For children
- Your drawings stay on your phone or tablet. We don’t take them.
- We don’t ask your name, your age or where you live.
- Only a grown-up can save or share your set. That’s why the game says “Ask a grown-up”.
- If you share a set, your friend sees your drawings and your set’s name. Use a nickname, not your real name.
- If something worries you, tell a grown-up you trust.
In short
Your drawings are stored on your device. Nothing is uploaded by the app. You decide if and when to save or share a set.
Who we are
Obchession is made by Brian Kelly (Expertilise), who is responsible for how your information is handled.
What the game keeps
- The pieces your child draws, their sets and set names, and game settings such as board colours and puzzle progress.
- These stay on this device, inside the app. There are no accounts, no adverts, no analytics and no tracking, and the game asks for no names, ages or contact details.
Test version only
Tester feedback form
If you are using a test version, adult testers can answer an optional feedback form, opened from a link on the game’s home screen. It is separate from the game and is run on Microsoft Forms, which holds the answers for us. See Microsoft’s privacy statement for information about its service. Please do not put a child’s name, or any photo or screenshot showing a child, in your answers.
- What it asks: your phone and Android version, who played, a child’s age band (never a name), ratings and comments. Your email and a name for the thank-you credits are optional.
- Why: to improve the game, and to follow up only if you ask us to. Answering is your choice, and you can skip any question.
- How long: testing runs until 10 December 2026. We delete all original feedback answers, including any emails and names, by 31 January 2027. Before then we may keep a copy of the ratings and comments with all identifying information removed, including identifying details in free-text answers.
- Thank-you credits: if you ask to be thanked by name, we only list the name you give us, with your agreement. It shows in the app’s credits and may appear on the store page. These published credits are separate from the original feedback answers deleted by 31 January 2027. You can ask us to remove your credit at any time. It is removed in the next update of the app, but copies already installed keep it until they update.
- Your rights: to ask what we hold, or to have your answers deleted sooner, email hello@expertilise.com.
Installing the app
Obchession is installed from Google Play, which handles the download. During the test, Google uses the email address of your Google account to give you access, and Google’s privacy policy applies to that. The app contains all of the game’s files, so playing it sends nothing to us.
Deleting game data
Delete individual sets from My sets in the game. To remove the game’s locally stored data from that device, uninstall the app or clear the app’s storage in your phone’s settings.
This does not delete copies you have saved elsewhere, sets held by recipients, or any device backups. Those copies need to be managed separately in the place or service where they are stored.
Visiting this website
The website pages do not contain advertising or analytics scripts. Their own code does not set cookies or use browser storage.
Our website host, Vercel, processes technical information about website traffic, which can include your IP address, page requests and system configuration, to deliver and protect the website. This is separate from playing the game. See Vercel’s privacy notice for its handling of this information.
Support and privacy enquiries
If you email us, we receive your email address and the information you choose to include. We use it to answer your enquiry and manage any necessary follow-up. Please avoid including a child’s identifying information unless it is needed to resolve the issue.
We keep support correspondence for as long as needed to deal with the enquiry, any related follow-up and applicable legal obligations. You can ask us about the information we hold or request deletion by emailing hello@expertilise.com.
Changes to this page
We may update this privacy policy. The date at the top shows when it last changed. The newest version is in the latest update of the app from Google Play, and at the address on the app’s store page. If a change matters to children or parents, we will say so in the update notes.
Questions and complaints
Email hello@expertilise.com with any question about your information. Tell us if you are unhappy with how we handle it and we will look into it and reply.
If you are still not happy, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint.