Privacy policy for the Almost Dutch app on the App Store and Google Play.
Privacy
Last updated: 26 September 2026
The short version: no accounts, no cookies, no tracking. Your progress stays on your own phone and never reaches us. Below is the long version, because “trust us” is not a privacy policy.
Who we are
Almost Dutch is an app by Byte Company, registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under number 89199073. Byte Company is the controller for the little data this app involves.
Questions or requests: info@bytecompany.nl.
What the app stores
Your progress is saved on your phone, in the app’s own storage. It holds your answers, where you left off, which fun facts you have already seen, and whether you bought All 10 Worlds.
That data stays on your device. It is not sent to us, and there is no server waiting for it. “Reset my progress” erases it, and so does deleting the app. Reset does not remove your purchase: that is a right, not progress, and the app checks it with the store again anyway.
What we do not do
No accounts and no login — you never give us an email address to play. No cookies. No analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising, no profiling.
We do not know who you are, how often you play, or how far you get. That is not modesty. We genuinely do not collect it.
Apple, Google and RevenueCat
Everything the app needs is in the app: the fonts, the icons and all scenarios. It makes no requests to anyone else’s servers for playing, which is also why it keeps working with your phone in flight mode.
The one exception is buying All 10 Worlds. Payment goes through Apple’s App Store or Google Play; we never see your card or your Apple or Google account. To check whether that purchase exists — when you buy, when you tap Restore purchases, and briefly when the app starts — the app talks to RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc., United States, so outside the EU). RevenueCat gets a random ID the app makes up on your phone, the purchase receipt and technical details such as platform and app version. Like any server, it also sees your IP address; it uses that to work out which country you are in and does not keep the address. Not your name, not your email: it cannot tell who you are, and neither can we. From RevenueCat we only see sales figures: how many people bought All 10 Worlds, and roughly where. Apple and Google also show us download totals and, if you have allowed this on your phone, anonymous statistics such as crashes and how often the app is opened. We don’t measure how you play ourselves. Refunds go through Apple or Google, not through us — ask for one in the App Store or Google Play. If a refund is granted, worlds 4–10 lock again at the next check; your progress stays.
Sharing your score
The share button hands your text to your phone’s own share menu, or copies it to your clipboard. You decide where it goes. We do not see it and we do not count it.
Where the app comes from
You got the app from the App Store or Google Play, and it runs entirely on your phone. Apple’s and Google’s own privacy policies cover the download and the payment; we see neither.
The forms on almostdutch.nl
The waitlist and feedback forms are on the website, not in this app. Playing sends nothing anywhere.
If you do fill in one of those forms, your email address and message go to Formspree (Formspree, Inc.), a service based in the United States, which means your data is transferred outside the EU. We use it only to reach you about Almost Dutch. One message to info@bytecompany.nl removes you from the list.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you can ask what we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, and object to its use.
What exists about you depends on what you did. If you bought All 10 Worlds, RevenueCat keeps, on our behalf, the random ID from your phone, the purchase receipt, your country and technical details such as the app version. None of that is linked to your name or email address, so we have no way to look you up by name. For a refund, ask Apple or Google, as described above. If you want the purchase record at RevenueCat removed, email info@bytecompany.nl; because no name is attached, we will ask for details from your receipt to try to find it. The app also checks in with RevenueCat each time it starts while you are online, so the removal only sticks if you delete the app as well. If your phone later restores the app from a backup, the old ID can come back with it. Your purchase with Apple or Google stays: Restore purchases brings the worlds back.
If you joined the waitlist or used the feedback form on almostdutch.nl, we have your email address and anything you wrote to us. One email to info@bytecompany.nl is enough to see it, correct it or have it deleted.
You can also file a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).
If this changes
If the app ever starts collecting something more — analytics, accounts — this page will say so, and the date at the top will change with it. Right now the purchase above is the only thing to report.