Effective date: 22 July 2026
Blackwood Forge is made by Gothika Gaming. This policy explains what the game does with your information.
The short version: you can play the entire game without an account and without sending us anything. If you choose to sign in with Google Play Games, a small amount of information is stored on our server so that guilds, chat and the arena ladder can work.
If you never sign in, the game runs entirely on your device. We operate no analytics and receive nothing about you — not that you play, not when you play, not who you are. The one exception is if you choose to watch a rewarded advert; see Advertising below for what Google collects when you do.
Your progress is saved in storage private to the app: your character name, level, gold and currencies, materials, gear, buildings, quests, and the counters and timestamps the game needs to work. The game also creates a random identifier for your save the first time you play. It is generated on your device, is not linked to your phone, your Google account or any advertising identifier, and cannot be used to recognise you in any other app.
Uninstalling the game deletes all of it.
Signing in is optional. It exists so that guilds, guild chat and the arena ladder can work, none of which are possible on a device that cannot see other players.
When you sign in, Google gives us a Play Games player ID. It identifies you to us and to no one else — it is not your email address, not your real name and not your Google account, and it is specific to this game. We store it, and alongside it:
We do not receive your email address, your real name, your contacts, your location, your photos, your files, or any advertising identifier.
Our server keeps ordinary access logs: the IP address a request came from, the address requested, the result, and the time. They are used to diagnose faults and abuse. The contents of requests are never logged, so your chat messages do not appear in them. Logs roll over and old ones are discarded automatically.
If you sign in with Google Play Games, your save can also be backed up to your own Google account using Play Games Saved Games.
That backup goes directly from your device to Google. It does not pass through us and we cannot read it. It is covered by Google's Privacy Policy, and you can view or delete it from your Play Games account settings at any time.
Blackwood Forge has guild chat, visible to the members of your guild only. There is no public chat, no direct messages and no friends list.
Anything you type in guild chat is visible to your guild and is stored on our server for up to three days. Do not put anything private in it. Guild leaders can pin a message, and a pinned message stays visible until it is unpinned.
Your display name and Battle Power are visible to other players on the arena ladder and in guild lists.
Every message has a report button. Reports are reviewed by us.
Blackwood Forge shows optional rewarded adverts only. Nothing is ever forced on you: there are no adverts between screens, none when the game opens, and none you did not ask for. You choose to watch one in exchange for something in the game, or you never watch one at all.
When you choose to watch an advert, it is served by Google AdMob. To do that, Google and its advertising partners collect your device's advertising ID, an approximate location worked out from your IP address, and information about how you interacted with the advert. That happens under Google's advertising policies — we do not receive any of it.
You can reset or delete your advertising ID at any time in Settings → Privacy → Ads on your phone.
We do not run analytics, and nothing about you is sold to anyone.
If you allow notifications, the game may remind you at most twice a day that your workshop is idle. These are scheduled by your phone. They contain no personal information, and nothing is sent to us or to any push service. You can turn them off in your phone's settings at any time.
Blackwood Forge is not directed at children under 13. Because the game has player-to-player chat, we ask that children under 13 do not sign in.
You can also email us at the address below and we will do any of the above for you.
If the game starts doing something this policy does not describe — in particular if advertising is added — this policy will be updated before that version ships, and the effective date above will change.
Questions about this policy: gothikagaming01@gmail.com