Legal · Gemz

Privacy Policy

Gemz · Free Consciousness · Last updated: 30 June 2026

Gemz is a free puzzle game published by Free Consciousness Limited Partnership ("Free Consciousness", "we", "us"), an independent game studio based in Thailand.

This policy explains what data the game handles, why, and what your rights are. The short version: the game works fully offline with everything stored on your device. If you use online features (accounts, the global leaderboard), we store the minimum needed to make them work, and your account data is never sold or shared beyond what is described here.

Playing without an account

All game progress (scores, coins, unlocked themes, settings) is stored locally on your device using your browser or app storage. This data never leaves your device and we cannot access it. Clearing your app or browser data deletes it.

Guest accounts

So that every player can appear on the global leaderboard, the game may create an anonymous guest account the first time you finish a game while online. A guest account consists of a randomly generated identifier, an auto-generated display name (for example "Ruby-448"), your game save and your best scores. It contains no personal details: no email, no real name, nothing that identifies you. Guest accounts that stay inactive for 60 days are automatically deleted, along with their scores.

Signing in with Google, Apple or Facebook

Signing in is optional. If you choose to sign in, we receive from the provider your email address, your display name, and a technical account identifier. We never see your password, and we never access your contacts, photos or anything else from your account, nor do we ever post on your behalf. We use this information only to identify and secure your account, sync your progress across devices, and contact you about your account if needed. Signing in links your existing guest progress to your identity so it can be restored on any device.

What we store online, and where

• Account identifier: a random ID, or the technical ID from your sign-in provider.
• Email address: only if you sign in with Google, Apple or Facebook (used to identify and secure your account).
• Display name: auto-generated, chosen by you, or taken from your provider profile (you can rename it in the game at any time).
• Game save: progress, coins, unlocked cosmetic themes, settings.
• Best scores: per game mode and difficulty.

This data is stored with Supabase, our database and authentication provider, and protected by per-account access rules. Data travels encrypted (HTTPS).

The leaderboard is public by design: your display name and best scores are visible to all players. Your email address is never shown. Do not use a display name you would not want shown publicly.

Purchases

Gemz is free to play. It offers optional in-app purchases, namely jewel (gem) packs and a one-time remove-ads pack. In the iOS and Android apps, purchases are billed by the Apple App Store or Google Play and managed for us through RevenueCat (privacy policy), our purchase-management provider. These providers process your payment and share with us only a confirmation and the item you bought. We never receive or store your card number or full payment details. Buying the remove-ads pack disables the ads described below.

Advertising

Gemz is ad-supported, including optional rewarded ads you can choose to watch in exchange for an in-game reward. Depending on where you play, ads are served by different providers:

• Google AdMob in the iOS and Android apps, governed by Google's advertising privacy policy.
• CrazyGames when you play Gemz on the CrazyGames platform, governed by the CrazyGames Privacy Policy.

To show and measure ads, these providers may process your device advertising identifier, your approximate region (derived from your IP address), and your interactions with ads (such as views and clicks). We do not sell your data to advertisers.

On iOS, we ask for your permission through Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) prompt before any tracking used for personalized ads; if you decline, you still see ads, but non-personalized ones. Buying the remove-ads pack turns all ads off.

Analytics (audience measurement)

With your consent, Gemz measures how the game is used, anonymously, so we can improve it. A consent banner asks you at first launch (except on CrazyGames, see below). If you agree, the game sends to our own analytics server a random identifier that is not linked to your name or your email, together with game events such as sessions, coins and jewels earned or spent, and the app version. This data is hosted on Vercel and stored with Supabase, both acting for us. We collect no personal data through analytics, we do not store your IP address in clear, and we never use this data for advertising or profiling. You can decline at any time with the "Decline" button, with no effect on how the game plays. On the CrazyGames version, this measurement is turned off.

Bot protection (Cloudflare Turnstile)

To protect account creation and sign-in from bots and abuse, the game uses Cloudflare Turnstile, an invisible verification service. Turnstile runs automatically in the background: you will not see a checkbox or a puzzle. As part of this check, Cloudflare processes limited device and network information (such as your IP address and browser characteristics) solely to distinguish real players from automated software. This processing is governed by the Cloudflare Turnstile Privacy Policy. Turnstile does not use this data for advertising and does not track you across websites.

Our data commitments

Whatever features the game offers, we keep a few promises about your data:

• We never sell or rent your data.
• We never share your data with third parties for their own purposes. The only companies that process data on our behalf are the providers named in this policy, Supabase, Vercel, RevenueCat, Apple, Google (including AdMob), CrazyGames and Cloudflare, each solely to power the feature it provides.
• We use no tracking cookies: the game stores your save and session in local storage only.
• We only collect the minimum data needed to run the features you actually use, as described above.

Legal basis and retention (GDPR)

We process online account data to provide the service you ask for (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR: running your account, save sync and the leaderboard), and in our legitimate interest to keep the leaderboard fair and prevent abuse (Art. 6(1)(f)). Anonymous analytics and personalized advertising, where offered, rely on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)). Guest accounts are deleted after 60 days of inactivity. Signed-in accounts are kept until you ask us to delete them.

Your rights

You can ask at any time to access, correct or delete your account data by writing to hello@free-consciousness.org. Deleting your account removes your save, your scores and your leaderboard entries. If you are in the EU or UK, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Children

Gemz is suitable for all ages. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children: accounts are optional, guest accounts contain no personal details, and there is no chat or open communication between players. Where ads are shown to players who may be children, non-personalized ads are used. Parents can contact us at the address above to have any data removed.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with an updated date. Significant changes will be announced in the game.