A shelf of your own pots, on your own handset
Kiln saves the pieces you make — each with its shape, its clay and the glazes you poured over it — into a folder the application keeps for itself on the device. Nothing else is written, and nothing is written anywhere else.
Alongside the gallery sit the small settings: which backdrop you last used, whether the fired preview was on, where the glaze cupboard was scrolled to. Android fences that folder off around the app that made it, so no other software on the handset is allowed to look in, and nor can we — no part of the build will obey an instruction arriving from outside, because no part of it is listening for one.
Files do move in one case, and the mover is the platform rather than the app. If Android's account backup is switched on, the system may lift an application's files into the account holder's own Google Drive so that a new handset can set them back. That is done by Android, under settings the account holder keeps, with no part played by us and no sight of it on our side. The switch is per application, inside Android's settings.
Uninstalling takes the folder with it. The "clear data" control in Android's app settings empties the shelf and leaves the app standing.
No account, no measurement, no identifiers
The published build has no advertising framework in it, and no statistics library, attribution kit, crash reporter, sign-in provider or payment component either. Those are absences from the package rather than switches within it, which is the firmer promise: there is nothing to turn off and no server with the standing to turn it back on. Set out one at a time, the app never reads, infers or sends:
- who you are or how to find you — no name, no address, no number, no mail;
- the identifier Android sets aside for advertisers, its device ID, the serial stamped on the handset or any of its hardware addresses;
- your position on the map, however it might be worked out;
- who is in your contacts, what is in your diary, who has written or called, and not a sound or a frame from the microphone or lens;
- how long you spent glazing, how often the app is opened, or which vessels you favour;
- the pieces themselves, or any picture already stored on the handset.
Every clay body, glaze surface and studio backdrop is drawn by the app from artwork compiled into it; nothing is fetched at first launch or at any point after. That is why the app is finished the moment installation is, and why flight mode makes no difference to it at all.
The publisher, and where a letter lands
Wood Wood DA
Responsible: Morten Rene Jørgensen
gnr Storgata 43, 3256 Larvik
Norway
Mail: glaze@woodwood.click
Wood Wood DA is a Norwegian partnership, and under the Regulation it is the controller — behandlingsansvarlig — for whatever Kiln might process. Nothing is processed on its instructions by anyone else, no second party shares the decisions, and no representative is appointed in another country, because there is no flow of data for such a role to attend to. A data protection officer is neither appointed nor owed: that duty settles on public bodies and on undertakings whose central work is watching people at scale or handling the special categories at scale.
The mailbox above is the route for privacy questions about the app, and it goes to a person. The partnership's other work is a separate matter with its own records, none of which this page describes and none of which the app can reach.
På norsk: skriv gjerne på norsk — du får svar på norsk. Henvendelser om personvern sendes til adressen over.
What Android is asked for, and what belongs to Google
The manifest asks for next to nothing. Nothing is declared for the lens, the microphone, your whereabouts, your contacts or the telephone, which is why the permission dialogue never appears on this app's account. Saving a finished piece as a picture, where that is offered, runs through the system's own media picker, which grants a single write to the one destination you name and no view of your photographs before or after.
Fetching the app from Google Play, or letting it update, is business between you and Google under Google's terms, and none of the account or device data involved travels by way of this partnership. The developer console hands over figures already aggregated — installs by country, crash rates, star ratings — in which no individual appears, and there is no other source.
Norwegian rules, which here means the Regulation
Norway sits outside the Union and inside the European Economic Area, and the General Data Protection Regulation arrives by way of that agreement. The instrument carrying it is the Personal Data Act of 2018 — personopplysningsloven — which also decides the questions the Regulation hands to national legislatures. Supervision belongs to Datatilsynet, at datatilsynet.no.
Two things said outright rather than left to be noticed. Gathering nothing does not clear every duty: Article 13 wants the controller identifiable whether or not data is taken, which is why this page names a registered partnership, a responsible person and a street rather than a brand, and Article 5(2) places the work of showing compliance on us and never on the reader. And there is one comfort this page is in no position to sell, the one printed most often of all: a long record of looking after your information. No such record is claimed, because no looking after is happening — and a shelf with nothing on it cannot be knocked over.
The listing is open worldwide and the app is installed inside the European Union and in the United Kingdom. A resident of an EU state may put a complaint to the authority of their own country under the European text; someone in the United Kingdom is covered by the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 and may go to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk. Coming here first is quicker and has never been required.
Your rights, and the answer they will meet
Articles 15 to 21 give sight of what is held, correction, erasure, a restriction on use, a portable copy and the standing to object outright. Article 77 adds a complaint to a supervisory authority, and nothing written on a page like this one could weaken it.
Write to glaze@woodwood.click. The month Article 12(3) allows will not be needed, and the answer will be short, because no file exists under anybody's name to produce, amend, erase, suspend or forward on.
Identification is not demanded first. No stored record exists that such a check could protect, and collecting a photograph of someone's passport in order to announce that the drawer is empty would be the one careless act in the whole exchange. A reply that fails to convince deserves one more letter, read with proper attention; past that, Datatilsynet or your own authority is the right address.
Suitable, and nothing is taken from them either
Pouring glaze over a drawn pot is a harmless hour for a child. The app holds no advertising, no chat, no links leading out, no sight of other people and no screen that asks for money, and since the gathering is nil for everyone it is nil for a child. Article 8 governs processing founded on a child's own consent, and Norway put that threshold at thirteen years in the Personal Data Act — but consent is not the footing for anything here, so neither provision finds work. A parent who would like that in writing need only ask.
What happens when this page is rewritten
If a later build of Kiln takes on anything touching personal data — a gallery that syncs between devices, a reporter for faults, glaze packs or vessels put up for sale, advertising of any kind — these words are re-thrown and fired before that build leaves, not in its wake.
The firing line beneath the title moves at the same moment, and the substance goes into the Play release notes too, so that it reaches people who never open this address. The address holds steady for as long as the app is listed, and that line under the title is the quickest check on whether anything here has changed since you last read it.