Octopuzzle is a daily puzzle app from Tinkerers Labs. This policy explains what the app keeps on your phone, what it sends to our server, and how to delete it.
What stays on your phone
- Your settings, puzzle progress, streaks and history are saved on the phone.
- Puzzles you have downloaded can be played offline. Results are queued and sent later in the background.
- Your sign-in token for our server is kept in the iOS Keychain.
What we send to our server
Our server runs on DigitalOcean. To keep your streaks, stats and leaderboards working, the app sends:
- A random player ID created when you first open the app, and a token the app uses to talk to the server. Neither is tied to your name.
- Device details, sent on each launch: Apple's identifier for vendor (unique to our apps on your phone), iPhone model, iOS version, app version and build, phone language and region, time zone, and whether notifications are allowed.
- Your game results: which puzzle you played, the date, whether you solved it, the number of attempts, score, time taken and hints used, plus your guesses or board and the moves you made. The server uses the moves to check that a result is genuine.
- A display name, username and avatar, only if you choose to set them.
- Sign in with Apple, only if you choose it: Apple's private user ID for this app, the name you share, and your email address only if you share it. We never ask for it.
We do not use advertising or analytics SDKs, and we do not track you across other companies' apps and websites.
Players under 13
The app asks for your birth month and year once, the first time you do something that would collect personal information, such as setting a name. If you are under 13, you play without a display name, username or Sign in with Apple, and the server refuses them. Puzzles, streaks and stats work the same. We store an age band (under 13, 13 to 17, or 18 and over), never your birth date. The player ID and device details are used only to keep the app working.
Notifications
A daily reminder is optional and is scheduled on your phone. We do not collect a push notification token. We only see whether notifications are allowed.
This website
playoctopuzzle.com uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people read. Google sets cookies and receives your IP address, browser and device type, the pages you view and the site that sent you. The app does not use Google Analytics.
Who else receives data
- Apple: Sign in with Apple, and the App Store and TestFlight.
- DigitalOcean: hosts our server and database.
- Google: Google Analytics on this website only.
There are no ads, and we never sell or share your data with data brokers.
How long we keep it
Your account, devices and results are kept until you delete your account. Our server also keeps ordinary technical logs, such as errors and Sign in with Apple events, to run and fix the service.
Delete your data
In the app, open Settings and tap Delete account. It removes your account, device records and game results from our server, and revokes the Sign in with Apple connection if you have one. Data on your phone is removed when you delete the app. You can also email us and we will delete your account for you. If you used Sign in with Apple, you can also remove Octopuzzle from your Apple Account settings.
Withdrawing consent
You can turn off notifications in iOS Settings, stop using a name or username by deleting your account, and revoke Sign in with Apple from your Apple Account at any time.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top.