Privacy Policy

Huanchaco Swell is a single-player game about paddling a reed caballito out through the surf at Huanchaco, Peru. It has no account system, no advertising, no analytics, and no server of its own. Everything you do in the game — your boats, your catch, your soles, your best rides — stays on your device. This page explains exactly what the app touches and why.

Data we collect

What stays on your device

• Game progress — your boats, your reed and binding supplies, your catch, your soles, your best rides and your streaks are written to a file in the app's local storage on your device only.
• Settings — music, sound effect, haptics, and daily dawn-report preferences are stored in your device's standard app preferences (UserDefaults).

None of the above ever leaves your device. We cannot see it, and we have no way to retrieve it.

Camera and photo library

The postcard screen lets you put a photo of your own on the front of a postcard celebrating one of your rides.

• If you choose Camera, the app asks the operating system for permission first, and the photo you take is held only in memory to draw the postcard — it is never saved to your library or sent anywhere unless you choose to share the finished postcard yourself.
• If you choose a photo from your library, the app uses Apple's standard picker, which only ever hands the app the single photo you pick — Huanchaco Swell never gets general access to your library.

Notifications

Huanchaco Swell can send two kinds of local notifications, entirely generated and scheduled on your own device: one telling you that reed you hung out to dry is ready, and an optional daily "dawn report" at 7:00 if you turn it on in Settings. We ask for notification permission only at the moment one of these becomes relevant, never at launch, and the app works normally if you say no.

Sharing

If you choose to share a postcard, the app opens Apple's standard share sheet. What you do with that sheet — messaging it, saving it, posting it — is entirely your choice and happens through Apple's own system, not through us.

Children's privacy

Huanchaco Swell does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children, because it does not collect information at all.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes — for example if a future version of the app adds a feature that uses data differently — we will update this page and the "last updated" date above before that version ships.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the app can be sent through our support page, which has a short contact form.