Privacy Policy

Deep Dark Abyss Productions ("we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use any of our mobile apps or visit our website.

1. How This Policy Is Organized

Every Deep Dark Abyss app falls into one of two kinds. On-device apps keep everything on your device and send us nothing. Games with DDAP Sigil add optional online features — leaderboards, Daily Challenges, friends, cross-device progress — through a single anonymous identity system, described in section 11. The rules in this policy are written for those two kinds, not for individual apps, so they apply to every app we release. The one place apps are named is the table in section 13, which says which kind each app is and what, if anything, it stores with us. Adding a row for a new app does not change what this policy promises; we revise the effective date when the rules themselves change.

2. Information We Do Not Collect

Our apps do not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, precise location, or any account password. We do not use third-party analytics or advertising SDKs, and we do not track you across other apps or websites. Games with DDAP Sigil store only the anonymous identity and game data described in section 11.

3. Local Data Storage

Gameplay data such as scores, settings and progress is stored on your device. For on-device apps that is the only copy; delete the app and it is gone. Games with DDAP Sigil also send the results their online features need to our servers, as described in section 11; your local copy remains yours to delete at any time.

4. Contact Information

If you contact us for support, feedback or inquiries through our website or by email, we use your email address only to respond. We never share, sell or use it for marketing. Contact us at info@deepdarkabyss.com.

5. Website Usage

Our website may record basic, non-personal information such as browser type and general (city or country) location to help us improve it. We do not use cookies for tracking or advertising.

6. Children's Privacy

Our products are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13. A DDAP Sigil holds no personal data (see section 11), but if we learn that we hold anything from a child under 13 that we should not, we will delete it promptly.

7. Third-Party Services

Some apps can integrate with device services such as Apple Health when you grant permission in your device settings. That integration is optional, controlled by you, and the data stays on your device. Games with DDAP Sigil use Google Cloud as our hosting provider (section 11); no other third party receives your data.

8. Data Security

Data on your device is protected by your device’s own security; keep it updated. DDAP Sigil data travels only over encrypted connections (HTTPS). Your Sigil’s sign-in credential is a random secret kept in your device’s secure storage, and our servers store only a one-way hash of it, so it cannot be read back even by us. Access to our servers is limited to the services that run the games and to us as their operator.

9. Policy Updates

We may update this policy to reflect changes in our practices or for legal or regulatory reasons. Changes to the rules are shown on this page with a new effective date. Adding an app to the table in section 13 is not a change to the rules. Continued use of our apps or website after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

10. Your Rights

For on-device apps there is no data with us to provide, correct or delete; removing the app removes the data. If you use a DDAP Sigil, you can see your gamertag and glyph in any of our games, change your gamertag at any time, see and manage your friends and blocked players, and delete your Sigil and everything attached to it — yourself, in any game, or by asking us — as described in section 12. If you are in a jurisdiction that grants further rights (access, portability, objection), email us and we will honor them for whatever data we hold.

11. DDAP Sigil

A DDAP Sigil is an anonymous player identity shared by all of our games that have online features. It lets you appear on leaderboards, play Daily Challenges, keep your progress across devices, and add friends, without an account, a name, an email address or a password. Depending on the game, a Sigil is created automatically the first time online features are used, or only when you ask for one; either way it is optional, and every game can be played without one.

What a Sigil consists of:

• A randomly generated Sigil ID, never shown to other players.
• A one-way hash of the sign-in credential held by each of your devices. Linking another device (by entering a short code) gives that device its own credential for the same Sigil.
• Your gamertag — one we generate, or one you choose (3–20 characters; not unique) — and a symbol (“glyph”) derived from your Sigil ID.
• If you use friends: a friend code you can share and replace, a public ID that identifies you to friends without revealing your Sigil ID, your friendships, pending friend requests, and the players you have blocked.

What each game stores: the results its own online features need — leaderboard entries, Daily Challenge attempts, streaks, best scores, and similar — together with when they were played and, where relevant, the device type (phone or tablet) and app version. Each game keeps its own records, tied to your Sigil ID. The table in section 13 says what this is for each game. Games never store your gamertag; they look it up from your Sigil when they show a leaderboard, so a name change appears everywhere at once.

How we use it: only to run the games’ online features — verifying results, showing leaderboards and stats, restoring progress on a reinstall or a new device, and connecting friends. We do not sell or share it, use it for advertising, or combine it with any other data about you.

What other players see: your gamertag, your glyph and your leaderboard results, in every game that has leaderboards. Some games hide the details of a Daily Challenge result until that day’s board is final. A player who has your friend code can see your gamertag and glyph before sending a request.

Friends: friendships are mutual and made only by exchanging friend codes (typed, shared as a link, or scanned) and accepting a request. There is no search by name, no messaging, and we never read your contacts. Your friends see you on the FRIENDS tab of each game’s leaderboards; nobody else can see your friend list, your requests, or whom you have blocked. Either friend can end a friendship at any time, silently; blocking a player also stops their requests. Your friend list belongs to your Sigil, so it is the same in every one of our games. Where an organization (for example a school class) has arranged for its members to be friends as a group, that is done with the organization’s agreement and any member can leave the group by removing the friendships in the app.

Where it is kept: on Google Cloud servers in the United States, operated for us by Google as our hosting provider. Like any web service, those servers keep standard request logs (including IP addresses) for security and troubleshooting; the logs are deleted automatically after a limited period and are not linked to your Sigil.

How long we keep it: for as long as your Sigil exists. If you stop playing, your Sigil and your results stay on the leaderboards until you delete it. Pending friend requests expire after 30 days.

Moderation: we may change a gamertag that breaks our rules, or suspend a Sigil that is used to cheat or to harass other players. A suspended Sigil cannot use online features in any of our games; its owner can still delete it.

12. Deleting Your DDAP Sigil and Data

In any game (immediate): open Settings → DDAP Sigil → Delete My Sigil and confirm. This permanently deletes your Sigil, gamertag, the credentials of every linked device, your friend code, friendships, requests and blocks, and every result and statistic held for you by every one of our games. The games then play offline. Progress stored on your device is not affected; delete the app to remove that.

Without the app: email info@deepdarkabyss.com with the subject “Delete my DDAP Sigil” and include your gamertag, a game you played, and roughly when (a screenshot showing your glyph helps). We may ask for details to confirm the Sigil is yours, and we will delete it and everything attached to it within 30 days.

Deletion cannot be undone. A record that the deletion happened, containing no personal data, is kept for 30 days so we can confirm every game has removed its part; server request logs are not linked to your Sigil and expire on their own.

13. Our Apps and What Each One Stores

This table is the only part of this policy that names apps. Every app follows the rules above; the table says which kind it is and, for games with DDAP Sigil, what that game keeps on our servers under your Sigil ID.

App	DDAP Sigil	Stored with us
Sprenzy	Yes (created automatically)	For each level and Daily Challenge you play: the level, where you placed your sparks, score and stars, whether it was your first try, when it was played, phone or tablet, app version; for the Daily Challenge, how long you studied the board before your official attempt.
Rokubo	Yes (asks first)	Your Daily guesses and hint use, wins, current and best streak, the dates you played, and, only if you choose to import them, your statistics from Sextet.
Popsana	Yes	Your highest level cleared and best level score for phone and for tablet, lifetime orbs popped, and a count of results.
Sextet	No	Nothing. All data stays on your device (and in your own iCloud, if enabled).
All other apps	No	Nothing. All data stays on your device.

When we release a new app, we add its row here. A game that later gains online features moves from “No” to “Yes” with a description of what it stores, and that game will ask you before creating a Sigil or tell you clearly that it has.