zuzulabs

Privacy Policy for Cryptic

Last Updated: November 2026

Zuzu Lab (“we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy. Cryptic is a daily cipher puzzle: each day brings one encrypted message to crack. We built it to work entirely on your device. This Privacy Policy explains our data practices.

1. Privacy

• We do not collect, store, or transmit any Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
• We do not track location data.
• We do not use third-party analytics or advertising networks.
• The app does not create accounts and does not require you to sign in.
• The app makes no network requests. Each day’s puzzle is generated on your device from the date, and the library of messages ships inside the app, so Cryptic works fully offline and has no servers to send your information to.

2. Local Data Storage

Your progress — the puzzles you have solved, the guesses you have entered in a puzzle in progress, the time you took, the hints you used, your scores, your current and best daily streak, and which help screens you have already seen — is stored entirely locally on your device using Apple’s native data framework (UserDefaults). We have no access to this data, and it is never transmitted to us or to any third party.

Deleting the app permanently removes this data from your device. Your device’s own backups (for example iCloud or computer backups) may include app data under Apple’s practices, which we do not control or see.

3. Sharing Your Results

Cryptic lets you share your result using Apple’s standard share sheet, or copy it to the clipboard. This is always started by you, and what is shared is a short text summary that never includes the puzzle’s message or answer, for example:

Cryptic · Fri Nov 6
🔓 Vigenère · solved in 4:12
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
💡 hints: 1   🔥 streak: 12

We never see what you share or who you share it with. Once you send it to another app or service, that app’s own privacy policy applies.

4. Links

Cryptic contains links to this Privacy Policy and to our support page. They open in your web browser only when you tap them. Opening a web page is an ordinary web request made by your browser, not by Cryptic, and the app itself sends nothing.

5. In-App Purchases

Cryptic contains no in-app purchases, no advertising, and no subscriptions.

6. Children’s Privacy

Cryptic is suitable for general audiences. Because we collect no personal information from anyone, we collect none from children.

7. About the Puzzle Content

The messages in Cryptic are proverbs, public-domain quotations, and original factual sentences. Where a quotation is attributed to an author, the attribution is shown after you solve it.

8. Changes to This Policy

If we change this policy, we will update the “Last Updated” date above and post the revised version at this address.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our practices, please contact us.