Privacy policy

Last updated: 2 November 2026

In short

I Know You're Home asks for no account and we don't collect your personal information: your progress stays on your device. The game shows ads from Google AdMob. Google collects some information from your device to show and measure them, as explained below, and in Europe it asks for your consent first. Players under 16 only get child-directed ads. On iPhone, purchases and achievements go through Apple. The game isn't out on Android yet. There is no analytics service of our own. This website has no cookies.

Who we are

I Know You're Home is made by an independent developer in Spain: the seller shown on the game's store page. You can write to us at [email protected].

What the game stores

Your nights, the neighbors in your house and what you have learned from them, your upgrades, your cans and batteries, your achievements, your purchases, the sound setting and the age you gave are saved on your device only. They are not sent to us. Deleting the app deletes them.

Apple's and Google's services

On iPhone, purchases are made through Apple's App Store, and the game receives only whether a purchase went through. We never see your payment details. Achievements use Apple's Game Center: after your first night the game signs in to your Game Center account, if you have one, and reports the achievements you earn. Apple handles both under its own privacy policy, and we receive no personal or payment information from it.

The game isn't out on Android yet. There, purchases will be made through Google Play, under Google's own privacy policy, and we will receive no payment information. Before that version reaches players, this page will say anything that changes on Android.

Ads in the game

The game offers videos you can choose to watch for a reward, such as double cans at sunrise, 30% of battery when it runs out, or a second chance at a night lost by one person. From night 5 it may also show a short ad as you leave the house, at most every second night. There is never an ad with someone at your door. In the shop you can buy No ads, which removes the ads between nights; the reward videos stay, and you only see one when you choose to.

The first time you play, the game asks how old you are. It keeps only that age and the day you gave it, only on your device, and uses it only to choose which ads you get. Google never receives it: it is only told whether an ad must be treated as for a child. If you are under 16, or the age isn't known, the game's ad requests are marked as child-directed, and Google then applies its protections for children: no personalized ads and no advertising identifier. Whoever you are, the game asks only for ads suitable for teenagers and up.

What Google collects

To choose and show the ads, measure them and prevent fraud, Google's software in the game may collect from your device:

• technical information about the device and the app, such as the model, operating system, language, type of connection and the app's version;
• the IP address, from which it works out your approximate location (such as your country or city). Never your precise location: the game doesn't ask for it;
• the ads shown and what you did with them (views, taps, videos watched), and when the app was opened;
• diagnostic data, such as crashes and performance;
• identifiers limited to the developer's apps or to the ad service, such as Apple's identifier for vendors. On iPhone the game never asks you for permission to track you, so Google doesn't get Apple's advertising identifier (IDFA).

Google decides how it uses this information under its own policies: Google's privacy policy and how Google uses information from apps that use its services. It keeps it for as long as those policies say, and may process it outside Europe (in the United States, for example) with the safeguards they describe. We get nothing from Google that identifies you: only totals, such as how many ads were shown and what they earned.

The game engine

The game is built with Unity, and the Unity engine may send Unity anonymous technical information about the device, such as its model, operating system and graphics chip, for its hardware statistics. It doesn't say who you are, and it doesn't reach us.

Your choices about ads

• In Europe (the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland): before any ad, Google's consent form asks what Google and its partners may do with your data. The game waits for your answer. You can change your choices or withdraw your consent at any time with Privacy and ads in the game's settings.
• Everywhere: buying No ads removes the ads between nights, and the reward videos are always your choice.

Children

I Know You're Home is a horror game and it isn't directed at young children. We don't collect personal information from anyone, children included. Players who say they are under 16 only get Google's child-directed ads and never see the consent form. Parents and guardians can write to us with any question about their children's privacy.

The demo on this website

The demo runs entirely in your browser. It saves nothing and sends nothing to us.

This website

iknowyourehome.com uses no cookies, no analytics and no trackers, and it loads nothing from other companies: the pictures, sounds and fonts are served from here. It only remembers the language you pick, in your browser's storage on your device. Our hosting provider (DigitalOcean) may keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses, for security and to keep the site running.

Your rights

You can ask us any question about your privacy and, under the GDPR and similar laws, exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, objection and portability by writing to [email protected]. We hold no information that identifies you; if you write to us, we use your address and your message only to answer you. Requests about what Google collects are best made to Google, with the tools in its privacy policy; if you write to us, we'll help. In Europe, ads rely on your consent, given in Google's form, and, for purposes such as preventing fraud or showing ads that aren't personalized, on legitimate interests, which you can object to in the same form. You can also complain to your data protection authority (in Spain, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos).

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll publish the new version here with its date. Before the game uses another ad network or any other service that collects data, we'll add it here.