No Bars privacy policy
Last updated: 7 November 2026
No Bars: Offline Games ("No Bars", "the app") is made by Northern Games ("we"). This page explains what information the app uses and why. It covers the app on Android and iPhone.
The short version
- There are no accounts, and the app never asks for your name, email or contact details.
- Your games, scores and settings are saved on your device only. We never receive them.
- The app works fully offline. When you are online it shows adverts from Google AdMob, which collects information about your device to show and measure them.
- On iPhone, you are asked whether adverts may use your advertising identifier.
- The app sends anonymous play statistics to Google Analytics for Firebase, so we can see which games people enjoy. You can turn this off at any time in Settings > Share usage statistics.
- We do not sell your data.
What the app saves on your device
So you can pick up where you left off, the app keeps these in your device's own app storage: saved games, scores and statistics, daily challenge records and streaks, and your settings (such as theme, sound, vibration and reminders). This never leaves your device and we cannot see it. Deleting the app deletes all of it.
Adverts (Google AdMob)
The app is free and paid for by adverts. You choose to watch rewarded adverts, for example for a hint or one more heart. A full-screen advert may also show now and then between games, never during play. Adverts only load when your device is online.
To show adverts, measure them and prevent fraud, Google's advert software in the app may collect:
| Data | What it is |
|---|---|
| IP address | Your internet address, which can show your approximate location |
| Advert interactions | App launches, taps on adverts and advert video views |
| Diagnostics | How the advert software is performing |
| Device identifiers | Your device's advertising ID (on iPhone only if you allow it) and app-specific IDs |
This goes directly to Google, not to us. If you are in the UK, the European Economic Area or Switzerland, you are asked whether adverts may be personalised, and you can change your answer at any time in Settings > Privacy choices. If you say no, you may still see adverts that are not personalised. Adverts are limited to content suitable for a general audience.
On iPhone, the app asks once whether it may use Apple's advertising identifier to show adverts that suit you better (Apple's "Allow tracking" prompt). If you choose not to allow it, the identifier is not used and you see adverts that are not personalised. You can change this at any time in your iPhone's Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking.
How Google uses this information: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Play statistics (Google Analytics for Firebase)
To learn which games people like and which ones need work, the app sends anonymous statistics about how it is used:
- which screens and games are opened, how they were opened (for example from the home screen or a daily challenge) and how long they are used;
- each game started, restarted or finished, at which difficulty, whether it was won or lost and why (for example "Out of hearts"), how long it took, and the score;
- mistakes that cost a heart, and the kind of mistake (for example "wrong number"), but never what you typed;
- when you leave or come back to the app during a game, and whether a game was left unfinished;
- when the How to play guide appears, whether it was read or skipped, and how far;
- hints used, rewards offered and whether they were taken, and when a full-screen advert shows;
- daily challenges completed, the difficulty and category chosen, and your app settings (such as theme, sound and text size).
With these, Google Analytics adds a random identifier created for this app on your device (not your advertising ID), your device model, operating system version, country and the app's version. Nothing identifies you by name. We use this only to improve the app, as statistics across all players. We have turned off Google's use of it for its own products.
You can switch this off at any time in Settings > Share usage statistics; nothing more is sent from then on. If you are in the European Economic Area, statistics are only stored with your agreement on the consent form described above. Statistics collected while your device is offline are sent when it next connects, unless you have switched them off.
Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Notifications
If you turn them on, the app sets reminders (for example, that today's daily challenges are ready). These are scheduled and shown by your device itself; nothing is sent to us. You can turn them off in the app's Settings or in your device's notification settings.
What we don't do
- We have no servers of our own and receive no personal data.
- We do not sell or share your data. The only third party involved is Google, for adverts and play statistics, as described above.
- The app does not ask for your location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone.
Children
No Bars is not aimed at children and is not intended for anyone under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children.
Keeping and deleting information
Your saved games stay on your device until you delete the app; we hold no copy. Information collected by Google is kept under Google's own policies, linked above. Under UK and EU data protection law you can ask to see or delete information held about you: contact us, or Google, using the details here.
Contact
Questions about this policy: alex.simple.apps@gmail.com
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new date.