Privacy Policy (Android)

1Who we are

Cablewick (“the app”, “Cablewick”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is a crochet and knitting companion application for Android, distributed on Google Play and published by Andrii Matiushev, publishing as “Zydeno” (“Zydeno”, “the developer”), the data controller responsible for this app. You can reach us any time at [email protected] or via zydeno.com.

Developer / data controller: Andrii Matiushev, independent developer publishing as “Zydeno” (Ukraine). For privacy questions, the fastest route is email.

2Scope of this policy

This policy explains how the Android version of Cablewick — including its home-screen widgets and its lock-screen counter notification — handles information. It does not cover the third-party services the app contacts to fetch public content when you use certain features (see §6), Google Play services when it performs scanning for the app (§7), Google Play itself, from which you download the app (§12), the websites you choose to open from the app, or anyone you choose to send a file to. Each of those has its own terms and privacy policy. Your use of the app is also governed by our Terms of Use (Android).

3What we do not collect

Because Cablewick has no backend, the developer collects no personal data about you. Specifically, we do not:

• require or offer an account, sign-in, email, or phone number;
• run any Cablewick server that receives, logs, or stores your data;
• operate any cloud sync — and Android Auto Backup is disabled for the app (see §5);
• embed advertising, analytics, attribution, or crash-reporting SDKs of our own;
• use the Android advertising ID (the app explicitly removes the AD_ID permission), a device fingerprint, or any tracking ID of our own (Google's ML Kit diagnostics are described in section 7);
• track you across other apps or websites;
• access your location (the app requests no location permission), contacts, calendar, phone, SMS, or health data;
• handle any payment information — the app is free and has nothing to buy (see §13);
• sell, rent, or share your personal information with data brokers — there is nothing for us to sell.

4Data stored on your device

Everything you create lives in Cablewick’s app-private storage on your Android device — its local database, files and preferences, which Android keeps sandboxed from other apps. It is never sent to us. This includes:

• Projects — your works-in-progress and finished makes: name, craft, notes, row goal, deadline, gauge, photos you add, parts checklist, and linked materials;
• Counters, timers & reminders — your row/round counters, quick counters, linked counters, per-row reminders, and the work sessions and time recorded by the project timer;
• Patterns — patterns you type, paste, import, scan or save: their text and detected steps, imported PDFs and photos, your annotations and free-hand sketches, voice notes (audio recordings), tags, folders and favorites;
• Charts — stitch and colourwork charts you design, including the grid, palette, per-row notes and reading position;
• Yarn stash, tools & shopping list — brand, name, colour, weight, fibre, dye lot, quantity, yardage, price, any label photo and scanned barcode text you save;
• Saved inspiration — images you save from Ideas (with their creator, licence and source details), and any pattern links you saved earlier, are cached on your device so they open offline;
• Activity & progress — your day-streak history, statistics and earned achievement badges;
• Your preferences — craft and skill choices, UK/US terms, theme, units, sound, reminder and notification settings.

You stay in control: you can edit or delete any item in the app, export a backup (§5), use Settings › Reset all data, or uninstall the app (see §17).

5No cloud, no Google backup — and your own backups

Cablewick keeps no copy of your data anywhere but your device. There is no account to create and no cloud to sync to. Specifically:

• Android Auto Backup is disabled for Cablewick’s data, so it is not copied to your Google account’s backup storage.
• Device-to-device transfer is disabled for Cablewick’s data, so it is not copied when you set up a new phone with Android’s transfer tools (by cable or wirelessly).
• Your own backup file. The only way to move your data is a backup you make yourself: Settings › Export backup creates a JSON file with your projects, counters, patterns, charts, stash, sessions, streak and badges, and the Android file picker lets you choose where to save it — for example your phone’s storage, an SD card, or a cloud-storage app you have installed. Import backup reads a file you pick and adds its contents to the data already in the app. We never receive the file.
• No cross-device account. Because there is no sync service, your devices never share data automatically, and there is nothing on our side to lose, leak, subpoena, or sell.

6Data sent to third parties

Most of Cablewick works fully offline. The app connects to the internet only when you use one of the features below. When it does, it sends only what is needed for that request and attaches no name, account, advertising ID, device ID, or other identifier, and none of your projects or other app data. We do not operate these services and do not control how they handle requests; their own policies apply.

Your IP address is inherently visible to any server you connect to (this is how the internet works) and may be processed transiently by these providers or their hosting/CDN to deliver a response. We do not receive or store it. If you never use inspiration search, web-link import, video tutorials or the links above, the app makes no outbound requests of its own (scanning is covered in §7).

Provider policies & attribution

• Inspiration photos — Pexels (Pexels privacy policy), Pixabay (Pixabay privacy policy) and Openverse (openverse.org/privacy). Each photo is shown with its creator, licence and source in the app. Openverse is a service of the WordPress Foundation; Cablewick is not affiliated with or endorsed by it.
• Video tutorials — YouTube / Google (policies.google.com/privacy). Cablewick does not host video and is not affiliated with YouTube.
• Websites you import from are governed by their own privacy policies.

