Last updated: 1 October 2026.
Who provides the game?
Compute Empire is provided by Havoc Forge Games, a trading name of Grey Kraken Ltd, company number 16162098, registered in England and Wales. Our registered office is 2 Bathurst Road, Coventry, United Kingdom, CV6 1HY. Grey Kraken Ltd is responsible for the information it handles to provide and support the game. For privacy questions and requests, email havocforgegames@gmail.com. This notice covers the Android game; the Havoc Forge Games website has its own notice.
Who the game is for
Compute Empire is intended for adults aged 18 and over and is not directed to children. It does not ask your age.
Progress and settings
The game stores your progress, choices, daily gifts, goals, league standing and settings (sound effects, server hum, vibration, reminders, battery saver and calm lights) on your device. The game does not upload them to a studio server, and there are no player accounts, cloud saves, chat or player uploads. They remain until you reset the game, clear its storage or uninstall it. Operating-system backup and restore depend on your device settings. We cannot read or delete a save held only on your device.
Reminders
If you turn them on (the game asks once, and there is a switch in Settings), the game schedules a few reminders on your phone when you leave it: for example when your earnings have piled up, a model has finished training or your daily gift is ready. There are at most two for each time you leave, none at night, and they are all cancelled when you come back. Your phone schedules and shows them; nothing is sent to us or anyone else. On Android 13 and later, Android asks for your permission first. You can turn reminders off at any time in the game's Settings or in your phone's notification settings.
Leaderboards (Google Play Games)
If you use Google Play Games on your phone, the League's Players page shows where you rank against other players. Play Games signs you in by itself if you already use it, or when you tap Sign in with Play Games. Only then does the game send Google Play Games two numbers: your empire score and how far it grew this week. It also shows the boards: other players' Play Games names and scores, and yours to them. The game never sends the company names you type in the game, your money or your save.
Google Play Games handles your Play Games profile (your gamer name and picture) and the scores. To run the service, it also collects analytics and diagnostics, sent encrypted. This is described in Google's privacy policy. You choose who can see your Play Games activity, and you can delete your Play Games profile, in the Play Games app or your Google Account. The game does not receive your email address or Google Account details, and does not keep your Play Games name. If you do not sign in, nothing is sent.
Advertising
- Reward videos: optional, played only when you tap a clearly labelled button, each giving exactly the reward named on it (for example double income for 30 minutes, a delivery rushed, a supply drone's crate five times over).
- Full-screen ads: occasional, only at natural breaks, such as after you close a card or claim a goal. Never in your first five minutes of play, never more than five in fifteen minutes, and at least two and a half minutes apart.
- Never: banners or ads at launch.
- Kind of ads: rated up to PG (parental guidance). Where you allow it, Google may personalise them.
Personalised ads and your choices. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google's consent form asks for your choices before any ad is requested. Ads are personalised only if you agree to that. If you agree to some purposes but not to personalised ads, Google shows ads that are not personalised. If you do not consent, the game shows no ads. In US states with privacy laws, Google's US privacy message lets you opt out of the sale or sharing of your information for targeted advertising. Elsewhere, Google may personalise ads using your device's advertising ID and how you use apps. Where Google's form applies, you can change or withdraw your choices at any time in Settings, Ad privacy choices (without consent the game shows no ads, and reward videos are no longer offered).
The advertising ID. Android gives your phone a resettable advertising ID. Google's ads service may read it to personalise ads, limit how often you see an ad and measure and protect ads, as your choices allow. You can reset or delete it in your phone's settings (on most phones: Settings, Privacy, Ads, or Settings, Google, Ads). Once it is deleted, it cannot be used to personalise ads.
To provide consent messages and ads, Google receives the connection's IP address and technical information about the app and device, such as app identity, the advertising ID where your choices allow, device and operating-system details, language and consent settings. Google stores consent records on the device. Google's use of this information is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. We do not receive this information from Google, apart from aggregate advertising reports.
Purchases
The game offers optional one-time purchases (No Ads, Double Income and the Starter Pack) through Google Play. Google Play handles the payment under its own terms and privacy policy; we never see your card or payment details. The game asks Google Play which of these purchases your Google account owns, and keeps that list on your device so they work offline and come back after a reinstall (Settings, Restore purchases). Google gives us order records, such as the order number, product, price, date and country, which we use for accounting, refunds and support.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal information, or to object to its use. Because the game keeps your data on your device, you can delete it at any time by clearing the game's storage or uninstalling it. For the information Google handles for advertising, use Settings, Ad privacy choices, reset or delete your advertising ID, or use Google's own controls. You can also contact us at the address above. You may complain to your data protection authority; in the UK this is the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).
Emails to us
If you email us, we receive your email address and what you choose to include. We use it only to answer you and keep it only as long as the enquiry needs, or as the law requires. Please don't send passwords, payment details or identity documents.
Changes
If the game changes how it handles information, we will update this notice and the date above before that version is released.