AFK Aquarium:
Idle Fish

Information kept on your device

AFK Aquarium stores one save file in the app's private storage. It contains your fish and their names, hats and decorations, Shells and Gems, Fin Guard line-up, wave progress, timers, coupon codes and settings. It does not leave your device unless you send it to us yourself.

We do not run accounts or servers for this game, and we never receive your save. We cannot read, recover or restore it. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data removes the local save. Android may back up app data through your Google account depending on your device settings; that is between you and Google.

If you sign in to Google Play Games, a copy of that same save can also be kept in your own Google account — see Google Play Games below. That copy is held by Google, not by us.

Google Play Games (optional)

The game offers an optional sign-in to Google Play Games, Google's gaming service, from the trophy button at the top of the screen. It is genuinely optional: you can decline, and the game is complete and fully playable signed out. Nothing in this section happens unless you sign in.

What the game receives. When you sign in, Google authenticates you with your Google account and gives the game your Play Games player identifier and your Play Games gamer name and avatar. We never see your Google password, your email address or your real name. Google's handling of your account is described in the Google Privacy Policy.

Leaderboards. Signed in, the game submits your best results to four public leaderboards: Highest wave, Lifetime shells, Fish merged and Bags opened. A submitted score is a number from your game — a wave number, a count, or for Lifetime shells a number worked out from the Shells your aquarium has earned — and nothing about you. Your entry is shown to other players next to your Play Games gamer name and avatar, which is what a leaderboard is for. Leaderboards carry nothing else: no location, no device information, no purchase history.

Cloud save. Signed in, the game can keep a copy of your save in Google's Saved Games service, so your aquarium can follow you to another device. Saved Games stores that copy in a hidden application folder of your own Google Drive — which is why Google's sign-in prompt mentions Google Drive. It does not appear among your Drive files, it is small (a few kilobytes), and no other app can read it. We cannot read it either: it travels between your device and your Google account and never reaches us. It contains only what your local save contains. If your Google account holds a game that is further on than the one on your device, the game asks you before loading it, and keeps the game it replaces on your device.

Turning it off, and deleting it. You can play signed out at any time. To disconnect the game from your Google account, or to delete the saved game it holds, use the Google Play Games app (your profile → Settings, and Saved Games for the stored save) or your Google account's app permissions. Deleting the cloud copy does not touch the save on your device, and resetting your local progress does not delete the cloud copy — they are separate, and you can clear either or both.

Adverts and consent

AFK Aquarium shows a banner and offers optional rewarded adverts. Adverts are never required to progress: the game can be played without watching one.

Adverts are supplied through Unity LevelPlay (Unity Technologies / ironSource) and its advertising partners. To select, show, cap and measure adverts, those providers may process an advertising identifier, device and technical information (including model, operating-system version, language, country, network type and screen size), approximate location derived from IP address, and advert interaction data such as whether an advert was shown, viewed, clicked or completed.

Where required in the UK or EEA, the game asks for your choice before personalised adverts are requested. You can decline and still play the whole game. You can change your choice in Settings, and can reset or delete your advertising identifier through Android's privacy and ads settings.

Unity's information for game players is available in its Game Player and App User Privacy Policy.

Analytics and purchases

If analytics is enabled in a release, the game uses Unity Analytics to understand aggregate gameplay, such as features used or waves where players get stuck. This may include gameplay events, a device identifier and basic device information. It is not used to identify you by name and follows the same consent choice where required.

If in-app purchases are offered, Google Play handles payment. We do not see or store card details, billing addresses or Google-account details; the game receives only a purchase confirmation needed to unlock an item.

Children, sharing and your rights

AFK Aquarium is not directed at children under 13. We do not sell personal information. We do not share information except with the advertising and analytics providers named above and, if you sign in, Google Play Games, which process their own information under their own policies and may operate outside the UK or EEA.

If you are in the UK or EEA, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to personal-data processing, and to withdraw consent. Since we hold no player accounts or copies of your save, requests about advertising, analytics or Play Games data may be best directed to the relevant provider. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office or your local supervisory authority.