7Scanning with Google Play services

The optional barcode and document-camera features are provided by Google Play services on your device rather than by Cablewick’s own code. Cablewick does not request the camera permission for them: Google Play services shows its own camera screen and hands the app only the result.

• Yarn-label barcode scanning uses the Google Code Scanner. The barcode is decoded on your device; Cablewick receives only the decoded barcode text, which it saves with the yarn if you choose.
• Scanning pattern pages uses the ML Kit Document Scanner. Cablewick receives only the page images you confirm, and stores them with your pattern on your device.
• Reading text from photos and scans (to turn a pattern image into text) uses ML Kit text recognition, which uses a model bundled with the app and runs on your device without Google Play services. You can select a photo or import a PDF when the document camera is unavailable.

Cablewick does not upload these images or results anywhere. Google Play services may download the required scanning module the first time you use a feature. The ML Kit software built into Cablewick (text recognition) and the Google Play services scanners may send Google limited technical diagnostics over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection: your device model and Android version, the app's package name and version, performance and error metrics, the type of event (for example, a feature starting), and a per-installation identifier that Google states is not intended to identify you or your device. Google uses this for diagnostics and usage analytics under the Google Privacy Policy and the ML Kit terms and states that it does not transfer this data to third parties. According to Google's published list it does not include your image or text content. Cablewick does not receive this information, cannot read or delete it, and cannot switch it off from inside the app. See also Google's ML Kit data disclosure.

8Device permissions

Optional permissions are requested by Android with a system prompt only when you turn on the feature that needs them; you can refuse without losing the rest of the app, and change them at any time in Android Settings › Apps › Cablewick › Permissions (or Notifications).

Voice counting

Voice counting turns short spoken commands (such as “next”, “back” or “reset”) into counter steps using Android’s speech recognizer. Where your device supports on-device recognition, Cablewick uses it and asks for offline recognition, so the audio stays on your phone. On devices without on-device recognition, Android passes the audio to your device’s system speech-recognition service (on many phones, provided by Google), which may process it on its own servers under that provider’s privacy policy. Cablewick itself never records, stores, or sends voice-counting audio; it only uses the recognized words, momentarily, to move the counter. You can stop voice counting at any time.

Photos & files — no storage permission

Photos are chosen with the Android system Photo Picker, and PDF/TXT/RTF patterns and backup files are opened or saved with the Android system file picker. The app receives access only to the specific items you pick, so it needs no permission to read your photo library, media or storage.

Cablewick does not request camera, location, contacts, calendar, phone, SMS, photos/media, or storage permissions, and it does not use the advertising ID.

9On-device processing

Everything Cablewick works out from your data is calculated locally on your device. Nothing below is sent to a Cablewick server (we have none):

• Pattern parsing — when you import or paste a pattern, its text is structured into steps on your device, only to tidy formatting; it never invents instructions. Text in imported PDFs is read on-device;
• Stitch dictionary & Learn — answers, stitch and technique references, glossaries and reference charts come from content built into the app;
• Calculators, gauge math, size parsing, the stash estimator, statistics, streaks and badges all run on-device from built-in data;
• Exports — printable pattern PDFs, chart images, project share cards and JSON backups — are generated on-device. They leave your device only if you save them with the file picker or send them through the Android share sheet to an app or person you choose, who then handles them under their own terms.

10Home-screen widgets & lock-screen counter

Cablewick’s home-screen widgets — the row counter, the streak, and “Continue project” — display a small snapshot read from the app’s own private storage on your device. They compute their content on-device and send nothing externally. The optional lock-screen counter is an ongoing local notification with − and + buttons that updates the same on-device counter. Depending on your Android lock-screen settings, widget and notification content (for example, a project or counter name) may be visible to anyone who can see your screen; you can change this in Android’s lock-screen and notification settings.

11Notifications

Cablewick uses only local notifications scheduled on your device — there is no push server and no push token. The daily craft reminder, weekly goal reminder, project deadline reminders, row reminders and the lock-screen counter are all computed on-device from your own settings and projects, and their content never leaves your device. You can turn each of them off in the app, or turn off Cablewick’s notifications entirely in Android settings.

12Google Play, web links & email

Google Play. Cablewick is distributed through Google Play. When you browse, download, install, update or review the app, Google may collect information about you and your device under its own policies, including the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Play Terms of Service. Google may provide developers with aggregated statistics (for example, install counts) that do not identify you; we do not receive your name or contact details from Google Play.

Web links. Our legal pages, zydeno.com, links to pattern or image sources you saved, and video tutorials open in a browser tab (Android Custom Tabs) or your browser; a link to the Google Play listing opens Google Play. The website or store you visit and your browser handle that visit under their own policies; Cablewick does not see what you do there.

Email. “Contact support” opens your own email app with our address filled in. If you write to us, we receive only what you choose to send (such as your email address and message) and use it solely to answer you (see §17).

