PICKLEWORKS GAMES
Privacy policy
Parcel Loop, Pocket Trickshot Lab, Tide Rider, Dumpling Rush, Knight Steps and Echo Shift
Last updated: 12 November 2026.
This policy covers Parcel Loop, Pocket Trickshot Lab and Echo Shift on Android and as TikTok mini-games, provided by PICKLEWORKS LTD (Pickleworks), company number 17554757, registered in England and Wales. It also explicitly covers the ad-free Android releases of Dumpling Rush, Tide Rider and Knight Steps described below. It applies to another Pickleworks game or platform release where that release links to this policy and its features are described here.
This is our shared games policy, not a separate policy for each country or store. Read the section for your version: Android games or TikTok mini-games. A feature described for one platform is not necessarily present on another. Android, Google Play, TikTok and other distribution services operate separately under their own privacy information and settings.
For privacy questions or requests, email hello@pickleworks.co.uk. Tell us the game, platform and version you use. Do not send passwords, login tokens, advertising identifiers or sensitive information unless needed to handle your request. Our registered office is 9 Lake Close, Walsall, England, WS5 3PB.
Browser Playroom
The website Playroom includes Parcel Loop, Pocket Trickshot Lab, Tide Rider, Dumpling Rush and Knight Steps. These browser versions are free, ad-free and require no account. Progress and settings are stored locally in this browser on this device; there is no Pickleworks cloud save or cross-device sync. Clearing browser data may delete progress. Private browsing may not retain it. We add no analytics or advertising SDK to these versions. Hosting services process ordinary connection requests needed to deliver the website and game files.
Your game progress
The games remember progress and preferences locally on your device or through the platform's game-host storage. Depending on the game, this includes unlocked levels, scores or stars, current runs, puzzle moves, sound and reduced-motion settings, tutorial choices and local gameplay or advertising-frequency counters.
You do not need a separate Pickleworks game account. These versions do not provide our own cloud-save service, public leaderboard, chat or multiplayer server. They do not send your puzzle saves to a Pickleworks server. Clearing the relevant storage can remove your saved progress and preferences; we cannot recover a save we do not hold or promise progress will transfer between devices.
Android games
Ad-free Android releases: Dumpling Rush, Tide Rider and Knight Steps
The standalone Android 1.0.5 (version code 6) releases of Dumpling Rush, Tide Rider and Knight Steps work offline and have no advertising, in-app purchases, account sign-in or gameplay analytics service. They do not transmit gameplay, identifiers or diagnostics to Pickleworks or an advertising provider. Progress and preferences are stored locally, including scores, medals or puzzle completion and daily-challenge records. These releases request no Android permissions and disable application backup. Device migration and independent device or store services may operate under their own settings. Clearing app storage can remove progress; we do not provide a cloud-save or recovery service. The advertising and advertising-age-choice sections below do not apply to these releases.
You can open this policy from Settings or Options in your external browser. Opening it requires your browser's internet access; the website and browser process ordinary web-request information, such as your IP address and browser information, under their applicable privacy information. The games do not attach your progress, identifiers or diagnostics to the link. If you separately email us, the shared support-correspondence section below applies.
Local storage and permissions
The standalone Android games store progress and settings on your device. These builds disable application backup. Device and store services may have their own separate processing. The games do not request camera, microphone, contacts or precise-location access for their puzzle features.
Advertising-enabled versions
Some Android versions include Google Mobile Ads and Google's User Messaging Platform; versions without advertising do not use that advertising flow. In advertising-enabled versions, full-screen adverts may appear at a break after you complete levels and choose to continue. Core hints, undo and retries remain available without advertising. The games do not add banner adverts or interrupt an active puzzle to display an automatic advert.
Google's SDK documentation identifies data its advertising SDK may collect or share: IP address, which may be used to estimate general location; product or app interactions, including advertising interactions; diagnostic information; and device or account identifiers. Google may use this information for advertising, measurement/analytics and fraud prevention/security. Processing in a particular session depends on SDK configuration, applicable requirements and your privacy choices.
