Privacy Protocol

Who publishes this game

Pulse Architect is a mobile circuit-puzzle product for iPhone and iPad. This protocol describes the game itself: local progress on your device, optional advertising technology that may run inside the session, and the support path on the App Store listing.

We do not ask you to create an account, and we do not publish a personal homepage, residential address, or private mailbox as a contact method.

What stays on your device

Most of what you see in the HUD is stored locally so a session can resume:

• Level index, remaining lives, and score
• Machine sequence progress (for example the next required node A, B, or C)
• Whether a timed path is open and which traces already carried a pulse
• Pause state and basic audio or interface preferences, if you change them

Deleting the app removes this local grid state. It is not a cloud save and is not used to build a public profile.

Information the game may process

Pulse Architect does not require your name, email, photos, contacts, or precise location to play. Depending on the build and your iOS permission choices, the following categories can be processed:

• Gameplay telemetry on device — win, fail, and sequence-miss events that keep lives and scoring honest
• Device and app context — OS version, device type, language, and app version, used to keep the grid running on supported hardware
• Advertising identifiers — such as the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) only if Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt is shown and you allow tracking
• Network metadata — IP address and coarse region can be seen by advertising or delivery partners when an ad request leaves the device

How ads may use data

Pulse Architect is a free download. The session may display advertisements served by third-party advertising networks. Those partners can collect or receive limited technical data to choose, measure, and fight invalid traffic on an ad impression.

Typical advertising data includes a resettable advertising ID (when permitted), IP address, user-agent, approximate location derived from IP, and whether an ad was shown or tapped. Partners may also use cookies or similar identifiers in their own systems.

We do not sell a list of your puzzle solutions. We do not invent extra account data to enrich ads. Limit Ad Tracking / Allow Apps to Request to Track on iOS remains the primary switch for personalized advertising identifiers.

Why any of this is collected

• Operate the circuit puzzles, lives, and sequence tracker
• Show and measure advertisements that keep the free build available
• Diagnose crashes or compatibility issues on supported iOS versions
• Meet App Store, tax, and fraud-prevention obligations where they apply

Where a legal basis framing is useful (for example GDPR-style language for EEA users), we rely on performance of the game you chose to install, legitimate interests in keeping a free title sustainable and secure, and consent where Apple or local law requires it for tracking.

Who may receive a signal

Information is shared only in these categories — not as a public dump of your play history:

• Advertising and measurement networks that fill or count ad slots
• Infrastructure providers that deliver the app binary through Apple’s store and update channel
• Authorities if a lawful request requires it

Apple also processes App Store purchase, download, and review activity under Apple’s own terms. Pulse Architect does not operate a separate social login or friend graph.

How long signals remain

Local circuit progress remains until you delete the app or clear its data. Advertising and diagnostic records held by partners are kept only as long as their measurement, billing, or security cycles require — typically a short rolling window, not an indefinite player dossier.

If you reset the advertising identifier in iOS, future ad requests should use the new value. Past aggregated reports cannot always be rewritten.

Children’s privacy

The App Store age rating for Pulse Architect is 4+. The game does not ask children to type a name, upload a photo, or open a chat. We do not knowingly build a marketing profile of a child.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe a minor provided personal information through an ad partner surface, contact us through the App Store listing so we can review the report. This game is not intended as a social network or classroom roster.

Choices you can make

• Decline App Tracking Transparency if prompted
• Reset or limit the advertising identifier in iOS Settings
• Turn off network access for the app if you only want local play during a session (ads and updates may fail)
• Uninstall Pulse Architect to erase on-device grid data

Depending on your region, you may also request access, correction, deletion, or a restriction of processing for personal data that we actually hold. Because most puzzle state never leaves the device, the practical first step is often deleting the app and resetting the advertising ID.

EEA, UK, and similar residents may have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. California and other U.S. state residents may have rights to know, delete, or opt out of certain sharing for cross-context advertising; we honor those requests through the support channel below rather than through a personal inbox.

How to reach the product

For privacy questions about Pulse Architect, use the support / report a problem controls on the official App Store page. Do not send physical mail or personal documents unless a formal legal process requires it.

Open Pulse Architect on the App Store

If this protocol changes — for example a new ad partner category or a new type of diagnostic — we will update the date on this page. Continued use after a posted change means you have seen the new circuit map.