Idle Economy

Privacy policy · Last updated 17 August 2026

Idle Economy collects nothing.

No account, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no third-party code. The app has no network access at all — it never sends anything anywhere, because there is nothing in it that can.

What is stored, and where

Your town — its buildings, land, goods, people, research, points, achievements and statistics — is written to a single file inside the app's own private storage on your device. Your settings are stored beside it.

That's everything the app keeps. It is not sent anywhere and nobody but you and your device can read it.

Because it lives only on your device, it doesn't follow you to another one, and deleting the app deletes it. There is no way for me to restore it. It is included in an iCloud or Finder backup of your device, so restoring a backup brings your town back with it.

What isn't there

  • No analytics. Nothing counts what you tap, how long you play, or whether you finish anything.
  • No crash reporting. If it crashes, I don't find out unless you tell me.
  • No advertising. No banners, no rewarded video, no ad framework at all.
  • No purchases. There is nothing to buy inside the game.
  • No account and no sign-in. You are never asked who you are.
  • No third-party SDKs. Nobody else's code is running in this app.
  • No location, contacts, photos, microphone or camera. The app never asks for a permission, because it needs none.

The network

The app makes no network connections. It works identically in aeroplane mode, because it has no code in it that talks to anything.

This is stronger than "we don't share your data", and it is why the rest of this page is short. There is no data flow to describe, no processor to name, no retention period, and no transfer to disclose — the machinery that a privacy policy usually exists to explain simply isn't there.

Children

The app is rated 4+ and is safe for children: it collects nothing, shows no advertising, sells nothing, and has no chat, no user-generated content and no links out of the game.

Your rights

Data-protection law gives you the right to see, correct, export and delete the personal data a company holds about you. I hold none, so there is nothing to see, correct, export or delete.

The one copy of your town is on your device and under your control: delete the app and it is gone.

If this ever changes

If a future version adds advertising, in-app purchases, analytics or anything else that involves data leaving your device, this page will say exactly what before that version ships — in the release that adds it, not the one after — and the change will be dated at the top.

Contact

idleeconomy@protonmail.com. Idle Economy is made by Isaac Frett.