Privacy Policy

Effective 11 November 2026

Who we are

Lamplight (listed on the App Store as Lamplight: Art Jigsaw Puzzles) is an art jigsaw game for iPhone and iPad, made by an independent developer. This policy explains what information the app handles and what it does not.

Information we do not collect

Lamplight has no user accounts and no registration. We do not collect your name, email address, location, or contacts. The app does not use the advertising identifier (IDFA), never asks permission to track you, and does not track you across other apps or websites. (See Advertising and Usage statistics and notifications below for what Google receives.)

What stays on your device

The app saves your progress so your gallery is yours to keep: which paintings you have restored, the puzzle you have in progress, your settings (such as appearance and sound), and small thumbnail images of finished paintings. All of this is stored only on your device. It is included in your normal device backup (iCloud or computer), which means your gallery survives a new phone — but it is your backup, under your control, and it never passes through any server of ours. The one exception is the Hall, below: what you choose to show on the leaderboards.

You can erase all of it at any time with Reset in the app's settings, or by deleting the app.

Your own pictures

You can add a photograph from your library and play it as a puzzle. The app uses Apple's photo picker, which hands over only the pictures you choose — it never has access to your library as a whole, and it never asks for that permission. The pictures you add are stored only on your device, alongside your gallery; they are never uploaded, never sent to us, and never shared with any third party. Remove a picture in the app, or delete the app, and it is gone.

Printing

Lamplight Plus can print any puzzle as paper pieces. The pages are made on your device and handed to Apple's share sheet, so where they go — a printer, Files, another app — is your choice. Nothing is sent to us.

Usage statistics and notifications

Lamplight uses Firebase, a service of Google LLC, for anonymous usage statistics (how many people play, which screens are used, whether a notification was opened) and to deliver the notifications you have allowed. Firebase receives a random app-instance identifier and, if you allow notifications, your device's notification token; it does not receive your name, your photos, or anything you type. These identifiers are not linked to you and are not used to track you across other apps or websites. You can turn notifications off in the app's settings or in iOS Settings at any time. Google's handling of this information is described in the Google privacy policy.

The Hall and the cups (leaderboards)

Lamplight's Salon has leaderboards: the Hall of Restorers (all-time points) and a weekly cup. To put you on them, the app signs in to Firebase, a service of Google LLC, anonymously — no email, no Apple ID, no account — which gives your copy of the app a random user ID. Kept against that ID: the name on your passport (a name the game gives you, such as "Lamplit Easel", or one you type yourself), your rank, the portrait you have chosen, your Salon points and this week's points. Other players see that name, rank, portrait and those points; nothing else about you is on the leaderboards.

Names pass a word filter, and any player can report a name. A report sends us the name, its random ID and the reporter's random ID; we read every report and remove names that break the rules. A name you report disappears from your own leaderboards straight away.

Turn off Appear in the Hall in the app's settings and your rows are deleted and nothing more is sent. If you delete the app, your rows stay on the leaderboards under your name until you ask us to remove them — write to the address at the end of this page. The random ID is not linked to you and is not used to track you across other apps or websites.

The paintings

The artworks in Lamplight are in the public domain and are downloaded from Wikimedia Commons, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. When the app fetches a painting, Wikimedia's servers receive the standard technical information involved in any internet request, such as your IP address. This is the same as visiting their website, and is governed by the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy. Once fetched, paintings are cached on your device so the app works offline.

Purchases

Everything Lamplight sells is sold through Apple's App Store: the optional Lamplight Plus subscription, the one-time Just the adverts purchase, and items from the Shop such as gifts, privilege packs and five more Salon boards. The entire payment is handled by Apple; we never see or store your payment details, billing address, or Apple ID.

From Apple the app learns only what it needs to give you what you bought: whether your device holds an active subscription or the one-time purchase, that a Shop purchase went through (so it is credited to you exactly once), and the country of your App Store (so gifts follow local rules — in some countries a gift holds no chance of a portrait and gives extra privileges instead). The anonymous usage statistics described above note which Shop item was bought, never who bought it. You can manage or cancel the subscription at any time in your Apple account settings, and restore your purchases on a new device with Restore purchases.

Advertising

The free version of Lamplight shows a small number of adverts. A Lamplight Plus subscription removes all of them; the one-time Just the adverts purchase removes the advert shown after a board. Adverts are served by Google AdMob, a service of Google LLC.

Every advert request the app makes is flagged non-personalised. The app never uses the advertising identifier (IDFA), never asks permission to track you, and does not track you across other apps or websites. Adverts are chosen from context — such as the app itself and your general region — not from a profile of you.

To serve and measure adverts, Google receives the standard technical information involved in any internet request, such as your IP address and basic information about your device, and records how adverts perform (for example, whether an advert was shown or tapped). Google's handling of this information is governed by the Google privacy policy; Google also explains its use of information from apps that use its services at How Google uses information.

Where the law requires it — for example in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland — the app shows Google's consent form before any advert is requested, and respects your choice. Declining never costs you any part of the game.

Children

Lamplight is suitable for all ages. Because the app collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children — and adverts in the free version are always non-personalised, for everyone. The leaderboards show only a passport name, and the game gives every player one, so nobody needs to type their own.

Changes to this policy

If the app's behaviour changes in a way that affects your privacy, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the effective date above will change. Meaningful changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about Lamplight: lamplightjigsaw@gmail.com