1Information we collect
You can play without an account (guest mode) — your progress then stays only on your device. Creating an account requires an email address, a username, and a password. Here is everything the app stores and why:
- Account
- Email, username, password (stored only as a one-way hash — see §6)
- Gameplay
- Score, wins/losses, streaks, daily-word history, achievements, Word Pack progress, Time Attack bests and Weekly Challenge results
- Social
- Your friends list and friend requests, and the Pass & Play lobbies you join — including the words players write for each other in an online round
- Preferences
- App language (so notifications arrive in your language), notification settings, and whether you accept friend requests
- Purchases
- Premium status, its expiry date, and the store's transaction reference used to confirm the subscription with Apple or Google — never your payment details
- Device
- A push-notification token, only if you allow notifications
- Advertising
- Your device's advertising identifier and your ad-consent choices — only as permitted by you (see §3)
- Not collected
- Location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone
Your username is public: other players see it on the leaderboards, in friend search, and in Pass & Play lobbies. Your email is never shown to other players.
If you use the in-app Contact Us form, it opens your own device's Mail app with your message pre-filled — we only receive it if you choose to send that email yourself.
2How we use it
- To create and secure your account, and let you log in on any device with your email or username.
- To track scores, streaks, achievements and ranks, and to run the leaderboards and the Weekly Challenge.
- To run the social features: friends, friend requests, and online Pass & Play lobbies.
- To send notifications you can turn off at any time: friend requests and invites, changes in your leaderboard position, and Weekly Challenge reminders. The daily-word reminder is scheduled on your device itself.
- To confirm Premium purchases with Apple or Google and unlock premium features (Word Packs, ad removal, catch-up days, hints).
- To keep the game fair — for example, limiting how many points an account can earn per day and filtering offensive words.
- To respond to bug reports and feedback you send us directly.
- To show ads that keep the free version of the app running (see §3).
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for anything beyond running the game and responding to you.
3Advertising & consent
Free accounts see ads served by Google AdMob.
- European Economic Area, UK and Switzerland: the app first asks for your consent through Google's consent form. You can change your choice at any time in Settings → Ad privacy.
- iPhone and iPad: the app asks for App Tracking Transparency permission. If you decline, you'll still see ads — they just won't be personalized using your device's advertising identifier.
Premium subscribers see no ads at all, anywhere in the app.
4Third-party services
- Supabase
- Hosts our database, accounts and server functions, in the European Union (Frankfurt). All traffic is encrypted (HTTPS).
- Google AdMob
- Serves ads and asks for ad consent (Google's consent form); where permitted, uses advertising identifiers for personalization. See Google's Privacy Policy.
- Apple
- App Store purchases and push notifications on iPhone and iPad (Apple Push Notification service).
- Google Play purchases, and push notifications on Android (Firebase Cloud Messaging).
Apple and Google may process data outside the European Union under their own privacy policies and the safeguards required by law.
5Retention & deletion
Your data is kept for as long as your account exists. You can permanently delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete Account (after confirming it's you) — this immediately and permanently removes your account and its game data from our systems. This can't be undone.
- Online Pass & Play lobbies, and the words written in them, are cleaned up automatically after the game.
- Logging out removes your device's notification token from your account.
Deleting your account doesn't cancel an active subscription — cancel it through Apple or Google.
6Security
Passwords are stored only as a one-way hash (bcrypt) by our sign-in provider — nobody, including us, can read your actual password. All requests to our servers are made over HTTPS, and scores, streaks and purchases are checked on the server rather than trusted from the app.
7Children's privacy
Hangmania is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us (§10) and we'll remove it.
8Your rights
You have the right to access the data tied to your account, correct it, delete it, receive a copy of it, and object to or restrict how it's used. Email us to use any of these rights — or use Delete Account in-app for immediate self-service deletion. If you're in the EU, you can also complain to your local data protection authority (in Romania: ANSPDCP).
9Changes to this policy
If this policy changes in a meaningful way, we'll update the effective date at the top of this page. Continued use of the app after a change means you accept the update.
10Contact
Hangmania is made by FB Center. Questions, requests, or concerns about your data: fbcenterofficial@gmail.com