Privacy Policy

Blinko: Don't Blink Challenge (package com.webstei.blinko) is made by webstei. This policy explains exactly what the app does and does not do with your information.

The short version: no camera image ever leaves your phone. There is no server, no account and no way for us to see you. The one exception is a video clip that you record and then choose to save or share yourself.

Your camera

Blinko is a game about blinking, so it needs to see your eyes. When you start a round the app opens the front camera and looks at each frame to work out whether your eyes are open or closed.

All of that happens on your phone, inside the app. Specifically:

Camera frames are analysed and then discarded, frame by frame. They are not written to storage and they are not sent anywhere.
There is no face recognition and no identification of any kind. The app measures how open your eyelids are. It does not know or store who you are.
No frame, image or video is uploaded to us or to anyone else. Blinko has no server to upload it to.
You can switch between the front and back camera during a round. Both are treated exactly the same way.

The clip you record

When a round ends, Blinko has recorded a short video of that round so you can watch it back and share it if you want to. This is the only place a camera image is kept at all.

The recording is held in the app's temporary memory and preview. It is replaced the next time you play and lost when the app closes.
It is written to your phone's gallery only if you press Save, and only then does Blinko ask for permission to write to your gallery.
If you press Share, your phone's own share sheet opens and you choose where it goes. Blinko does not send it anywhere by itself.
We never receive a copy. We could not, even if we wanted to.

What is stored on your phone

Blinko keeps a small amount of information in the app's own private storage, which is removed when you uninstall the app:

What	Why
Your best time, number of runs and last 50 results	So the app can show your record and your history
Your settings (sound, haptics, reduce flashing, practice mode)	So they are still set the next time you open the app

None of this is sent anywhere. It is only on your device.

Permissions Blinko asks for

Permission	When	What for
Camera	Before your first round, after an explanation	To see whether your eyes are open. Nothing is recorded until you play, and nothing is uploaded ever.
Save to gallery	Only when you press Save on a clip	To write that one video to your phone. Blinko does not read your gallery.

Blinko does not ask for the microphone, your location, your contacts, or access to your files. If you refuse the camera, the app still works: Practice mode lets you play by tapping instead of blinking.

One honest detail about the app listing. Android's media library requires an app to declare photo and video access before it will let that app add anything to your gallery, so those appear in Blinko's permission list on the store page. Blinko asks for the write-only version of that permission at runtime, and never reads, lists, opens or uploads anything already in your gallery. It only ever adds the single clip you pressed Save on. Audio library access is explicitly blocked in the app's manifest, because a game about blinking has no business asking for it.

What Blinko does not do

No account, no sign-in, no email address, no password.
No analytics or tracking software of any kind.
No advertising at this time. If that changes, this policy will be updated before the change ships, and it will say exactly what the advertising service receives.
No selling or sharing of personal information. There is none to sell.
Nothing is collected from children or anyone else, because nothing is collected.

Deleting your data

Everything Blinko keeps is on your own phone. Uninstalling the app removes all of it. For step by step instructions, see Delete your data.

Changes to this policy

If the app starts doing something new with your information, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change. Meaningful changes will also be described inside the app before they take effect.

Contact

Questions about privacy: barichati0696@gmail.com