Last updated: 30 October 2026 (version 2.0)
Idle Space Mining has no accounts, no analytics, and no tracking. Your game is saved on your own device, and Apple keeps a copy in your iCloud account if iCloud is on.
The one exception is the optional reward video. The app contains Google's advertising SDK, which starts when the app opens and loads that one ad ahead of time, so Google receives some technical information even if you never watch it. That is the only third-party data collection in the app.
The app itself collects nothing. It has no accounts, no analytics of its own, and no user profiles. (Google's advertising SDK collects the technical information described under Advertising.) It never asks for your name, email, location, contacts, camera, microphone, or photos, because it does not use them.
The app contains exactly one advertisement: an optional rewarded video you choose to watch from the Shop in exchange for a temporary production boost. There are no banners, no interstitials, and nothing that interrupts play. No ad is ever shown unless you tap it, but the advertising SDK starts when the app opens and loads that ad ahead of time, so an ad request can be made even if you never watch one.
Ads are served by Google AdMob. To deliver, cap, measure and protect an ad against fraud, Google receives technical information such as your IP address, device type and operating system version, and whether the ad was watched. This is described in Google's Privacy & Terms and how Google uses data from partner apps.
Ads are non-personalised. The app explicitly requests non-personalised advertising on every request, so ads are not selected based on a profile of you or your interests.
The app does not track you. It does not ask for App Tracking Transparency permission and does not read your device's advertising identifier (IDFA). Your activity is not linked to you or followed across other apps and websites. Apple's SKAdNetwork may be used to measure ad performance in aggregate; it is designed by Apple so that installs can be counted without identifying individual people.
Ads are limited to content rated G.
Your progress is saved in a file on your own device. If iCloud is on, Apple also keeps a copy in your iCloud account (iCloud key-value storage) so your game can follow you to another device; the developer cannot see it. It is included in your device backup if you back up your device.
Event planets have Game Center leaderboards. If you are signed in to Game Center, your event score is posted to Apple's Game Center so you can see your rank and, if you allow it, how your Game Center friends did. This is run by Apple under Apple's Privacy Policy; the developer does not receive your Game Center identity or friend list.
In-app purchases are processed entirely by Apple. Apple tells the app whether a purchase succeeded — nothing more. Payment details never reach this app or its developer. Apple's handling of that data is governed by Apple's Privacy Policy.
The app makes no network requests to any server operated by its developer, because there is no such server. Network traffic is limited to Apple's services (the App Store for purchases, Game Center and iCloud), Google's advertising SDK, and one request to apple.com that reads only the current date and time, so event planets open at the right moment. That request sends nothing about you.
Idle Space Mining is not directed at children. It contains advertising and in-app purchases, and ads are restricted to content rated G. Because the app does not track users or read advertising identifiers, it does not build a profile of any player, including a child.
Watching the reward video is entirely optional and the game can be played and completed without ever watching one. You can also limit ad measurement system-wide in Settings › Privacy & Security › Apple Advertising and Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
If this ever changes — for example if analytics or accounts are added — this policy will be updated before the feature ships, and the App Store privacy labels will be updated to match.