Privacy Policy

Last updated: 30 September 2026

This policy explains what the Spellhunt app for iPhone and iPad (“Spellhunt”, “the app”) and this website collect, why, who helps us run them, how long we keep information and what choices you have. Spellhunt is published by Silk Creative Labs LLC (“we”, “us”). If anything here is unclear, write to support@spellhunt.app.

Contents

1. What we collect
2. How we use it
3. What other players can see
4. Companies that help us
5. Ads, tracking and consent
6. How long we keep it
7. Deleting your account and data
8. Your other choices
9. Children
10. California residents
11. EEA, UK and Switzerland
12. Security and where data is stored
13. This website
14. Changes and contact

1. What we collect

When you play as a guest

• An app identifier. On first launch the app creates a random identifier for your installation. It is not your advertising identifier and it does not identify you by name.
• Device settings. When the app registers with our server it sends that identifier, your time zone, your language setting, the app version and the platform (iOS). We use the time zone to release the Daily and time reminders to your local day.
• Game results you submit. To keep the Daily fair, some features send your moves and solve time to our server to be checked.

When you sign in with Apple

• Apple account details. Apple gives us a stable user identifier for Spellhunt and an email address. You can choose Apple’s “Hide My Email”, in which case we receive a private relay address. We do not ask for your name. We do not send you marketing email.
• An Apple refresh token, kept only so we can revoke Spellhunt’s access to your Apple ID when you delete your account.
• Your profile and progress: the player name you choose (optional), level and experience points, league tier, coin balance and history, streaks and freezes, items you own, campaign progress, Daily results and times, league and tournament results, friends, challenges and duels, and any custom puzzles you make (their title and word list).
• An age confirmation. Leagues ask you to confirm you are 13 or older. We store that you confirmed, not your age or birthday.

Game Center

If you are signed in to Game Center, the app reads your Game Center player identifier (an identifier Apple issues for our games only) and the identifiers of your Game Center friends. We store your identifier with your Spellhunt account. Each time you sign in to Game Center, we use your friends’ identifiers to find which of them already play Spellhunt and add them as friends; we do not store your friends list itself. The app also reports scores and achievements to Game Center, where Apple’s terms apply.

Purchases

Purchases and subscriptions go through Apple. We never receive your card or billing details. We receive what we need to give you what you bought: the product, transaction identifiers, purchase and expiry dates, and notices from Apple about renewals, cancellations and refunds. Purchases made while signed in are tagged with your Spellhunt account so they can be matched to it.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, we store your device’s Apple push token so we can send you a streak reminder, league results and friend activity. You can turn these off at any time in iOS Settings.

Messages you send us

• Feedback (“Something wrong? Tell us”): your message, the app version and your device model (for example “iPhone iOS 27.0”).
• Reports about a player name, a shared link, cheating or a custom puzzle: the reason you choose, any details you write, the app version, and the player or puzzle you reported.
• Email to support: your email address and whatever you write.

Usage statistics

The app sends usage events to TelemetryDeck, for example that a puzzle was started or finished, a share was tapped, a paywall was shown, or an ad was requested. Each event carries the random app identifier, a session identifier, the app version, your language setting, the region from your device settings, whether you have Spellhunt Plus, and an experiment group number. It does not include your name, email, player name or advertising identifier.

Photos

If you choose to save a Solve Replay video, the app asks for permission to add it to your photo library. It never reads your photos.

Technical data

Like any internet service, our servers receive your IP address with each request. We store a one-way hash of it (not the address itself) with Daily results and in rate-limit counters, to detect cheating and limit abuse. We do not use IP addresses to locate you.

2. How we use it

• To run the game: deliver the Daily, save and sync your progress, validate results, run leagues, tournaments, friends, challenges and duels.
• To give you what you bought and to handle renewals and refunds.
• To send notifications you agreed to.
• To answer feedback, support email and reports, and to moderate player names and custom puzzles.
• To understand how the app is used and improve it, including testing different versions of a feature.
• To show ads in the free version and to measure them (see section 5).
• To prevent cheating, fraud and abuse, and to comply with the law.

3. What other players can see

If you set a player name, other players can see it with your level, league tier and points on league tables, friends boards and the Legend board. Without a name you appear as “A player”. Your friends can see your Daily time. When you share a link (a Daily result, league card, replay, challenge, custom puzzle or friend invite), anyone who has the link can open what it points to.