Google describes its SDK traffic as encrypted in transit. See Google's advertising SDK data disclosure, Google's privacy policy and how Google uses information from apps using its services for its processing and retention practices.
Age groups and advertising choices
Advertising-enabled Android games ask for an age group to apply privacy settings. They store your selection locally, not a date of birth. If you choose an age below 18 or prefer not to say, the games do not request advertisements or an advertising consent form. Choosing 18 or older does not by itself permit adverts: requests remain subject to the consent flow and applicable privacy settings. Gameplay remains available whichever option you choose.
Where a consent message is required, Google's consent tools request your choices before the game allows advertising requests. You can change your age selection and reopen available advertising privacy options from Settings → Privacy choices. Google's privacy form is shown when its tools make that option applicable and available. If consent cannot be established, a consent form fails or an advert is unavailable, you can keep playing without an advert.
You can also manage available advertising controls in Android settings. Changing choices, clearing game storage or uninstalling does not necessarily erase information already processed independently by Google. Contact Google about records it controls.
TikTok mini-games
Host-managed storage
The TikTok versions use local storage provided by TikTok's game host to remember progress and preferences. TikTok controls the host's underlying storage and any platform backup behaviour. Progress may be lost if that storage is cleared or becomes unavailable.
Opening Echo Shift from a link
Echo Shift can temporarily read launch information supplied by TikTok, such as the entry source and a requested level. It uses this information in memory to route you to an already-unlocked level. It does not retain the raw launch or referral query in saved progress or send it to a Pickleworks server. A level selected this way may subsequently appear in ordinary saved game progress.
Accounts, advertising and analytics
The current TikTok versions do not enable a separate game-specific TikTok login, retrieve your TikTok profile or retain your TikTok identity or login tokens. Our TikTok mission integrations and advertising placements are not active. These versions do not contain the Android games' Google Mobile Ads setup.
We do not operate a separate gameplay-analytics service for these TikTok versions. This does not mean TikTok collects no information: TikTok may process account, device, usage, security or other platform information under its own privacy notice and settings. Use TikTok's in-app controls and guidance for its account, privacy and host-managed game-data options.
Contacting us and how we use information
If you email us, we receive your email address and the information you choose to send. We use it to respond, investigate game problems and handle privacy requests. Our email service providers process messages to deliver and host this correspondence.
Where data-protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on our legitimate interests in providing support and managing requests, and on legal obligations where necessary. Where processing requires your consent, including applicable advertising choices, you can withdraw it using the available controls. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing already carried out lawfully.
We keep correspondence only for as long as needed to handle the matter and meet applicable obligations. Local game records remain until they are cleared or otherwise removed by the relevant device or host. Independent platform and advertising providers determine retention for information they control; uninstalling a game does not promise deletion of their records.
Your choices and rights
Depending on where you live and the processing involved, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction or a portable copy of personal information, or to object or withdraw consent. Contact hello@pickleworks.co.uk about information we handle. We may need reasonable information to verify and respond to your request. If the request concerns information controlled independently by Google, TikTok or another provider, we will explain the appropriate route rather than promise changes we cannot make.
You can complain to the relevant data-protection authority. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner's Office.
Younger players
These puzzle games are not designed for children. Access is also subject to the platform's age and eligibility requirements. We do not ask players to submit a name, date of birth or email address to play. The local Android advertising age-group choice is described above. A parent or guardian with a privacy concern can contact us without sending a child's sensitive information in the initial message.
Other platforms and changes
We keep this policy at the same address so it can be used across our game releases. We review the relevant sections and controls before launching on another platform or enabling new login, mission, advertising, analytics, purchase or cloud-save features. This policy does not say that an unlisted future feature is already operating. Material changes will be explained through an appropriate available channel, and this page will show its update date.