Blacksmith Blues Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 6, 2026
 

Creative Life Quest LLC, operating under the CLQ Gaming brand (“CLQ Gaming,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, disclosed, and stored when you play Blacksmith Blues (the “Game”) or otherwise interact with us in connection with the Game.
 

By using the Game, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Who We Are

Blacksmith Blues is published by:

Creative Life Quest LLC
Operating under the CLQ Gaming brand
California, United States

For privacy questions or requests, contact:

clqinquiries@gmail.com
 

2. Summary of Our Data Practices

Blacksmith Blues is designed to keep much of your game data on your device.

The Game currently:

• stores most save data and gameplay progress locally on your device;

• automatically creates an anonymous PlayFab player account;

• uses PlayFab for player display names and global leaderboards;

• may link your PlayFab account with Google Play Games;

• uses Google AdMob for optional rewarded advertisements;

• uses Google Play Billing for in-app purchases;

• does not currently use a dedicated analytics service;

• does not currently upload detailed gameplay telemetry or diagnostic logs to us;

• does not include chat, direct messaging, multiplayer, public player profiles, or social-network features.

More detail is provided below.
 

3. Information Stored Locally on Your Device

Blacksmith Blues stores most game information locally on your device. This may include:

• game progress and save data;

• currency balances;

• weapon inventory, unlocks, and blueprints;

• Forge Pass status and expiration information;

• in-app purchase entitlements;

• settings and preferences;

• avatar selection;

• detailed gameplay statistics and progression metrics;

• locally generated installation or session identifiers;

• local diagnostic information; and

• locally generated gameplay integrity, trust, or suspicious-activity indicators.

At present, the Game may generate detailed gameplay and diagnostic records locally, but these records are not routinely transmitted to CLQ Gaming through a custom analytics or telemetry service.

Local data may remain on your device until you reset the Game, clear the Game's application data, or uninstall the Game. Depending on your device or platform settings, some platform-controlled backup behavior may occur outside our control.
 

4. PlayFab Player Accounts

Blacksmith Blues uses Microsoft PlayFab to provide online account and leaderboard features.

When you first use the Game, the Game automatically creates an anonymous PlayFab player account using a generated identifier. You are not required to provide an email address or create a username and password.

Information processed through PlayFab may include:

• a generated account or device-linked identifier used to access your player account;

• your PlayFab player ID;

• your player display name;

• leaderboard scores and statistics;

• your rank on global leaderboards;

• information needed to link your PlayFab account with Google Play Games; and

• standard technical or network information processed in connection with PlayFab requests, such as IP address and request metadata.

The Game may store local copies of identifiers associated with your PlayFab account so that it can reconnect you with the same account.

Google Play Games Linking

On supported Android devices, the Game may attempt to authenticate with Google Play Games and link that identity to your PlayFab account.

For this purpose, authentication information such as a Google Play Games server authorization code may be transmitted for account-linking purposes.

The Game does not currently use Google Play Games for:

• Google Play leaderboards;

• achievements;

• cloud saves;

• friend lists; or

• displaying your Google Play profile or avatar.
   

5. Player Display Names and Global Leaderboards

Blacksmith Blues includes global leaderboards provided through PlayFab.

Players may choose and periodically change a display name. Display names are limited in length and restricted to permitted letters and numbers.

The following information may be visible to other players on a leaderboard:

• your player display name;

• your leaderboard score or statistic; and

• your leaderboard rank.

Leaderboard statistics may include:

• longest forge streak;

• most Perfect strikes;

• numbers of weapons or weapon categories forged;

• songs cleared;

• all-Perfect song counts by difficulty; and

• highest Showtime accuracy.

The Game does not currently display the following information on leaderboards:

• your country;

• your avatar;

• your private game progress;

• your currency balances;

• your inventory; or

• other profile statistics unrelated to the selected leaderboard.

Players cannot currently search for other players, send messages, maintain friend lists, or access public player profiles.

We recommend that you do not use your full legal name or other sensitive personal information as your player display name.
 

6. Advertising

Blacksmith Blues uses Google AdMob to provide optional rewarded advertisements.

The Game does not currently use:

• forced interstitial advertisements;

• banner advertisements; or

• app-open advertisements.

Rewarded advertisements are shown only when a player chooses to request an available advertising-based reward.

Rewarded-ad placements may include:

• rerolling the Gig Board;

• changing the current song through the Jukebox; and

• claiming a Midnight Blaze offer.

Google and its advertising technologies may process information in connection with serving, measuring, limiting, personalizing, or preventing fraud relating to advertisements. Depending on your device, region, consent choices, and applicable law, this information may include:

• device and application information;

• IP address;

• advertising identifiers or similar identifiers where available and permitted;

• approximate location derived from information such as IP address;

• interactions with advertisements;

• advertising performance information; and

• fraud-prevention and security information.

