Last updated 10 August 2026
Cohort is a single-player game with no account, and the game itself runs on your device. This policy explains the small amount of data the app involves, who processes it, and why. It describes what the software actually does. If that ever changes, this page changes first.
Cohort (Cohort: Game Studio Tycoon) is published by J AND B CREATIONS LLC. You can reach us about privacy at support@playcohort.app.
The app has no login and no user accounts. Your game progress is saved as a single file in the app's own storage on your device. It is not sent anywhere, and we cannot see it. Deleting the app removes it.
Cohort has no account, and the game itself runs entirely on your device. It relies on a few third parties for purchases, one optional ad, leaderboards and product analytics, plus one small service of our own that delivers the two notifications you can turn on. Here is each one, what it receives, and why.
| Service | What it receives | Why |
|---|---|---|
| RevenueCat | A random app user ID it generates, plus purchase and receipt data, which is connected to the PostHog analytics identifier described below, and basic device and app-version information. No name, email, or address, because the app never collects one. | To manage your purchases and unlock what you bought. See the RevenueCat privacy policy. |
| Google AdMob | Device identifiers, IP address, and coarse device and ad-interaction data. On iOS the app does not request App Tracking Transparency, so the advertising identifier is not available and ads are non-personalised. | To deliver and measure the single optional ad and to prevent fraud. See the Google privacy policy. |
| Apple Game Center | Two integer scores: your final store rating and months survived. No text you write is ever submitted, so a studio name you type stays on your device. | To show the leaderboards. Apple handles player identity. See the Apple privacy policy. |
| Apple App Store | Handles the purchases themselves. Apple is the seller and processes payment. We never receive or store your payment details. | To sell and deliver in-app purchases. See the Apple privacy policy. |
| PostHog | A random identifier created on your device, which stays the same between sessions so your actions can be counted as one person's, plus which screens and actions happened, basic device and app-version information, and your IP address, from which PostHog works out an approximate location (roughly the region, not the street). It also receives crash and error reports: the type of fault, the message, the technical stack trace, and which screen the app was on at the time. No account, because there is none. No name, email, or address. No text you write, so a studio or title name you type stays on your device. | To count how the game is actually used, to see which of the two paywalls people prefer, and to find out when the app breaks. Analytics and diagnostics only, never advertising, and never linked to you across other apps. See the PostHog privacy policy. |
| Our push service | A push token, a random app id, your app version and language, and whether each of the two message types is switched on. Only if you turn a notification on: leave both off and the app never registers you, and turning the last one off deletes the record rather than silencing it. | To deliver the weekly scenario drop and the end of run summary, and nothing else. It is our own server rather than a third party, so there is no other company's policy to read. Apple and Google carry the message to your device, the same way they carry any notification. |
Cohort shows one kind of ad: an optional rewarded video that plays only when you tap a button to watch it. There is no banner, no full-screen ad between screens, and no ad on launch.
Whether that ad is personalised depends on your device and where you are. On iPhone and iPad the app never asks for App Tracking Transparency, so the advertising identifier is not available to it and the ad is not personalised. On Android, where the law requires consent and you decline, it is not personalised either. On Android elsewhere, it may be personalised using Google's advertising identifier. You can reset or delete that identifier in your Android settings at any time.
For install measurement on iPhone and iPad the app uses Apple's SKAdNetwork, which reports conversions to Apple without identifying you.
Where the law requires a choice, including in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, the app asks for your consent before it uses data for advertising.
Cohort sends two kinds of notification and both are off until you turn them on: the weekly scenario drop for Studio Pro subscribers, and one summary after a title ends. The app never asks for notification permission on its own. It asks only if you switch one on from the notifications screen, so if you never open that screen you are never asked.
Cohort does not send re-engagement notifications. Nothing is triggered by you being away, and there is no message designed to bring you back. If you turn both switches off, the app removes you as a subscriber rather than keeping you reachable.
When the app crashes or hits an error it could not recover from, it sends a report. That report contains the technical fault, a stack trace naming the code that failed, the screen you were on, and the app version and device model. It does not contain your save file, your studio or title names, or anything you typed.
The report is sent on the next launch, because an app that has already crashed cannot send anything. If you delete the app before opening it again, the report is never sent.
This exists so a fault gets fixed in days rather than sitting unnoticed. It is kept deliberately narrow: enough to find the bug, and nothing that describes you.
The app records product events: which screens you open, which actions you take, and which version of the paywall you saw. There is no account, and we never receive your name, email, or anything you type.
Being clear about what this is, because it is easy to overstate: the app creates a random identifier on your device and sends it with every event, so your actions are counted as one person's rather than as a crowd. It is not your name and it is not shared with other apps, but it does mean your activity in Cohort is connected to itself over time. That identifier is also attached to your purchase record, so a subscription can be matched to the behaviour that led to it. Deleting the app ends it.
Like any service the app talks to, PostHog sees the IP address your connection comes from, and it uses that to record an approximate location: the country, region and nearest large area, accurate to a couple of hundred kilometres. It is not your address and the app never asks your device for its location.
Amounts such as an acquisition budget are grouped into ranges rather than sent exactly, so the precise numbers from your run are never transmitted.
The website at playcohort.app uses PostHog for website analytics: which pages are viewed, how far down a page you scroll, which links and app-store badges you click, and any JavaScript errors or failed requests the page hits. These are keyed to a random identifier stored in a first-party cookie on your device that stays the same between visits, so your actions can be counted as one person's. It is not linked to your name, email, or account. PostHog also derives an approximate location (city level) from your IP address. We do not set advertising or cross-site tracking cookies, and we do not use session replay. These analytics cookies are set only after you accept them in the cookie banner, and you can change your choice at any time using the Cookie settings link in the footer. This site also uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless: it counts page views and records performance timings without setting cookies or storing anything on your device. Because it stores nothing on your device, it runs whether or not you accept analytics cookies. This is separate from the in-app analytics described above.
Cohort is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. It is a satirical simulation intended for a general adult audience. If you believe a child has provided data through the app, contact us at support@playcohort.app and we will address it.
Because the app is available worldwide, data-protection laws such as the EU GDPR, the UK GDPR, and the California Consumer Privacy Act may apply to you.
The app itself holds no personal profile of you. There is no account, and the save file stays on your device. The limited data described above is held by the third parties named, each acting under its own policy. To exercise rights of access, deletion, correction, or objection, you can:
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.
On-device data lives until you delete the app. The data held by RevenueCat, Google, Apple, and PostHog is retained according to each company's own policy, linked above. The one thing we hold ourselves is the push record described above, and only while a notification switch is on. Turning both off deletes it, and so does deleting the app and emailing support@playcohort.app.
If this policy changes, we will update this page and change the date at the top. Because the app has no account, we cannot email you about changes, so the current version always lives here. This policy was last updated on 10 August 2026.
This page describes what the Cohort software does with data. It is written to be accurate, not to be exhaustive legal boilerplate.