Duskyard — Privacy Policy

Duskyard is a small 2D pixel platformer in which the hero is a tiny pixel drawing made from a photo of your own face. This policy explains, in plain language, exactly what the app does and does not do with your information. The short version: Duskyard collects nothing about you, and the photo itself is never saved, never uploaded and never leaves your device.

In short, for younger players. You take a photo of your face. Your iPhone turns it into a tiny pixel drawing, and that drawing is the hero of the game. The photo is thrown away straight after — it is never saved and never sent anywhere. The app does not know who you are. It has no account, no chat, no ads and nothing to buy, and it does not use the internet at all. The drawing and your game progress stay on your iPhone. If you delete the app, they are gone too.

No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Duskyard has no sign-in, no user account and no server of its own. It contains no networking code, no analytics, no crash reporter, no advertising and no third-party tracking software. It has no in-app purchases.

Your photo

To make your character you either take a photo with the camera or pick one you already have using the standard iOS photo picker. The camera is only used while you are on the capture screen, and the picker gives the app only the single photo you choose — the app cannot browse your photo library.

On your iPhone, the app crops the photo to an oval, uses a portrait-matting model that is bundled inside the app to cut you out of the background, shrinks the result to 32 by 32 pixels and reduces it to a handful of colours. All of this runs on the device, offline. The app does not detect faces, does not locate facial features and does not recognise or identify anyone.

The only thing kept is that 32 by 32 pixel drawing. The photograph itself is never written to storage, never uploaded and never leaves your device — there is nothing in the app that could send it anywhere.

What the app stores on your device

All of this lives inside the app's own storage on your iPhone. None of it is synced or transmitted anywhere:

Deleting the app removes all of it. You can also replace your sprite at any time by taking a new photo in the app.

What we collect

The app's privacy manifest declares no tracking, no tracking domains and no collected data types, and its App Store privacy label is Data Not Collected. That matches this page exactly.

Children

Duskyard is a general-audience game and is not directed at children. Because it collects no data from anyone, it collects none from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date.

Contact

The Contact support link in the app does not send anything itself: it opens a draft in your own mail app, addressed to us, with the app version, build, iOS version and iPhone model filled in at the bottom. You can read, change or delete all of it, and nothing reaches us unless you press Send. (With no mail app set up, it shows you our address instead, with a button to copy it.)