Privacy Policy

The short version

The Advent House collects no personal data. There is no account and no server. Everything Maroni does is already inside the app, and the app makes no internet connections of its own. Your settings and the doors you've opened stay on your device, and are gone when you delete the app.

1. Who is responsible

Studio Botanics UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Goethestraße 32, 10625 Berlin, Germany, represented by its managing directors Jasmin Dieterle-Proesel and Kevin Proesel. E-mail: maroniskitchentails@studiobotanics.com. The full company details are in our Imprint.

2. What the app collects

Nothing. The app has no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising and no third-party code. It does not use the advertising identifier and does not track you across other apps or websites. Its App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected".

3. What stays on your device

To work properly, the app remembers a few things on your device. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else, and it is not synced through iCloud.

• Your settings: sounds and volumes, haptics, subtitles, where the recipe card sits, the sleep timer, tilt, door numbers, hints, the seasonal icon, the reminder time, and whether you've seen the intro.
• Which doors you've opened. The app's own sticker extension on the same device reads this, so Messages only shows the sticker packs you've unlocked.
• The time and weather you picked on the Sky Dial, and where you paused a film or a story.
• The crochet row counter.
• Text you type into the card maker, kept as a draft so you can finish your card later. It only leaves your device if you share the card yourself.
• Short-lived files for printing and sharing, in the system's temporary folder, and a copied sticker on the clipboard, which clears after five minutes.

Deleting the app deletes all of it.

4. Permissions

• Add to Photos. Asked when you save stickers or wallpapers. The app can add pictures to your library but cannot see it.
• Notifications. Asked once, after your first door. The optional "Door 7 is ready" reminder is scheduled on your device; no push server is involved. Switch it off in the app or in iOS Settings at any time.
• Motion. No permission needed. While the app is open and "Tilt moves the snow" is on, it reads which way your device is tilted. Nothing is stored.

The app never uses your location, camera, microphone or contacts.

5. Purchases

Door 1 is free. One in-app purchase unlocks the others. Buying, restoring, redeeming offer codes and Family Sharing are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see your name, e-mail address or payment details; the app only learns whether the unlock is owned. Apple's Privacy Policy applies to the purchase.

6. What we do not do

We do not sell, rent or share personal data. We do not build profiles, show ads, use tracking or analytics, or use anything from the app to train AI. We couldn't if we wanted to: the app never sends us anything.

7. This website

This website is hosted by ALL-INKL.COM – Neue Medien Münnich, Hauptstraße 68, 02742 Friedersdorf, Germany. When you visit, the server records technical access data in log files: your IP address (shortened), the date and time, the page requested and your browser type. This is needed to deliver the pages and keep them secure. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, our legitimate interest in a working, secure website. We have a data processing agreement with the host under Art. 28 GDPR, and the logs are kept only as long as these purposes require.

The website sets no cookies, uses no analytics and loads nothing from other servers.

8. Children

The app collects nothing from anyone, children included. It is rated 4+ and made for families to enjoy together. A grown-up check guards buying, restoring, redeeming codes, sharing, printing, opening Messages or Mail, and links out of the app: a grown-up holds a number for three seconds. Saving to Photos uses iOS's own permission prompt instead.

9. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection (Art. 15–21 GDPR). Because the app holds no data about you on our side, these mainly concern the website's server logs. Write to us at the address below.

You may also complain to a data protection supervisory authority. Ours is the Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Alt-Moabit 59–61, 10555 Berlin, Germany.

For residents of California: we do not sell or share personal information.

10. Changes to this policy

If a future version of the app changes how it handles data, we will update this page and the date above before that version is released.

11. Contact

Questions about privacy, or anything else about the app: maroniskitchentails@studiobotanics.com.