WRECKANICS
01Scope and responsible publisher
Wreckanics develops and publishes Porchward, package com.wreckanics.porchward. This policy covers the Porchward mobile app, the Porchward web edition and pages on wreckanics.com, and support requests about Porchward.
The app has no Wreckanics account, login, public profile, chat, multiplayer messaging, or user-generated content. Wreckanics does not receive a copy of your local puzzle history as part of ordinary play.
02Data kept by the app
Porchward stores game information locally so it can resume play and enforce its rules. This includes campaign progress, current and completed levels, best move counts, achievement proof and pending provider reports, sound and haptic preferences, hint-use timestamps and balance, successful rewarded-action timestamps and cooldown, rewarded frontier unlocks, automatic-interstitial active-play timing, due state and rolling attempt history, and a cached Full Access entitlement state.
This information is associated with the app installation and device storage, not a Wreckanics player account. It may still be included in or restored from platform-level device backup or transfer systems, depending on the platform and its behavior.
On iPhone and iPad, Porchward also keeps a copy of this game information in your own iCloud key-value storage, so progress can follow your Apple ID to another device or a reinstall. Apple stores this copy under your Apple ID. Wreckanics cannot read, receive, or delete it, and it contains no name, email, or contact details.
03Web edition on wreckanics.com
The web edition of Porchward plays in your browser. It saves progress, best moves, preferences and hint timing only in that browser's own storage on your device; Wreckanics does not receive it.
The web edition shows no ads, offers no purchases, and has no account, cloud save or achievement service. Like the rest of wreckanics.com it uses Google Analytics, described below, to count visits and gameplay milestones such as starting and finishing a level. Clearing the site's data in your browser deletes your progress.
04Apple Game Center and Google Play Games achievements
On a supported signed iOS or Android app, Porchward can use Apple Game Center or Google Play Games Services to authenticate the current platform player, load provider-hosted achievement progress, and report achievements earned through completed Porchward gameplay. The optional Achievements entry opens the provider's achievement screen. Porchward does not create a Wreckanics player account, and declining or being unable to use the platform service does not block ordinary puzzle play.
Porchward keeps a local monotonic achievement-proof ledger and pending-report outbox so earned progress can be retried without duplicate or decreasing reports. Pending acknowledgements are separated using only an opaque one-way hash of the platform player scope. Porchward does not store the provider's raw player ID or copy the player's display name, avatar, friends, email, contacts, or social graph.
Apple or Google separately controls authentication and the achievement records attached to the player's platform account. Remote achievement progress can be reconciled as a reporting floor, but it cannot restore local puzzle history, mark a level complete, unlock a campaign level, grant hints or ad rewards, or grant Full Access.
05Advertising and privacy choices
The free version can use Google Mobile Ads for interstitial ads and optional rewarded ads. Google User Messaging Platform, or UMP, checks whether a consent or privacy-options form is required for the device or region before Porchward requests ads. When Google says a privacy-options form is required and available, it can be opened from Privacy & Data in the app to review, change, or withdraw a choice.
Google's Mobile Ads SDK disclosure states that the integrated SDK automatically collects and shares IP address, which can be used to estimate general location, user product interactions, diagnostic information, and device or account identifiers. Google uses these categories for advertising, analytics, and fraud prevention. Consent choices, device settings, and the configured release can affect advertising identifiers, personalization, and which configured advertising partners process data. Refusing or changing a choice can affect which ads are available, but it does not remove normal access to the campaign through level completion.
On iOS, Porchward shows Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt once, after Google's consent form where that form is required, and in every other region as well. The prompt asks whether the app may use your device's advertising identifier (IDFA) for advertising. If you decline, or later turn tracking off in iOS Settings, ads can still appear but without that identifier.
If Google's consent check cannot be completed, for example without a network connection, Porchward does not request ads and tries the check again later in the session.
To avoid a wait at a result screen or the hint offer, Porchward can request one ad shortly before it is expected to be shown: an interstitial once its opportunity has been marked, or a rewarded ad when the hint balance is low or right after a reward. A requested ad that is never shown is replaced after about 50 minutes. Requesting an ad early does not change how often ads appear.
An ad reward is granted only after the advertising service confirms it was earned. Closing, failing, interrupting, or being unable to load an ad does not count as a successful reward.
06Hints, rewarded ads, and interstitial timing
Standard play provides 5 free hints in a rolling 24-hour window. Once in that window, an optional rewarded ad can double the day's allowance to 10. When hints run out, a successful optional rewarded ad can refill the available hint balance to 10, or unlock only the next level at the current campaign frontier.
Hint refill, daily double, and frontier unlock rewards share a 90-second cooldown and a maximum of 12 successfully granted rewards in a rolling 24-hour window.
Automatic interstitial timing starts only after level 3 is completed. From then on, every 3 cumulative minutes of active, unpaused, foreground puzzle play marks one opportunity, using gameplay from later levels and replays. Menus, result screens, loading, ads, pause, background time, and Full Access time do not count. Active-play time carries over between sessions, but an opportunity carried into a new session is not presented until at least 90 seconds of active play in that session. A marked opportunity waits for the next completed result and never interrupts active play.
