Jungle Survival Challenge
Effective 1 September 2026 · Version 1.0
This app collects nothing.
Jungle Survival Challenge has no account system, no backend server, no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting and no third-party tracking of any kind. It makes no network requests during normal play and behaves identically in airplane mode.
Everything the app records stays in its own private storage on your device. Nothing is transmitted, sold, shared or profiled. Its App Store privacy disclosure is Data Not Collected.
The following is written to the app’s own sandboxed container on your iPhone or iPad. It is not readable by other apps, it is not backed up to any service we operate, and it never leaves the device unless you deliberately export it yourself.
| What | Why it exists | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| Expedition progress — current scene, statistics, flags, relics, companion trust | So you can resume a run in progress | On device |
| Archive — endings found, journal entries, relics, characters met, honours | Collection tracking between runs | On device |
| Records — decisions made, hesitations, trials, playtime, Daily Expedition streaks | The in-app Records screen | On device |
| Explorer name | Displayed in the app and on ending cards | On device |
| Explorer portrait photograph | Displayed in your profile, if you add one | On device |
| Field Journal photographs | Pinned to journal entries, if you add them | On device |
| Settings — audio, motion, text size, decision timer, reminder time | Remembering your preferences | On device |
None of this is linked to an identity, because the app has no concept of one. There is no user ID, no device fingerprint, no advertising identifier and no login.
The app asks for camera access only when you tap to take an explorer portrait or a Field Journal photograph. It asks for photo library access only when you choose to pick an existing image. Both are entirely optional — nothing in the game is locked behind them, and declining costs you no content.
Images you select are downscaled, re-encoded as JPEG and saved inside the app’s own storage.
They are never uploaded, never transmitted and never shared with anyone.
The app reads only the specific images you pick. It does not scan, index or enumerate your library.
Removing a photograph in the app deletes the stored file immediately.
You can revoke either permission at any time in the iOS Settings app under Jungle Survival Challenge. The app continues to work without them.
Reminders are local notifications, scheduled by the app on your own device. They are switched off until you enable them in Settings.
No push service is involved and there is no push token, because there is no server to send one to. Notification content is generated on the device and contains no personal data. Disabling reminders in the app, or in iOS Settings, stops them entirely.
The app bundles no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK, no attribution SDK, no social login and no crash reporting service. There are no in-app purchases and no payment processing.
Two pieces of licensed third-party content ship inside the app. They are creative assets compiled into the binary, not services, and they receive no data about you:
Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Typefaces Cinzel, Cinzel Decorative and Lora, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Apple operates the App Store and may collect its own data around your download and any interaction with Apple services. That processing is governed by Apple’s privacy policy, not this one, and we receive no personal data from it.
The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children. It contains no advertising, no purchases, no chat, no user accounts, no social features, no user-generated content sharing and no links out to the open web.
Because nothing is collected or transmitted, there is no personal data of a child for a parent or guardian to review or request deletion of. Any photograph a child adds stays on the device and is removed by deleting it in the app or deleting the app.
Everything the app stores is under your direct control at all times:
Privacy regimes such as the GDPR and the CCPA grant rights to access, correct, port, delete and object to the processing of personal data, and to be free from sale or sharing of it. Those rights are satisfied here by design rather than by request: no personal data is collected, transmitted, sold or shared, so there is no record held anywhere for us to produce, amend or erase. The only copy of your data is the one on your device, and you can inspect or destroy it yourself at any moment.
For the same reason there are no international data transfers, no data retention schedule beyond your own device, and no automated decision-making or profiling.
App data is held in the application’s sandboxed container and is protected by the operating system’s own file protection, which is tied to your device passcode. Other apps cannot read it.
Because nothing is transmitted, there is no server to breach, no database of players and no credentials to steal. The most effective protection available to you is the one iOS already provides: a device passcode and, if you use it, an encrypted device backup.
If a future version of the app changes what it stores or introduces any form of data collection, this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the effective date at the top of the page will change.
Material changes — anything that would begin collecting or transmitting data — will additionally be described in the version’s App Store release notes, so you can see it before you update.