Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 16, 2026 · Applies to zen-anicca.com, mydojofinder.com, watloka.com, the ZEN: ANICCA and ZEN WAT LOKA apps and games, and our business communications.

Zen Solutions Inc. (“Zen Solutions,” “ZEN,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and protect information provided through our websites (including www.zen-anicca.com), telephone communications, SMS/text messaging, our mobile applications and games (including ZEN: ANICCA), and other business interactions.

Information We Collect

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:

• Name, email address, and telephone or mobile number
• Company, school or organization information
• Information contained in business inquiries, forms or communications
• Photos, videos and other media you choose to upload
• Information necessary to provide requested services or support

How We Use Information

We may use information we collect to:

• Respond to inquiries and requests
• Communicate with customers, schools, partners, vendors and other business contacts
• Review, publish and credit community submissions and DOJO listings you send us
• Prepare quotes, fulfil order requests and deliver reward codes
• Provide customer or technical support and service-related or transactional updates
• Operate, secure and improve our websites and applications
• Meet legal, regulatory, security, or contractual requirements

The zen-anicca.com Website

Forms you choose to submit

• DOJO registration and free listings — school name, address, phone, website and social links, martial arts taught, head instructor and bio, your name, role, email and phone, and any photos, teacher intro video or spotlight link you add.
• Membership, quote and pen order requests — school name, pen text, contact name, email, phone and shipping address. We do not take payment on the website; if you go ahead, we send a secure checkout or invoice link from our payment provider (such as Square), which handles your payment details under its own privacy policy.
• Teacher avatar requests — school, contact details, each teacher’s name and title, and, if you upload them, a recent profile photo and headshot. These photos are kept private, used only to design the requested character, and shared only with the people who design and build it. You may instead e-mail photos to ANICCA4Zen@protonmail.com.
• Community submissions (drill clips, family mode, fan art) — display name, email, optional social handle, instructor or school, the drill chosen, your media and, for players under 18, a parent or guardian’s name, e-mail and permission.
• Media release — where a form includes a media release, we store the release text, the version, your typed name as signature and the date, as a record of your permission.

Collected automatically

• IP address and browser type are stored with each form submission to prevent spam and abuse and as part of the record of your consent. IP addresses are also used briefly to limit repeated submissions.
• School code visits. When someone opens the site through a school’s QR code or student link, we add one to that school code’s visit count (and download-button count, if tapped). No name, IP address or device identifier is stored with these counts.
• Browser storage. If you arrive with a friend’s referral code, your browser remembers that code so it can be added to your submission. It stays in your browser and can be cleared at any time. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies on zen-anicca.com.
• Brandy-Mini help bot. The help bot answers up to five questions per visit. Most answers come from this website and the app guide inside your own browser and are not sent to us. When those can't help, up to two questions per visit may be sent through our server to an AI service (such as Cloudflare Workers AI) to draft an answer; only the question text is sent, together with a random session ID, and we keep only a one-way hash of that ID and of your IP address with the date and outcome to enforce the limits — not the question itself. If you press Report on an AI answer, we keep that question and answer so we can review it. Please don't type names, e-mail addresses or phone numbers into the bot. “Use my location” for nearby schools is used only in your browser and is never sent. If you ask the bot for its one-time offer code, we store a salted, one-way hash of your IP address and the date so each visitor gets one code per day; the hash cannot be turned back into an IP address and is not linked to your name.

Checking DOJO listings

To keep the directory authentic, we may check a school’s name, address and public links against public sources. To do so we send that business information — not your personal contact details — to service providers such as Google (Maps and Places), OpenStreetMap geocoding and an AI research assistant (Anthropic’s Claude) that searches public web listings. Their results help us decide whether to approve a listing.

