“The raven keeps score in scratches on the bark. We keep none at all.”
The short version. SMYK collects nothing about you: no name, no e-mail, no phone number, no location, no advertising identifiers. There is no analytics, no advertising, no account system and no networking code of any kind — the game runs entirely offline. The only thing it stores is a single file with your progress and your settings, and that file never leaves your device.
SMYK (ШМЯК in Russian, СМИК in Ukrainian) is a game for iPhone and Android phones. The developer and publisher is Oleksandr Shapoval, an individual. Application identifier: wtf.z0.smyk. Contact: [email protected].
None. Here is the complete list of what the game does not have:
One file, smyak.cfg, inside the app's own folder. It holds your best distance; your embers; which hat, power, hero and night you have unlocked and equipped; your run count; your best Climb result; the date of your last daily bonus; and your chosen language. Nothing else.
The file never leaves the device: the game has no way to send it anywhere. We never see it and never receive it. Delete the game and the system deletes the file with it.
Device backups. If you back up your phone (iCloud, Google backup, or a backup to a computer), the game's file may be included in that backup, like any app's data. That backup belongs to you, Apple and Google; we have no access to it.
The stores keep their own records around every app: download counts, countries, OS versions and crash reports — the last only if you have allowed your device to share diagnostics with developers. We can see those summaries in Apple's and Google's consoles. They are anonymised and aggregated: they contain no name, no address and no way to contact you, and we combine them with nothing. This data is collected by Apple and Google under their own rules — see Apple's privacy policy and Google's privacy policy.
The game is made for everyone: a night forest, haystacks, clay pots and comedy landings. It has no advertising, no purchases, no chat, no user-generated content and no outbound links.
We collect no personal data from anyone — adult or child. So we hold nothing about a child under 13 (COPPA, United States) or under the age of digital consent in your country (GDPR Article 8, 13 to 16 depending on the country), and no parental consent is required of us: there is nothing to consent to.
Parents: to erase all progress, delete the game. It is stored nowhere else.
The GDPR, the CCPA and similar laws give you the right to request a copy of your data, correct it or delete it. We hold no such data — not one line. We do not sell or share personal information, because none exists.
You are welcome to write to us and we will answer. But we will not be able to find any data about you, because there is none. Your progress lives on your device and is yours to control: deleting the game deletes everything.
This page is served from static hosting with no server-side code. The host, like any such service, may keep technical request logs (an IP address, a browser type) — that happens on their side. We put no counters, no analytics and no advertising on this page.
If the game changes in a way that changes this, we will rewrite the page and put a new date at the top. We cannot notify you — we do not have your address. A link to this page is inside the game (the ABOUT screen) and on the App Store and Google Play listings, so the current version is always here.
Oleksandr Shapoval — [email protected]. Write in English or in Russian.