Privacy Policy — Wildoku
Last updated: 22 August 2026
1. Who we are
Wildoku ("the app", "the game") is published by:
Hindsight Consulting (Pty) Ltd Registration number 2017/361666/07 Unit 41 Thembi Office Park, 15 Calderwood Road Johannesburg, 2191 South Africa
Website: https://www.hindsight.africa/ Contact for privacy matters: privacy@hindsight.africa
For the purposes of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 ("POPIA"), Hindsight Consulting (Pty) Ltd is the responsible party. Where the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") applies, we are the data controller.
2. What this policy covers
This policy applies to the Wildoku mobile application (package za.co.hindsight.wildoku) distributed through Google Play. It does not cover any other product, nor any third-party website the app may link to.
3. The short version
Wildoku does not require an account, and does not send your game data anywhere. Your progress lives on your own device and stays there. The app contains no advertising, no analytics and no in-app purchases, and we collect nothing about you.
4. Information stored on your device
Wildoku stores the following locally on your device only. It is not transmitted to us and we cannot see it:
- Which boards you have completed, your best time and best score on each
- Hints used, and your remaining hint balance
- The board you are part-way through, so you can resume it
- Your settings (assist marks, haptics, sound, colour-blind patterns)
This information is held in your device's standard application storage. Uninstalling Wildoku deletes all of it permanently. We hold no copy and cannot restore it.
5. Information we collect about you
We collect none. Wildoku has no account system, no sign-in, no analytics, and no server of our own. We do not know who you are, we do not know that you play, and we receive no reports about your device or your gameplay.
6. Notifications
Wildoku can send you one kind of notification: a daily reminder that your three free hints have refilled. Nothing else. No streak warnings, no "we miss you", no promotions.
- Reminders are scheduled entirely on your own device. There is no server, no push service and no device token — nothing about you is sent anywhere to make them work.
- They only appear when there is something to say: if you still have free hints in hand, no reminder is scheduled.
- Turn them off any time in Settings → Daily hint reminder. Android will also ask your permission before the first one is shown, and you can revoke it in your device settings.
7. Children
Wildoku is not directed at children. The game requires sustained logical deduction and is intended for older players.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from:
- children under 18 in South Africa, where POPIA treats any person under 18 as a child whose personal information may only be processed with the consent of a competent person;
- children under 16 in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland;
- children under 13 in the United States;
- children below the minimum age of digital consent in any other country where that age is higher.
The thresholds differ because the laws do. POPIA in South Africa treats anyone under 18 as a child; GDPR Article 8 sets the age of digital consent between 13 and 16 depending on the member state, and defaults to 16; COPPA in the United States applies below 13. We apply whichever is higher for your location.
If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has provided personal information through our app, contact us at privacy@hindsight.africa with the subject line "Privacy Rights Request". We may need to verify your relationship to the child before acting, and will then delete the information we hold.
8. Legal basis for processing
Where GDPR applies, we rely on:
| Purpose | Basis |
|---|---|
| Storing your progress on your device | Necessary to perform the service you requested |
Under POPIA we process personal information in terms of section 11, on the basis that the processing is necessary to provide the game you have chosen to play.
9. Sharing and cross-border transfer
We do not sell, share or transfer your personal information to anyone. The app contains no advertising, analytics or third-party service that receives information about you or your device, and we operate no server, so no cross-border transfer under section 72 of POPIA or Chapter V of the GDPR takes place.
A current list of any providers that may ever receive data through Wildoku is maintained separately, so that it stays accurate if that ever changes:
https://wildoku.hindsight.africa/partners
That page forms part of this policy. As at the date above, it records the honest answer: no one.
10. Retention
On-device data is kept until you delete it or uninstall the app. We hold no copy, so there is nothing else for anyone to retain.
11. Your rights
Under POPIA, and under GDPR where it applies, you have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Correct information that is inaccurate
- Delete information, or object to its processing
- Withdraw consent at any time, where processing is based on consent
- Complain to a supervisory authority
Because Wildoku stores your game data only on your device, you can exercise deletion directly and immediately: uninstall the app, or clear its data in Android Settings.
For anything else, contact us at privacy@hindsight.africa. We will respond within the period required by law.
You may also complain to the Information Regulator (South Africa): JD House, 27 Stiemens Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2001 — https://inforegulator.org.za/ — or, in the EEA/UK, to your local data protection authority.
12. Security
Your game data never leaves your device, which removes the risk of interception in transit or breach of a central database — we operate no such database. Data on your device is protected by your device's own operating system security and by any screen lock you set.
13. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the app changes — in particular if advertising or purchases are ever introduced, or when optional new content (such as themed in-game events) changes how the app works. If any future feature transmits or collects information this policy does not describe, the policy will be updated before that feature ships. The "last updated" date at the top will change, and material changes will be notified within the app. Continuing to use Wildoku after a change means you accept the updated policy.
14. Contact
Hindsight Consulting (Pty) Ltd (registration number 2017/361666/07) Unit 41 Thembi Office Park, 15 Calderwood Road, Johannesburg, 2191, South Africa privacy@hindsight.africa
Information Officer: Sipho Mampe, Director