Our games
No accounts, no analytics. Bearfall and Zomfall have no sign-in, and they don't send what you do in the game to us. We don't know who you are. Their ads are optional, described under Advertising.
Your game is stored on your device. Your camp (Bearfall) or shelter (Zomfall) is saved in the app's own storage on your phone or tablet. It only leaves your device if your device's automatic backup is turned on (iCloud backup on iOS, Google backup on Android), in which case it's included like any other app's data. That backup is between you and Apple or Google; we can't see it.
The games play offline. They make no network requests of their own to the internet. If you choose to play together in Bearfall, your phone talks directly to the other phone on your Wi-Fi, and nothing is sent to us or anyone else. When you choose to watch an ad, the app contacts Google AdMob; when you open the Camp Store, buy or restore, it contacts the services under In-app purchases.
If you turn on reminders in a game that has them, it schedules them on your device through your phone's own notification system; nothing about them is sent to us or anyone else, and you can turn them off in the game's Settings or in your phone's settings.
Advertising
Our games can show rewarded ads: short videos you choose to watch for something in the game. No ad ever plays by itself, none is required, and "No thanks" is always there.
Bearfall can show two kinds. After a knock-out: when you are knocked out and lose cash, you may watch one to get half of that cash back. It is never offered in the first 15 minutes of an expedition, during a night raid or in Hardcore mode, and at most once every 20 minutes. Daily supplies: once a day, for each resource you have found, you may watch one for a supply of that resource, from the Camp menu, the title screen's Daily supplies button or a short offer at a zone gate, one after another if you like. They are never offered in the first 15 minutes of an expedition or during a night raid. With the Ad-free pass you get daily supplies without an ad.
Zomfall can show two kinds. After a knock-out: when you are knocked out and drop your pack, you may watch one to get half of it back. Daily rewards: once a day, for each resource you have found, you may watch one for a supply of that resource. Neither is offered in the first 15 minutes of an outbreak, at night or in Hardcore mode, and counting both kinds, at most one ad plays every 20 minutes and three in any hour. With the Ad-free pass you get both without an ad.
For both games:
- Who provides the ads. Google AdMob, a service of Google LLC.
- When your device talks to Google. Only after you tap to watch an ad. Opening the game and playing without tapping send nothing to Google.
- What Google receives when you watch. To choose, show and count the ad and to fight fraud, Google's ads software in the app sends Google your device's IP address (which can be used to estimate your general location, such as your city or region, not your exact position); how you interact with the ad, such as when it opened, taps and whether the video was watched; diagnostic information about the app and Google's software, such as launch time and freezes; and device identifiers: on Android, the Android advertising ID and the app set ID. On iPhone, our games never ask for permission to track you, so Apple's advertising identifier is not available to Google. Google may still use an identifier that is unique to this app on your device (not Apple's advertising identifier). Google uses this for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention under its own privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy) and explains how it uses data from apps that show its ads at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
- No personalised ads. Our games ask Google for non-personalised ads only, every time: ads are not chosen from a profile of you or your activity in other apps. Google may still use the data above to limit how often you see the same ad, to measure the ad and to prevent fraud. Ads are limited to content rated for general audiences with parental guidance, and we block categories such as gambling, dating, alcohol and weight loss.
- Consent. Where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area, the UK, Switzerland and some US states), Google shows a consent message the first time you tap to watch. Whatever you answer, the ads stay non-personalised. If your answer means no ad can be requested, the game says so and you keep playing. Where it applies, you can change your answer any time in the game's Settings → Ad privacy choices.
- What we receive. Nothing about you. AdMob gives Sawgrove only totals, such as how many ads were shown and what they earned. We can't see who watched an ad.
In-app purchases
Our games offer optional purchases in their Camp Store. Bearfall: outfits, a Founder's Pack, a tip jar, an Ad-free pass, Double income, and cash, amethyst, diamond, iron and starsteel packs. Zomfall: outfits, a Founder's Pack, a tip jar, an Ad-free pass, Double income and cash packs. Outfits change only looks and tips change nothing; boosts and packs save time, and everything they give can also be earned by playing. When you buy or restore:
- Payments are handled by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). We never see your payment details.
- To confirm and restore purchases, the app uses RevenueCat, a purchase-management service. The app first contacts RevenueCat when you open the Camp Store, buy or restore, never before. It sends a random app-specific ID, the store's receipt for any purchase and basic device details (such as the operating system version and language) — not your name, email or payment details. RevenueCat's privacy policy: revenuecat.com/privacy.
- We receive sales reports from Apple, Google and RevenueCat that tell us what sold, not who bought it.
This website
sawgrove.com sets no cookies and runs no analytics or tracking. It loads nothing from other companies: fonts and images are served from this site. Like any website, our hosting provider (Cloudflare) processes basic technical data such as IP addresses to deliver the pages and protect them from attacks; it isn't used to identify you.
If you email us, we use your message and address only to reply to you, and we don't share them.
Children
Our games are made for teens and adults (13 and up) and aren't directed at children. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.
Your choices
To delete your game data, uninstall the app; that removes the save from your device. If it's in a device backup, you can delete that backup in your device's settings. To have the purchase record RevenueCat keeps for your app ID deleted, email us and we'll ask RevenueCat to delete it. Your purchases stay with your Apple or Google account, so Restore purchases still brings them back. To stop anything being sent to Google, simply don't tap "Watch a short ad". On Android you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings (for example Security & privacy → Privacy → Ads, or Google → Ads on some phones). To ask us anything about privacy, email [email protected].
Changes
If we change what our games or this site do with information, we'll update this page before the change takes effect and show the new effective date at the top.