Privacy Policy

Idlewild Shore · last updated November 2026

What the app stores

Three things, all on your iPhone.

One file holding the shells you have picked up, so the drawer still has them next time and a few can sit on the windowsills in the shed and at the table. It records the shells and nothing else: no identifier, no dates, no session history, no count.

And the shed's record: which levels are solved, any work on a level you left halfway, which level you last had open, which how-to cards you have already seen and whether sound is on. A solved level is kept as solved and nothing more. Work left halfway keeps what is on the board, with the hints and tries it has taken so far, so it can carry on where you left it; it goes when the level is solved. No identifier, no dates, no times played. If the record is ever found damaged, the app keeps the last few unreadable copies alongside it rather than throw them away. In the shed's Settings, Hold to erase clears the levels, the work and the cards; the Sound switch stays as it is.

And two settings for the cottage table: which player, if either, gets help and how much. The one Sound switch is kept with these as well as with the shed's record. Nothing about the games themselves is kept: no scores, no winners, no times played.

All three live inside the app's own storage. Deleting the app deletes them. Like other app data it may be included in an iPhone backup you make yourself, to your own computer or your own iCloud account; that copy is yours and is not visible to me.

What the app does not do

• No analytics, telemetry or usage reporting.
• No advertising, and no advertising identifier.
• No tracking, and no data shared with anyone for any purpose.
• No third-party software development kits of any kind.
• No account, no email address, no name, no sign-in.
• No location permission. The sky follows the real sun, worked out on the phone from your time zone setting alone. That is never sent anywhere.
• No access to your microphone, camera, photos, contacts, calendar, health data or files.
• No push notifications.

Age range, where a law requires it

Some places now have laws that make an app find out which age band the person using it is in. Where your iPhone reports that such a law applies to you, the app asks the system once, using Apple's Declared Age Range feature, which never gives an app a birthday. Everywhere else it never asks.

The age band itself is not stored, logged or sent anywhere, and nothing in the app depends on it: the shore, the shed and the table are the same at every age.

Links

Settings, behind the gear in the shed and at the table, has links to this page and the support page. They open in your web browser, not inside the app.

Purchases

Idlewild Shore is bought once, from the App Store. The purchase is handled entirely by Apple. I never see your payment details, and the app itself stores nothing about the transaction.

What Apple may show me

If you have chosen in your iPhone's settings to share analytics and crash reports with app developers, Apple may show me aggregate, anonymized statistics: how many people downloaded the app, and crash reports with no identity attached. That is Apple's mechanism. It is off unless you turned it on, and the app plays no part in it. It does not identify you.

Children

The app collects nothing from anyone, which includes children. There is nothing in it that could identify a child, and nothing to delete on request beyond deleting the app.

Your rights

Rights to access, correct, export or delete personal data (under Canadian law, the GDPR or anywhere else) apply to personal data that has been collected. None has been. There is no copy of anything about you to send you or to delete, and deleting the app removes everything it ever wrote.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of the app ever does something this page does not describe, this page changes first, and the date at the top changes with it.

Contact

Questions about any of this: brown.jason10@gmail.com.