We do not directly receive your advertising identifier for the purpose of building our own advertising profile.

Advertising Choices and Consent

Blacksmith Blues is intended to use Google's User Messaging Platform (“UMP”) to request and manage advertising privacy choices where required.

Depending on your region and applicable law, you may be shown a privacy or consent message before certain advertising-related processing occurs.

Where required, the Game will provide access to privacy options so that you can review or update available advertising privacy choices.

The availability and effect of particular advertising choices may depend on your location, applicable law, and Google's advertising systems.
 

7. In-App Purchases

Blacksmith Blues offers optional in-app purchases through Google Play Billing using Unity's in-app purchasing technology.

Available purchases may include:

• the Forge Pass;

• an Extra Gig Slot;

• weapon blueprints;

• the Late Night Supply Crate;

• the Merchant's Fortune Crate; and

• other digital items or entitlements added to the Game.

The Forge Pass is currently a time-limited purchase providing access for approximately 30 days. It is not a recurring subscription.

Payment information, such as your full credit card or debit card number, is processed by Google Play. CLQ Gaming does not directly receive your full payment-card information.

The Game may receive information needed to determine whether a purchase succeeded and what product was purchased. This may include:

• product identifiers;

• purchase or order information;

• transaction status; and

• entitlement information.

Purchase and entitlement information is currently primarily stored locally on your device. The Game does not currently send purchase receipts to PlayFab for server-side validation.

Google may separately retain transaction and payment records in accordance with its own policies and legal obligations.
 

8. Analytics and Gameplay Telemetry

Blacksmith Blues does not currently use a dedicated third-party analytics SDK.

In particular, the Game does not currently use:

• Unity Analytics;

• Firebase Analytics;

• Google Analytics;

• GameAnalytics;

• Meta or Facebook analytics;

• TikTok analytics;

• Adjust;

• AppsFlyer; or

• a similar attribution or analytics provider.

The Game contains systems that can generate detailed gameplay metrics and diagnostic information. These may concern matters such as:

• play sessions;

• progression;

• gameplay actions;

• changes in in-game values;

• performance or diagnostic events; and

• gameplay-integrity indicators.

At present, these detailed custom telemetry records are stored or queued locally on the device and are not uploaded to CLQ Gaming through a custom telemetry service.

A limited subset of gameplay statistics is transmitted to PlayFab when needed for the global leaderboard features described in this Privacy Policy.

If we later introduce a new analytics or telemetry service that materially changes our data practices, we will update this Privacy Policy as appropriate.
 

9. Crash and Performance Information

Blacksmith Blues is distributed through Google Play and may be subject to platform-level crash, performance, and stability monitoring, including Android Vitals.

Google may provide developers with information about technical problems affecting the Game, such as:

• crashes;

• application-not-responding events;

• affected application versions;

• device or operating-system characteristics; and

• technical diagnostic information.

The Game does not currently use:

• Firebase Crashlytics;

• Unity Cloud Diagnostics; or

• Sentry.

CLQ Gaming does not currently transmit custom nonfatal error logs or diagnostic reports to PlayFab.
 

10. How We Use Information

We and our service providers may use information described in this Privacy Policy to:

• create and maintain player accounts;

• reconnect players with existing accounts;

• provide global leaderboards;

• display player-chosen display names;

• link accounts with Google Play Games;

• provide the Game and its features;

• process and restore eligible purchases;

• provide optional rewarded advertisements;

• manage advertising privacy choices;

• protect the Game against fraud, abuse, and security threats;

• diagnose crashes and technical problems;

• maintain and improve the Game; and

• comply with legal obligations.

We do not currently use detailed gameplay telemetry to build advertising profiles.
 

11. How Information Is Shared

We may disclose or make information available to service providers that help operate the Game.

These currently include:

Microsoft PlayFab

Used for:

• anonymous player accounts;

• player identifiers;

• display names;

• account linking; and

• global leaderboards.

Google

Google services may be used for:

• Google Play Games authentication and account linking;

• optional rewarded advertising through AdMob;

• advertising privacy choices through UMP;

• in-app purchases through Google Play Billing;

• application distribution; and

• platform-level crash and performance monitoring.

These providers process information under their own terms, privacy policies, and data-protection practices.

We may also disclose information where reasonably necessary to:

• comply with law or valid legal process;

• protect the rights, safety, and security of players, CLQ Gaming, or others;

• investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents; or

• complete a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition, reorganization, financing, or sale of assets, subject to applicable law.
   

12. Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

CLQ Gaming does not sell personal information for money.

