Last updated: 9 August 2026
Crosshatch ("the app") is an offline Android nonogram puzzle game, published by The Basement Coders. This policy explains what data the app does and does not handle.
Summary
- No account is required. Crosshatch has no login and does not ask for your name, email, or any personal identifier.
- Your puzzles stay on your device. Settings, the board you are part-way through and your finished pictures are stored locally and are never uploaded to us.
- No analytics or tracking SDKs are included by the developer.
- The game works fully offline. There is no server, no sync and no account to lose progress from.
Data the app stores on your device
The following are stored locally only and are never transmitted to the developer:
- App settings — paper, colour, how mistakes are handled, and whether finished lines cross themselves off.
- The board you are part-way through, so closing the app and coming back puts you on the same puzzle with the same squares marked.
- Which pictures you have finished, how long each took and how many wrong squares it cost.
The app's data is excluded from Android's cloud backup, so none of it leaves the phone that way either. You can erase all of it by clearing the app's storage or by uninstalling the app.
Sharing a finished picture
When you send a finished picture, the app draws it, hands the image to Android's own share sheet and forgets about it. You choose where it goes. The app has no account anywhere, uploads nothing itself and keeps no copy.
Network access
The app declares the internet permission for advertising only (see below). Solving a puzzle needs no network at all, and nothing about what you have solved is ever sent anywhere.
Advertising
This section applies only if and when ads are enabled in a released version. They are not enabled in the current release, and the current release does not request an advertising identifier.
If the app displays ads, it uses Google AdMob. AdMob may collect and use certain data (such as device and advertising identifiers) to serve and measure ads, as described in Google's Privacy Policy. Where required, the app presents a consent prompt (Google User Messaging Platform) so you can control personalized advertising. Ads, if present, appear between puzzles rather than during one, and are paced by how many squares you have solved rather than by how many puzzles you have finished — so a short puzzle and a long one are not charged the same.
A single optional in-app purchase removes ads permanently. It unlocks no content: every picture, size and difficulty is free from the first launch either way.
Children's privacy
Crosshatch does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new "last updated" date.
Contact
For questions about this policy, contact: thebasementcoders@gmail.com
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