Pigeon Post Privacy Policy
Last updated: 25 October 2026
Pigeon Post is a small idle pet game published by o9tech. You raise cartoon pigeons, send them on flights that take real clock time, and they come home with postcards. This page says what the app keeps, what it sends for crash reports and game statistics, what the ads inside it collect, and what you can do about it.
Who we are
o9tech publishes Pigeon Post on the Apple App Store and on Google Play. Questions about this policy or the game go through the contact form at o9tech.com/#contact. A person reads every message.
What stays on your phone
There is no sign-in, no account and no game server. Your loft itself is never uploaded. These things are stored only on your device and are deleted when you delete the app:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your loft: pigeons, names, crumbs, flights in the air, stamp album, settings, and the last 20 postcards you opened | So the game is where you left it. Flight times are saved as plain timestamps so a pigeon can land while the app is closed. |
| A local activity log (for example "a flight landed" or "an album page was completed"), capped at 4,000 lines | So we can tune timers and fix bugs on test phones. The log file itself never leaves the device. A short list of these events is also sent as anonymous game statistics, as the next section explains. |
| A postcard picture, made only when you tap Share | The share sheet needs a file. It sits in the app's temporary folder and is deleted after a day. |
| Scheduled "your pigeon is home" reminders, only if you turn them on | Local notifications set by the phone itself. They contain a pigeon name and a city and are never sent through a server. |
The game uses no GPS or location permission, no camera, no photo library and no contacts. The cities are drawn, not real places you are tracked to.
Crash reports and game statistics
If Pigeon Post crashes or hits an error, it sends a short crash report so we can fix the problem. We use PostHog, a service hosted in the European Union, to receive and store these reports for us. A crash report contains the error message and where in the app's code it happened, the app version, your device model, your operating system version and a random ID created when the app is installed. It does not contain your name, your pigeons' names, your postcards, your advertising identifier or anything you type. We use crash reports only to find and fix bugs, never for advertising or to track you.
Pigeon Post also sends anonymous game statistics to PostHog, so we can see which parts of the game people use and where they get stuck. These are short records of things that happen in the game, such as hatching a pigeon (its breed), sending a pigeon or seeing it land (the city and how long the flight took), opening or sharing a postcard, earning a stamp, buying an upgrade with crumbs, or watching an ad. Each record carries the same random ID, the app version, your device model and your operating system version. Game statistics never include your name, your pigeons' names, anything you type or your advertising identifier. We use them only to improve the game, never for advertising or to track you across other companies' apps.
When a crash report or a game statistic arrives, PostHog uses your IP address to work out an approximate location (country and city), then drops the IP address without storing it. Nobody is identified and no profile of you is built. You can read about PostHog in the PostHog privacy policy.
Sharing postcards
When you tap Share, the postcard picture goes to your phone's own share sheet, and from there only to the app or person you pick. There is no feed, no gallery of other players, and no upload by us.
Advertising
Pigeon Post is free and is supported by ads. We use Google AdMob, along with Google's advertising partners, to show a small banner on the Shop tab, at most one full screen ad in a session after you complete an album page, and short videos you can choose to watch for a Tailwind or a second souvenir.
Some of these ads may come from other ad networks that AdMob asks for an ad on our behalf: Unity Ads, Liftoff Monetize, AppLovin, Mintegral and Pangle. Their software is inside the app. When one of them serves an ad, it handles the same kinds of data as AdMob does for that ad.
To serve and measure ads and to prevent fraud, this ad software collects:
- your device's advertising identifier and other device identifiers,
- your IP address, which gives an approximate (coarse) location,
- your device type, operating system and language,
- how you interact with ads and the app (product interactions and advertising data),
- crash and performance diagnostics.
This data goes to Google, and to the partner that served the ad, encrypted in transit. We do not receive it. Google explains its handling in the Google Privacy Policy and in how Google uses information from apps that use its services. Each partner explains its own: Unity, Liftoff, AppLovin, Mintegral and Pangle. The ads are limited to content rated for teens and older.
On iPhone the app asks whether it may track you across other companies' apps and websites. If you choose Ask App Not to Track, ads still appear but are not personalized with your identifier, and the game plays exactly the same.
The Postmaster Pass on iPhone, and a Postmaster's Day you can unlock on Android by watching a video, switch off the banner and the full screen ad for as long as they last.
Consent in Europe and the UK
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the app asks for your consent before it requests any ad. You can change your answer at any time in Settings, Manage consent. Saying no never blocks any part of the game.
California and other US states
We do not sell your personal information. Where a state law gives you the right to opt out of sharing for targeted advertising, you can use your device settings (Tracking on iPhone, Ads on Android) and the app's consent settings. Google AdMob supports restricted data processing for these requests. The ad partners named above handle such requests under their own privacy policies.
Purchases
In-app purchases exist on iPhone only and are handled by Apple. We never see your payment details. The Postmaster Pass and the Mailbag are tied to your Apple ID and come back with Restore Purchases in the Shop or in Settings. Feather Tokens are used up when spent and cannot be restored. The Android version has no purchases.
Deleting your data
Because there is no account, deleting the app deletes everything the game stored. Crash reports and game statistics carry only the random ID, not your name, and a new ID is made if you install the app again. Ad data held by Google or by the ad partners named above can be managed through your device ad settings, your Google settings and each partner's privacy policy.
Children
Pigeon Post is rated 13+ and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you think a child has used the app in a way that worries you, contact us and we will help.
Reporting an ad
If an ad in Pigeon Post looks wrong, tap Settings, Report an ad, or write to us with a screenshot and the rough time. We pass it to Google, or to the partner that served it, and block that kind of ad where we can.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes and the new version is posted at o9tech.com/privacy/pigeon-post before it applies.