Forshore: Tide Rescue privacy

Last updated: 13 October 2026.

Controller and contact

The controller is Jared Pérez Vega. For support and privacy enquiries, email jared.perez.vega@icloud.com.

Saved games on your device

Forshore: Tide Rescue stores your saved game, move history, best results, achievements and preferences locally. They let you continue playing and retain your settings. The app has no developer-operated saved-game server.

Since version 2.0, Forshore also keeps game statistics on this device: for each island and difficulty, how many attempts you make, how they end, how often you undo, the hints and routes you open in Help and your active time. They show your progress and, if you choose to share them, help tune the difficulty. They are stored in a separate file, are not part of your saved game or iCloud, and the app never sends them. You can erase them in Settings → Game statistics.

The installation may retain a previous copy and recovered files to protect progress when it detects a problem. Changing language does not replace this information. Deleting the app may delete its local data. Device backups, if any, depend on your settings and Apple’s tools. We do not promise to recover a deleted game.

Optional iCloud saves

If you enable iCloud in Settings, Forshore syncs successfully saved games with your iCloud account’s private database. This free feature lets you continue or recover a game on another iPhone or iPad using the same account. You can keep playing locally without enabling it.

Copies include your saved game, retained move history, current tutorial, best results, help attempts, routes watched and achievements. They also include random installation and revision identifiers, dates and counters to distinguish versions and handle conflicts. They do not include your email, Game Center name, payment details or support summary. Sound, haptics and guidance preferences remain local.

Forshore keeps a reference to the linked iCloud account on this device to avoid uploading progress to another account if you change your sign-in. This reference is not used for advertising or included in support reports. Copies are processed to provide the saving and recovery feature you request by enabling it; they are not published or shared with other players.

Each installation retains up to three recent revisions in its iCloud copy. Copies from different installations may coexist. Turning off the feature or uninstalling the app does not automatically delete copies already uploaded. You can manage Forshore’s data using Apple’s iCloud storage settings. First disable syncing on your devices if you want to prevent them from uploading local copies again.

If the app detects that remote copies have been deleted, it pauses syncing. You can confirm restarting with the same account to save to iCloud again. Before resetting that link, the app keeps a local copy of its sync information to protect existing data. Restarting can upload the local game again after checking any remaining remote copies.

Recovery depends on a valid copy having uploaded, remaining available and using the same account. Syncing can be delayed by connectivity, storage space or service availability. Apple operates iCloud under its terms and privacy policy.

Purchases and Apple services

Apple handles payment and the account used to buy. Forshore checks the available unlock and verifies purchase responses. The app does not receive your card number or send receipts to a developer-operated server.

Game Center is optional. When you connect, the app uses your Game Center identity and display name to show the account and check its achievements. Tapping Send my achievements sends saved achievements for that account. It does not send game replays. Your Game Center identity is not included in the saved-game file or support summary.

Apple handles its services’ data under its privacy policy and its Game Center and privacy information. Disconnecting within Forshore does not delete achievements already sent to Game Center or sign out of the system account.

Information you choose to share

Support information shows a snapshot of the app version, system, language, route, island, turn, move-history count, save warnings and certain accessibility settings. You can read it before opening the share sheet. It does not include accounts, purchase information or a device identifier.

Share statistics creates a text with island codes, difficulty, attempts, endings, undos, hints and routes opened and seconds played, without accounts or device identifiers.

Export saved game for review creates a file with the current island’s map and retained moves, equipment, result and relevant versions. It does not contain undone moves or a full tutorial replay. You choose where to save or send it. The app sends neither type of report automatically.

If you contact us, we receive your message, the address you use and any attachments you choose to include. These are used to answer your request and investigate the issue. You do not need to send payment details or credentials.

Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering players’ enquiries and resolving Forshore issues. We retain this information for as long as necessary to resolve the enquiry and any follow-up; afterwards, only where needed to meet legal obligations or establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

The mailbox uses Apple’s iCloud Mail service. We do not use support enquiries to send advertising.

Advertising, tracking and the support website

The app contains no advertising, cross-app tracking or developer-operated analytics service. Apple services may provide commercial or diagnostic information under their terms and the user’s choices.

This website uses GitHub Pages. We do not add forms, advertising, analytics or our own cookies. GitHub logs and stores visitors’ IP addresses for security purposes, including when they are not signed in. Its privacy statement explains how it handles data and its retention criteria.

Apple and GitHub may process data outside the European Economic Area. Their privacy policies describe applicable safeguards, including standard contractual clauses. External links and the email app you choose are subject to their own terms.

Your choices and rights

You can use free content without a Forshore account, leave iCloud disabled, play without connecting to Game Center and choose whether to share reports. For information you have sent to support, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection or portability where applicable, using the contact above. You can complain to the Spanish Data Protection Agency.

For data handled directly by Apple, use its account and privacy controls. If the handling described here changes, we will update this policy and its date.