Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 23, 2026  ·  Last Updated: September 23, 2026

Apotherium LLC ("Apotherium," "we," "us," or "our") operates "Petal Picker," a single-player iOS game further defined below. This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your Personal Information when you use our service.

Please note that this Policy is subject to our Terms of Use Agreement (the "Terms"). There are sections in the Terms that materially affect your right to bring a lawsuit against Apotherium and other rights regarding this Policy. As such, you should read the Terms in addition to this Policy.

By using Petal Picker, you agree to the collection and use of Personal Information (as defined below) in accordance with this Policy.

1. Services this Policy Covers

Apotherium offers Petal Picker, a downloadable iOS and iPadOS application (the "App"), in which a single player clears generated bouquets of overlapping flowers by picking only the petals that nothing else covers. The App is free to download. It offers one optional in-app purchase, "Zen Mode," and optional rewarded advertisements for other Apotherium apps (Section 4.2).

We also operate this website at petalpicker.app (the "Site"), which includes a support form, and the service at ads.apotherium.com from which the App downloads those advertisements. This Policy applies to the App, the Site and that service (together, the "Services").

2. Services this Policy Doesn't Cover

We do not operate a web shop for Petal Picker. The App and Zen Mode are sold through the Apple App Store, and the way Apple processes your purchase is out of our hands. Your Apple Account, App Store account, and any payment details associated with them are governed by Apple's own privacy policy and terms. When you interact with us through the App Store or any other Apple platform, you agree to Apple's policies, and this Policy is in addition to those agreements rather than in place of them. The other Apotherium apps advertised in Petal Picker have their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for errors in purchasing of third-party products.

3. What is Personal Information?

"Personal Information" is any information that may allow for an individual to be personally identified. For example, your name, email address, social security number, phone number, residential address, and credit card details are all considered Personal Information. Other information, such as your interests, economic status, customer number, IP address, geolocation, education, and job title, may also be considered Personal Information if that information, when combined with other information, is used to reveal your identity.

4. Personal Information We Collect

Petal Picker is designed to collect as little Personal Information as possible. The App does not require you to create an account, log in, provide an email address, or supply your real name, and it does not send your gameplay to us. Specifically:

4.1 In the App

Petal Picker is a single-player game that runs entirely on your device. Your progress (the furthest level you have reached), your sound settings, and whether you play with hearts on or off are stored locally on your device. None of it is transmitted to us. The App does not contain an account system, a leaderboard server, analytics SDKs, crash-reporting SDKs, or third-party advertising SDKs, and it does not use the Advertising Identifier (IDFA) or ask to track you.

We do not receive:

• Your name, email address, phone number, or physical address
• Your level, your picks, your misses, or your play history
• Contacts, calendar entries, photos, microphone, or camera data
• Precise or approximate device location
• Advertising identifiers or any other device identifier

4.2 Rewarded Ads for Our Other Apps

When you run out of hearts, you may choose to watch a short video advertising another Apotherium app to continue your level. Ads play only when you tap for one; they never play on their own. These are our own ads, not an ad network, and they work as follows:

• Downloading ads. From time to time the App asks ads.apotherium.com for its list of ads and downloads a few of the videos, so that one can play later without a connection. Those requests carry the App's name ("petal-picker") and, to avoid downloading an unchanged list again, a tag derived from the list itself, which is the same on every device. They carry no identifier, no location, no language setting and nothing about you or your play.
• No logs of who fetched what. As with any internet connection, the service necessarily sees your IP address while answering a request. It does not record it: its logs and its access logs keep no IP addresses, and it keeps only aggregate counts (for example, how many times an ad was downloaded).
• Counting on your device. The App limits how many ads you can watch each day, remembers which ad it showed last, and checks whether you already have the advertised app (so it doesn't advertise an app you already have). All of this happens on your device and is never sent to us.
• Links out. An ad may offer a link to the advertised app on the App Store, which opens only if you tap it. If you follow it, Apple may tell us, in aggregate through App Store Connect, how many people installed the app from that ad. We cannot link an install to you.

If you have Zen Mode, you are never shown an ad.

