What Pigpen keeps, what it counts, and what it never asks for.
Pigpen has no accounts, no sign-in and no advertising. Everything the game remembers about your playing is kept on your own phone. The one thing that leaves it is an anonymous count of which puzzles get played and how they go, and there is a switch in the game that stops even that.
Last updated 22 August 2026.
Your stars, which levels you have opened, the daily puzzles you have finished and any you are part-way through, along with your settings — haptics, the daily reminder and its hour, and whether anonymous usage is on. Whether the full game has been bought is kept there too, so the map can open without waiting on the store. All of it lives in the app's own storage on the device. None of it is uploaded, backed up to us, or readable by us.
You can throw the lot away at any time: in Settings — the gear on the title screen — under Game data, Clear all game data. Deleting the app removes it as well. The one thing clearing leaves standing is the purchase: asking for the game back as you found it is not asking to un-buy it, and what you own is the App Store's record rather than ours.
When Anonymous usage is on — in Settings, under Privacy — the game sends a count of how it is being played to TelemetryDeck, an analytics service based in Germany that we use to see which levels are too hard and which are too easy. What goes with each of those signals is:
Those signals are stored by TelemetryDeck on servers in the European Union, under their own privacy policy. Nothing is written to a server of ours, because there is no server of ours.
That is the whole list. There is no name, no email address, no account, no advertising identifier, no vendor identifier, no contacts, no location, no photos and no device fingerprint — nothing that says who you are, and nothing that could be joined up to you somewhere else. This is why the game never shows you Apple's tracking permission: it does not track you across apps or websites, and it has nothing to track you with.
Turning Anonymous usage off stops it, at once and for good, and the game plays exactly the same afterwards. Clearing your game data throws away the random install number too, so a phone that has been cleared starts again as a stranger.
If you ask for a reminder when a new daily puzzle is ready, the reminders are scheduled by your own phone, for your own phone. Nothing about them leaves the device, and no push server is involved. You can move the hour or turn them off in Settings, under Daily puzzle reminder, or turn them off for the whole app in iPhone Settings.
Pigpen is a game about a pig getting into and out of mud, and it is meant to be safe for children to play. It has no chat, no user accounts, no advertising and no way to reach the open web from inside it — only this page and the support page, reached through the settings sheet. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age, because the game does not ask for personal information at all.
Only TelemetryDeck, and only the anonymous counts described above, and only while that switch is on. Nothing is sold, nothing is shared with advertisers or data brokers, and there are no other third-party SDKs in the app — no ad network, no crash reporter, no social login, nothing.
The full game is bought through Apple, on Apple's own purchase sheet, under Apple's privacy policy: your payment details go to Apple and never to us, and what the app hears back is only that the purchase is owned. Apple also gives us the ordinary App Store sales and download figures, which are aggregated by Apple and never identify a person.
Because we hold nothing that identifies you, there is no file with your name on it for us to hand over or delete. The data on your phone is under your control: clear it in the settings sheet or delete the app. If you would like the anonymous signals from your phone excluded from the analytics, turn Anonymous usage off — or write, and we will help.
If this policy changes, the new version appears on this page with a new date at the top, and any change that widens what the game collects will be described in the app's release notes rather than made quietly.
Questions about any of this: