Privacy policy
Effective date: · applies to Pleat & Steam 1.0 for iPhone and this website
Pleat & Steam collects no data. It has no account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking, and it never connects to the internet. Your progress stays on your iPhone.
Pleat & Steam is a game made by Syed Javaid (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what the app keeps on your iPhone, what it doesn't use, and how to reach us.
What we collect
Nothing. Pleat & Steam makes no network requests, so nothing you do in the game is sent to us or to anyone else. It plays the same with no connection at all. There are no in-app purchases, ads or sign-ins. On the App Store, its privacy label reads “Data Not Collected”.
What stays on your iPhone
| What | Where it's kept |
|---|---|
| Your progress: the season day you're on, the order in progress, your best stamps for each recipe, the steamer baskets and mishap cards you've collected, and your Daily Tickets results | A save file in the app's private storage |
| Your settings: music and effects volume, haptics, the on-screen fold tab, handedness and the fill chime | The app's preferences on this iPhone |
We can't see any of it. Like other app data, it's included in your own iPhone backup (iCloud Backup or a computer) if you make one. Backups are between you and Apple, not us. Pleat & Steam doesn't sync it anywhere.
Daily Tickets are worked out on your iPhone from the date, so everyone gets the same orders on the same day without the app going online.
Resetting and deleting
- Reset in the game's Settings erases your progress on this iPhone after you confirm. It can't be undone.
- Deleting the app removes everything it stores, including your settings.
The hinge
On iPhone Duo, Pleat & Steam reads whether the phone is closed, partly open or open, and how far it's folded. That's how a bend becomes a pleat and closing the phone seals the dumpling. These readings are used on your iPhone while you play. The game saves your progress, such as the dumpling you're working on, but the readings never leave your iPhone.
To twist a dumpling shut, you turn the closed phone. The game notices the screen rotating, the same way any app does, and doesn't read the motion sensors.
Permissions
Pleat & Steam asks for no permissions. It doesn't use the camera, microphone, location, photos, contacts or motion and fitness data. Sounds are made by the app on your iPhone, and haptics are vibrations it plays. Neither records anything.
Third parties
Pleat & Steam contains no third-party code: no analytics, advertising or crash-reporting software. It doesn't use Game Center. We don't sell or share personal information, and we don't use any for advertising.
Apple's role
- Downloads and reviews. Apple runs the App Store and handles your download and any rating or review you leave, under Apple's own privacy policy.
- Crash reports and statistics. If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers (Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements), Apple may give us crash reports and aggregated figures that don't identify you. You can turn this off at any time.
Children's privacy
Pleat & Steam is rated 4+ and is suitable for players of any age. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13. It has no account, chat, ads or purchases, so a child can't share anything through it. If you believe a child has emailed us, tell us and we'll delete the message.
Your choices and rights
Privacy laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights over personal data that a company holds about you. Through Pleat & Steam we hold none, so there's nothing for us to access, correct, export or delete. Everything the game keeps is on your iPhone, under your control. You're welcome to ask us about it, and we'll delete any email correspondence on request.
This website
This site has no cookies, analytics, trackers, web fonts or third-party scripts. It's hosted on Cloudflare Pages, and Cloudflare may log technical information such as IP addresses to deliver and protect the site, under Cloudflare's privacy policy.
If you email us
If you write to us, we see your email address and whatever you include. We use it only to reply, and delete it when the conversation is done or when you ask.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and its effective date. If a future version of Pleat & Steam ever collected data, it would say so here and in its App Store privacy label before that version was released.
Contact
Syed Javaid · s.java.junk@gmail.com