Porchward permits no more than 6 automatic interstitial attempts in a rolling hour and 12 in a rolling 24-hour window. It does not accumulate time or stack delayed ads while an opportunity is due, a cap is reached, or Full Access is active. The opportunity is consumed even if consent, connectivity, inventory, provider failure, result navigation, or interruption prevents an impression, and no automatic ad blocks progression.
07Full Access and purchase processing
Full Access is intended as a one-time, non-consumable in-app purchase. It removes interstitial ads, provides unlimited hints, and grants the same next-frontier unlock benefit without watching a rewarded ad.
Apple App Store or Google Play processes the payment. RevenueCat validates and synchronizes the entitlement and can process an anonymous App User ID, device and operating-system technical information, last-seen time, product identifier, entitlement status, Apple receipt or Google purchase token, and purchase diagnostics needed to grant, restore, refund, or revoke Full Access. Porchward does not receive your full payment-card details.
08Wreckanics website and support mail
The public Porchward landing, privacy, and support pages and the web edition do not use the mobile advertising or purchase SDKs. They use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use our games: pages viewed, clicks on store and play buttons, approximate location derived from IP address, device and browser type, and, in the web edition, levels started and finished. Advertising features are off. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google Analytics stores nothing on your device until you accept it in the banner, and you can decline. Google processes this data under its own privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy). Like most hosted websites, the hosting and security infrastructure can process request logs such as IP address, request date and time, requested path, browser or user-agent information, referring page when supplied, response status, and security diagnostics. These records are used to deliver the pages, maintain reliability, and investigate abuse or attacks.
If you email support or the privacy contact, Wreckanics receives the address, message, and attachments you choose to send. Do not send passwords, full payment-card details, advertising identifiers, or unnecessary personal information.
09Retention
The active local game record, including the achievement-proof ledger and pending-report outbox, remains until it is replaced by newer state, expires under a rolling rule, is cleared through device controls, or the app is removed. A platform backup or restore may retain or restore a copy outside the active installation. On iOS, the iCloud copy remains under your Apple ID after the app is removed.
Apple Game Center, Google Play Games Services, Google advertising, the platform store, RevenueCat, website hosting providers, and email providers retain information under their own policies and as needed for delivery, security, fraud prevention, accounting, transactions, and legal obligations. Wreckanics keeps support mail and operational website logs only for as long as reasonably needed for the request, security, records, or applicable law.
10Sharing, security, and your choices
Wreckanics does not sell personal information. Information is disclosed to the service providers described in this policy only as needed to provide platform achievements, ads, consent choices, purchases, entitlement restoration, website delivery, email support, security, and legal compliance. Google advertising can also involve the ad technology partners selected in the AdMob publisher configuration.
Wreckanics uses reasonable administrative and technical safeguards appropriate to the limited information it controls, but no device, transmission, hosted service, or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.
Privacy rights vary by location and can include access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, or an appeal. Email privacy@wreckanics.com to make a request about information controlled by Wreckanics. Identity or interaction details may be needed to verify the request. Wreckanics may not be able to identify data that exists only in local app storage, and provider-controlled data may require a request through Google, RevenueCat, the platform store, the hosting provider, or the email provider.
11Deletion and restoration
Clearing Porchward app data or removing the app deletes the active local copy of progress, achievement proof and pending reports, preferences, and economy history. Android backup and device transfer are disabled in the Porchward app configuration, but platform backup and restore behavior can vary, and a platform may retain or restore app data.
On iPhone and iPad, removing the app does not erase the iCloud copy of your game information. Reinstalling Porchward on a device signed in to the same Apple ID restores that progress. iCloud settings on the device and your Apple ID control this storage; Wreckanics cannot access or delete it.
Removing the app does not erase Apple Game Center or Google Play Games achievement records, Apple or Google purchase history, RevenueCat entitlement records, support email, website security logs, or records a provider must retain. Platform achievement records are managed through the player's Apple or Google account and may remain after uninstall, but they do not restore or unlock Porchward campaign progress. Reinstalling with the same store account may restore Full Access. Because Porchward has no Wreckanics account, there is no separate in-app account-deletion process.
For a privacy or deletion request about information held by Wreckanics, email privacy@wreckanics.com and describe the relevant interaction, such as a support message. Provider-controlled records may require a request through that provider or platform store.
12Children and audience settings
Porchward is a puzzle game without accounts, chat, public profiles, or user-generated content. It does not ask a player to enter an age or submit contact details during ordinary play.
The audience classification shown in each store listing, the advertising configuration, and applicable child-privacy rules determine how the released app must be treated. Wreckanics does not use this policy to assume that every player is an adult. A parent or guardian who believes a child sent personal information through support can contact privacy@wreckanics.com so the request can be reviewed.
13Questions, requests, and changes
For privacy questions or requests, email privacy@wreckanics.com. For gameplay and purchase support, use the Porchward support page or email dev@wreckanics.com.
This policy may be updated when the released SDK configuration, store declarations, website services, or data practices change. The effective date at the top identifies the current published version.