Last updated 3 October 2026
The short version.
On iPhone, iPad and Android the game shows ads through Google AdMob: one you choose to watch for a reward (like doubling a night's take-home), and now and then one between nights (never during a night, never in your first session, and never once you've bought anything). To show ads, count them, stop the same one showing too often and catch fraud, Google's ad software collects your device's advertising identifier where it's available, your IP address, basic facts about the device and app, and how you interact with the ads. Google explains how it uses this on How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services and in its privacy policy.
Your choices. On iPhone and iPad the game asks once, after your first night, whether it may track you for ads (Apple's prompt). Say no, or turn off "Allow Apps to Request to Track" in Settings, and you still see ads, just not ones chosen from your interests. On Android you can delete or reset your advertising ID in the system settings. In the EU, the UK and Switzerland, Google's consent form asks first, and "Privacy choices" on the pause card brings it back. Where US state law offers it, Google's message lets you opt out of the sale or sharing of your data for ads.
Teens. If the store tells the game you're under 18, the game never asks to track you and shows only ads that aren't personalized. Every ad is limited to content rated for teens, and we block categories that don't belong in a 13+ game (alcohol, gambling, dating and the like). If an ad slips through that shouldn't, tap the ⓘ on it to report it, or tell us.
To see what's fun, what's too hard and what pays the bills, the game sends events to GameAnalytics: when a night starts and how it ends, its take-home, money earned and spent in the game (and on what), purchases (the item and its price), ads shown or watched, the first night's steps, and any error the game runs into (the error's message and the lines of the game's code it happened in, so we can fix it). Along with them go a random ID the service makes up for this install, the device model, the operating system and its version, the game's version and the country, which it works out from the connection. Nothing you type, no name, no email, no contacts, no precise location. We use it only to improve and balance the game, never to target ads. It's switched off entirely where the law asks for consent first (the EU, the UK and Switzerland), and for players the store says are under 18.
The game remembers your progress, your settings, the money in your shop's bank, the paint on your car and what you've bought, in the app's own storage on your device (in a browser, its local storage). We can't see it. Deleting the app (or clearing the site's data) deletes it, except for the cloud copy described below. On Android, the system may include it in your own device backup.
On iPhone and iPad, if you're signed in to iCloud, the app keeps a copy of your save in your iCloud account (Apple's key-value storage for apps). On Android, if you're signed in to Google Play Games, it keeps a copy there (Saved Games). It's the same small file described above, it lives in your account under Apple's or Google's privacy policies, and we have no access to it. Sign out, or turn iCloud off for the app, and the save stays on the device only.
Purchases are made through the App Store or Google Play and handled by Apple or Google under their own privacy policies. To check a purchase and let you restore it later, the app uses RevenueCat, which receives a random ID made on your device (not your name, email or store account) and the purchase record: which item, when, the price and the store's transaction number.
On a phone signed in to Game Center (iPhone and iPad) or Google Play Games (Android), finishing the Daily Rush posts your take-home to that day's leaderboard, shown with your Game Center or Play Games name. Apple and Google run those services under their own privacy policies; you can sign out of them in your device's settings.
In places where the law requires app stores to check ages (for example Texas), the App Store or Google Play may tell the game an age range for your account, such as "13 to 15". The game uses that answer for its 13+ rating, for parents' approvals of some changes to the app, and for the ad and measurement rules above. The answer isn't stored or sent anywhere by the game; the store asks again when needed.
Photo mode makes a picture of the game on your device. It goes nowhere unless you tap Share, which opens your phone's (or browser's) own share sheet: you choose where it goes, or save it, and the game itself doesn't send it anywhere. On a phone the picture is first written to the app's own cache, which the system clears; in a browser without a share sheet, it downloads.
We don't ask for your name, email, location, contacts or photos. We don't sell your data for money (where a US state's law counts the ads' use of it as "selling" or "sharing", Google's message described under Ads lets you opt out), and we don't keep any of our own: what's described above lives with Google, GameAnalytics, RevenueCat, Apple and Google Play, under their policies.
Crust or Bust! is made for players 13 and over and isn't directed at children. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
The free web version keeps your save in your browser's local storage and sells nothing. If it shows ads, they come from Google (AdSense), which may use cookies and similar technology to show and measure them; in the EU, the UK and Switzerland, Google's consent form asks first. Otherwise it has no cookies and no analytics.
There's no account to close: the game never asks who you are. What there is, and how it goes:
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Questions, or a request to delete your RevenueCat record (see Delete your data): support@crustorbust.com.