Privacy Policy

1. Overview & Commitment

Sortello is a color-sorting logic puzzle game developed and published by ByteSolo Labs. We believe in software that respects your attention, device, and personal privacy. Sortello is architected from the ground up to operate without requiring any user registration, passwords, or personal data collection.

This Privacy Policy covers your use of Sortello across all distribution channels, including the Android application (distributed via Google Play) and the interactive Reddit application (powered by Reddit's Devvit developer platform).

2. Data We Do Not Collect

We do not collect, process, sell, rent, or trade your personal identifiable information (PII). Specifically:

• No Personal Identifiers: We do not collect names, email addresses, phone numbers, or passwords.
• No Account Creation: No profile or account registration is ever required to play daily puzzles, replay archived games, or view your records.
• No Device Sensors or Media Access: Sortello does not access your camera, microphone, photo library, contacts, or calendar.
• No Geolocation: We never collect, track, or request your precise or background GPS location.
• No Data Brokering: We never monetize user profiles or sell user data to data brokers.

3. Local Storage & Data Deletion Controls

In the standalone Android app, all gameplay data—including active tube layouts, move counts, undo history, win completion records, streak counts, vault keys, and player preferences (such as haptic feedback intensity and high-contrast color palette settings)—is stored strictly on your local device via local private application preferences.

How to Delete Your Data: You maintain full control over your stored records at all times:

• In-App Reset: You can wipe all local progress and preferences instantly by opening Settings (⚙️) → Reset All Data in the game. This permanently clears all local storage keys and restarts the app to a clean state.
• App Uninstall: Uninstalling the Sortello application from your Android device permanently removes all locally stored game files.

4. Android App Disclosures Google Play

To support game operations and maintain high technical reliability on Android devices, Sortello integrates reputable third-party services provided by Google:

Google Mobile Ads (AdMob)

Sortello offers optional rewarded video advertisements (which allow players to unlock archived puzzle keys or rescue a missed daily streak). These ads are served through the Google Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob). Sortello does not display unsolicited popup or interstitial banner ads during active gameplay.

• AdMob may collect and process device identifiers (such as the Google Advertising ID / AAID) and coarse diagnostics to serve, measure, and protect against fraudulent ad activity in accordance with Google's Privacy Policy.
• You can view or reset your Android Advertising ID at any time in your device settings under Settings → Google → Ads.

Firebase Analytics & Crashlytics

Sortello uses Google Firebase Crashlytics and Google Analytics for Firebase to detect runtime crashes, monitor rendering performance, and understand high-level gameplay trends (such as daily puzzle completion rates and streak achievements).

• All telemetry collected through Firebase is strictly aggregated, anonymized, and stripped of personal information. Stack traces contain only technical diagnostic information (e.g. device model, OS version, and code line references).

5. Reddit App Disclosures Devvit Platform

When playing Sortello inside Reddit via interactive posts powered by the Reddit Devvit developer platform:

• Cloud State Synchronization: Your puzzle progress, streak milestones, and archive keys are synchronized to Reddit's Devvit Redis key-value storage tied to your Reddit account session. This enables your completion status to persist seamlessly across desktop web and Reddit mobile app sessions.
• Usernames & Avatars: When playing or sharing Friend Challenge puzzles, Sortello accesses your public Reddit username and avatar (Snoovatar) strictly through official Reddit Devvit APIs to render the challenge card. This information remains securely within the Reddit platform and is never exported to external servers.

6. Deep Links & Shared Challenge Puzzles

When you share a challenge link with a friend (e.g. https://sortello.bytesololabs.com/g?g=...), the link contains only a lightweight, base64-encoded game seed representing the color distribution, minimum moves, and puzzle date. No personal identifiers, IP addresses, or device metadata are embedded in or transmitted through shared links.

7. Children's Privacy (COPPA & Global Standards)

Sortello is a general-audience logic puzzle game suitable for all ages. We do not knowingly solicit, collect, or process personal data from children under the age of 13 (or under the applicable age of digital consent in your jurisdiction). If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately and we will promptly delete it.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or Sortello's privacy practices, please contact us:

Developer: ByteSolo Labs
Email: bytesololabs@gmail.com
Website: sortello.bytesololabs.com