crosscue

Privacy Policy for Crosscue

Effective date: June 2, 2026

Crosscue is an offline-first crossword app for iOS and Android. This Privacy Policy explains what information Crosscue stores, what information it does not collect, and the choices available to you.

Summary

• Crosscue does not require an account.
• Crosscue does not include advertising or analytics.
• Crosscue does not collect or transmit personal information to the developer.
• Puzzle data, solve progress, settings, and optional crash logs are stored locally on your device.
• If you choose to download puzzles from an online puzzle source, your device connects directly to that third-party source to fetch the requested puzzle.
• If you choose to turn on sync, your puzzles, progress, and settings are stored in your own private cloud account — iCloud on iOS, Google Drive on Android — so they follow you across your devices. This data is never sent to the developer.

Information stored on your device

Crosscue stores the following information locally on your device so the app can work:

• imported or downloaded crossword puzzle data
• solve progress, completion history, and puzzle statistics
• app settings such as theme, sound, haptics, and accessibility preferences
• an optional local crash log if you enable crash reporting in the app settings

The optional crash log is stored only on your device. It is not automatically sent to the developer or to any third-party crash-reporting service.

Information Crosscue does not collect

Crosscue does not collect:

• your name, email address, phone number, or mailing address
• account credentials
• location data
• contacts
• advertising identifiers
• analytics or usage-tracking data
• puzzle answers, guesses, clue text, or puzzle contents for remote telemetry

Network access and third-party services

Crosscue may use network access when you choose to download puzzles from an online puzzle source. In that case, your device sends the network request needed to retrieve the requested puzzle to that third-party provider. Those providers may process request information such as IP address, device/browser metadata, or other technical data according to their own privacy practices.

Crosscue may also open external links, such as the project’s GitHub page, in your browser when you choose to follow them.

Crosscue does not currently use third-party analytics, advertising SDKs, or remote crash-reporting services.

Optional sync (iCloud on iOS, Google Drive on Android)

Crosscue offers an optional sync feature so your puzzles, solve progress, and settings stay in sync across your devices. It uses iCloud on iOS and Google Drive on Android. It is off by default — you opt in during onboarding or from Settings -> Sync, and only when you are signed in to the relevant cloud account on the device.

When sync is on:

• Your puzzle library, solve progress, completion history, and synced settings are stored in your own private cloud account:
  • On iOS, in your iCloud account (Apple’s iCloud Drive), handled by Apple under Apple’s Privacy Policy.
  • On Android, in a hidden, per-app folder of your Google Drive account (the Drive “app data” area, not visible among your normal Drive files), handled by Google under Google’s Privacy Policy. Crosscue requests only the scope needed to read and write its own app data folder, not access to the rest of your Drive.
• Crosscue does not operate a server and never receives, stores, or processes this data — it moves directly between your devices and your own cloud account.
• You can turn sync off at any time in Settings -> Sync. Turning it off keeps the copy on your device; you can also choose “Turn off and remove cloud copy” to delete Crosscue’s data from your iCloud or Google Drive account.

Exporting and importing data

Crosscue lets you export solve statistics as a local backup file and import a backup file you choose. Exported files remain under your control unless you decide to share or store them using another app or service. Any third-party app or storage provider you choose for those files is governed by its own privacy policy.

Data retention and deletion

Data stored by Crosscue remains on your device until you delete it, uninstall the app, or clear the app’s data through your device’s system settings.

You can delete Crosscue data from within the app by using:

Settings -> Privacy & Data -> Clear all data

This removes puzzles, progress, statistics, and settings stored by Crosscue on the device. If you have used sync, see “Optional sync” above for removing the copy stored in your iCloud or Google Drive account.

Children’s privacy

Crosscue is not directed to children under 13, and the app does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If Crosscue’s data practices change, this Privacy Policy will be updated before those changes are released where required.

Contact

For privacy questions about Crosscue, contact:

atomhess@gmail.com