For parents and carers
What your child sees here
Pixelripper's games are free to play and made for kids through teens. Here's exactly how ads, payments and data work.
Ads
Riptide: at most one short ad per game you play, after the Tide 2 boss, and never more than one every three minutes. Never during play, never when the page opens, and no "watch an ad for a reward" offers.
Rock Pool: Rock Pool can show short ad breaks, but its ads are switched off for now. When they're on, there's at most one ad break after you solve the day's Daily puzzle, shown before your stars appear. In Practice and Last 7 days there's at most one break for every three puzzles you solve. There's never an ad in the middle of a puzzle, never after the first puzzle of a visit, and never on the title screen. There are no "watch an ad to get a reward" ads. Ads are marked as child-directed, so they aren't personalised. Buying "No ads" for Rock Pool (A$2) or the all-games pass removes them on that device.
Across the site:
- One labelled banner on the home page, below the Play buttons.
- Every ad request is marked child-directed, so Google turns off personalised ads and remarketing and applies its ad protections for children.
- If an ad blocker stops the ads, the games work exactly the same.
Remove ads
There's no need to buy anything: every game here is free to play with a small number of ads. If you'd rather have no ads, you can pay once to remove them in one game, or in every game with the all-games pass.
✓ Ads are removed on this device.
Removing ads in Riptide is free right now. It works in this browser on this device. Nothing is charged, and nothing about you is collected. Clearing your browser data brings ads back.
When paid options start (A$2 for one game, or A$6 for all games), this free setting will stop working and ads will come back on this device.
Each is one payment, no subscription, paid on Stripe's secure page. Each also hides the banner on our home page.
This costs real money. Ask a grown-up to do the next step. Grown-ups can turn this on for you.
Grown-ups only: type this number as digits, then press and hold Continue for 2 seconds.
What you get: no ads in Riptide, in this browser on this device.
Price: A$2, one payment, no subscription.
Already bought a single game? [UPGRADE POLICY: Stephen to decide. See UNLOCK-PRICING-DESIGN.md §3.]
Another device, or cleared your browser? After paying you'll get a restore code. It's also in your Stripe receipt.
Refunds: if this was bought by mistake, email support@pixelripper.com and we'll refund it. Your rights under Australian Consumer Law aren't affected.
Restore a purchase
Each purchase has its own restore code (RT-…), shown after paying and in its Stripe receipt. One code brings back everything bought in the same browser. If you bought on different devices, enter each code, one per line.
Privacy in one paragraph
No accounts, no chat, no analytics. Each game stores your child's progress (such as a high score), settings and ad choice on your device only. Ads come from Google with child-directed treatment. If you buy a Remove-ads option, Stripe handles the payment and we receive the payer's email address and the payment record. Full details: Privacy.