Postcard Atelier: Jigsaw privacy policy

Who we are

Postcard Atelier: Jigsaw (“Postcard Atelier”) is made by ShadeTap, an independent game studio. In this policy, “we” and “us” mean ShadeTap.

What the game stores

Postcard Atelier saves your progress on your phone, with a backup copy of each file: your postcards, album, stamps and story letters, your records, your season and challenge progress, the mystery pictures you've revealed, the looks and settings you've chosen (the language too), which tips you've seen, when you first played, and every puzzle you've started (where each piece lies, your last moves and the hints you've used). The save also holds a random ID made on your phone when you first play; it doesn't identify you or your device. If a save file is ever damaged, the game moves it aside on your phone instead of deleting it.

The game reads your phone's date, time and time zone for the daily, weekly and season stamps and the day's speed puzzle. It keeps the latest time it has seen: if the clock is set back by more than six hours, new daily, weekly and season stamps wait until it has run forward normally for a day.

It also reads your phone's language to choose its own, unless you pick one in Settings.

This data stays on your device. There's no account, no cloud save and no server, so nothing is sent to us or anyone else.

Your photos

You can turn up to five of your own photos into puzzles. You choose each one with Android's file picker, so the game doesn't ask for access to your photo library. It keeps a cropped copy without the photo's metadata, a small preview and when you added and finished each photo, on your phone only, and they are never part of an album backup.

Deleting a photo in the game removes it, its postcard and any puzzle you started with it.

Statistics on your phone

The game writes its own statistics to a file on your phone, switched on by default. Each line has the date and time, the random ID, the puzzle's own random ID and an event, such as starting, resuming or finishing a puzzle, joining or missing a piece, using a hint or another tool, opening the gallery or a postcard, or earning a stamp, with details such as the picture, the mode, the number of pieces and how long it took. About your own photos it notes only that you added one (or that adding one failed) and that a puzzle was made from one, never the photo, its file name or its location. The file is never sent anywhere.

Turn off “On-device statistics” in Settings to stop it and delete the file. “Save statistics to a file” puts a copy wherever you choose.

Album backups

If you save an album backup, the file goes where you choose, such as a folder on your phone or a cloud drive, and that service's own terms apply. The backup doesn't include the random ID made on your phone when you first played. Restoring a backup keeps a copy of your previous album on your phone.

What we don't collect

Postcard Atelier doesn't collect personal information or device identifiers, and it doesn't track you.

It contains no advertising, analytics services or crash-reporting tools and makes no network connections. The only permission it asks Android for is vibration.

Purchases

The current version has no in-app purchases. Stamps are earned by playing and can't be bought.

Children

Postcard Atelier collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

If you contact us

If you email us about Postcard Atelier, we receive your email address and whatever you include, such as device details, screenshots or a screen recording. We use it only to answer you and fix the problem, we don't share it, and we delete it when you ask or once it's no longer needed.

Your choices

Uninstalling the game removes everything it stored on your phone, your photos and statistics included. Android backup is turned off for the game, so a reinstall starts fresh unless you restore an album backup. Files you saved outside the game, such as an album backup or a copy of the statistics, stay where you put them.

Changes to this policy

This policy describes the current version of Postcard Atelier, an early test version for Android. If a future version changes what the game collects, we'll update this page before that version is released and change the date at the top.