Overview
This policy explains how BORROW, developed by Derrington Collaborative Synthetic Intelligence Labs (D-CSIL), handles information. BORROW does not collect personal data. It does not include advertising, third-party analytics, cross-app tracking, or a D-CSIL account system, and D-CSIL does not operate a server that receives your gameplay.
Data Stored on Your Device
BORROW stores the puzzles you’ve played, your moves, hints, times, statistics, streaks and Journey progress on your iPhone or iPad, along with your settings such as theme, sound and hint level. This information is used to resume games and show your statistics. If you turn on the daily reminder, it is a local notification scheduled on your device; BORROW sends no push notifications. Deleting the app deletes all of this.
Apple Game Center
Game Center is optional. If you are signed in, BORROW uses Apple GameKit to authenticate your Game Center player, show the Game Center access point, submit your daily puzzle scores and all-time totals (perfect solves, longest streak, Journey stars) to BORROW’s leaderboards, report achievement progress, and open challenges you create or accept with friends. Apple processes Game Center data under Apple’s privacy terms. If you are not signed in, BORROW sends nothing to Game Center.
Apple Privacy PolicyIn-App Purchase (BORROW Plus)
BORROW Plus is bought through Apple’s In-App Purchase. Apple processes the payment and keeps the purchase history under Apple’s privacy terms; D-CSIL does not receive your payment details. To know whether Plus is unlocked, BORROW asks Apple’s StoreKit on your device, which checks Apple’s signed record of the purchase. BORROW does not send receipts, transactions or any purchase information to D-CSIL or anyone else, and stores nothing about the purchase itself. Family Sharing, refunds and Restore Purchases are handled by Apple.
Apple Intelligence
On supported devices, BORROW can use Apple’s on-device model to explain a clue, understand practice requests you type, and suggest words and clues for Build Fresh. This runs on your device through Apple’s framework. The model sees the request and candidate words; BORROW checks each candidate and proves the puzzle solvable before offering it. Hints themselves are always written by BORROW. You can turn this assistance off in BORROW’s Settings.
Sharing
When you tap Share, BORROW creates a card with your numbers — moves, hints and time — never the puzzle’s words or clues. It goes only where you send it, through the standard share sheet. The share includes a challenge link that names the puzzle (for example Practice #E001) and carries the same numbers, so a friend can play that puzzle and compare. Opening a challenge link in a browser loads this website, which reads the numbers from the link itself; we store nothing about it. In BORROW, a friend’s Journey challenge waits until you reach that level.
More Games
If you open More Games, BORROW requests a public D-CSIL games catalog and checks Apple’s public App Store listings to show which games are available. These requests send no gameplay history, account information, or device identifiers. A bundled catalog keeps the menu available offline. BORROW makes no catalog requests during gameplay.
What BORROW Does Not Collect
BORROW does not request access to your contacts, photos, messages, email, camera, microphone, or location. It does not use an advertising identifier, sell personal information, or share gameplay data with advertising or data-broker services.
Children
BORROW is suitable for all ages and collects no information from anyone, including children.
Support Communications
If you email D-CSIL for support, the information you choose to send is used to respond to your request and troubleshoot the reported issue. Do not include information that is not needed for support.
Policy Changes
If BORROW adds services that materially change how information is handled, this page will be updated before those changes are released.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent to Derrington Collaborative Synthetic Intelligence Labs (D-CSIL).
derrington.collaborative.ai@gmail.com