Refraxis — bend the light onto every target
Refraxis solves its puzzles on your phone and reports the answers to nobody.
No account exists to be made. No server is contacted, because the app is built without the permission that would let it contact one. Nothing is advertised, nothing is measured, and nothing is uploaded. What the game remembers — the levels you have solved, the awards you have picked up, the boards you have built yourself, and how you like things set — is written into its own private storage on the handset and left there.
This page covers the Android app named above, distributed through Google Play, and sets out what is kept, what the app cannot reach, why a board dated today needs no network, and what you are entitled to ask for.
Refraxis is published under the name Shabeer Games. The company behind that name is Shabeer Plumbing Ltd, registered in England at 72 Basildon Avenue, Ilford IG5 0QQ, and Shabeer Ziarmal is the person who answers for it. The trading name and the registered name differ, which is common enough, and both are given here so that neither comes as a surprise.
Under the UK GDPR that makes the company the data controller for the app — a designation that governs very little here, since the game hands over nothing to control. Correspondence is the exception, and it gets its own section below.
Reach us at [email protected].
Four kinds of thing, none of which describe a person:
Nothing in that list is tied to a name, an email address, an account or a device identifier, because the app holds none of those. Android keeps each app's private storage beyond the reach of every other app on the phone, and that storage is the whole of this game's memory.
Refraxis is built without the internet permission. That is not a policy decision that could be quietly reversed in an update without anyone noticing — Android refuses a connection to any app that has not declared it, and adding it later is a visible change to what the app asks of your phone.
There is likewise no permission for the camera, the microphone, your location, your contacts, your photographs or your wider storage. A game about routing a beam of light across a grid has no use for any of them, and asking would be its own answer.
The board of the day carries a date, and a date usually implies somebody sending it. Here the date is not a delivery, it is an ingredient. The game feeds today's date into the same generator every copy of the app carries, and a board falls out the other end — the same board everyone else gets, arrived at independently on each phone, with no request made and nothing to make it with.
Which has a consequence worth stating: nothing counts how many days in a row you turned up. The app cannot see a streak it has no way to record, and no calendar of your evenings exists anywhere, here or elsewhere.
The sandbox lets you lay out a board of your own and light it up. Those arrangements are your work, and the app treats them accordingly: they are saved beside everything else in private storage, they are never transmitted, and there is no gallery, no upload button, no share-your-board feature and no community feed.
If a later version ever offered to publish a board you made, that would be a genuine change of character for the app and would appear on this page before it appeared in the game.
No ad network, no analytics library, no crash reporter, no attribution kit, no social sign-in. Nobody is being paid here per impression or per event, which is the reason the list of what gets stored is as short as it is.
That deserves saying out loud for a puzzle game, since puzzle games are among the surest ways advertising reaches children. With no adverts shown and nothing gathered from anyone, there is no profile to assemble out of a child's play, no audience to sell on, and no purpose in asking anybody's age — whatever the answer, the app would behave identically.
One thing happens outside the app's control. If backup to Google Drive is switched on for your phone, Android may copy the game's small progress file — levels, awards, sandbox boards and settings — into your own Google account, alongside the backups of everything else installed. That copy belongs to you, falls under Google's terms rather than ours, and never passes through us; we hold no account there and have nothing to look at.
It is also the only route by which a completed run of sixty levels survives a new handset. The switch is in Android's own settings, either for everything at once or for this app alone.
Downloading anything from Google Play is a transaction between you and Google, recorded against your Google account. What reaches a developer afterwards is a console of totals — installs by country, the spread of Android versions, how the rating is moving. Beneath those figures there are no individual rows for us to open, and nothing in them reaches a level, a board or an award.
Google's own handling of your account is governed by Google's privacy policy, at policies.google.com/privacy.
It is all in a single folder, so there is one action and no request to send. Uninstalling Refraxis removes the solved levels, the awards, the sandbox boards and the settings with it. To keep the game but begin again from an empty grid, Android's app settings will clear its storage.
Either is immediate and neither is reversible, which is the point of them — but sandbox boards you were fond of go the same way as the rest, so it is worth a second's thought first.
Everything above concerns data that never arrives. This part is the exception. An email leaves us holding an address and a message for as long as the conversation runs, and a short while after it closes in case it reopens; then the thread is deleted.
It is used to reply, and for nothing else — not a list, not a sale, not passed to anyone. Our ground for holding it is the legitimate interest in answering people who write. It cannot be connected to your play, because the game carries no identifier for it to be connected to, and if you would rather the exchange were gone sooner, say so and it will be.
The UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 give you a set of rights over personal data held about you: to be told what is held, to have a copy of it, to have it corrected, to have it erased, to restrict what is done with it, to object, and to receive it in a portable form. Exercised against this app, most of them find nothing to act on. The one with something to act on is aimed at the mailbox described above.
Write to [email protected] and a reply is due within one month. If the answer is unsatisfactory, the regulator is the Information Commissioner's Office: ico.org.uk, which takes complaints directly and does not require you to come through us first.
One date appears on it, at the top, and that is the version you are reading. For a change that actually alters what happens to data — any collection at all, any third-party component, any transfer out of the country — the order is fixed: this page is rewritten first, the Data safety declaration in the Play Console is corrected in the same sitting, and only then does the release responsible go out.
A sentence rewritten for clarity is not that, and earns nothing beyond a newer date.
Shabeer Games
Trading name of Shabeer Plumbing Ltd
72 Basildon Avenue, Ilford IG5 0QQ, United Kingdom
Responsible: Shabeer Ziarmal
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