Privacy policy

App: Tile & Error (net.gameofphones.tileerror), version 1.0.0. Developer: Elton Phiri, trading as Game of Phones. Effective date: 25 October 2026. Contact: help@gameofphones.net.

Summary. Tile & Error has no accounts, no analytics and no ads. The developer does not run a server for the app and does not collect, store or sell your personal data.

What stays on your phone. Your player name and avatar, settings, skin, game statistics, word history, the words you add and the app's learning data are saved only on your device. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data removes them.

Online games. When you play online, the app connects to public internet relay services so the phones in a room can talk. Through the relay it sends your player name and avatar, your moves, the game state and your chat messages to the other players in your room.

• The connection to the relay uses secure WebSockets (TLS), but messages are not end-to-end encrypted. The relay operators, and anyone who joins with your room code, can see what is sent in that room.
• The developer has no access to these messages and does not store them.
• Relay services used by default: EMQX public broker (broker.emqx.io), HiveMQ public broker (broker.hivemq.com) and Eclipse Mosquitto test broker (test.mosquitto.org), run by third parties under their own terms.
• If you choose your own server in Settings, room data goes to that server instead.

Word Lab. When Word Lab or background word learning fetches new words, the app sends the topic or word being looked up to the Datamuse API (api.datamuse.com) and the Free Dictionary API (api.dictionaryapi.dev). No personal information is included. These services receive your device's IP address as part of any normal web request.

Permissions. Internet and network state (online games and Word Lab) and vibration (game feedback). The app does not use your camera, location, contacts or files.

Advertising and tracking. No ads, no advertising ID, no analytics or tracking tools.

Children. Tile & Error is not directed at children under 13. Online games include chat with the people who share your room code.

Your choices. You can play every offline mode without going online. Only share a room code with people you want to play with. Report abusive players from the room chat or by email.

Changes and contact. If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date. Questions or requests: help@gameofphones.net.

Tile & Error™ and Game of Phones™ are trademarks of Elton Phiri.