Privacy Policy
Effective 12 August 2026 · last updated 12 August 2026
Applies to the Fishful Thinking mobile game on Google Play and the Apple App Store, and
to this website.
The short version. Fishful Thinking has no accounts, no sign-up and no advertising. Your save file stays on your device. We do not collect, store, transmit or sell personal information about you, and this website sets no cookies.
1. Who we are
Fishful Thinking is developed and published by Garage Frogs ("we", "us"), the data controller for the limited purposes described below. For any question about this policy, or to exercise any right described in section 11, contact [email protected]. A person will answer, and we aim to do so within 30 days.
2. What the app collects
No personal data of any kind is collected, transmitted to us, or shared with third parties for our own purposes. The app has no server of ours to send anything to. Category by category, matching the disclosures we make in Google Play's Data safety form and Apple's App Privacy questionnaire:
| Category | Collected? | What actually happens |
|---|---|---|
| Name, email, address, phone number | No | Never requested. There is no form to fill in. |
| Account credentials | No | There is no account. Nothing to register, no password to set. |
| Precise or approximate location | No | Never requested; the app declares no location permission. |
| Contacts, photos, files, microphone, camera | No | Never requested; no such permission is declared. |
| Advertising identifier (AAID / IDFA) | No | This build contains no advertising SDK and does not read an advertising ID. |
| Analytics, usage or diagnostic events | No | Unity Analytics is disabled in the project, and no analytics service is initialised. |
| Crash logs | No | No crash-reporting SDK is present in this version. |
| Your aquarium, fish, progress, settings | Stored locally | Written to the app's own private storage on your device. It is never uploaded to us. |
| Purchase confirmations | Handled by the store | See section 4. We receive no payment details, ever. |
3. Third-party components
The app is built with the Unity engine and includes Unity's in-app purchasing library so that purchases can talk to the platform store. We have not linked the app to any Unity cloud project, Unity Analytics is switched off in the project settings, and we do not initialise any Unity online service.
When you make a purchase, the transaction is handled by Google Play Billing or Apple StoreKit depending on where you installed the app. Those companies act as independent controllers of that transaction under their own policies, which offer protections comparable to those described here: Google Privacy Policy · Apple Privacy Policy.
No other third-party SDK collects data in this version. If we ever add one — crash reporting and rewarded advertising are the two we have considered — we will update this policy and our store disclosures before that version is released.
4. Purchases
The game offers optional in-app purchases of an in-game currency. Payment happens entirely inside Google Play's or Apple's own checkout. We never see, receive or store your card number, billing address, or any other payment detail. The app is told only whether a purchase succeeded, so it can grant what you bought, and that confirmation is applied on your device.
Refunds are handled by the store that took the payment. See Google Play refunds or Apple refunds.
5. Notifications
With your permission, the game can send reminders — for example when your tank needs attention. These are scheduled and delivered entirely on your own device. There is no server pushing messages to you, and no message content leaves your phone. You can withdraw the permission at any time in your device's system settings, and the game keeps working without it.
6. Children
Fishful Thinking is suitable for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13 (or under 16 in the EEA/UK). Because the app collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children either, and we hold no child's data to disclose or delete. We comply with COPPA by not collecting personal information at all. If you believe a child has somehow provided us personal information, contact us and we will confirm what we hold — which, structurally, is nothing.
7. Security
Because your data stays on your device, it is protected by your device's own operating-system protections — app-private storage that other apps cannot read, plus whatever device encryption and screen lock you have enabled. There is no account to be breached and no database of ours to leak, because neither exists. Traffic between the app and the platform stores is encrypted in transit by those stores.
8. Data retention and deletion
We retain nothing, because we receive nothing. Your save file is retained on your device for exactly as long as you keep the app installed.
To delete all data the app has stored: uninstall the app. That removes the save file and everything else the app has written, immediately and permanently. There is no cloud copy and no backup on our side to request the deletion of. You can also clear the app's storage from your device settings without uninstalling, which resets the game.
If you would like written confirmation of what we hold about you, email [email protected] and we will respond within 30 days. The honest answer will be that we hold nothing.
9. Accounts
The app does not support account creation. There is no login, no profile and no user-generated content shared with anyone else. Apple's in-app account deletion requirement (App Store Review Guideline 5.1.1(v)) therefore does not apply — there is no account to delete. Uninstalling achieves the equivalent outcome, as described in section 8.
10. Legal basis for processing (EEA / UK)
We do not process personal data, so in ordinary use no legal basis is engaged. Where processing does occur it is limited to two cases: performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) UK/EU GDPR) when the platform store processes a purchase you asked for, and consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) for device notifications, which you grant in the system permission prompt and can withdraw at any time in your device settings without losing access to the game.
11. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data, to data portability, and to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. If you are in the EEA or UK these come from the GDPR; in California from the CCPA as amended by the CPRA; and comparable rights exist elsewhere.
You can exercise any of them by emailing [email protected]. We will not discriminate against you for doing so. In practice the response will be that we hold no personal data about you, and that the data you do have is on your device and under your direct control (section 8).
We do not sell or share personal information, and we never have, as those terms are defined by the CCPA/CPRA — including for cross-context behavioural advertising. There is no "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" mechanism to offer because there is nothing to opt out of.
12. International transfers
We transfer no personal data internationally, because we receive none. Transactions you make are transferred and processed by Google or Apple under their own safeguards.
13. This website
This site is static. It sets no cookies, uses no analytics, and loads no fonts, scripts, images or other resources from third-party servers — everything is served from this domain, so visiting it does not disclose you to anyone else. Our hosting provider may keep short-lived server logs including IP addresses for security and abuse prevention, which is standard for any web server and is not used to identify or profile you.
14. Changes to this policy
If what the app collects ever changes, we will update this page and the "last updated" date above before the new version is released, and we will update our Google Play Data safety and Apple App Privacy disclosures to match. Material changes will also be noted in the store listing release notes.
15. Contact
Garage Frogs
[email protected]
Questions, privacy requests, and complaints all reach a person at that address.