Privacy policy
Last updated: 6 November 2026
Tabitha: Water Path is developed and published by Tiago Santos under White Otter Labs. This policy explains how information is handled when you play the game, contact support, or visit this website.
For privacy questions or requests, contact whiteotterlabs@gmail.com. Tiago Santos is responsible for the information he handles as described below.
Game progress on your device
The game stores information such as completed levels, stars, best dig counts, and tutorial status locally on your device. You do not need to create a game account. The game does not upload this progress to a server operated by Tiago Santos or provide its own cloud-save service. Your device or operating system may include app data in backups under your own settings.
Advertising and privacy choices
The game includes Google AdMob integration for banner, interstitial, and optional rewarded advertisements. Advertising may be disabled in some versions. When advertising is disabled, the game's ad-loading code does not initialize Google Mobile Ads or request ads.
In versions with advertising enabled, Google's Mobile Ads SDK may collect and share your IP address (which can be used to estimate general location), device or advertising identifiers, interactions with the app and advertisements, and diagnostic information such as crash and performance data. Google uses this information for advertising, measurement, fraud prevention, and related service operations. These practices depend on platform, permissions, privacy choices, and SDK configuration. The game does not request your precise GPS location for advertising.
Where required, Google's User Messaging Platform presents privacy choices before advertisements are requested. You can revisit applicable choices using Settings → Privacy choices on the level selector when that option is available. Declining personalized advertising does not necessarily remove all advertisements. On iOS, tracking that requires Apple's permission must also respect your App Tracking Transparency choice.
Read Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from apps that use its services. Google handles information under its own applicable policies. This policy does not promise that third-party advertising services collect no information.
Gameplay analytics
Versions with Firebase Analytics configured enable gameplay analytics by default. The current version has no analytics permission popup or in-game on/off control. If you previously saved an off preference in an earlier version, the game continues to respect it. Analytics operates separately from advertising privacy choices; declining advertising consent does not switch gameplay analytics off.
If enabled, gameplay events include level selections, starts and results, Play taps, retries, hint requests and use, tutorial and help interactions, pack browsing, Undo and next-level taps, unfinished attempts, and background/resume events during a level. When advertising is enabled, events can also record ad requests, loading failures, impressions, clicks, closing an ad, and rewards earned. Event details can include the level number, pack, difficulty, set, digs, stars, failure reason, active planning time, ad format and placement, and whether an ad is a test ad. We do not attach names, email addresses, custom user IDs, or device IDs to these event fields. Firebase itself uses an app-instance identifier and processes technical information such as device/app details, automatically collected usage events, and approximate location derived from masked IP addresses. The game does not request precise GPS location for analytics. This is pseudonymous analytics, not fully anonymous counting. Analytics advertising storage, advertising user-data use, and ad personalization consent are kept denied by the game.
These statistics help Tiago Santos assess level difficulty and improve the game. Removing the app or resetting local app data does not automatically erase analytics previously received by Google. Contact the privacy email below for requests about previously collected information. See Firebase's privacy information. Data is processed by Google under the applicable service terms and retention settings.
Contacting support
If you email support, Tiago Santos receives your email address and whatever you include in the message, such as a description of a problem, device details, or a screenshot. This information is used to respond, troubleshoot, and handle your request. Email is processed through Gmail. Please send only information needed for your request.
This website
This site is hosted on Firebase Hosting, provided by Google. It does not add analytics scripts, advertising, tracking pixels, or cookies of its own. Google processes technical information, including IP addresses, to deliver and secure the website. See Firebase’s privacy information and Google’s Privacy Policy. Your selected colour theme is stored locally in your browser so it can be remembered on your next visit. Following external links is subject to the destination’s privacy practices.
Why information is used
Information is used to provide game features, assess level difficulty and improve the game through gameplay analytics, answer support requests, protect services against misuse, and, in ad-enabled versions, deliver and measure advertisements. Where applicable data-protection law requires a legal basis, this may be your consent for consent-based advertising or tracking, providing a service you request, legitimate interests in support and security, or compliance with legal obligations. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.
Sharing and international processing
Local progress is not sent to Tiago Santos through the game. Support correspondence is handled using the email provider, and analytics, advertising and website information may be processed by Google as described above. Information may also be disclosed when legally required or necessary to protect legal rights. Service providers may process information outside your country, including in the United States; their privacy policies describe applicable safeguards.
Retention and deletion
Local progress remains until app data is removed or replaced; device backups may retain separate copies. Support correspondence is kept only as long as reasonably needed to resolve the request, maintain relevant support records, or meet legal obligations. You may request deletion of support correspondence by email. Google determines retention for information they process under their policies.
Your choices and rights
You can remove local game data through your device's app-data controls or by removing the app, subject to the platform's backup and restore behavior. You can manage advertising and tracking permissions through available in-game privacy choices and device settings.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or receive a copy of personal information, object to certain processing, withdraw consent, or opt out of certain advertising uses. Contact the email above for requests concerning information handled by Tiago Santos. You may also contact Google about information they control. You can complain to your local data-protection authority; in the UK this is the Information Commissioner's Office.
Children
The game is primarily intended for teenagers and adults, rather than specifically directed at children. A store age rating describes content suitability and does not mean the game is specifically designed for children. Tiago Santos does not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 through support or account registration. If you believe a child has supplied personal information to support, contact the email above so it can be reviewed and deleted where appropriate.
Changes and contact
This policy may be updated when the game or its information practices change. The date above identifies the latest update. Material changes will be communicated where required.
Publisher: Tiago Santos
Support and privacy: whiteotterlabs@gmail.com