- 1. Who this is
- 2. What the game keeps
- 3. What never leaves the phone
- 4. Thoth's questions
- 5. This website
- 6. Children
- 7. Erasing everything
- 8. Your rights
- 9. Changes
- 10. Contact
1Who this is
This policy covers the iOS app Glyph Oath and this website. Where the law needs a name for the party responsible for the handling of data, that is the independent developer who publishes Glyph Oath on the App Store, reachable at sadiqjhus12@gmail.com.
The honest summary of everything below: the game collects no personal data at all, and there is no server holding a profile of you anywhere.
2What the game keeps
Glyph Oath saves your progress so the tomb remembers where you left off. All of it is written to this app's own private storage on your device, and nothing else is recorded:
- Scarabs and lapis, the two in-game currencies.
- Which tombs and depths you have unlocked, and the stars you earned in each.
- Boon levels, amulet charges, trial tokens and daily-oracle progress.
- Play statistics used only to award badges — halls cleared, best chain, deepest descent.
- The nickname you type into your cartouche. It defaults to “Seeker”, is never checked against anything, and is only ever shown back to you on your own device.
- Your settings: sound, music, vibration, colourblind marks and whether plain-word readings of the oaths are shown.
- A short list of trial questions already asked, so the same one is not repeated.
This save file is created by the game, held by iOS in the app's own container, and removed by the system when you delete the app. It is included in an iCloud or iTunes device backup only if you have those backups switched on; that copy is governed by Apple's terms, not by this policy, and it is still never sent to the developer.
3What never leaves the phone
The list of things Glyph Oath does not do is longer than the list of things it does:
- No account, no login, no player profile on any server.
- No analytics or crash-reporting SDK, first-party or third-party.
- No advertising, no ad network, no advertising identifier (IDFA), no App Tracking Transparency prompt because there is nothing to track.
- No location, contacts, photos, microphone, camera, calendar or health access. The game never asks for a single permission.
- No purchases, no subscriptions, no payment details.
- No sale, sharing or brokering of data, because there is no data to sell.
- No email address, name or phone number is ever requested inside the game.
The app ships with an Apple privacy manifest that declares tracking as off and the list of collected data types as empty. Its only declared API use is standard on-device settings storage, for the single purpose of saving your own game.
4Thoth's questions
The trivia questions in Thoth's Trial ship inside the app and work with no connection at all. If a content service is configured for a build, the game may ask that service for a fresh batch of question text.
Only a difficulty word — easy, medium or hard — and a list of topics about ancient Egypt. It carries no identifier, no nickname, no progress, no device information beyond what any HTTPS request necessarily reveals to the server it is talking to, and nothing whatsoever about you. Nothing you type or do is sent. The request is made over an ephemeral session that stores no cookies, and if it fails the game simply keeps using its offline bank.
The returned questions are stored on your device like the rest of the offline bank. No response is associated with you in any way.
5This website
This page and the Glyph Oath landing page are plain static HTML. They set no cookies, run no analytics, and have no login.
| What | Why | What it can see |
|---|---|---|
| Google Fonts | The two rounded typefaces the pages are set in. | Your browser requests the font files from Google, which necessarily reveals your IP address and browser to Google under its own privacy policy. Nothing else is sent. |
| Web host | Serving the pages. | Ordinary server request logs kept by whoever hosts the files. These are not read, analysed or combined with anything. |
| Contact form | Cosmetic only. | The form on the landing page does not transmit anything. It shows a confirmation and clears. To actually reach the developer, use the email address below. |
6Children
Glyph Oath is suitable for all ages. It asks for no personal information, contains nothing that identifies a player, has no chat, no social features, no user-generated content, no advertising and no purchases. Because no personal data is ever collected from anyone, none is collected from children either — under the age of 13, 16, or any other threshold a local law may set.
7Erasing everything
You are always one tap from a clean slate:
- Inside the game: open Profile → Reset progress. Every stored value is wiped immediately and the game begins again from the first depth.
- Delete the app: iOS removes the app's container and everything in it.
Because no copy of your data exists outside your device, there is no server-side deletion to ask for, no export to request, and no backup of your progress that anyone else can reach.
8Your rights
Privacy laws such as the GDPR in the European Economic Area and the UK, and the CCPA/CPRA in California, give you rights to access, correct, delete, port and restrict the processing of your personal data, and to object to it.
Glyph Oath does not process personal data, so in practice these rights resolve to nothing being held: there is no profile to access, no record to correct, and no personal information sold or shared with anyone. Your game data is entirely under your own control on your own device, and you may erase it at any moment as described above. If you believe otherwise, write to the address in section 10 and it will be answered.
Because no personal data is collected, there is no international transfer of personal data and no retention period to state beyond this: your save file lives on your device for exactly as long as you choose to keep the app.
9Changes
If this policy ever changes, the new wording arrives with an app update and replaces the text shown inside the game, and this page is updated with a new effective date at the top. Material changes will be summarised here rather than slipped in quietly. The current version is the one you are reading, effective 25 August 2026.
10Contact
Questions about this policy, or about anything the game does with data, go to one place: