Privacy Policy – Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort by solution dev

📋 1. Overview

Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort is a free, offline casual puzzle game developed and published by solution dev. This Privacy Policy explains how the app handles your information — in short: it does not collect any.

This policy applies to the Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort Android application (com.tidyshelf.game) available on Google Play. It complies with Google Play's User Data policy, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) where applicable.

Plain-English summary: Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort runs entirely on your device. Nothing you do in the game is ever sent to us or to anyone else. We have nothing to sell, share, or lose, because we never receive it in the first place.

🗄️ 2. Data We Collect

We collect no personal data whatsoever. There is no account system, no login, no registration, and no sign-in of any kind required or available in this app.

Your current-session score is held only in the device's RAM while the app is open and is permanently discarded when you close or background the app. It is never written to disk, never synced to a server, and never accessible by us.

✅ No name or email

✅ No device ID / IMEI

✅ No advertising ID

✅ No IP address logged

✅ No location data

✅ No contacts or calendar

✅ No photos or files

✅ No microphone / camera

✅ No health or fitness data

✅ No financial information

✅ No app activity tracked

✅ No crash / diagnostic data

🔐 3. App Permissions

Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort declares exactly one permission in its AndroidManifest.xml:

VIBRATE — triggers brief haptic feedback during gameplay. Android classifies this as a "normal" permission that is granted automatically at install time without a user prompt. It does not access any personal data and cannot be used to identify, locate, or track you in any way.

No other permissions are declared or requested at any point. The app does not access the internet, Bluetooth, camera, microphone, contacts, phone state, storage, location, or any other device capability beyond vibration.

You can verify this yourself: on your device go to Settings → Apps → Tidy Shelf → Permissions and confirm only the single VIBRATE entry is present.

🌐 4. Network & Internet Access

Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort does not declare the INTERNET permission. The game is entirely self-contained: all logic, graphics, and audio run in an offline WebView loaded from the app's bundled assets. No network requests are made during gameplay under any circumstances.

The only network activity that can occur is when you deliberately tap an optional button:

📤 Share — hands off to Android's built-in share sheet. The app only passes a text string to the OS; it does not make any network call itself.
⭐ Rate Game — opens the Google Play Store app on your device. The app only launches a Play Store Intent; the Play Store app handles all network communication.

Additionally, the app's network security configuration enforces HTTPS-only connections and trusts only system certificate authorities — no HTTP cleartext traffic is permitted even if somehow triggered.

🔗 5. Third-Party Services & SDKs

This version of Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort contains no third-party SDKs, libraries, or services of any kind beyond the standard Android platform libraries.

🚫 No advertising (AdMob, Meta, etc.)

🚫 No analytics (Firebase, Mixpanel, etc.)

🚫 No crash reporting (Crashlytics, etc.)

🚫 No social sign-in (Google, Facebook, etc.)

🚫 No in-app purchases (Billing Library)

🚫 No cloud saves (Play Games, etc.)

🚫 No push notifications (FCM, etc.)

🚫 No A/B testing frameworks

If a future version of Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort adds any third-party service, this Privacy Policy and the Google Play Data Safety declaration will be updated before that version is published.

👶 6. Children's Privacy

Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort is rated Everyone (E) on Google Play and is designed to be suitable for players of all ages, including children.

Because the app collects no data from anyone, it does not — and cannot — collect personal information from children under the age of 13 (or the applicable minimum age in your jurisdiction). We comply fully with:

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
Google Play's Families Policy
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — Article 8

If you are a parent or guardian and believe we have inadvertently received any information about your child, please contact us immediately at tidyshelfgame@hotmail.com and we will address your concern promptly.

🛡️ 7. Google Play Data Safety Declaration

The following reflects the information declared in the Data Safety section of Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort's Google Play Console listing. These declarations are consistent with the technical implementation described throughout this policy.

Question	Answer	Notes
Does this app collect or share any of the required user data types?	No data collected	No user data types are collected or shared.
Is all of the app's data encrypted in transit?	Yes (N/A)	No data is transmitted. HTTPS enforced at network config level for any OS-level network calls.
Does the app provide a way for users to request data deletion?	N/A	No data is stored; nothing to delete. Uninstalling the app removes all session state.
Does the app allow users to request that their data be deleted?	Yes (N/A)	Contact tidyshelfgame@hotmail.com. No data exists to delete.
Does the app share user data with third parties?	No	No data is shared with any third party under any circumstances.
Is this app suitable for families / children?	Yes	Rated Everyone. No ads, no in-app purchases, no data collection.

☁️ 8. Cloud Backup & Device Transfer

Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort explicitly opts out of Android's Auto Backup and Device-to-Device Transfer features:

android:allowBackup="false" is set in the app manifest — the primary opt-out flag.
A backup_rules.xml file (for Android 6–11) excludes all storage domains from cloud backup.
A data_extraction_rules.xml file (for Android 12+) excludes all storage domains from both cloud backup and device-to-device transfer, with disableIfNoEncryptionCapabilities="true" for added protection.

No app data is ever backed up to Google Drive or transferred to a new device. This is by design — since there is no persistent game data to protect, backup functionality is disabled to minimise any unintended data exposure.

🔒 9. Security Practices

Although Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort collects no data, we follow security best practices throughout the app's technical implementation:

HTTPS enforced: The network security configuration blocks all cleartext (HTTP) traffic. Only system certificate authorities are trusted; user-installed CA certificates are not accepted.
WebView hardening: The in-app WebView has file system access disabled, geolocation disabled, cookies disabled (first and third party), database storage disabled, mixed content blocked, and media autoplay requiring a user gesture.
URL scheme allowlisting: The WebView's URL loading handler blocks all URL schemes except file:// (internal assets), https://, market:// (Play Store), and mailto://. All other schemes are blocked and logged.
JavaScript bridge security: The Android–JavaScript bridge uses an explicit allowlist of six commands, enforces input length limits, strips control characters, and applies a per-command rate limit (500 ms cooldown) to prevent abuse.
SSL error handling: SSL errors are always cancelled — the app never proceeds on an invalid certificate, in compliance with Google Play's security requirements.
Debug tools disabled in production: WebView remote debugging is enabled only in debug builds via a build flag and is always disabled in the release APK/AAB.
Code shrinking: Release builds use R8 minification and resource shrinking to reduce the attack surface and remove unused code.

⚖️ 10. Your Rights

Under GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable privacy regulations, you have the right to access, correct, export, and delete your personal data.

Because Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort collects no personal data, there is nothing to access, correct, export, or delete. Uninstalling the app removes all in-memory session state immediately. No data exists anywhere else.

If you have questions or concerns about how your privacy is protected, you may contact us at the address below and we will respond within 30 days.

🔄 11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy if the app changes. Any change that involves collecting personal data, adding third-party SDKs, or introducing advertising will be reflected in both this page and the Play Store Data Safety declaration before the updated version is published.

The "Effective" date at the top of this page always shows the date of the most recent revision. We encourage you to review this page periodically. Continued use of the app after a revised policy is posted constitutes acceptance of those changes.

✉️ 12. Contact Us

If you have any questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or Tidy Shelf: Match & Sort's privacy practices, please reach out:

Developer / Publisher: solution dev
Email: tidyshelfgame@hotmail.com
App package: com.tidyshelf.game
Response time: We aim to respond within 30 days.

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