However, certain advertising-related disclosures or processing performed through advertising services may be considered “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a “sale” under some privacy laws, even when no money is paid specifically in exchange for personal information.

Where required by applicable law, we intend to provide relevant privacy choices through Google's consent and privacy-management systems.
 

13. Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing the Game, maintaining online features, protecting against fraud and abuse, complying with legal obligations, and resolving disputes.

Different types of information may be retained differently.

Local Game Data

Local save data generally remains on your device until you:

• use an available reset or deletion feature;

• clear the Game's application data; or

• uninstall the Game.

CLQ Gaming cannot remotely erase data that exists only on a device that we cannot access.

PlayFab Account and Leaderboard Data

Online account and leaderboard information may be retained while needed to operate the Game and provide online services.

Following a valid deletion request, we will take appropriate steps to delete or anonymize covered data under our control, subject to:

• legal obligations;

• security requirements;

• fraud-prevention needs;

• dispute resolution;

• technical limitations; and

• data that must be retained for legitimate legal or financial reasons.

Transaction Information

Google and other payment providers may retain purchase and transaction records according to their own policies and legal obligations.

We may retain information reasonably necessary to establish or verify purchases, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, comply with tax or accounting requirements, or satisfy other legal obligations.
 

14. Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning your personal information. These may include rights to:

• request access to certain personal information;

• request correction of inaccurate information;

• request deletion of personal information;

• obtain a copy of certain information;

• object to or restrict certain processing; and

• exercise choices concerning targeted advertising or certain data disclosures.

These rights vary by jurisdiction and may be subject to exceptions.

To submit a privacy request, contact:

clqinquiries@gmail.com

We may need information sufficient to identify the relevant player account and verify the request.
 

15. Support IDs

The Game may provide a private Support ID or similar account identifier in its Settings or Privacy & Data section.

You may be asked to provide this identifier when contacting us about:

• account access;

• privacy requests;

• account deletion;

• purchases; or

• technical support.

Your Support ID is intended to help us locate the correct player account.

You should not publicly post or unnecessarily share your Support ID.
 

16. Account and Data Deletion

Blacksmith Blues automatically creates an anonymous online player account through PlayFab.

You may request deletion of your account and associated data through the in-app account-deletion option.

You may also request account deletion outside the Game by contacting:

clqinquiries@gmail.com

When making a request by email, please provide your Support ID or other information sufficient to identify the correct account.

Deleting an account may result in permanent loss of:

• your PlayFab player account;

• your player display name;

• your leaderboard scores and rankings;

• account links associated with that PlayFab account; and

• other online data associated with the account.

The in-app deletion process may also erase local game data from the device.

Please note that when deletion is requested outside the Game, we may be able to delete online data associated with your account, but we cannot remotely erase data that exists only on your personal device. You may need to clear the Game's local data or uninstall the Game to remove locally stored information.

Some information may be retained where required or permitted for legal, security, fraud-prevention, transaction-record, or other legitimate purposes.

17. Security

We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information associated with the Game.

However, no system for transmitting or storing information can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your device and any platform account connected with the Game.

18. International Data Processing

Blacksmith Blues may be made available in multiple countries.

CLQ Gaming is based in California, United States, and our service providers may process information in the United States and other countries.

As a result, information may be processed in countries with data-protection laws that differ from those in your place of residence.

Where required by applicable law, appropriate mechanisms may be used to support international transfers of personal information.

19. Children's Privacy

Blacksmith Blues is a general-audience game and is not directed to children under 13.

We do not knowingly use the Game to solicit personal information from children under 13 in a manner that violates applicable law.

If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that a child has provided personal information through the Game in a manner that requires deletion or other action under applicable law, please contact:

clqinquiries@gmail.com

We will review the request and take appropriate action where required.

20. Third-Party Links and Community Services

The Game may provide links to websites, community platforms, or other services operated by third parties.

For example, the Game may in the future provide an external link to an official Blacksmith Blues community on a service such as Discord.

Simply following an external link does not mean that CLQ Gaming operates or controls that third-party service.

Your interactions with third-party websites and community platforms are governed by their own terms and privacy practices. We encourage you to review those policies before providing personal information.

If we later integrate a third-party community service directly into the Game or receive information from that service, we will update this Privacy Policy as appropriate.
 

21. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:

• changes to the Game;

• new features or services;

• changes to our data practices;

• legal or regulatory developments; or

• changes to third-party services we use.

When we make changes, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Where required by law, we may provide additional notice or request consent before a material change takes effect.
 

22. Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy Policy, privacy requests, or account-deletion requests, contact:

Creative Life Quest LLC
Operating under the CLQ Gaming brand
California, United States

Email: clqinquiries@gmail.com