4.3 App Store Purchases

Petal Picker is free. Zen Mode is an optional one-time purchase that Apple sells to you and processes. The App confirms your purchase with Apple on your device; it does not send it to us. Apple provides us with aggregate, anonymized sales and download reports through App Store Connect. We do not receive your Apple Account, name, email address, or payment card details, and we cannot link a purchase to an individual person.

4.4 On This Website

If you use the support form on this Site, you provide us with:

• Your name, email address, subject, and message. We use these only to understand and reply to your request.

The web server that hosts this Site also records standard access logs (IP address, timestamp, requested URL, user agent) for operational and security purposes such as rate limiting and abuse prevention. The Site does not set advertising or analytics cookies and loads no web fonts or scripts from third parties, except as described in Section 4.5.

4.5 Spam Protection on the Support Form

The support form is protected by Google reCAPTCHA v3, which helps us distinguish real people from automated abuse. reCAPTCHA collects hardware and software information (such as device and application data, browser characteristics, and mouse and touch behavior) and sends it to Google for analysis. This use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. reCAPTCHA is loaded only on the Support page. The form also includes a hidden "honeypot" field that is invisible to people; submissions that fill it are discarded.

5. Authentication

Petal Picker has no accounts, no passwords, and no third-party sign-in (such as Google, Sign in with Apple, or Facebook). There is nothing for you to remember and nothing for an attacker to steal from us.

6. Cookies

The App is an iOS application, not a website, and does not set or use browser cookies; its requests for ads are made without cookies. This Site does not set cookies of its own. Google reCAPTCHA, loaded only on the Support page, may set cookies in your browser under Google's control; see Google's privacy policy linked above.

7. How We Use Your Personal Information

We use the limited Personal Information we collect to:

• Respond to you: Read and reply to support requests you send us through the Site.
• Maintain and Improve: Debug issues you report, fix bugs, and improve the App.
• Protect: Detect, prevent, and address abuse, fraud, denial-of-service attacks, and other security issues, including by enforcing per-IP rate limits on the Site.
• Compliance: Comply with applicable law and respond to lawful requests from regulatory authorities.

We do not use your Personal Information for advertising, profiling, or marketing to third parties. The ads in the App are chosen on your device, at random, from the ads it has downloaded. They are not targeted at you.

8. Information Sharing

We do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise abuse your Personal Information. We only share Personal Information in the following limited circumstances:

8.1 Service Providers

The ad service at ads.apotherium.com is run by us on our own servers, not by a third party.

8.2 Legal Requirements

We may disclose Personal Information if required to do so by law or in response to valid legal requests by public authorities (e.g., court orders, subpoenas). We will only share Personal Information when we believe, in good faith, that sharing your information is necessary to protect our business, our users, or that we are obligated under the law to provide such information. Given the minimal data we collect, the scope of information available for any such request is limited.

8.3 Business Transfers

If Apotherium LLC is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your Personal Information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

9. Messages Policy

• Replies to you: If you email us or use the support form, we will reply to the email address you provide. We use it for that conversation and nothing else.
• Push notifications: Petal Picker does not send push notifications.

Petal Picker does not send marketing email, text messages, or newsletters, and we do not add support correspondents to any mailing list.

10. Data Retention

Support submissions and the email correspondence that follows them are retained only as long as needed to resolve your request and to keep a record of recurring bugs, and are deleted when no longer needed for that purpose. Web server access logs for this Site are rotated on a routine schedule. The ad service keeps no per-request records. Because the App stores everything locally, your progress and settings persist on your device for exactly as long as you keep the App installed. Downloaded ad videos are removed from your device as they fall out of rotation or are retired, and are excluded from your device backups.

11. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Information, including:

• Encryption of data in transit (HTTPS/TLS) for this Site, the support form, and the ad service
• Per-IP rate limiting and automated abuse detection
• Access controls limiting who can access backend systems and support submissions
• Regular security review of server code and infrastructure
• Collecting as little as possible in the first place, since the App itself collects nothing about you

However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. In the unlikely event that your Personal Information is compromised due to a security breach on our end, we will notify you, per the law, as soon as reasonably possible.

