Calming Color Sort Privacy Policy
A little calm. Clear privacy.
This policy applies to Calming Color Sort from Northlight Studio. Other Northlight Studio games have their own policies.
Puzzle progress stays on-device. Free play includes Google ads and optional rewarded ads, with regional privacy choices and optional Apple tracking permission. Apple handles one-time purchases and restoration; Premium removes ads.
1. Your game progress stays on your device
Calming Color Sort does not require an account. Puzzle boards, completed and unlocked levels, moves, undo history, tutorial choices and earned hint/undo credits are stored on your device.
Your theme, sound, music, volume, haptic and color-symbol preferences are also stored locally. Hints are generated on your device, and the game’s music and voice recordings are bundled with the app.
We do not upload your puzzle progress to Northlight Studio or operate account-based progress syncing. Apple device backups may include this data, depending on your settings. Advertising and purchase services have separate data practices, described below. Puzzles remain playable offline; advertisements, purchases and restores require internet access.
2. Advertisements and related information
Free play includes Google AdMob advertisements between completed puzzles and optional rewarded advertisements for additional hints and undos. Premium removes advertisements.
Google’s User Messaging Platform manages applicable regional advertising privacy choices.
The app requests non-personalized advertisements, with publisher personalization and publisher first-party ID disabled. Non-personalized advertising does not mean no data collection, tracking or other data processing. Data practices depend on permissions, privacy choices and service configuration.
Google’s advertising services may process:
- IP addresses and IP-derived approximate location
- App and device identifiers, depending on permissions and configuration
- Advertisement views, clicks and other interactions
- App interaction information
- Crash, diagnostic and performance information
This information may be used to deliver and measure advertising, limit repeated ads, detect fraud, secure services and improve advertising performance. The app does not send your puzzle board or saved progress to Google.
Google and its advertising partners process information under their applicable policies and the privacy choices available to you. See Google’s privacy policy and advertising privacy information below.
Google advertising privacy information ↗
How Google uses information from apps that use its services ↗
3. Regional choices and optional tracking permission
Before requesting advertisements, the app uses Google’s User Messaging Platform to check applicable regional privacy choices. Depending on your location, you may see a consent or privacy-choice message. Where required, you can reopen Ad privacy choices in the game’s Settings. The messages and controls available to you depend on your region and configuration.
Where applicable regional choices permit, the app may also request Apple’s optional tracking permission. If you allow tracking, Google may use Apple’s advertising identifier for advertising measurement across other companies’ apps and websites. If you decline or tracking is restricted, the app does not obtain permission to use that identifier for tracking.
Declining tracking does not block gameplay or change rewards from an available rewarded advertisement. Declining does not stop all advertising data collection or processing: Google’s services may still process information described in section 2, depending on permissions and configuration. Regional choices may limit advertising, and advertisements may not always be available.
You can review Apple’s tracking permission in device Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Use the game’s Settings for available regional Ad privacy choices; these are separate controls.
Verified Premium players do not request advertisements while Premium access is active. Regional privacy checks and required privacy-choice controls remain separate from Premium access. Premium does not delete data previously processed by Google or other providers.
4. Apple purchases
Premium and additional landscapes are optional one-time in-app purchases, not subscriptions. Premium removes ads.
Apple processes payments and manages purchase records under its own policies. The app uses Apple’s verified purchase information directly to unlock and restore purchased content and recognize refunds or revoked purchases.
Northlight Studio does not receive your payment-card details.
Restore Purchases restores eligible Premium and landscape ownership, not lost local puzzle progress, preferences, earned credits or other local game data. Restoring requires an internet connection and the Apple Account used for the purchase.
See Apple’s Privacy Policy.
5. Backups and deleting local data
There is no Northlight Studio server backup of your progress. Apple’s device backups may include local app data, depending on your settings.
Deleting the app removes its local data from that device. Offloading on iOS removes the app but retains its documents and data for a later reinstall. Offloading is not a backup or recovery guarantee. Device backups may retain separate copies that you manage through Apple.
We cannot remotely recover or delete a server copy of your puzzle progress because we do not hold one.
Deleting or offloading the app does not automatically erase purchase records held by Apple, advertising data previously processed by providers, or support correspondence. Use the relevant provider’s controls or contact us about support correspondence.
6. Contacting support
If you email [email protected], we receive your email address and whatever messages, screenshots or attachments you choose to send.
We use this correspondence to respond to your request and resolve support issues, not for advertising. We do not automatically receive your game saves or device logs.
Our email provider and yours process correspondence under their own policies. Please do not send passwords, payment details or unnecessary personal information.
We retain correspondence as needed for support and applicable legal obligations. You may request its deletion, subject to those obligations.
7. Visiting our website
Opening a privacy or support page uses your browser and internet connection separately from gameplay. Our hosting provider may process ordinary request information, including IP addresses and browser details, to deliver and secure the website. Browser providers have their own data practices.
This website has no analytics, advertising trackers, email-capture forms or third-party embeds. It does not load in-game Google advertising services.
Visiting the website does not give us access to your local game progress.
8. Retention, international processing and privacy requests
Local game data remains on your device until removed through app deletion or device-management options. Apple and Google manage information they process according to their policies; their processing may occur outside your country.
Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal information, withdraw consent, object to certain processing, or complain to your local privacy regulator.
Contact us about information held by Northlight Studio. Use the relevant Apple, Google or in-app privacy controls for information and choices managed by those services.
9. Children’s privacy
Calming Color Sort is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically at children. Children should ask a parent or guardian before contacting support or making purchases.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to Northlight Studio through support correspondence, contact us to request its deletion.
10. Changes and contact
We will update this policy when the game’s data practices change.
For privacy questions or requests, email [email protected] with “Calming Color Sort Privacy” in the subject.