A plain-language lifecycle map
What stays on your device,
what the website may expose,
and what you control.
This policy describes the current Flow Commons Android release and the static website files packaged with it. The app's learning state is local. The website is a separate public surface whose hosting environment may create ordinary delivery records.
Source
Privacy at a Glance
Flow Commons does not require an account. Scenario choices, progress, reflection tokens, and an optional note remain in the app's private local storage unless you erase them or remove the app. The Android app contains no advertising or analytics SDK and does not send this learning state to a remote service.
Boundary
Scope of This Policy
This notice applies to the Flow Commons Android app with package name org.boothorchardwaterassociation.flowcommons and to the pages at this website's root and /privacy-policy/. It does not control the privacy practices of an app store, operating-system vendor, web host, browser, or external site you choose to visit.
Entry
Information You Enter in the App
You may select scenarios, allocate symbolic flow tiles, mark scenarios complete, choose a reflection token, and type an optional short field note. These are learning interactions, not account details. Flow Commons does not ask for your name, email address, precise location, payment information, contacts, photographs, microphone recordings, or health information.
Local channel
On-Device Processing
The app calculates route totals, chooses consequence text, updates completion state, and restores your last scene on the device. Bundled images and educational text are read from the installed app. No server is needed to process a scenario or generate a comparison.
Basin
Local Storage
Flow Commons stores its state in app-private preferences managed by Android. This includes the current scene, selected scenario, tile allocations, completed scenario identifiers, reflection choices, and optional note text. The app does not intentionally write these items to shared media storage or cloud backup.
Holding time
Retention
Local state remains until you use the in-app clear action, clear the app's storage through Android settings, or uninstall the app. Flow Commons does not operate a remote retention schedule for app state because it does not receive that state. A web host may retain delivery logs according to the publisher's hosting configuration and the host's own terms.
Release
Erase Local Data
Open the Season Ledger and choose Clear my ledger to remove scenario progress, allocations, reflections, and optional notes created in the app. You can also clear storage in Android settings or uninstall the app. This action cannot remove records held independently by an app store, browser, web host, or external site.
Web delivery
Website Delivery Logs
The packaged website contains static HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and local images. The site itself does not send form submissions to Flow Commons. When a public host delivers a page, that host may process ordinary connection data such as IP address, timestamp, requested path, user agent, and security events. The exact retention and access rules depend on the publisher's selected host.
Browser state
Cookies and Similar Technologies
These two static pages do not set a Flow Commons cookie, use browser local storage, fingerprint visitors, or embed a consent manager. A hosting or security provider may use its own essential technologies at the delivery layer; those technologies are outside the packaged page code and should be described by the publisher if enabled.
Measurement
Analytics
The Android app contains no analytics SDK. The packaged website contains no analytics script, tracking pixel, tag manager, or session replay code. Hosting-level aggregate traffic or security reporting may still be available to the publisher through the chosen web host.
Commercial boundary
Advertising
Flow Commons does not display ads, include an advertising SDK, sell audience segments, or use app activity for behavioral advertising. The packaged website contains no ad slot or affiliate tracker.
Identity
Accounts and Authentication
The app has no sign-in screen and does not create a Flow Commons account. It does not request a password, social login, email verification, or profile. Any app-store account used to download the app is managed by the store provider under its own terms.
Edges
Network Access and External Links
The Android manifest does not request internet permission, and app scenarios do not load remote content. The website includes ordinary links to public reference sources. Choosing one leaves this site, and the destination may collect information under its own privacy policy. External links are not opened by the Android app.
Device access
Permissions and Device Features
Flow Commons does not request access to location, camera, microphone, contacts, calendar, notifications, Bluetooth, nearby devices, phone state, or shared photos and files. Standard operating-system access needed to render the interface and use app-private storage is handled by Android without a runtime permission prompt.
Families
Children
Flow Commons is a general-audience educational experience and is not directed specifically to children under 13. It does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Because optional notes stay local, families and educators can decide whether note-taking fits their setting and can erase app state at any time.
Protection
Security Boundaries
Local state is kept in the app's private storage and excluded from the app's configured backup and device-transfer rules. Device security still depends on Android, screen-lock choices, operating-system updates, and physical access. No software or hosting environment can promise absolute security.
Course correction
Changes and Effective Date
This policy is effective August 28, 2026. If app behavior or the packaged website changes, the notice should be revised before the changed release is distributed, and the effective date should be updated. Continued availability of an older page does not by itself describe a newer app release.
Return channel
Questions and Publisher Contact
For privacy questions about a published release, use the verified developer contact shown on the Google Play listing where you obtained Flow Commons. This page does not publish or invent an email address, telephone number, or response-time commitment.
