Brain Games by Clever Branch privacy policy

Last updated: October 21, 2026

Brain Games by Clever Branch is a daily puzzle game made by Simple Tree LLC. The short version: we collect nothing. The App Store privacy label for this app reads Data Not Collected, and its Google Play Data safety section says the same (nothing collected, nothing shared), because that is literally true. The app runs on iPhone and iPad and on Android; where the two work differently, this page says so (see On Android).

The short version

• No account, no sign-up, no login, no email address, no birthday. We don't know who you are.
• No analytics, no crash reporter, no advertising library and no tracking of any kind. The app has no code that sends anything to us, and we run no server that could receive it.
• Your results, your streak and your settings are stored on your device and in your own backup: your private iCloud on iPhone and iPad, your own Google backup on Android. We cannot read either.
• No ads. No advertising identifier. Nothing you do is profiled or sold.
• Game Center leaderboards (iPhone and iPad only) are optional and off unless you turn them on. If you do, your scores go to Apple's Game Center, not to us. The Android app has no leaderboards.

The app does not talk to us

The app contains no networking code of our own. It makes no web requests to us or to anyone else. There is no analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no advertising library and no "anonymous usage statistics". Every puzzle is built into the app, so even if we wanted to know how you did today, we could not find out.

What does travel is your own sync, and it does not travel to us: Apple's frameworks carry it into your private iCloud, described next. Purchases go through Apple, described below. If you turn on Game Center, Apple's frameworks also carry your scores to Game Center, described below; that does not reach us either.

What is stored, and where

• On your device. Which puzzles you played and how you did, the days you completed (your streak is worked out from these), and your settings, such as Relaxed timing, sounds, haptics and the daily reminder time. Deleting the app removes all of it.
• In your own private iCloud. If you are signed in to iCloud, your results and completed days sync between your iPhone and iPad using Apple's CloudKit, in the private database attached to your Apple Account. This is the same mechanism that syncs Notes or Reminders. We are not a party to it: we cannot read that database, we cannot list who has one, and we receive no copy. The app uses no public or shared CloudKit database. If you would rather it did not sync, turn iCloud off for Brain Games in iOS Settings and everything stays on the device.
• For the widget. The Home Screen widget reads a small summary (today's date, which of today's games you have finished, and the days you completed, so it can show your streak) from storage shared between the app and its widget on the same device. It is kept on that device, in storage only the app and its widget can read, and is never sent to us.
• Nowhere else. There is no other destination, unless you turn on Game Center (below).

What you can choose to send

You can share your daily result card. It is drawn on the device and handed to the standard share sheet, and from then on it goes wherever you send it, like any other image you share. It shows which puzzles you got right and wrong, as ticks and crosses, and nothing about the puzzles themselves. No copy comes to us.

Game Center (optional)

The app has two Game Center leaderboards: today's Today's 3 points, and your best streak. Game Center is off unless you turn it on in the app's Settings, and the app never asks you to sign in to Game Center unless you turn it on or open a leaderboard.

• If you turn it on, the app sends two numbers to Apple's Game Center: your Today's 3 points once a day, when you finish the day's three games, and your best streak when it goes up. Games played from the archive and replays are never sent.
• Apple shows those scores on its leaderboards with your Game Center nickname, where other Game Center players can see them. Game Center is Apple's service, run under Apple's privacy policy, and Apple describes what it collects in its Game Center & Privacy statement. Your Game Center profile and nickname are managed in iOS Settings, under Game Center.
• We still receive nothing. The scores go from your device to Apple. The app sends no copy to us, and we don't use your Game Center nickname or identifiers for anything.
• If you turn it off, nothing more is sent. Scores already sent stay with Apple's Game Center.

Notifications

The app can remind you to play each day, and, if you start a free trial, remind you on day 4 when billing will begin. Both are scheduled on your device by iOS or Android; nothing is sent from a server, and we never learn whether you allowed them. The app asks for permission only when you turn one of these on, and you can turn them off at any time in the app's Settings or in your device's settings.

Your age range, where the law requires it

Some US states require apps to check a player's age range through the app store. If you live in one, Apple (on iPhone and iPad) or Google Play (on Android) may share your age range with the app (for example, "18 or over"). The store decides whether the law applies to your account; the app never looks at your location. The app is the same whatever the answer is, and whether you share or not. The answer is kept in the app's memory while it is open and is never stored, synced or sent to us. The app also never asks you for your birthday.

Where the same laws require it, when a new version makes a significant change (new terms, a new price, or a new App Store age rating) Apple shows you a notice about it, or asks a parent to approve it for a player under 18. To know when to do that, the app remembers the age rating and version you were last told about. That is information about the app, not about you.

Permissions we never ask for

Apart from notifications, which are optional, the app asks for no permissions. It has no camera, microphone, photo library, contacts, calendar, health, Bluetooth or location access, and neither iOS nor Android would let it acquire them silently. (On Android the app also declares three ordinary permissions that show no prompt: one to use Google Play billing, one to vibrate for haptics, and one to set its reminders again after the phone restarts.) If you ever see a permission prompt attributed to this app other than notifications, something is wrong and we would like to hear about it.

Purchases

Today's 3 is free. Brain Games Premium is an optional auto-renewing subscription, sold and managed entirely by Apple on iPhone and iPad and by Google Play on Android. We never see your card, your billing address, your Apple Account or your Google account. The store tells the app one thing: whether a valid subscription exists, and on Android which plan it is and when it was bought, so the app can say when it renews and remind you before a free trial ends. That stays on your device. Restoring purchases asks the same question again. Cancellation and refunds are the store's process; the terms of use say how.

On Android

The Android app is the same game with the same promise: no account, no analytics, no ads and nothing sent to us. A few things work differently there.

• Backup, not iCloud. Your results, completed days and settings are kept in the app's private storage on your phone. Android's own backup can copy that storage to your Google account, the same way it backs up other apps, so a new phone can restore it. That backup is Google's service, run under Google's privacy policy; we cannot read it and receive no copy. You can turn it off in your phone's backup settings.
• No Game Center and no leaderboards. Nothing about your play leaves the phone except through backup and anything you choose to share.
• Purchases through Google Play. Google Play billing tells the app whether you have a subscription, which plan and when it began. If you start a free trial, the app notes that on your phone so it can remind you on day 4. Google Play's billing library talks to Google under Google's privacy policy; the app itself sends nothing to us.
• Age range through Google Play. Where a law requires it, Google Play may share your age range with the app. As on iPhone, it is kept only in memory while the app is open, changes nothing, and is never stored or sent to us.
• The home screen widget reads today's date, today's games and your completed days from the app's own storage on the phone. Nothing is sent anywhere.
• Delete everything: uninstall the app. To remove the backed-up copy, delete Brain Games' backup in your Google account's backup settings.

No ads, no tracking

There is no advertising in Brain Games and there will not be. The app uses no advertising identifier and participates in no tracking network. It will never show you the App Tracking Transparency prompt, because it has nothing to ask permission for. Its privacy manifest declares no tracking, no tracking domains and no data collected, and the only required-reason API it uses is the ordinary one for reading and writing the app's own settings in its own storage.

Who the app is for

Brain Games is made for adults and is open to everyone. It is not directed to children, and anyone under 18 should use it with a parent or guardian's permission. We collect no personal information from anyone, of any age: there is no account to create, nothing you are required to type, nothing published except the optional Game Center scores described above (which Apple handles), and no way for anyone to contact you through the app.

What we don't do

• We don't sell your data. We don't have your data to sell.
• We don't share anything with advertisers, data brokers or analytics companies.
• We don't build a profile of you.
• We don't email you, because we never learn your address.
• We don't use your play to train anything.

Your choices

• Stop the sync: turn off iCloud for Brain Games in iOS Settings. Your results stay on the device.
• Delete everything: delete the app. To also remove the synced copy, use Settings › [your name] › iCloud › Manage Account Storage.
• Ask us anything: see Contact, below. You don't need an account to ask, and we won't ask who you are.

Changes to this policy

If the app ever changes in a way that affects this page, we will update this page and the date at the top before that version ships. If a future version ever collected anything at all, it would be described here in the same plain language, and the App Store privacy label and Google Play Data safety section would change to match.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does, can go through the support page. A person reads every message.

Simple Tree LLC

This policy describes what Brain Games by Clever Branch actually does, written in plain English on purpose. It is not legal advice.