Privacy
Short version: Spoolie collects nothing personal. It sends only anonymous, aggregate usage counts, which you can turn off in Settings.
Effective date:
What we collect
Nothing personal. The app has no account or login, no advertising, no tracking and no third-party SDKs. It sends no personal data to us or to anyone else. The only thing it sends is the anonymous usage counts described below.
Anonymous usage statistics
To learn which levels are too hard and whether the game works well, the app counts a few moments of play, such as a level started, won or failed, a teaching card closed, the Full Workshop screen shown, a purchase started or finished (only the kind, like "tip" or "Full Workshop"), or a pattern shared. Each count carries only the event name, a small value (such as a level number), the app version, the day and a random session code.
- No identifier: no name, account, Apple ID, Game Center profile, advertising ID, device ID, receipt or iCloud data is ever included. The session code is random, kept only in memory, and replaced on every launch and after 30 minutes in the background; it is never saved on your iPhone.
- No IP address stored: our server (on Cloudflare) does not store or log your IP address. It stores the session code only as a salted hash with a daily salt, for at most 2 days, to count unique sessions; then only totals per day remain.
- Not linked to you and not used for tracking: the counts cannot be tied to you, are never combined with other companies' data, never shared or sold, and are used only for aggregate statistics to improve Spoolie.
- You decide: turn off Settings › Anonymous usage statistics and the app stops counting and deletes anything not yet sent.
iCloud
If iCloud is on, your progress (such as finished levels, your albums and whether Full Workshop is unlocked) is copied to your own iCloud key-value storage so it survives a reinstall or a new iPhone. Apple stores it under your Apple ID; we have no access to it.
Game Center
If you use Game Center, your number of finished patterns and your achievements are sent to Apple Game Center under your Game Center profile. Apple's privacy policy applies.
Purchases
Tips and the one-time Full Workshop unlock are in-app purchases processed by Apple. We never see your name, Apple ID or payment details; Apple only tells the app whether a purchase went through.
Sharing a pattern
When you tap Share on a finished pattern, the app makes an image card and opens the standard iOS share sheet. Nothing is sent unless you pick a destination yourself, and then it goes only where you chose.
If you write to us, we use your address and message only to reply, and we don't share them.
This website
This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics or third-party scripts. Our hosting provider (Cloudflare) briefly processes technical data such as your IP address to deliver the pages and protect them from abuse.
Children
Spoolie collects no personal data from anyone, including children; the anonymous counts above contain nothing that identifies a person.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the effective date above.