Privacy

Last updated 17 August 2026

Beam is a puzzle game. It asks for as little as a game with a leaderboard can ask for, and this page says exactly what that is in plain language.

There is no account

You never sign up and you never give us an email address, a phone number or a password. The first time you open Beam it creates an anonymous identifier for your device so your progress has somewhere to live. It is a random string. It is not linked to you, and we have no way to turn it back into a person.

What is stored

Your progress: which levels you have cleared, stars, streak and coins.
The display name and mark you choose, if you choose one.
Your score for the current day, for the leaderboard.
Your settings, such as sound and reduced motion.

Your display name is public. If you set one, it appears on the leaderboard where every other player can see it, next to your mark and your score. Pick something you are happy being seen. You can change it at any time in your profile, and if you never set one you never appear on the board.

What is never collected

No email, no phone number, no contacts, no location, no photos, no microphone, no address book, and no advertising identifier. Beam does not track you across other apps or websites, and there are no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs in it.

Where it is kept

In Google Firebase (Firestore), on Google Cloud servers in the United States. Google processes it on our behalf as our hosting provider. It is not sold, and it is not shared with anyone else.

Deleting your data

Because the account is anonymous and tied to your device, deleting the app deletes your access to it — the progress cannot be recovered, on a new phone or anywhere else, and neither we nor Apple can restore it. If you want the stored copy removed as well, email us and we will delete it; you will need to tell us your display name so we can find the right record.

Purchases

Anything you buy is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your card, your billing address or your Apple ID. We are told only that a purchase succeeded, so we can hand over the coins or the unlock.

Children

Beam is rated 4+ and is safe for children to play. It shows no advertising, collects nothing that identifies a person, and has no chat or messaging. The only thing a child could publish is a display name, which is filtered and can be changed or left blank.

Changes

If Beam ever starts doing something this page does not describe — advertising is the likely one — this page changes first, and the date at the top changes with it.

Contact

Questions, or a deletion request: hello@overlaydeck.com