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What our games have in common

Ordinary gameplay works offline: the artwork, sounds, and game content are included with each app. Neither game asks for names, email addresses, location, or other personal details to play. There are no customer accounts, advertisements, or integrated third-party analytics or advertising SDKs. Oddpath Games does not operate a backend that receives gameplay histories or saved game photographs.

This does not mean that no information is ever processed. The apps process local game state; Apple handles purchases and platform services; we receive voluntary support emails; and our website host processes ordinary web requests. These are described separately below.

Little Big Day: gameplay and local information

Little Big Day is designed for young children and their families. Play arrangements and temporary settings are processed on your device. Current gameplay state is held in memory, rather than in an online account or cloud save. The operating system and app framework may maintain ordinary local app files and caches.

The Kitchen is free. The iPhone and iPad app includes an optional one-time, non-consumable Full House Unlock for the Backyard and Living Room. Purchase and restore controls are behind the app’s parent reading challenge. No Oddpath account is required.

Little Bird Watcher: local saves and game photographs

Little Bird Watcher stores garden preferences and progress on your device, including season and weather selections, feeder and birdbath state, birdhouse configuration and nesting progress, sound preference, and introduction completion. It saves photographs of the illustrated game world, thumbnails, and Bird Book discoveries locally, along with game metadata such as the bird species, habitat, and capture time. These are not photographs taken with your device’s real camera.

The current app does not request access to your real camera, microphone, location, or existing photo library. It does not automatically upload the local collection to Oddpath Games, provide an Oddpath cloud save, or synchronize it between devices. Device backups and other operating-system services may handle app files according to your settings.

You can delete a saved photograph in My Photos. Deleting one photograph does not remove its Bird Book discovery. The overview’s photo-collection reset clears saved photographs and discoveries after confirmation. Deleting the app or clearing its data can remove local saves. Restoring an Apple purchase restores habitat access, not the local photo collection or garden progress.

Optional sharing and external links

When you tap Share on a saved game photograph, the app prepares a copy for your device’s system share sheet. You choose the destination and whether to complete the action. On iOS, a temporary export file is prepared and the app attempts to remove it when the share sheet finishes. A copy you save or send may remain with the selected app, recipient, or service under their privacy practices. We do not receive that copy unless you choose to send it to us. In a supported browser, the exported filename can include the bird species and capture time.

The sound-credits screen contains links to recording sources and licences. Following one opens an external site, which may process web requests under its own policies. Sharing and these links are optional; they are not required for ordinary gameplay.

Backyard Garden is free. The optional one-time Premium Habitats purchase unlocks Woodland Hideaway and Pond & Wetlands together. Its purchase panel is accessible from the habitat map and currently has no separate parent reading challenge. The operating system presents Apple’s purchase authorization flow.

Apple purchases and access checks

Each game’s optional unlock is a separate non-consumable purchase, not a subscription. Purchasing an unlock in one game does not unlock the other. Apple processes payment through the App Store using your Apple Account. Oddpath Games does not receive payment card or banking details through either app.

The apps use Apple’s StoreKit through a native purchase plugin to request product information, make purchases, restore purchases, and check access. They process purchase-related information on your device, such as the product identifier, transaction identifier, verification result, and current entitlement status. Apple’s on-device purchase records support these checks; the apps also keep a temporary access state in memory.

Purchasing and restoring require a connection to Apple. Purchase checks may use Apple’s services when an app opens or returns to the foreground. These records are not sent to an Oddpath gameplay server.

Apple platform services and reports

Apple separately processes information for its App Store, payment, account, and platform services under its own policies and your settings. This can include purchase and transaction information, and usage or diagnostic information.

Apple may make sales, purchase, usage, and diagnostic reports available to Oddpath Games through its developer tools, depending on the report and applicable sharing settings. These platform reports are separate from analytics code inside the games. The games do not send interaction histories to an Oddpath analytics service.

For information about Apple’s handling of data, see Apple’s App Store privacy information.

Voluntary support correspondence

If you email OddpathGames@gmail.com, we receive the sender’s email address and whatever information is included in the message or attachments. We use this correspondence to respond to enquiries and help resolve support requests. Our email provider processes the messages as part of providing email service.

Please do not send children’s personal information, payment details, or Apple Account passwords. You can contact us to ask about access to or deletion of your correspondence. Some records may need to be retained to resolve an enquiry or meet applicable obligations.

Website hosting and logs

This website has no contact form or customer accounts. We have not added website analytics, advertising, or tracking scripts. The site’s own code does not set cookies and loads its images and styles from the same website.

Opening a web page still involves processing information. Our hosting provider, Vercel, may process IP addresses, requested pages, timestamps, browser or device information, and ordinary access or security logs to deliver and protect the site. Those hosting records are separate from offline gameplay and voluntary support email.

Children and sharing

We do not knowingly request personal information directly from children. We do not sell children’s gameplay information or share it with advertisers or data brokers. Little Bird Watcher’s optional sharing sends a game photograph only to a destination selected through the system share sheet; that destination may have different privacy practices.

Parents and guardians can contact us about privacy concerns or information they have sent us. If you believe a child has shared personal information with Oddpath Games, please email us so we can review it.

Changes and contact

We will update this policy if our data practices change and revise the date above.

For questions about either game or this policy, contact Oddpath Games at OddpathGames@gmail.com.