewarded ads from Google AdMob, and you see one only if you choose to watch it. You can watch one to double your wave bonus or get a free boat upgrade (once per Harbour visit), to relight the lamp after losing (once per run), or to double your pearls at the end of a run. If no ad is available, nothing else changes. There are no banner ads, no ads between waves and no ads when the game opens.

• Consent first. In the UK, EEA and Switzerland, we ask for your consent before any ad is requested, using Google's consent form. It appears the first time you choose to watch an ad, not when the game opens. If you say no, you can still watch ads, but they won't be personalised.
• No tracking prompt. Breakwater doesn't track you across other companies' apps and websites, so it doesn't show Apple's “Allow to track” prompt and doesn't use your device's advertising identifier for tracking.
• What Google may collect. To show and measure ads, prevent fraud and keep ads working, Google may collect your IP address (which gives an approximate location), information about your device, how you interact with ads, and diagnostic information such as crash and performance data. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services.
• Suitable ads. We ask Google to show only ads suitable for the game's age rating.
• What ads never get. Your progress, settings or anything else the game stores.

Like most websites, our host (Vercel) keeps standard server logs, such as IP address, browser type and time of request, for a short time for security and to keep the service running. This website doesn't use advertising or tracking cookies.

• We don't collect, store or receive your progress or any other data from the game.
• The game contains no analytics or tracking code of our own. The only third-party code is Google's ad SDK, as described under Advertising.
• We don't sell, rent or trade information, because we don't have any.
• We don't track your location, and the game never asks for it.

Your saved voyage is replaced each time you reach the Harbour and deleted when a run ends or you choose New voyage. Your progress and settings stay until you delete them.

To delete everything, uninstall Breakwater. There's no account or online copy, so deleted progress can't be recovered (except from your own phone backup, if you have one).

Under UK and EU data protection law, you have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the use of your personal information, and to receive a copy of it. Breakwater keeps your data on your phone and we hold nothing from the game, so you control all of it yourself. For information Google collects for ads, see Google's privacy policy. If you email us, we use your message only to reply, and you can ask us to delete it at admin@compo-app.com. We'll reply within one month.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk or to your local data protection authority.

Breakwater is a game for a general audience and collects no information itself, from anyone. Ads are optional, and we ask Google to show only ads suitable for the game's age rating. If you think a child has emailed us, contact us and we'll delete the message.

Your progress is kept in Breakwater's private storage, which other apps can't read, and is protected by your phone's screen lock and encryption.

If we change how Breakwater handles your information, for example by adding an online feature or a new kind of ad, we'll update this page and the date at the top before the change reaches the game.

Questions about this policy or your data: admin@compo-app.com. Richard Booth, trading as CompoID, United Kingdom.