Birdie needs no user account, no email address and no password. There is no server of our own and no analytics. Your save lives only on your iPhone.
You only see ads when you start them yourself: a video in exchange for triple money in the game. There are no ads that interrupt the game and no banners. Before showing personalised ads we ask for your permission — through Google's consent dialog and Apple's tracking prompt.
A notification only if you allow it.
Pascal Dohmeier
Gustav-Müller-Straße 20A
10829 Berlin, Germany
Email: pathfindermemory.support@gmail.com
Phone: +49 160 95861111
No data protection officer has been appointed; the requirements of Art. 37 GDPR and § 38 BDSG are not met. For any privacy matter you can reach me directly using the details above.
The app stores exactly the following on your device — this is the complete list, not a selection:
There is no identifier from us — no user ID, no device ID — and none of this is linked to you as a person. We do not transmit this data.
"Export" in the settings copies your save as text to the clipboard. Where you paste it is up to you; "Import" reads it back from there. The app only reads the clipboard when you tap "Import" and then "Paste".
You do not need to send us a deletion request, and it would find nothing: we hold no data about you.
Provider for the European Economic Area: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Ads appear only when you start them yourself: through the "×3 Ad" button, as a video in exchange for an in-game reward — triple money for 30 minutes; several videos add up to two hours. There are no ads between game sections and no banners. Google's ad SDK starts 90 seconds after the app launches at the earliest, or earlier if you tap "Watch ad" before then.
To deliver and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google processes among other things:
Google may also use this data across apps to build a profile. That is exactly why we ask first. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR); without it Google shows only non-personalised ads.
You can withdraw your consent at any time, without giving reasons: via "Change ad consent" in the game's settings. You change Apple's tracking permission under iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Withdrawal takes effect from that moment; processing carried out before remains lawful.
More information: Google's privacy policy, "How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services" and Google's frameworks for data transfers.
After your first season the app asks whether it may send notifications. There is exactly one: "The ball machine is empty", when the offline time has run out. It is scheduled on your device when you leave the app and removed again when you come back — not sent from a server. You can switch it off in iOS Settings.
The only other prompt is Apple's tracking dialog, which belongs to advertising (section 4). The app does not ask for access to location, contacts, photos, microphone or camera.
After your second season the app asks once for a rating through Apple's rating dialog. Whether and when the dialog appears is decided by iOS; a rating goes to Apple, not to us.
If you email the address above, we process your email address and the content of your message in order to answer it (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR — legitimate interest in responding to enquiries). The mailbox provider is Google; the message is kept for as long as it is needed for follow-up questions and is deleted afterwards.
These pages are hosted on GitHub Pages (GitHub, Inc.). When you visit, your browser transmits technically necessary data — IP address, time, page requested, user agent — which GitHub processes in server logs. We set no cookies on these pages, embed no third-party fonts or scripts, and run no analytics.
Birdie has no server of its own, no account, no in-app purchases, no Game Center and no analytics or crash-reporting service. We ourselves collect no personal data, share none and sell none. What Google processes for advertising is set out in section 4.
You have the rights set out in Art. 15 to 21 GDPR: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection, as well as the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Ours is the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.
In practice these rights here concern only an email you may have sent us (section 6). We cannot give you information about your save because we do not have it — it is on your device, and only there.
The game is suitable for all ages. It does not ask for an age, collects no data itself, and offers no way to contact other people. It contains optional advertising (section 4); this is declared in the App Store age rating.
We update this policy when the processing changes — for instance because a service is added. The date above shows the current version.