Privacy Policy

Who is responsible

Cogtender is made and published by Taymount Diving Ltd, a company registered in Scotland, which releases its games under the name NovaBirch Interactive. Where data protection law refers to a data controller, that company is it — although in practice there is nothing to control, because the game gathers nothing.

Taymount Diving Ltd
Victoria House, 13 Victoria Street
Aberdeen AB10 1XB
United Kingdom

What is saved on the device

So that a half-finished build is still on the bench when you come back, Cogtender writes a small file into its own private storage on your phone. It contains build state only:

• Which builds you have completed and which one is in progress.
• The step you had reached in that build, and which parts are already seated.
• Settings such as sound, haptics and handedness.

None of this identifies you. No name, email address, phone number, contact list, photo, location, advertising identifier or device identifier is involved at any point. The file never leaves the phone, and we never see it.

Your gestures are not recorded

The game reads your touches for the length of the action they belong to — how long a press lasts, how fast the taps come, how far the drag has turned — and uses them to decide whether the step is complete. That is all done in memory as it happens. No touch trace, no timing profile and no record of how you move your hands is written to disk or sent anywhere, and nothing about your pace is measured across builds.

What is deliberately absent

No advertising library, so no advert appears between builds and no advertising profile is built from your play. No analytics library and no crash reporter, so no usage events, session logs or crash traces are gathered or transmitted — we do not know which build you are on or where you get stuck. No billing library, so nothing can be bought, no step can be skipped for money, and no payment data exists. No account system and no leaderboard, so nothing you do is visible to anyone else.

Cogtender also requests no Android runtime permissions at all: not camera, microphone, location, contacts, storage or notifications. Haptic feedback uses the standard vibration effect available to any app and needs no permission.

Network use

None. Every build, part and tool is compiled into the download, so the game opens no connection to our servers or to anyone else's and behaves identically in aeroplane mode. Because nothing is sent, nothing can be intercepted; because nothing is received, no behaviour can be switched on remotely after you install it.

The one company involved anyway

Google, because Cogtender is distributed through Google Play. When you install or update the game, Google processes that under its own privacy policy and its own agreement with you. What reaches us is the aggregated, anonymous figures shown in the developer console — install counts, ratings, country totals — which cannot be traced back to an individual player.

If a future version of Cogtender ever includes anything that touches the network, this page will be rewritten before that version is published, and the change will be described plainly rather than added quietly.

Younger players

Cogtender is a calm assembly game suitable for all ages. Because it collects no personal data from anyone, it collects none from children either, and there is nothing in it — no adverts, no chat, no sharing, no outbound links, nothing to buy — through which a child could send information anywhere or spend money.

If you are a parent or guardian and something appears to behave differently from what is described here, please write to us and we will look into it straight away.

Your rights, and clearing the bench

Under the UK GDPR, and under the EU GDPR where it applies to you, you have rights to access, correct, erase and port the personal data a company holds about you, and to complain to a supervisory authority. Those rights need data to act on, and Cogtender holds none, so there is nothing for us to send, correct or delete on your behalf. If you would like that confirmed in writing for your own records, ask and we will send it.

Your progress is yours alone to remove. Reset it inside the game, clear the app's data in Android settings, or uninstall Cogtender — the file goes with it. None of that needs our involvement, and no copy is left behind, because no copy was ever made.

Complaints can go to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, though we would rather you wrote to us first so we can explain or fix whatever prompted it.

Changes, and how to reach us

This page is updated only when the game changes in a way that affects privacy, and the date in the block above changes with it. Builds you have already installed keep behaving exactly as they do today.

Questions about this policy, a step that will not complete, or a tool that behaves oddly: bench@taymountdiving.world. One inbox, read by the person who wrote the game, usually within a couple of days.