Content loaded from other services

Pages on zen-anicca.com load fonts from Google Fonts, map tiles from CARTO and OpenStreetMap, and the Google Play badge from Google; spotlight interviews may play from YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode) or Vimeo. When your browser loads these, those providers receive your IP address and browser information under their own privacy policies. Links to Google Play, the PC / Web Edition and partner sites are governed by the destination’s policies once you follow them.

What Becomes Public

• Approved community submissions appear on the Community wall with the display name you chose, the drill and your media — never your e-mail, phone or guardian details.
• Approved DOJO listings show the school name, address, phone, website, styles, head instructor, bio, teacher intro video and public review links on the Directory map. Your personal contact details and signature are not published.
• You can ask us to edit or remove a published item at any time (see Contact; for DOJO listings you can also write to MyDojoFinder@zensolutionsinc.com). Copies already shared by others cannot always be recalled.

Mobile Applications and Games

Zen Solutions Inc. publishes mobile applications and games, including ZEN: ANICCA, ZEN WAT LOKA and other titles in the ZEN series. This section describes how information is handled in those applications. It covers every version we currently distribute, including the software libraries (SDKs) built into them.

Playing and saving progress

ANICCA stores game progress, LOTUS, lives, blasts, drill results, DOJO arrangements, earned krama references and preferences on your device. Android also keeps an app-private backup. Guest play does not require a Google account. Clearing app storage or uninstalling can remove device-only progress. We cannot read device-only progress remotely.

Optional Google account and cloud backup (ZEN: ANICCA for Android)

When you choose Google sign-in in the Android app, Google and Firebase Authentication process your account identity. ANICCA receives your name, email address, profile picture and Google/Firebase account identifiers. Firebase verifies the sign-in credential. The app does not store your Google password.

Signed-in Android players can back up game progress, chosen fighter, preferences and per-drill gameplay history to Google Cloud Firestore in the United States. Access rules restrict each player’s saved document to that authenticated account. Cloud saves support restoration on another Android device. Progress in the PC / Web Edition is currently device-local; web-to-Android cloud synchronization is not included.

Backups include gameplay counters such as games played, wins and progression so your game can continue. They do not establish ownership of paid purchases or make pending reward references redeemable. See Google’s privacy policy.

Gameplay summaries

For signed-in Android players, ANICCA also keeps a small gameplay summary in a Firestore record that only your account can read: for each game, how many times you started, won and lost it, your total play time, and your most-played drill. It is used to show your progress and to keep your stats when you change devices. It is not used for advertising, is not sold, and is deleted with your cloud account. Players who do not sign in keep these statistics only on their device.

Technical data processed by Google and Firebase

When the app signs in or backs up through Firebase, Google processes technical information needed to deliver and secure that service, such as your IP address, user agent, and app and SDK version metadata. Firebase Authentication uses IP addresses to prevent abuse during sign-up and sign-in. We do not use this information to locate you. Google acts as our service provider for this processing; see Firebase privacy and security.

Our apps do not include advertising SDKs, Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics or Performance Monitoring, and they do not send crash reports or diagnostics to us. Google Play may give us aggregated, de-identified app statistics (such as install counts and crash rates) under Google’s privacy policy.

Google Play services built into the Android app

Besides sign-in and cloud backup, the current ZEN: ANICCA Android app uses these Google Play libraries. Each one talks to Google, not to a third-party advertiser, and none of them collects an advertising identifier. The app requests only internet access and vibration, and asks Android whether a text-to-speech engine is available.

• Google Play Billing handles purchases, as described under Purchases, reward codes and referrals.
• Google Play In-App Review shows the Play rating card inside the app. Google runs that card and decides when it may appear. Your rating and review go to Google Play, and we never learn which account left which rating.
• Google Play In-App Update asks Google Play whether a newer version of the app exists, so we can offer you the update.
• Google Play Install Referrer asks Google Play, once, which link or campaign your install came from. We use it to credit a referral or a school code and to understand which campaigns work. It tells us about the install, not about you, and it is never used to build an advertising profile.
• Credential Manager and Google Sign-In run the optional sign-in sheet. The second is kept only as a fallback for devices where the Credential Manager sheet cannot complete.

