Summary
Christmas Toy Slider is a single-player puzzle game with no account system and no server behind it. Everything the game remembers about you — which shelves you have cleared, your stars, coins, energy, tasks and the frame you have equipped — is written into the app's own storage on your device and stays there.
In one line: we do not ask who you are, we do not collect anything, and there is no player record anywhere for us to look at. The game works the same with the network switched off.
What the game stores on your device
The game keeps one save file inside its own sandboxed storage area, in the folder iOS reserves for the app's support data. It holds only what is needed to carry on where you left off:
| What | Why it is kept |
|---|---|
| Levels cleared and the stars earned on each | To draw the level map and unlock the next shelf |
| Coin balance, energy and Shuffle cards | To show your resources and let you spend them |
| Task progress and which rewards you have claimed | To fill in the daily, story and lifetime tracks, and to stop the same reward being claimed twice |
| Items bought in the shop and the frame you have equipped | To keep your board looking the way you set it |
| Music and sound-effect switches, and whether you have seen the tutorial | To respect your settings on the next launch |
| A timestamp of when energy was last counted | To work out how much has refilled while the app was closed |
| The board you are mid-way through, if you close the app during a level | To offer to resume that shelf when you come back |
That is the whole list. This data is never transmitted anywhere. The app has no networking code for sending it, and we have no way to read it.
What we do not collect
The game does not ask for, and has no mechanism to collect:
- Names, email addresses, phone numbers or postal addresses.
- Passwords or account credentials — there are no accounts to hold them.
- Contacts, photos, the microphone, the camera or the calendar.
- Location of any kind, precise or approximate.
- Advertising identifiers, device fingerprints or any cross-app tracking signal.
- Crash reports or usage analytics of our own.
The game requests no system permissions at all. If your device ever prompts you for one on our behalf, something is wrong and we would like to hear about it.
Children
The game is suitable for all ages and is built so that it is safe to hand to a child: there is no chat, no other players, no user-generated content, no advertising, and nothing anywhere in the game that costs real money. Because we collect no personal information from anyone, we collect none from children either.
Third-party services
The game itself embeds no third-party SDKs — no advertising network, no analytics library, no social login, no attribution kit.
Two things sit outside the game and are worth naming plainly:
- The app store you installed from. Distribution and any download statistics are handled by the store operator under its own privacy policy. We see only the aggregate figures the store chooses to show developers, and those contain no individual identity.
- This website. It loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, so opening a page here makes your browser request those font files from Google's servers. That request is part of normal web delivery and is covered by Google's own privacy policy. This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and embeds no trackers or social widgets.
Purchases and money
There are none. The game has no in-app purchases, no subscription and no payment screen of any kind, so no payment information is ever requested, seen or stored.
About the coins: coins, energy and Shuffle cards are game features. They are earned by playing, spent inside the game, and cannot be bought, sold, cashed out or transferred. They carry no real-world value, and the game contains no gambling and no games of chance.
Your control over the data
Because the save lives entirely on your device, you can remove it yourself at any moment and without asking us:
- Deleting the app removes its storage, and the save with it.
- Each device holds its own separate, unconnected save. Progress on a phone is not visible to a tablet.
- If you restore a device from a backup that included the app, the save comes back with it in whatever state it was in.
Worth knowing: because we hold no copy, deleting the save is permanent. There is no restore, no transfer and no support request that can bring it back — so only delete the app if you are happy to open the shop again from level one.
Security
The save file is protected by the same operating-system sandbox that protects the rest of the app's data: no other app can read it, and it is covered by your device's own encryption when the device is locked. Since we keep no copy of anything, there is no player database on our side that could be breached.
Changes to this policy
If a future version of the game changes how data is handled, this page will be updated and the "last updated" date at the top will change with it. Anything material will be summarised at the top of the page rather than buried in a section.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or about anything the game stores, can go to Valesdarian@icloud.com. We read every message and aim to reply within a few working days.