Privacy Policy

Paws & Plots ("the app") is published by Devflovv. The app is a native Android logic puzzle game for one player that plays fully offline, with unlimited boards generated on the device, a daily puzzle, a weekly board, an endless mode and a collection of cats and dogs to unlock. We collect no personal information and no usage data.

• We collect no data, and the app sends none to us or to anyone else.
• No account, no login, no sign-in, and no player name.
• No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising SDKs, no advertising ID, no tracking.
• No permissions requested, no internet permission, and no network requests.
• Version 1.0 is free, with no in-app purchases and no ads, and no ad network is contacted.
• Your progress and settings are stored by the app on your device. They are not included in cloud backup. If you move to a new phone with Android's device transfer, Android may copy them to it.

Nothing. The app does not collect, transmit or share any personal or usage data, and we never receive your progress or your settings. It has no account, no sign-in and no player name field. It contains no advertising, analytics or crash reporting software development kits (SDKs), and no other third-party code that collects data. It does not read the advertising ID, and it does not access your location, contacts, photos, files, microphone or camera.

The app does not declare any Android permissions. It does not request the internet permission and makes no network requests, so the app itself cannot connect to any server, ours or anyone else's. It shows no notifications.

Haptic feedback uses the vibration built into Android's touch feedback, which needs no permission. You can turn it off with the Haptic feedback switch in Settings.

One entry is added by the Android libraries the app is built with:

• DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION, added by AndroidX. It belongs to the app itself, is limited to apps signed with the same key, and keeps the app's internal messages private. It gives no access to your data or to the internet.

To keep your game going, the app saves the following in its private storage on your device, using Android's DataStore. Only the app can read it, and none of it is sent to us.

• Your game progress: the highest level you have reached, the stars and best time for each level, your fish, the cats and dogs you have unlocked and chosen, the levels you marked as favourites, your Daily puzzle results and streak, your missions, milestones and daily reward, your play statistics such as boards solved and pets placed, your best Endless run, and a board you left unfinished so you can carry on later.
• Your settings: music, sound effects and their volumes, haptic feedback, automatic crosses, theme, animation speed, and which first-time tips you have seen. The app's text is in English in this version.

Cloud backup is turned off for this app, so your progress and settings are not included in your Google account backup or any other cloud backup.

On Android 12 or later, if you move to a new phone with Android's device transfer, Android may copy the app's saved progress and settings to the new phone, so you can carry on where you left off. This is done by Android, not by the app, and only when you run a transfer. We never receive that copy.

Version 1.0 of the app is free. It has no in-app purchases and shows no ads. Fish, the game's currency, are earned only by playing, and they pay only for an extra hint or one more heart. Fish cannot be bought, no payment is ever taken, nothing is charged, and Google Play's billing system is not used. No ad is ever loaded and no ad network is contacted.

Before any advertising or billing SDK is added to the app, this policy will be updated to describe it.

The Daily puzzle, the Weekly Giant, the daily missions and the daily reward use only your device's date and clock. Each board is generated on your device from the date, so it stays the same board for the day or the week, but nothing is fetched from a server and your results are never sent anywhere or compared with anyone else's. The game has no online play, no other players and no rankings. Your best times are your own, kept on your device.

After you solve level 3, the app asks you once whether you would like to rate it. If you choose Rate on Google Play, the app opens the game's Google Play listing in the Play Store app or your browser. The app sends nothing itself, and any rating or review you choose to leave is handled by Google under its own terms. If you choose Maybe later, nothing is opened and the app does not ask again.

On the victory card you can tap Share to open Android's share sheet with one line of text about your result: the game's name, the board, your stars and your time. Nothing is sent unless you pick an app to share with, and then it goes through that app, under its own terms.

Rating and sharing are the only ways the app reaches outside itself, and each one starts only when you choose it.

We do not share, sell, rent or trade any data, because we do not collect any.

The app contains no advertising networks, analytics services or crash reporting services. The Android libraries it is built with, such as Jetpack Compose and DataStore, run inside the app on your device. If you install the app from Google Play, Google handles the download and updates under Google's own privacy policy.

The app collects no personal information from anyone, children included, and that includes children under 13. It has no account, no player name, no chat, no user-generated content and no way to contact other people. Because nothing is collected, there is no personal information about a child for us to hold, review or delete.

You can remove the app's data from your device at any time:

• Use Reset progress in the app's Settings. This erases your progress and keeps your settings.
• Clear the app's storage in your device's Android settings. This erases your progress and your settings.
• Uninstall the app to delete all of its data from your device.

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If the app ever starts collecting data, this policy will be updated before that version is released.

Questions about this policy? Email hello@devflovv.com.