Tidepools — pour until every pool is one colour
Tidepools collects nothing. Not a little — nothing.
There is no account, no sign-in, no cloud save, no advertising and no measurement of any kind. The app holds which boards you have finished and how you like things set up, writes that into its own private folder on the phone, and that is the entire story. None of it travels, and none of it reaches us.
What follows spells that out: what is saved, what the app is not allowed to touch, what Google sees because the app is on Google Play, and what you can ask of us. It covers the Android app named above.
Bis Invest AS makes and publishes Tidepools, from Sør Kolnesvegen 112, 4055 Sola, Norway, with Bjørn Inge Sanne answering for it. The company builds software and offers no financial services, whatever the name suggests.
Data protection law would call us the controller for this app. The title fits awkwardly here, since the app puts nothing personal into our hands at all. Where it does apply is email, which has a pool of its own further down.
The address for anything in this document is pour@bisinvest.quest.
Three sorts of thing, none of which describe a person:
There is no name, no email, no account, no device identifier, no advertising ID and no timestamped record of when or how often you play. Android keeps each app's private folder out of reach of every other app on the phone, and that folder is where all of the above lives.
Tidepools requests no internet permission. That is a stronger statement than a promise, because Android enforces it: an app built without it is prevented by the operating system from opening a connection, no matter what its code would like to do. Nothing can leave, by design rather than by policy.
It also holds no permission for the camera, the microphone, your location, your contacts, your photos or your wider storage. A puzzle about pouring coloured water has no business with any of them. If the phone buzzes gently as a pour lands, that is the vibration motor, which needs no permission and reveals nothing.
There are no ad networks in this app, no analytics library, no crash reporter, no attribution kit and no social sign-in. Nobody is paid per impression here.
That matters more than usual in this genre. A quiet colour puzzle is exactly the sort of thing a child plays, and casual games are where ad targeting reaches children most often. Since Tidepools shows no advertisements and gathers nothing from anybody, there is no profile to build from a child's play, no audience to sell, and no age question worth asking, because no answer would change anything.
Not a privacy matter strictly, but it belongs beside one, because most of what casual games collect exists to make people play longer. This one has no timer, no lives to run out, no energy bar to wait on, no streak to break, no daily reward for coming back, no notifications nagging you to return, and nothing to buy.
Put a board down mid-solve and the app will not chase you. It will still be there, exactly as you left it, whenever you feel like it.
One thing happens above the app's head. If backup to Google Drive is switched on for your phone, Android may copy the small progress-and-settings file into your own Google account along with everything else it backs up. That copy is yours, governed by Google's terms rather than ours, and invisible to us — we have no account there to look in.
It is also the only way a set of finished boards survives a new phone. Android's own settings turn it on or off, for everything at once or for this app alone.
Installing anything from Google Play is a transaction between you and Google, recorded under your account. What comes back to a developer afterwards is a console full of totals: installs by country, which Android versions are in use, how the rating is moving. There are no individual rows underneath those numbers that we could open, and nothing in them touches your progress.
Google's side of it runs under Google's own privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.
Everything sits in one folder, so there is one thing to remove and nobody to ask. Uninstalling the app takes the progress, the saved board and the settings with it. If you would rather keep the game but start from a blank slate, Android's app settings offer to clear its storage, which resets every board to unplayed.
Both happen at once and cannot be undone, and neither needs anything from us, because there was never a second copy to delete.
Email is the single moment at which personal data actually arrives: your address, and whatever you put in the message. It is used to reply and for nothing else — no mailing list, no sale, no forwarding. A thread stays while the question is live and for a reasonable while afterwards in case it comes back, then goes.
Our basis for keeping it is the legitimate interest in answering someone who wrote to us. Nothing in an email can be joined to anything in the app, because the app carries no identifier to join it to. Ask us to delete an exchange and it is deleted.
Norway applies the General Data Protection Regulation through personopplysningsloven. It gives you the right to ask what is held about you, to receive a copy, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict how it is used, to object, and to have it handed over in a portable form. In this case those rights land on our email correspondence, because that is the only place anything of yours exists.
Ask at pour@bisinvest.quest and an answer comes within a month. If it is not good enough, Norway's supervisory authority is Datatilsynet at datatilsynet.no, and anyone living elsewhere in the EEA can go to their own national authority instead.
The date beneath the title is the version in force. Anything that truly changes what happens to data — collection of any sort, a third-party component, a transfer abroad — is published here before the release that brings it reaches Google Play, and the Data safety declaration in the console is corrected in the same pass.
Rewriting a sentence to read better is not that, and simply turns up with a later date.
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