Acequia privacy policy
Last updated: 5 November 2026
Acequia is a puzzle game made by Nil Studio. It has no accounts, shows no advertisements and doesn’t track you. How you play stays with you, on your devices and in your own Apple Account, and Nil Studio never sees it.
Your gardens and settings
Your progress through the gardens (which gardens are in bloom and the fewest pours each took, the hints, notes and pieces you have seen, and a note that you have made the purchase) is stored on your device. So are your Sound and Haptics settings, which are kept on each device alone. Acequia doesn’t send your progress, your moves or anything about how you play to Nil Studio, or to anyone other than Apple, as the next two sections say.
iCloud: your progress on your other devices
Where you are signed in to iCloud, Acequia also keeps your progress, as described above but not your Sound and Haptics settings, in iCloud’s key-value storage. That is how your other iPhones, iPads and Macs signed in to the same Apple Account have it, and how it comes back if you delete Acequia and install it again. This is Apple’s service, in your own Apple Account: Apple holds it for you under Apple’s terms, and Nil Studio can’t see it, read it or change it. If you aren’t signed in to iCloud, or you have turned it off on a device, your progress stays on that device alone.
Game Center: your achievements
Acequia gives achievements, for finishing a chapter or meeting a new piece, for example. They are reported to Game Center, Apple’s service, only where you are already signed in to Game Center on your device. Acequia never asks you to sign in, and plays the same without it. Game Center keeps your achievements under your Game Center account, under Apple’s terms. Nil Studio doesn’t receive them, and Acequia doesn’t store or send your Game Center name or ID.
Purchases and RevenueCat
Apple processes the in-app purchase. Acequia uses RevenueCat, a purchase service, to show the purchase, confirm it and restore it. For that, RevenueCat receives the purchase record from Apple, an anonymous app user ID created by the app, and technical information needed to provide the service, such as the app’s version and the device’s operating system. The anonymous ID isn’t linked to your name, email address or Apple Account. We use this information only to provide and restore your purchase and to count purchases. We never receive your payment details.
Read RevenueCat’s privacy policy and Apple’s privacy policy for how their services handle information.
Counting installs: appGlance
The first time Acequia is opened on a device, it sends one message to appGlance, an analytics service run by Ludyem AS in Norway, so we can count how many times the game is installed. The message holds a random ID made for this install, which isn’t linked to your name, email address or Apple Account; the app’s version; the device’s operating system and its version; the country of your device’s region setting (not your location); the time; and the date the App Store first gave you the app. The ID is kept on your device. The message is sent once, and nothing about how you play is ever sent. appGlance stores it in the European Union for up to a year and doesn’t use it for advertising or sell it.
Read appGlance’s privacy policy.
No ads, no tracking
Acequia contains no advertising, and no analytics beyond the install count above. It doesn’t use Apple’s advertising identifier, doesn’t measure ad campaigns, and doesn’t track you across other companies’ apps or websites. Apart from Apple’s own services (the App Store, iCloud and Game Center), RevenueCat, which is for the purchase, and appGlance, which counts installs, Acequia connects to nothing.
Children
Acequia asks no one for personal information, children included.
If you contact us
If you email us, we use your email address and what you write to answer you and look into your question. Please don’t send passwords or payment details.
Keeping and deleting information
What Acequia stores on your device stays there until you delete the app. Your progress in iCloud and your achievements in Game Center are kept by Apple for you, under your Apple Account; Apple’s settings and policy say how long and how you can remove them, and Nil Studio can’t delete them for you because it can’t reach them. Purchase records may need to be kept to restore your purchase, prevent fraud or meet legal obligations; RevenueCat’s and Apple’s policies describe how long they keep theirs.
We hold no progress, gardens or achievements of yours, so there is none of that to ask for or delete. The install record appGlance keeps isn’t linked to you, so we can’t tell which one is yours; appGlance deletes it after a year at most. You can ask us what other information we hold about you, or ask us to delete it, at support@madebynil.com. Depending on where you live, you may have further rights over your personal information.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, this page will say so and show the date. For any privacy question, email support@madebynil.com.