Privacy Policy

Information I Collect

No personal information. CrissCross doesn't ask you to create an account, doesn't include any third-party analytics or tracking software, and doesn't show ads. There's no sign-up screen and nothing to type in, so there's no personal information for me to collect in the first place.

The app does need one thing from your device: permission to check the App Store for your purchases, so unlocked categories stay unlocked. That check is handled entirely by Apple. CrissCross never sees the result.

Anonymous Usage Statistics

CrissCross keeps anonymous counts of how often each puzzle category is started and finished. Those counts are tallied on the device and sent to my own server as one small batch, at most once a day. I use them for exactly one thing: seeing which categories are popular and which are too hard, so I know what content to make next.

Each report contains only those category totals. It carries no name, no email address, no device or advertising identifier, and no location: nothing that links it to a person or a device. I can't tell which player any count came from, and I can't reconstruct anyone's play history. Reports go only to my own server; no third-party analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting services are involved, and nothing is ever sold or shared with anyone.

Like any internet service, my server briefly sees a connecting IP address in order to receive a request. I don't store it with the statistics and don't use it for anything. CrissCross still works fully offline: if a device never connects to the internet, nothing is sent and nothing changes.

Children's Privacy

CrissCross is designed for children, so I've designed it to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) the simplest way I know how: by not collecting any personal information from anyone. There are no accounts, no chat, no user-generated content, and no way for a child to enter their name, location, or any other personal detail into the app.

In-App Purchases

CrissCross uses one-time, non-subscription purchases. You can unlock a category bundle (or everything at once) with a single payment, and it's yours for good. There's no recurring billing and nothing to cancel.

Every purchase is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. CrissCross never sees or stores your card number, billing address, or any other payment details. Apple's own privacy policy covers that part.

Where Your Data Lives

Which puzzles you've solved syncs through your iCloud account on purpose, so your progress carries over if you delete and reinstall CrissCross, or open it on another device signed into the same Apple ID. That sync goes straight to your own iCloud account, not to a CrissCross server. I never see or have access to that data.

Everything else (your chosen color theme, medal drawings, and how far you've gotten mid-puzzle) is saved only on that one device, and won't survive deleting the app or carry over to another device. If you ever want a clean slate, Reset All Progress in Settings clears your solved-puzzle history everywhere, including the iCloud copy and any other device signed into the same Apple ID.

Changes to This Policy

If anything about how CrissCross works ever changes in a way that affects this policy, I'll update this page and change the date at the top. I'd only expect that to happen if I added a feature that works differently from the app described here.

Contact Me

Questions about this policy or how CrissCross works? Reach me any time at hello@crisscrosswords.app.