WaveQuest - Privacy Policy & Terms

Privacy Policy

WaveQuest values your privacy. This application is designed to be fully secure, with a strict philosophy of zero data tracking, collection, or transmission.

1. Data Collection & Transmission

WaveQuest does not collect, monitor, transmit, or sell any personal data, analytics, device identifiers, or usage statistics. All operations are sandboxed locally on your device.

2. Local Data Persistence

Your level completions, game progress, and high scores (best wave matching percentages) are saved locally on your iOS device via Apple's standard UserDefaults storage. This data never leaves your device and is deleted if the app is uninstalled.

3. On-Device Artificial Intelligence

The daily wave insights fact generator utilizes on-device language models (via local Swift foundation APIs). Processing is completed entirely locally on-device. No telemetry, queries, or results are sent to remote servers.

4. Third-Party Integrations

The app does not contain any third-party advertising SDKs, tracking pixels, or external analytical libraries.

Terms of Use

By installing and using the WaveQuest application, you agree to these simplified terms.

1. Intellectual Property

WaveQuest is an original educational software product created by Kartik Kaushik as a Swift Student Challenge submission. All graphics, custom AV synthesis systems, haptic routing matrices, and level concepts are proprietary assets of the developer.

2. Purpose of Use

This software is provided for educational, illustrative, and demonstration purposes. It aims to help users visualize mathematical wave equations in 3D and explore wave superposition concepts through haptics and sound.

3. Disclaimer of Warranty

The software is provided "as is" and without warranties of any kind. The developer makes no guarantees regarding the continuous availability or absolute accuracy of physical simulations on all hardware versions.

4. Governing Law

These terms shall be governed in accordance with the laws of Apple's developer agreement guidelines and applicable local regulations.

Third-Party Credits & Compliance

WaveQuest is committed to ethical open-source compliance and transparent asset attribution.

KaTeX Mathematical Typesetting

The WaveQuest iOS app embeds the offline KaTeX library (Copyright © 2013-2022 Khan Academy and other contributors) to parse and render equations. KaTeX is distributed under the permissive MIT License reproduced below:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Typography & System Fonts

Both this website and the iOS app use native system font configurations (specifically SF Pro Display, SF Pro Text, and the -apple-system font family stack). All rendering relies on local system-level font resources on your Apple device. No proprietary font files are embedded, redistributed, or hosted by this software or website, in full compliance with Apple Typography Licensing Guidelines.

Audio Assets

All user interface sound effects (including click.wav and tick.wav) are original or royalty-free audio files licensed under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) or equivalent public domain/unrestricted licenses for educational and commercial use.

Trademark Disclaimers

Apple, iOS, App Store, iPhone, SceneKit, and CoreHaptics are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. The use of these trademarks is descriptive and solely for the purpose of communicating compatibility and platform features.

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