Privacy Policy

Last updated: 25 August 2026

BoomBoats is made by THE LAST CLICK L.P., which is responsible for the data described here. The short version: your progress lives on your device and a copy is kept on our server so you can get it back, we never learn your name or your email unless you choose to sign in, and we do not sell or share anything with anyone.

Your progress

Your captain name, level, rank, badges, fleet, credits and match history are stored on your device, inside the app. That copy is the original; everything else is a mirror of it.

On iPhone a copy is also written to your own iCloud saved game through Game Center — that copy sits in your Apple account, not in ours, and we cannot read it.

A copy is also kept on our own server, so that your captain survives a new phone or a reinstall. This is the only place your progress reaches us, and it exists because Android has no Game Center and no iCloud: without it, an Android player who reinstalls the game starts again from nothing. What is stored there is the same progress listed above, a random identifier the app generates for your device, and — only if you choose to sign in with Apple — the identifier Apple gives us for you. Apple's identifier is specific to this app and does not tell us your name, your email or your Apple ID. That copy is kept on infrastructure in the European Union.

You can erase everything the game has kept at any time from Settings → Delete my data (step by step, and what is left afterwards): the captain, the progress, the badges and the match history go immediately, from the device and from our server alike, along with the random identifier and any sign-in attached to it. The iCloud saved game belongs to your Apple account rather than to us, so that one is yours to remove.

The account, and what it is not

There is no sign-up here and no password, and you are never asked for an email address. The game gives itself an anonymous account the first time it runs: a random identifier, generated on your device, that means nothing outside this game and is not taken from your hardware. It exists so the copy of your progress on our server has something to belong to.

You may also sign in with Apple, from Settings. It is optional and the whole game plays without it. Its only purpose is to tie your progress to something that outlives the device, so a new phone finds your captain instead of an empty one. Apple gives us an identifier specific to this app, and an email address only if you allow it; if you use Apple's Hide My Email, we never see your real one.

Game Center signs you in with the account already on your iPhone, and what it shares with the game is what Apple gives it: your Game Center display name and player identifier, used to show your name, place you on the leaderboards and match you against someone. That is between you and Apple; see the Game Center privacy notice. Switch Game Center off and the whole game still plays, minus the battles against real people.

Online matches send your shots and your opponent's shots between the two devices through Game Center. There is no server of ours in the middle, and nothing about those matches is stored by us.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, the delivery service gives the app a random address for this installation of BoomBoats: an APNs device token on iPhone or a Firebase Cloud Messaging registration on Android. The app sends that address to our server and associates it with the same anonymous account that holds your captain, solely so we can send BoomBoats reminders you agreed to receive. It is not an advertising identifier, is not used to track you, and does not reveal your Apple ID, Google account, phone number, name or email.

The app asks the delivery service for a current registration when it launches after permission has been granted; registrations can change when the app or operating system is reinstalled. We keep the current registration while it remains valid. It is deleted when you use Settings → Delete my data and disabled if Apple or Google tells us the installation can no longer receive notifications. Apple operates APNs; see Apple's privacy policy. Google operates Firebase Cloud Messaging on Android; see Firebase privacy and security.

What the game measures

The app sends anonymous usage events — the app was launched, a screen was opened, a battle started, a battle finished and how it ended — to Google Analytics, so we can see which parts of the game are used and which are ignored. They are keyed to a random identifier the app generates on first launch and keeps on your device. That identifier is not your advertising ID, is not connected to your name, your Apple account or your Game Center profile, and is regenerated if you delete the app.

Nothing here is used to track you across other apps or websites, and none of it is sold or shared for advertising. There is no advertising in BoomBoats at all. See Google's privacy policy for how they process it on our behalf.

Purchases

There are none. The game has an in-game currency, Credits, which is won by playing and cannot be bought with money, so no payment details ever pass through the app.

This website

The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. It runs Google Analytics 4, which counts visits to these pages and sets its own cookies to do so; there is no advertising, no remarketing and no data sold on. Fonts and images are served from this domain, not from a third party. GitHub records standard server logs (including IP addresses) as part of serving the page — see the GitHub privacy statement.

Children

BoomBoats is suitable for all ages. The game asks for no personal information from anyone, children included.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask for a copy of the data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to hello@boomboats.com and we will handle it within 30 days. For the game itself, what we can hand over or delete is the copy of your captain, the random identifier it belongs to and, if notifications are enabled, its APNs or FCM registration — plus, if you signed in with Apple, the identifier Apple gave us and any email it shared. We hold no password, and no name beyond the captain name you chose.

Contact

Questions about anything here: hello@boomboats.com.