Thistledown WarrenPrivacy Policy
Thistledown Warren is a game made by Bendigo Games, an independent developer based in Australia. This policy covers the Thistledown Warren app for iPhone (com.chan.games.thistledownwarren) and this website. Contact: support@bendigogames.com.
The short version
Thistledown Warren asks you for nothing. There's no account, no email address, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. Your warren, your rabbits and your settings stay on your phone.
The iPhone app counts anonymous play statistics, such as that the app was opened, how long a session lasted, which version it is, and when a first litter is born, so the game can be improved. They describe the game being played, never who is playing it. You can switch them off in the game's Settings with the Play stats switch.
At a glance
| What | Leaves your phone? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Standard app-usage information the analytics service records by itself: first open, session start and length, app version, phone model, operating-system version, language | Yes, unless Play stats is off | To see how much the game is played, and on what, so it can be improved |
| A few counts of moments in the game: a first litter, a show result (which show and what place), the Warren Deed, an expansion unlocked (which one), finishing Gran's breed, the rating prompt being shown | Yes, unless Play stats is off | To see which parts of the game people reach and enjoy. They carry no names, no text and nothing about you |
| A random app-instance identifier issued by the analytics service | Yes, with the statistics | So one install's sessions count as one. It is not your advertising identifier, and it resets if you reinstall |
| An approximate location (country, sometimes region), worked out by Google from a masked IP address | Yes, as part of the statistics | To know roughly where players are. Never precise, never from location services |
| Your warren: rabbits, pens, estate, bonsai, letters, settings, and whether stats are on | No, kept on your phone | So your game is there when you come back |
| Name, email, contacts, photos, files, precise location, microphone, camera, advertising identifier, purchase history, crash reports | Never collected |
Anonymous play statistics
The app uses Google Analytics for Firebase. Besides the automatic app-usage information above, the game sends the handful of counts listed in the table. Rabbit names, anything you type, and anything about other apps, your contacts, photos or files are never sent.
No advertising identifier, and no tracking. The iPhone app is built with the version of the analytics library that has the advertising-identifier code removed. Nothing links the statistics to a name, an email or an account (there is none), and nothing follows you to another app or website. That is why Thistledown Warren never shows an App Tracking Transparency prompt: there is nothing to ask permission for.
As with any request over the internet, your IP address is visible to Google's servers while the app talks to them. The app never reads or stores it. Google masks it and works out a general location from it (country, sometimes region), and that approximate figure is all the developer ever sees. The game never uses your phone's location services and never asks for location permission.
Apart from these statistics the game makes no network connections and plays fully offline. Statistics wait until the phone is next online, or are never sent if Play stats is off.
Switching it off
Open Settings in the game. The Play stats switch turns statistics off; off is remembered, and while it is off the app sends nothing at all. Privacy, in the same place, opens this page. Statistics are on by default, and the game plays the same either way.
What stays on your phone
Your whole warren is kept in the app's own private storage on your phone and never sent anywhere: your rabbits and their pedigrees, pens, estate and bonsai garden, letters and journal, the expansions you've unlocked with carrots, your settings, and whether the app has already asked you for a rating in this version. Deleting the app deletes all of it. There is no cloud save, so there's nothing of yours anywhere else to delete. If your phone's own iCloud backup is on, it may include the app's save, under your control, not ours.
Purchases
The app is free and has no in-app purchases in this version. Its expansions and collections are unlocked with carrots, the coins you earn in the game.
This website
The pages at bendigogames.com/thistledown-warren use no cookies, no analytics and no advertising, and load nothing from anyone else's servers. Some tools here (the daily puzzles, the Coat Atlas, the Ledger) remember your progress in your own browser's storage, which never leaves your device; clearing your browser's site data removes it. A Rabbit Passport link holds its rabbit in the link itself, so whoever you send it to can see that rabbit.
Children
The game is suitable for all ages. It asks no one for personal information, and the statistics it counts are anonymous and the same for every player, whatever their age.
Your rights
Data-protection laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights over personal data held about you. The statistics can't be tied to you, and we hold nothing that identifies you. If you'd like this confirmed, or want to ask anything about it, write to the address below.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, for example because a future version of the game adds something that needs data, the new policy will be posted here with a new date before that version is released.
Contact
Bendigo Games, Australia · support@bendigogames.com
Last updated: 8 November 2026