Effective Date: November 7, 2026
Idlehive is an idle game for iPhone and iPad, published by EqualInformation, LLC. You tend a night garden of lantern moths, and the colony keeps glowing while you are away. This page explains what the app stores and what the advertising and subscription services around it can collect.
There is no sign-up. Your progress (glow, lumen, perks, achievements, settings) is saved only on your device. We run no server that receives it, so we cannot read, sell or restore it. Deleting the app deletes it.
The whole game plays without a connection. Only advertising, the consent form and the subscription store need the network, and the game carries on calmly when they are not reachable.
The free version shows ads supplied by Google AdMob: a banner on most screens, an occasional full-screen ad after you take flight, and optional rewarded videos that you choose to watch for boosts or double away-time glow. AdMob may use your device advertising identifier and coarse location to select and measure ads.
Idlehive asks permission before any tracking, using Apple's tracking prompt, and then shows a Google consent form where the law requires one. If you decline, ads are still shown but are not personalised, and the game plays the same. You can change your tracking choice in the iOS Settings app, and reopen the ad privacy form from More when your region requires it.
Moon Patron is an optional monthly subscription that turns ads off. It is billed and managed by Apple; we never see your payment details. You can also earn ad-free time for the month by watching rewarded videos.
Idlehive is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.
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Questions or requests: bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com, or the support page at equalinformation.com/app-support-idlehive.html.