13Free: no ads, no payments

Cablewick for Android is completely free, with every feature included. There is nothing to buy inside the app, no paid plans or recurring charges, and no advertising. The app includes no billing library and no advertising SDK, so it never handles payment details, payment records, or advertising data. See the Terms of Use, §12.

14International data transfers

Because the developer collects no personal data, there is no transfer of your data by us. When you use a feature in §6 — inspiration images, a web-link import, video tutorials or a link — the request may be served from, or logged on, infrastructure located outside your country (for example, in the EU or the US). Pexels, Pixabay, Openverse, the websites hosting images, YouTube/Google, the websites you visit, Google Play and Google Play services operate independently under their own terms and safeguards.

15Legal bases for processing (GDPR / UK GDPR)

For users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and similar jurisdictions: any limited, transient processing that occurs relies on these bases —

• Consent — for optional device permissions (notifications, microphone), which you grant via the Android prompt and can withdraw at any time in Android settings;
• Performance of our agreement with you / legitimate interests — to provide the lookup features you request (sending your search words to return images or patterns, or a web address to return its text), in a data-minimizing, identifier-free way;
• Legitimate interests / your request — to answer an email you send us.

Data you store on your device is under your sole control and is not processed by us.

Wherever you live, the position is the same: because the developer collects no personal data in any country, the app meets the data-minimization requirements of comparable privacy laws worldwide in the same way.

16Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, port, or restrict the processing of your personal data, and to object or withdraw consent (GDPR / UK GDPR), or to know, delete, correct and opt out of “sale”/“sharing” (CCPA/CPRA and similar US state laws). The same applies under comparable privacy laws worldwide — for example Brazil’s LGPD, Canada’s PIPEDA and Québec’s Law 25, the Australian Privacy Act, Japan’s APPI, South Korea’s PIPA, India’s DPDP Act, China’s PIPL, South Africa’s POPIA, Switzerland’s FADP and others.

Because all your Cablewick data is held only on your device, and we hold nothing about you, you can exercise these rights yourself directly in the app: view and edit your projects, patterns, stash and other items, delete any entry, export a portable copy of everything (Settings › Export backup), or remove everything with Settings › Reset all data or by uninstalling the app. We have no copy to access, export, or erase on our side. If you have questions or believe we can help, contact [email protected]. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority.

“Sale” / “sharing” of personal information: The current version does not sell or share your personal information, and we have not done so in the preceding 12 months. Any future change would be disclosed here first (see §3).

17Data retention & deletion

We retain nothing from the app, because we receive nothing. Data you create is kept on your device until you delete it. To erase it:

• Individual items — delete any project, counter, pattern, chart, yarn or other entry in the app;
• Everything in the app — Settings › Reset all data deletes all of Cablewick’s data on the device;
• Uninstall — removing Cablewick from your device (or Android Settings › Apps › Cablewick › Storage › Clear storage) permanently deletes its app-private storage, including saved images and voice notes.

Because Android Auto Backup is disabled for the app (§5), no copy of your data remains in your Google account backup after deletion. Deletion cannot be undone unless you have your own backup file. Backup files you exported, and files you shared with others, are governed by wherever you saved or sent them, not by us.

Emails. If you email us, we keep the correspondence only as long as needed to help you, and delete it on request. Since we hold no app data about you, there is nothing else on our side to delete.

18Security

Your data benefits from Android’s app sandbox — Cablewick’s storage is private to the app — and from your device’s built-in encryption, which you can strengthen with a screen lock (PIN, pattern, password or biometrics). Requests to the image-search service use encrypted HTTPS connections. No method of storage or transmission is 100% secure, but keeping your data on your own device — minimizing what is sent, and never attaching an identity to it — is our primary safeguard. Exported backup files are not encrypted by the app, so store and share them with care.

19Children's privacy

Cablewick is a general-audience crafting app and is not directed to children under 13 (or the higher minimum age in your country, e.g., 16 in parts of the EEA); it is not designed for Google Play’s family programs. Its content rating on Google Play is for a general audience. Because the app collects no personal data at all, it does not knowingly collect data from children. A parent or guardian may set up and supervise use for a minor. If you believe a child has provided personal information in a way that concerns you, contact us — though, as noted, we hold no such data.

20Do-Not-Track & no sale of data

The current version of Cablewick does not track users and therefore has nothing to disable in response to a browser/OS “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signal, and it does not sell or share personal information or use it for cross-context behavioral advertising. If a future version ever introduced advertising or analytics, we would honor applicable opt-out signals and update this policy first (see §3).

21Safety & accuracy notice

See the Terms of Use for the full disclaimer and limitations of liability.

22Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to the app or the law. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top, update the Google Play Data safety section where relevant and, for material changes, highlight them in the app or on this page. Your continued use of Cablewick after an update means you accept the revised policy.

23Contact us

Questions, requests, or concerns about privacy? We’re happy to help.

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: zydeno.com
• Developer: Andrii Matiushev (publishing as Zydeno)