Privacy Policy

Constella is published by Stoneridge Construction (Midlands) Ltd, a company registered in England at 23 Wentworth Road, Birmingham B17 9SH. Ginny Owen is the person responsible for it.

The UK GDPR would call the company the controller of your personal data in connection with this app. It is a grand title for a thin job here, since the app never puts any in the company's hands. The one place the title earns its keep is correspondence, and that has an entry of its own further down.

The address for everything on this page is star@stoneridgeconstruction.site.

Four things, and not one of them is about you:

• which charts you have finished, and which tier they belonged to;
• the chart you have open at the moment, lines and all, so that closing the app does not undo an evening's work;
• anything you have drawn in free-draw mode;
• your settings.

No name is attached to any of it, nor an email address, an account, a device identifier or an advertising ID, because the app holds none of those things. Android walls each app's private storage off from everything else on the handset, and that walled-off folder is the entire memory of this game.

Constella declares no internet permission. Android treats that as binding rather than aspirational: an app without it is refused a network connection by the operating system, whatever its code intends. A future version that wanted one would have to ask for it in the open, where the permission list is visible before installing.

Camera, microphone, location, contacts, photographs and general file storage are all equally absent. A game in which you drag a line between two points of light needs none of them, and the absence is the argument.

Free draw exists so that you can make shapes nobody asked for out of stars nobody named. The app has no notion of an audience for them: they are saved beside your progress, they are never sent, and there is no gallery, no upload, no sharing and no feed anywhere in the game.

Should a later version ever invite you to publish one, that would be a real change in what the app is, and it would be written here before it shipped.

No ad network is present, and neither is an analytics library, a crash reporter, an attribution kit or a social sign-in. Nothing in this game is paid for by observing whoever is holding the phone, which is why the list of what is stored runs to four items.

The point is worth making because a calm puzzle about stars is precisely the sort of thing handed to a child at bedtime. Since nothing is advertised and nothing is gathered from anyone, there is no profile to be built from a child's play, nobody's attention to be sold, and no reason to ask an age — the answer could not change anything the app does.

One thing occurs outside the app's reach. Where backup to Google Drive is switched on, Android may take the game's small progress file into your own Google account along with the backups of everything else installed. That copy is yours and Google's business under Google's terms, not ours; we hold no account there and can see nothing in it.

It is also the only thread by which a finished set of charts reaches a new phone. The switch lives in Android's settings, for the whole device or for this app by itself.

The download is an arrangement between you and Google, logged against your Google account. A developer afterwards sees a console of aggregates — installs per country, the spread of Android versions, the drift of a rating. No individual row sits under those numbers for anyone here to open, and nothing in them concerns a chart or a line.

Google's side of it is covered by Google's own privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

One folder holds everything, so there is one action and no request to make of anybody. Uninstalling removes the solved charts, the free-draw patterns and the settings together. To keep the game and start from an unmarked sky, Android's app settings will clear its storage.

Either happens at once and cannot be undone. Anything you drew in free draw goes with it, which is the one part people tend to regret, so it is worth a moment's pause.

This is the only entry on the page about data that actually arrives somewhere. An email leaves us with an address and whatever the message contains, held while the matter is live and for a short time afterwards in case it revives, and then deleted.

It is read, answered, and used for nothing further: no list, no onward sharing, no marketing. The lawful basis is legitimate interests — answering people who take the trouble to write. It cannot be joined to anything you did in the app, since the app has no identifier for it to be joined to. If you would rather it went sooner, say so.

Under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 you may ask what personal data is held about you, receive a copy, have it put right, have it deleted, limit what is done with it, object to its use, or have it moved elsewhere. Directed at this app most of those requests will come back describing an empty shelf. Directed at the mailbox above, they work exactly as you would expect, and there is no charge for any of them.

Requests go to star@stoneridgeconstruction.site and are answered inside a month. The Information Commissioner's Office is the body that supervises all of this in the United Kingdom, and it will hear a complaint whether or not you have raised the matter with us first: ico.org.uk.

The page carries one date, beneath the title, and that is the edition you are reading. A change that genuinely moves data — anything collected, any third-party component, anything leaving the country — follows a fixed order: this page first, the Play Console's Data safety declaration in the same sitting, and the release that caused it only afterwards.

A clearer sentence is not a change of that kind and brings nothing with it but a newer date.