Privacy Policy for Tide & Trail

Privacy Policy for Tide & Trail

June 8, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Tide & Trail ("the Game", "we", "our") handles your information. We are committed to protecting your privacy. Please read this document carefully.

1. Overview

Tide & Trail is a casual geography trivia quiz game designed for short, friendly play sessions on mobile. Players travel themed continent expeditions and answer timed multiple-choice questions — identifying countries from their flags, naming capitals, matching landmarks to nations, and placing countries on the correct continent. The Game offers a passport stamp collection, travel-Miles currency, unlockable regions, cosmetic stamp-ink themes, achievements and mastery stats. Tide & Trail is designed with an offline-first approach: all game progress and preferences are stored exclusively on your device and never transmitted to our servers.

2. Data We Do NOT Collect

We do not collect, store, or transmit any of the following:

• Personal identification information (name, email, phone number, etc.)
• Account credentials or authentication tokens
• Device location or GPS coordinates (the Game does not request location permissions)
• Usage analytics, crash reports, or behavioral telemetry
• Advertising identifiers or tracking cookies
• Your gameplay patterns, session times, or in-game choices

3. Data Stored Locally on Your Device

The following data is stored only on your device using Android's DataStore, and is never sent to any external server:

• Quiz progress: which country stamps you have collected, unlocked expeditions (regions), expeditions completed.
• Highscores & statistics: best streak, total questions answered, total correct answers, accuracy, lifetime Miles earned.
• Currency & shop: current Miles balance, owned and selected stamp-ink themes.
• Achievements: which achievements are unlocked, including continent-completion bonuses.
• Preferences: theme (Light/Dark/System), sound effects on/off, and haptic feedback on/off, stored via Android DataStore.

All locally stored data remains under your full control. You may reset all game progress via the Settings screen, or uninstall the Game to remove all data permanently.

4. Third-Party Services — None

The Game does not communicate with any third-party services. All gameplay, questions, progress tracking, and features work entirely offline from a curated dataset bundled with the Game. This section does not apply.

5. Permissions

The Game requests the following permission(s):

• None. The Game functions entirely offline. Haptic feedback is provided through the standard Android view feedback API and does not require the VIBRATE permission.

The Game does NOT request:

• Location (GPS, coarse, background)
• Camera or microphone
• Contacts
• Phone state or identifiers
• SMS or call log access
• Photos, media, or file access

6. No Advertising or Analytics SDKs

Tide & Trail does not integrate any advertising networks (AdMob, Unity Ads, AppLovin, etc.), analytics SDKs (Firebase Analytics, GameAnalytics, Amplitude, etc.), or third-party tracking libraries. There are no ads of any kind within the Game, and no in-app purchases that require network communication.

7. Children's Privacy

The Game does not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. Since the Game collects no personal information from any user, it is safe for use by all ages.

8. Data Security

Because all game progress and user-generated data is stored locally on your device, the security of that data depends on the security measures provided by the Android operating system and your device (screen lock, encryption, etc.). We do not control how Android handles on-device storage security, but we do not expose any data to external parties.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected in an updated version of this document bundled with a new Game release. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page will be revised accordingly. Continued use of the Game after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

10. Contact

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: support.compassly@gmail.com