Privacy Policy
Frit has no accounts, no advertising and no trackers, and never asks who you are. It does send how a puzzle went to our own server, tagged with a random identifier it made up and the country of your app store — never your name, your address or an advertising ID.
Who we are
Frit is made by Redshift’s Forge Ltd., a company incorporated in British Columbia, Canada. You can reach us at our email address.
What the website does
frit.ca requires no account and sets no advertising or tracking cookies. Your puzzle progress, streak and settings are stored in your browser’s local storage — on your device, readable only by this site, and removable at any time by clearing your browser data.
Our hosting and content delivery provider, Cloudflare, processes technical information needed to deliver the site securely, such as IP address and browser type. This is standard network operation, retained briefly, and used to serve pages and defend against abuse. We do not use it to build a profile of you.
What the app does
The Frit app stores your progress, stars and settings on your device. It does not require an account, and we never ask for your name, email address or phone number.
The app sends gameplay measurements to our own server: which puzzle was played, how many moves and touches it took, whether it was solved or abandoned, how many undos and restarts you used, and how long it took. They exist so we can tell whether a puzzle is too hard, too easy, or simply bad, which is the only way a generated puzzle set can be made good.
Those measurements are stored against three things, and we would rather name them than call the whole thing anonymous:
- A random identifier the app invents for itself the first time it sends anything. It is not your device’s serial number, not an advertising ID, and not derived from your hardware. Delete the app and reinstall it and you are a new player.
- On iPhone and iPad, the country of your App Store account, as a two-letter code. Not your address, not GPS, not derived from your network — it is the storefront your Apple account buys from. The Android app does not send this at all.
- A salted hash of your IP address, which cannot be turned back into an address. It exists so that if someone floods the service with false results we can remove them afterwards.
The app also holds a restore code, shown under Settings, so a record can be recovered if you change device. Anyone holding that code can read the figures attached to it, so treat it as private.
You can stop the app sending anything at any time: Settings, then turn off “Send gameplay figures”. The game is exactly the same with it off — nothing is locked, withheld, or nagged about.
Purchases are handled entirely by Apple or Google, depending on where you installed the app. We never see your payment details.
What we do not do
- No advertising networks and no ad tracking.
- No third-party analytics or social media trackers.
- No selling, renting or trading of information. Ever.
- No access to location, contacts, photos, microphone or camera.
- No advertising ID, and nothing that identifies you as a person.
Children
Frit is suitable for all ages. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children: no name, no email, no location and no advertising identifier, and there is nothing in it that lets one player contact another.
Your rights
Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA) gives you the right to ask what personal information an organisation holds about you, to correct it, and to withdraw consent. We hold no personal information, so there is generally nothing to identify you by — but the gameplay records attached to your app’s random identifier are yours to erase, and you do not have to ask us.
In the app: Settings, then Erase my figures. It deletes the records we hold for that device from our server there and then. Your puzzles, crates and progress are untouched — they live on your phone and were never ours to take. If you would rather we did it, send us the restore code and we will.
On the website, clearing your browser data for frit.ca erases everything it has kept. Deleting the app removes everything held on your phone — but use Erase my figures first if you want our copy gone too, because an app you have uninstalled can no longer ask us on your behalf.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date above changes with it. If a change ever means collecting something we do not collect today, we will say so plainly rather than quietly widening a paragraph.