Privacy Policy
Tropical Berry Harvest (“the App”, “we”, “us”) is a single-player grove cultivation game for iPhone and iPad. This policy explains what the App does and does not do with your information.
1. Information we do not collect
- No account, sign-up, name, phone number or email is required to play.
- No advertising identifier (IDFA), no cross-app or cross-site tracking, no advertising networks.
- No analytics or behavioural profiling SDKs.
- No contacts, calendar, health, location or microphone data.
- No payment information — the App does not process payments.
2. Camera
The core mechanic of the App is reading light from what you photograph. When you grant camera access, frames from the live viewfinder are reduced on your device to a small set of numbers — seven spectral bands, a brightness value and a colour-variety score — which feed your plants.
- Camera frames are processed entirely on your device, in memory.
- Photographs taken inside the App are not written to your photo library unless you explicitly choose to save them.
- No image, frame or thumbnail is ever transmitted off your device.
- Camera access is optional. If you decline it, the App remains fully playable: the in-game “Glasshouse” provides light instead. You can change the permission at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Camera.
3. Photo library
You may import existing photographs to read light from them. Imported images are read on your device only, reduced to the same numeric values, and discarded — they are not copied into an App archive and not uploaded. If you choose to save a portrait of your grove, the App writes that one image to your photo library with your permission and reads nothing back.
4. Data stored on your device
Your progress — plants, genetics, seeds, tides, spectral readings, codex entries and settings — is stored locally on your device using standard iOS storage. It is not held on any server we operate. If iCloud device backup is enabled in your iOS settings, this local data may be included in your own encrypted Apple backup, which is governed by Apple’s privacy policy, not by us. Deleting the App removes its locally stored data from your device.
5. Support requests
If you contact us through our support page or by email, we receive the email address you provide, the subject you select and the message you write. We use that information solely to answer you and to diagnose the problem you report. We do not use it for marketing, and we do not sell or share it. Support correspondence is kept only as long as needed to resolve your request and for a reasonable period afterwards for follow-up, then deleted.
6. Children
The App is suitable for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. Because the App collects no personal data and requires no account, we do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information through a support request, contact us and we will delete it.
7. Your rights
Since the App stores your game data only on your device, you are in direct control of it: revoke camera or photo permissions in iOS Settings at any time, or delete the App to erase its data. For information you sent us in a support request, you may ask us to provide a copy of it or delete it by writing to the address below, and we will respond within a reasonable time and in line with applicable law, including the GDPR and CCPA where they apply to you.
8. Security
Because photographs and progress never leave your device, the main protection for your data is your device itself and the iOS sandbox. Messages sent through our support page are transmitted over an encrypted HTTPS connection. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we keep the amount of information we hold deliberately minimal.
9. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will post the revised version on this page and update the “Last updated” date above. Material changes will be reflected in the App’s release notes.
10. Contact
Questions about this policy or about your data: [email protected], or use the support page.