12. Your Rights and Choices

12.1 Access and Portability

Because Petal Picker does not maintain a personal profile or account for you, there is no personal "data export" to provide. The only Personal Information we may hold about you is a support request you chose to send us. You can ask us for a copy of it at legal@apotherium.com.

12.2 Deletion

You can delete everything the App holds by deleting Petal Picker from your device; this removes your progress, your settings, and any downloaded ads. Zen Mode is recorded by Apple, not by us, so it stays yours and can be restored after you reinstall. To have a support request and our correspondence about it deleted from our records, email legal@apotherium.com from the address you used.

12.3 Ads Are Optional

You never have to watch an ad. When you run out of hearts, starting the level over is always free. Zen Mode removes ads entirely.

12.4 No Subscription to Manage

Zen Mode is a one-time purchase. There is no subscription, no auto-renewal, and no recurring charge to cancel.

13. Children's Privacy

Petal Picker is suitable for general audiences but is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13. The App collects nothing about its player; the only way to send us Personal Information is the support form on this Site. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has sent us Personal Information, please contact us at legal@apotherium.com and we will delete it. If you live outside of the United States, your country may apply stricter age limits.

14. Information Storage & International Users

Petal Picker is operated from the United States. This Site, the ad service, and any support submissions are hosted on infrastructure located in the United States. If you access the Services from outside the United States, the limited information described in this Policy will be transferred to and processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those in your country.

15. Third-Party Software, Apps & Services

We always use our best efforts to pick reputable third-party software, platforms, and services. However, we do not control such third parties and are not liable for any breach of privacy or data security that occurs due to the fault of these third parties. Your interactions with the Apple App Store, Google reCAPTCHA, and any other third-party services are governed by their respective privacy policies and terms.

16. Jurisdictional Privacy Rights

Apotherium only keeps your Personal Information for as long as necessary to provide our Services and per our legal obligations. Depending on your residency, under the law (e.g., the California Consumer Privacy Act and General Data Protection Regulation), you may have the right to request at any time for us to:

• Give you access to any Personal Information that we have processed;
• Disclose third parties we have shared your Personal Information with;
• Correct any Personal Information that may have been incorrectly processed;
• Delete your Personal Information from our storage systems;
• Transfer your Personal Information to another service, when technically feasible; and
• Stop using your Personal Information in specific ways by withdrawing the consent you have given us.

To exercise these rights, contact us at legal@apotherium.com. Because Petal Picker collects so little Personal Information, fulfilling most of these requests is straightforward. We may be required to retain some Personal Information to comply with administrative, legal, or regulatory obligations. For more information regarding your specific rights under the laws of the jurisdiction you reside, visit:

• US State Privacy Legislation Tracker: iapp.org
• Data Protection and Privacy Legislation Worldwide: unctad.org

17. Dispute Resolution

We will always try to resolve your concerns about our privacy practices promptly and hope that together we can find a solution without involving costly legal channels. However, if we cannot agree, by using our Services, you agree to binding arbitration rather than formal court proceedings to have the matter resolved. You can read more about this process in our Terms of Use. THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION TERMS IN OUR TERMS MATERIALLY AFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO BRING A LAWSUIT AGAINST US IN REGARDS TO THIS POLICY AND OUR SERVICES. PLEASE READ THOSE TERMS CAREFULLY.

18. Additional Terms

This Privacy Policy is subject to our Terms of Use. Specifically, this agreement is subject to all clauses in our Terms regarding warranties, limitation of liability, indemnification, assignment, waiver, severability, applicable law, jurisdiction, and any other Terms of Use provisions that logically ought to apply to this Policy.

19. Entire Agreement

This Policy and our Terms of Use represent the entire and exclusive agreement between our users and us. All previous written and oral agreements and communications related to the subject matter of this Policy and our Terms of Use are superseded.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of material changes by posting the updated Policy with a new "Last Updated" date and, where appropriate, by displaying an in-App notice. Your continued use of Petal Picker after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy.

21. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:

Email: legal@apotherium.com
Apotherium LLC

By using Petal Picker, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.