Privacy Policy

In short

Surakarta: Birds on a Wire collects no data. There is no account, no sign-up, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. The game runs entirely on your device, and it works with the internet switched off.

The details

1. Information collected

None. The app does not collect, request or transmit any personal information. It does not ask for your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, location, calendar or health data, and it does not read them. There are no user accounts and no sign-in. No advertising identifier, device identifier or fingerprint is read, generated or transmitted.

2. What is stored on your device

To remember where you left off, the app saves your settings and your progress — sound and display preferences, unlocked chapters, puzzle progress, rank and statistics — in the standard iOS preferences store (UserDefaults) inside the app's own sandbox on your device. This information stays on that device. It is not sent anywhere, and no one but you can see it. Deleting the app removes it. It may be included in a device backup that you yourself make with iCloud or your computer; such a backup is under your control and is covered by Apple's terms.

3. No third parties

The app contains no third-party software development kits: no analytics, no crash-reporting service, no advertising network, no social network logins, no cloud database. Nothing is loaded from a server while you play, because the app carries everything it needs. There is therefore no third party that could receive data about you through this app.

4. No sharing, no selling

Because nothing is collected, nothing is shared, sold, rented or otherwise disclosed. There is no user database, no profile and no server operated for this app.

5. No purchases, no advertising

The app contains no in-app purchases, no subscriptions and no advertising, so no payment or advertising data is involved.

6. Children

The app is suitable for all ages and collects no data from anyone, children included. Because nothing is collected, no personal information of a child is ever stored, processed or transmitted, and there is nothing that a parent or guardian would need to request access to or have deleted.

7. Planned: online matches via Apple Game Center

A future version (1.1) is expected to add optional online matches using Apple's Game Center. If that feature ships, matchmaking and your Game Center nickname would be handled by Apple as part of the operating system, under Apple's Privacy Policy. It would remain optional and would work only if you choose to sign in to Game Center; the developer would still operate no server of their own and would still collect no personal data. This policy will be updated here before any such version is released, and version 1.0 is unaffected.

8. If you write an email

Support is by email only. If you write to the address below, your message and your email address are used solely to answer you, and they are not added to any list or used for any other purpose.

9. Changes to this policy

If the app ever changes in a way that affects privacy, this page is updated and the effective date at the top is changed. The current version is always the one published here.

10. Contact

For any question about this policy, write to the developer at uraloz97@gmail.com.