Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 20, 2026
App name: Bite: Fishing Game (Apple Watch) and Bite (iPhone companion)
Developer: Oleksandr Strykhotskyi
Contact: bite@olxstr.cc

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy describes how Bite handles information. By using the app, you agree to this policy.

Bite is two apps. The game runs on Apple Watch and is where the fishing happens. The companion runs on iPhone: it holds a field guide to the fish that fills in as you catch them, and shows what is feeding at the current hour. Where a section below applies to only one of them, it says so.

2. What we collect, and only if you say yes

Bite asks once, inside the game, whether it may send anonymous usage data. That one answer covers both apps. You are never asked twice: the companion is told what you said and obeys it. Until you answer yes, nothing is sent anywhere. If you answer no, nothing is sent and everything recorded up to that moment is deleted from your watch and your phone, unsent.

If you agree, the apps send counts of what happens in them:

• A random identifier created by the app for your installed copy of the game. It is not your name, not your Apple ID, not your device serial number and not an advertising identifier. It is a random number that means nothing outside this game.
• When the game is opened and how long each session lasts.
• Which screens you look at and for how long.
• Casts: how long you waited, how long a fight lasted, how it ended, and whether you left before it did.
• Fish landed, and which species.
• Purchases made in the in-game shop, the in-game fishcoin balance, and trips taken.
• Whether fishing reminders are switched on, whether one of them was opened, and how long it had been since you last played — so we can tell whether a reminder brings anyone back, and stop sending them if it does not.
• From the companion: when it is opened and for how long, which of its screens you read and for how long, whether an Apple Watch is paired and has the game on it, and how many Bite widgets you have on your home screen.
• The app version and build, the operating system version, the device model, your language, and the country or region your device is set to.

The country comes from your device's own regional setting — the one you chose in Settings — and not from your location. Bite never requests location access, never reads GPS, and your IP address is not recorded: the server is deliberately configured not to receive it.

We never collect your name, email address, contacts, location, health or fitness data, photos, or anything you type. Bite has no account and no login.

3. What is stored on your device

Your game progress and your settings are saved on your Apple Watch so the game can continue where you left off:

• Fishcoin balance, owned tackle and the currently equipped setup.
• Your catch log and which fishing spots you have unlocked.
• App settings, such as whether sound is enabled, whether fishing reminders are switched on, and your answer about usage data.

Your save file itself never leaves your watch. It is not uploaded anywhere, we keep no copy of it, and no server of ours can read it.

Some of the same numbers do appear in the anonymous counts described in section 2 — your fishcoin balance is sent alongside a catch or a trip, for example, because that is how we can tell whether the game's economy is tuned well — whether catches pay enough to keep going, whether prices are reachable, and whether players end up stuck without money. That is a single number next to a random identifier, not a copy of your save, and like everything in section 2 it is sent only if you agreed to it.

4. Network access

The game on the watch plays entirely offline. The only network request it ever makes is sending the usage data described in section 2, to a server operated by the developer at bite.olxstr.cc. Everything else it knows travels to your own iPhone over Apple's device-to-device link, never over the internet.

The companion on the phone makes exactly one kind of request, to the same server, for the same usage data, and only after you have agreed. Everything it shows you — the field guide, the clock, your records — works with no connection at all, and none of it is fetched from anywhere.

There are no third-party SDKs in either app, no advertising networks and no analytics services: the data goes to the developer directly, and nowhere else.

Usage data is written down on your watch first and sent in a batch at most once every six hours, so the game does not keep waking the radio.

Fishing reminders do not use the network at all. If you switch them on, the watch schedules them for itself, on the watch, days in advance. Nothing is pushed to you, no server is told that you have them on or that you opened one at the time it happens, and the reminders keep working with the watch in aeroplane mode.

5. Data sharing

We do not sell, rent, share or transfer your data to anyone. There are no advertisers, no data brokers, no analytics providers and no third parties of any kind. Bite does not track you across other apps or websites, and does not use the AppTrackingTransparency framework because it has nothing to ask for.

6. Why we collect it

To find out where the game is boring, confusing or broken — for example, how often people give up waiting for a bite, or get stuck without bait — and to fix it. That is the only purpose. The legal basis is your consent, which you may withdraw at any time.

7. How long we keep it

Usage data is kept for up to 24 months and then deleted. Aggregate figures that cannot be traced back to any individual installation, such as total downloads or the average length of a session, may be kept longer.

8. Your choices and your rights

• Change your mind at any time. Settings has a Share usage data switch. Turning it off stops collection immediately, deletes anything still waiting on your watch and on your phone, and erases the random identifier, so nothing later can be joined to anything earlier.
• Have your data deleted. Settings has a Delete my data button that opens an email with your random identifier already filled in. Send it and everything recorded under that identifier will be deleted, normally within 30 days. You can also write to bite@olxstr.cc directly.
• Ask what we hold. Write to bite@olxstr.cc with the same identifier and we will send you everything stored under it.
• Delete everything at once. Deleting the app from your Apple Watch removes your save, your settings and the random identifier from the device. Deleting the companion from your iPhone removes the copy of your records it was holding and anything it had recorded and not yet sent. Note that neither deletes what has already been sent — for that, use the buttons above before you delete the apps, or write to us afterwards.

9. Children

Bite is a fishing game with no chat, no advertising, no purchases and nothing anybody types. Bite is not directed at children and is not published in the App Store Kids Category. It asks for no personal information from anyone, whatever their age. If you believe a child has been asked for information through this app, write to bite@olxstr.cc and it will be removed.

10. Contact

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact bite@olxstr.cc

The data controller is Oleksandr Strykhotskyi, Kozac'ka 19, Manevychi, 44600, Ukraine.

11. Policy updates

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be available at https://bite.olxstr.cc/privacy