Privacy & Data
Tide Keep has no account of its own and no Odd Omens server. It has no ads, analytics, crash reporting or tracking. Your game is kept on your device and backed up to your own iCloud. If you turn on online play, a copy of your castle and your raids are shared with other players through Apple's Game Center and iCloud.
What Tide Keep stores on your device
| Data | Notes |
|---|---|
| Your island game: gold, defenses, upgrades, islands, Renown, Infamy, achievements, stats, pearls, looks, event progress, redeemed codes and purchases | Purchases are also kept by the App Store. The game keeps the IDs of pearl purchases it has delivered, so none is paid twice. |
| Your Harbor: captain name, Captain level, Doubloons, ships, parts, trophies, shields, the raid log with replays, captains you've reported or blocked, and raids waiting to upload | |
| Your settings: your name, Lord or Lady, your home island's name, looks and preferences | |
| The castle layouts you've shared online, with when | Used to check raids against your castle |
| The latest news, bonus weekend, holiday dates and Omens dates from Odd Omens | So they keep working offline |
| A random ID for this install | Tells your iCloud saves from different devices apart |
| The parent PIN, if you set one | Kept in the iOS Keychain as a salted one-way hash, never as the PIN itself. It stays on the device even if you delete the game. |
iCloud backup
If you're signed in to iCloud, Tide Keep backs up your whole game to your own private iCloud database: the island game, the Harbor and your settings, plus a short summary (island, Renown, ships sunk, total gold), when it was saved and the install's random ID. Odd Omens can't read your private iCloud data.
Backups happen a little while after something changes, when you leave the app, and straight after a purchase. Settings > iCloud backup shows when it last backed up; tap it to back up now.
When you open Tide Keep on another iPhone or iPad with the same iCloud account:
- If that device has no game yet, your game is restored straight away.
- If it has its own game, you choose iCloud game or This device's game. The one you don't keep is replaced.
If another device saves a newer game while you're playing, backups from this device pause so they can't overwrite it. Close and reopen Tide Keep to choose which game to keep.
Online play
Online play is off until you turn it on in Settings > Online. While it's on, Tide Keep uses Game Center and a shared iCloud database that every Tide Keep player can read.
What's shared
| Data | Who can see it |
|---|---|
| Your castle: your Game Center player ID for Tide Keep, castle stage, wall and tower levels and weapons, island, castle colour, emblem and its colour, stone and grass, defense plan, Infamy, Renown, ships sunk, captain name (or that it's hidden), Captain level, trophies, shield time, when you were last active and the app version | Other Tide Keep players, who find and invade it |
| Raids you make: your and the defender's player IDs, your captain name and level, both trophy counts, the castle you fought, your fleet (classes, parts, looks and ship names), lanes, and the result, so the battle can be replayed | The captain you invaded |
| Name reports you send: your player ID, the reported player's ID and name, and the reason | Odd Omens |
| Invasion alerts, if you turn them on: a request to be notified about raids on your player ID | Apple, to deliver the notification |
| Leaderboard scores: trophies, ships sunk, highest Infamy and Captain level | Game Center players, with your Game Center name |
Your game uses Game Center's player ID, which is different in every game, not your Apple Account. iCloud records which account wrote each shared record using an anonymous ID that's specific to Tide Keep, so only you can change or delete your castle and raids.
Your captain name is checked for rude words before it's shared, and checked again on every device before it's shown. Hide my name shows you as "A Mysterious Captain". There's no chat.
If Screen Time restricts online play on your Game Center account, your castle isn't shared, and only scores go to the leaderboards.
Game Center friends
Tide Keep reads your Game Center friends list only when you tap Visit a friend in the Harbor, to find friends who've shared a castle. iOS asks for permission the first time. Friends don't learn about a visit.
What else leaves your device
| Destination | What's sent | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Tide Keep's shared iCloud database (Apple) | Requests to read news, bonus weekends, holiday dates and Omens dates, and to look up a promo code you redeem. Nothing about you is sent. | Changes Odd Omens makes without an app update |
| Apple App Store | Requests for prices, purchases and restores | Shop & Purchases |
| Your email app | A bug report or feature idea, only when you send one. Include game details adds the app version, device model, iOS version and some game progress. | Help Us Improve |
Links to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy open in your browser.
Permissions
| Permission | When it's asked | What it's for |
|---|---|---|
| Game Center sign-in | When you turn on Play online | Who you are online, leaderboards |
| Game Center friends | The first time you tap Visit a friend | Finding friends' castles |
| Notifications | When you turn on Invasion alerts | A notification when your castle is invaded |
| Face ID | The first time you use Forgot PIN? on a device with Face ID | Confirming you own the device before the parent PIN is reset. Tide Keep only learns whether it succeeded. |
Tide Keep also uses your iCloud account, without a separate prompt, for the backup and for online play. To stop the iCloud backup, turn off iCloud for Tide Keep in the iOS Settings app under your name > iCloud.
Export your data
Tide Keep doesn't have an export feature. Your whole game is in your iCloud backup, which moves with you to a new device.
Delete your data
Online data
- Open Settings > Online.
- Tap Delete my online data, then Delete.
This removes your shared castle, every raid you made and your invasion alerts, resets your trophies and raid log, and turns online play off. Your ships, Doubloons and Captain level stay on your device.
Some things aren't removed:
- Raids other captains made against your castle belong to them.
- Name reports you sent stay with Odd Omens.
- Leaderboard scores stay in Game Center.
- If your castle was shared from a different iCloud account, Tide Keep says so. Sign in to that account and delete again.
Turning off Play online on its own leaves your last shared castle online.
Your game
- Reset progress in Settings starts the island game over. The reset game then replaces your iCloud backup. See Settings for what's kept.
- Deleting the app removes the game from your device, but not from iCloud. The parent PIN stays on the device.
- Your iCloud backup: in the iOS Settings app, go to your name > iCloud > Manage Account Storage, choose Tide Keep if it's listed, and delete its data.
For anything else, email support@oddomens.com.
Policies
Read the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service on oddomens.com. Signing the deed when you first play means you agree to them.