App Privacy Policy
Effective August 16, 2026 · Covers the Build A Squishy app for iOS. The website has its own policy at buildasquishy.com/privacy.
The short version: the app has no accounts and never asks who you are. Your squishies are saved on your own device, not on our servers. The optional purchase is handled entirely by Apple — we never see any payment details. We keep one lightweight, ads-free analytics tool so we can see which features people enjoy, and an automatic bug reporter so we can fix things when they break — and that's it.
No ads. No selling data. No chat. No location. Nothing to sign up for.
Who we are
Build A Squishy is a 3D squishy creator made by Gladio LLC in the United States, and also available free on the web at buildasquishy.com. Questions about this policy can be sent through the contact form linked at the bottom of this page.
What we never collect
- No accounts, names, email addresses, photos, or profiles — the one exception is the optional email address you may choose to type into our contact form if you would like a reply
- No chat, messaging, or any way to contact other players
- No precise location
- No advertising, ad tracking, or cross-app tracking of any kind — the app never shows Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt because it never tracks
- We never sell or share data for marketing — there is nothing to sell
Your squishies stay on your device
Creations, settings, and progress are stored inside the app's own storage on your device. They are never uploaded to us — we couldn't look at your collection if we wanted to. Deleting the app deletes them. The whole toy is bundled with the app, so it also works with no internet connection at all.
Purchases
The app is free, and everything in the free version stays free. It offers a single optional one-time purchase (Squishy Deluxe) that permanently unlocks additional content. About that purchase:
- Payment is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see or store names, card numbers, or any payment details — Apple's own privacy policy covers the transaction
- It is a one-time unlock — no subscriptions, no consumables, no in-app currency, no randomized rewards
- It can be restored free on a new device from the App Store ("Restore Purchases" in the app)
- Apple's parental controls — Ask to Buy, Screen Time purchase restrictions, and Family Sharing rules — all apply normally
- The app never nags about buying, and nothing in the free toy is taken away or timed to pressure a purchase
Analytics
We use Google Analytics in a deliberately restricted configuration to understand, in aggregate, how the app is used — things like how many people played and which shapes and materials are popular. Concretely:
- All advertising features, ads personalization, and Google Signals are disabled; nothing is linked to any ads product
- Nothing is linked to your identity — there is no identity to link to
- Analytics data is retained for the minimum period Google offers (2 months)
- Google Analytics does not store IP addresses; an IP is used momentarily to estimate a coarse region (like a state) and then discarded
- The only identifier involved is a random per-install analytics identifier, used solely to operate and improve the app — never for advertising or profiling, and never combined with any other information
Error reports
If something in the app breaks — a crash, a glitch, a feature that stops working — an automatic technical report is sent to Sentry, a service developers use to find and fix bugs. A report contains the error message, where in our code it happened, the device type, and the last few taps that led up to it. It never contains anything you typed.
- Sentry is configured to not store IP addresses
- Error reports use no cookies and no identifiers — reports are not linked to you or to each other
- There is no session recording or screen capture of any kind
- Reports are used only to fix bugs, never for advertising or profiling, and are automatically deleted after at most 90 days
- If nothing breaks, nothing is sent
Haptics and sound
The app's vibrations and sounds are generated on your device as you play. Nothing about how you touch, squeeze, or play is recorded or sent anywhere.
Sending a squishy
"Send a Squishy" links carry only the recipe — which shape, color, finish, inside, and sparkles to use — encoded directly in the link itself. The link never contains a typed name or any personal information, is never sent to our servers, and opening one simply rebuilds the squishy on the receiving device. Purchased content is never granted by a link — recipients can see a shared squishy, but unlocks always come from play or from the App Store.
Writing to us
There is a contact form in the app — open the About panel and choose "send us a note." What you write is delivered straight to our own mailbox. It is not stored in a database, not published anywhere, and not shared with anyone. Adding an email address is optional, and we use it only to write back to you.
Please don't put a last name, address, school, or phone number in a note — we don't want that information, and we delete anything like it when we see it. To keep automated spam out, the form runs Cloudflare's Turnstile check, which confirms a real person is sending the note and does not track you across apps or websites.
Children's privacy
Build A Squishy is made for young people, including players under 13, so we hold ourselves to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not ask for or knowingly collect personal information from anyone. The contact form described above is the only place anything can be typed in at all, and it never asks who you are. The single random identifier described in the Analytics section, and the anonymous error reports described above, are collected only to support the app's internal operations — counting sessions, seeing which features are used, and fixing bugs — which COPPA permits without parental consent. Neither is ever used for behavioral advertising or to build profiles. Purchases go through Apple's own payment system, where Apple's family controls (like Ask to Buy) put parents in charge.
Parents and guardians: if you have any questions, or want us to review or delete any data connected to your child's play, use the contact form linked below and we will help.
Changes to this policy
If what the app collects ever changes — for example, if a future version adds optional iCloud sync for your collection — we will update this page first and change the effective date at the top.
Contact
Use the contact form for any question about privacy in Build A Squishy, including a parent or guardian's request to review or delete data connected to a child's play. It reaches us directly.