Reading text aloud. Where the app can read text aloud, it hands that text to whichever text-to-speech engine your device uses, under that engine's own privacy policy. Nothing is recorded, and the app does not use your microphone.

Calm & support, and how we treat what you tell it

The app has a Calm & support entry reachable from the home, SELF, Market and paused menus, with calm-minute tips, adjustable or disabled break reminders, focus and reduced-motion settings, and links to free help, including calling or texting 988 and the international directory at findahelpline.com. A breathing drill may offer an optional check-in, such as "feeling overwhelmed".

Your answer is not stored, not scored and never leaves your device. We do not keep it, we do not build a mood history, and we never use it to show you an offer or to sell you anything. Choosing not to answer costs you nothing. The app also offers links to mental-health charities, including NAMI, Mental Health America and AFSP; we are not affiliated with them, we receive nothing from them, and following a link takes you to their own site under their own policy. ZEN: ANICCA is training, not treatment, and it does not diagnose or treat any condition.

Offline play and conflicting saves

Offline progress remains on the device. Cloud backup is retried when connectivity returns. If devices have different saved progress, ANICCA asks which save to keep rather than adding balances together. A device backup is retained before restoration.

ZEN WAT LOKA

In ZEN WAT LOKA your worlds, buildings, crops and progress are saved on your device. Playing does not require an account, and a player who never signs in sends no gameplay to us.

Version 1.0.9 and later add optional Google sign-in and cloud backup. They work the same way as in ZEN: ANICCA and use the same Firebase project. When you choose Google sign-in, Google and Firebase Authentication process your account identity, and WAT LOKA receives your name, email address, profile picture and Google/Firebase account identifiers; the app does not store your Google password. A signed-in player’s world and progress are then backed up to Google Cloud Firestore in the United States, in a saved document that access rules restrict to that authenticated account, so the world can be restored on another device. Backups are sent about every minute and a half while your world has changed, and when the app goes to the background. The sign-in screen always offers Play offline as a guest, and a guest’s worlds never leave the device. From the app’s Google account menu you can save now, restore, sign out or delete your cloud save. WAT LOKA does not include advertising SDKs, Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics or Performance Monitoring.

At launch the app also checks a small version file on watloka.com to see whether an update is available; like any web request, our host receives your IP address and browser information for that request, and nothing about your game is sent. Older versions may save progress only on your device. In versions that support Google Play checkout, drill purchases and monthly or yearly memberships require Google sign-in and an available purchase-verification service. For purchase verification and restoration, the app sends its package, product and purchase token, a request identifier, and your Firebase sign-in token and account identifier over HTTPS to our WAT LOKA verifier. The verifier checks your current sign-in status and Google Play receipt and keeps a private record of the purchase-token hash, product, purchase status and account binding to deliver purchases and prevent receipt reuse. We do not receive your card details. Guest balances do not establish paid ownership or transfer into an account wallet. Deleting a WAT LOKA cloud account, or asking us to delete it, works exactly as described in Deleting your account and data.

Reports you choose to send

Contact, promotion and “report a problem” features prepare an e-mail in your own e-mail app. Nothing is sent unless you send it. Information you send, including any screenshots, is received at ANICCA4Zen@protonmail.com and used to respond to you. The in-app Brandy helper answers from content built into the app; questions you type there are not sent to us.

Purchases, reward codes and referrals

In-application purchases are processed by Google Play. Google receives your payment details and shares only a confirmation with us; we do not see or store your card number. To deliver what you bought and to prevent fraud and receipt reuse, our server checks each purchase with Google Play and records the purchase token, the product, the time and the signed-in account it belongs to.

When you redeem a reward or school code, we record the code and the account it was used by, so each code can be used only as intended. When a signed-in player joins with a friend’s referral code, we record which two accounts the referral linked, so each referral reward is granted only once. Referral rewards are not used to build a profile of the people you referred.

What our applications do not collect

Our applications do not request or collect your contacts, messages, microphone, camera, precise or approximate location, or advertising ID.

Advertising and sponsors

Our apps carry no third-party advertising network and no advertising identifier. Sponsored placements and offers shown in our applications and on our website are chosen by us, are never targeted using your personal information, and are never chosen from anything you tell a breathing check-in. They help fund a calm, family-friendly line of games. Selecting one opens the partner’s own site or application, where the partner’s privacy policy applies.

Deleting your account and data

In the app: in ZEN: ANICCA for Android, open Self → Progress backup → Delete cloud account. Confirming deletion removes your ANICCA Firebase account, your cloud progress document and your gameplay summary. Recent sign-in may be required. Device progress remains until you clear the app’s storage or uninstall it.

Without the app: e-mail ANICCA account deletion or WAT LOKA account deletion from the e-mail address of your Google account. Both links go to ANICCA4Zen@protonmail.com. We may need to verify that the account is yours, and we delete the same data within 30 days.

What we keep: records of purchases, code redemptions and referral rewards may be kept after deletion where we need them to honor purchases, prevent fraud or meet legal, tax or Google Play requirements. They are kept only as long as that need lasts. In ZEN WAT LOKA, if you never signed in there is nothing stored with us; uninstall the app or clear its storage to remove your worlds. If you did sign in, e-mail us with the subject “WAT LOKA account deletion” and we delete your WAT LOKA account and its cloud saves within 30 days. You can also remove the backup yourself at any time from the app’s Google account → Delete my cloud save.

SMS/Text Messaging Privacy

If you provide your mobile number and consent to receive SMS/text messages from Zen Solutions Inc., we may use your number to send business-related, transactional, informational, scheduling, or support communications.

• Mobile information will not be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
• SMS opt-in consent and phone numbers collected for SMS communication will not be shared, sold, rented, or disclosed to third parties for their marketing purposes.
• Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply.
• You may opt out at any time by replying STOP. For assistance, reply HELP.

Children

Our applications are designed to be suitable for younger users, and a child can play without providing personal information to us. Parents and guardians should supervise account creation and cloud backup for children. On zen-anicca.com, submissions from players under 18 require a parent or guardian’s name, e-mail and permission, and family-mode clips are submitted by the parent or guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13 without verifiable parental consent. If you believe a child has provided information to us, please contact us and we will delete it.

Information Sharing

We do not sell or rent personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising.

We may disclose information to service providers that help us operate our business or provide requested services — for example web hosting, e-mail, payment processing, cloud backup, map and verification services, and the designers and developers who build requested avatars or campaigns — and when necessary to comply with applicable law or legal process, or to protect our company, systems, customers, or others. Service providers are expected to use information only for the purposes for which it was provided.

Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. zen-anicca.com is served over HTTPS; uploaded files and form records are stored on our hosting provider in the United States in a protected folder that is not publicly accessible, and are visible only to authorized administrators until approved for publication. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. Because text messages are not an encrypted channel, please do not send health details, payment card numbers, government identifiers, or passwords by text.

Data Retention

We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and as required by applicable legal, regulatory, or contractual obligations. Media releases are kept for as long as we use the related media. Application progress stored on your device is retained until you delete it.

Your Choices

• Ask us to access, correct or delete information you sent through zen-anicca.com, or to remove a published submission or listing.
• Use our applications without an account, adjust sound and display settings, and erase stored progress by clearing the application’s data on the device.
• Delete your ANICCA cloud account in the app or by e-mail, as described in Deleting your account and data.
• SMS recipients may opt out at any time by replying STOP.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under local law; contact us and we will respond as required.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may periodically update this Privacy Policy. Updates will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

Contact Us

See also our Terms and Conditions.