4. Companies that help us

We share information only with the companies below, and only for the purposes listed. They process it for us under their own terms and privacy policies.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, to protect players or our rights, or as part of a sale or reorganization of our business, in which case this policy continues to apply to it.

5. Ads, tracking and consent

• The free version shows ads from Google AdMob. Google’s SDK collects device information, IP address and how you interact with ads, and uses it to serve, measure and protect ads.
• Tracking (App Tracking Transparency). The app asks whether you allow tracking. Only if you allow it can Google use your device’s advertising identifier, and only then are ads personalized. If you don’t, ads are not personalized. You can change this any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
• EEA, UK and Switzerland. Before the first ad, the app shows Google’s consent form. No ad is requested until you have made a choice. If you decline, you may still see ads, but they are not personalized. You can change your choice in the app’s Settings → Privacy → Privacy choices.
• No ads option. Spellhunt Plus and the one-time Remove Ads purchase turn off interstitial ads. Rewarded ads, which you choose to watch for a reward, stay optional.
• Ad measurement also uses Apple’s SKAdNetwork, which reports installs to ad networks without identifying you.

6. How long we keep it

• Account data is kept while you have an account. When you delete it, see section 7.
• Guest device records (the app identifier, time zone, language and app version) are kept while the app is in use. Ask us and we will delete yours.
• Feedback and reports are kept as long as we need them to fix problems and moderate, then deleted.
• Purchase records are kept as long as we need them for accounting, tax and legal obligations.
• Usage statistics are kept by TelemetryDeck under its retention rules.
• Backups of our database can hold deleted data for a short period until they are replaced.

7. Deleting your account and data

In the app, open the You tab and choose Delete account. Deletion takes effect immediately and cannot be undone. It:

• deletes your account, profile, progress, coin history, Daily and campaign results, league history, friends, friend codes, challenges, custom puzzles and pending notifications;
• revokes Spellhunt’s access to your Apple ID and deletes the Apple token we held;
• removes your player name and Game Center identifier; and
• keeps some records without any link to you: feedback you sent, reports you made, purchase notices from Apple, links you shared and the device record (without its push token).

Purchases stay with your Apple ID and can be restored on a new account. Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription; cancel it with Apple (see Support).

If you play as a guest, deleting the app removes your local progress. To delete the device record on our server, or for any other deletion request, email support@spellhunt.app.

8. Your other choices

• Change your player name in the app.
• Turn notifications off in iOS Settings → Notifications → Spellhunt.
• Turn tracking off in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
• Game Center friends can be turned off in iOS Settings → Game Center.
• Play without signing in. Leagues and some social features need Sign in with Apple.

9. Children

Spellhunt is not directed at children under 13, and leagues are only for players who confirm they are 13 or older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has given us personal information, email support@spellhunt.app and we will delete it.

10. California residents

In the last 12 months we have collected these categories of personal information, for the purposes in section 2: identifiers (app identifier, Apple user identifier, email address, Game Center identifier, push token, IP address); commercial information (purchases); internet or other electronic activity (gameplay and usage events, ad interactions); and inferences limited to experiment groups. We disclose them to the service providers in section 4.

We do not sell personal information for money. When you allow tracking, Google may use your advertising identifier for personalized ads, which California law can treat as “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising. You can opt out by not allowing tracking (iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking), or by buying Remove Ads or Spellhunt Plus. We do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you.

You have the right to know what we collect, to get a copy, to correct it, to delete it, and to opt out of sale or sharing, and we will not treat you differently for using these rights. To use them, delete your account in the app or email support@spellhunt.app. We may need to confirm the request comes from you. An authorized agent can make a request for you with your written permission.

11. EEA, UK and Switzerland

Silk Creative Labs LLC is the controller of your personal information. We rely on these legal bases:

• Contract: to run the game, your account and your purchases.
• Legitimate interests: to keep the game fair and secure, to understand usage and improve the app, and to show non-personalized ads that keep it free.
• Consent: for personalized ads and for notifications. You can withdraw consent at any time as described in sections 5 and 8.
• Legal obligation: to keep purchase records.

You have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to our use of your information, and to receive it in a portable format. Email support@spellhunt.app. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

We are based in the United States, and our service providers may process information in the United States and other countries. Where required, transfers rely on safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

12. Security and where data is stored

Information is sent over encrypted connections. Access to our database is restricted, each player can read only their own private data, and sensitive operations run on our server rather than on your device. No system is perfectly secure, so if you find a problem, please tell us.

13. This website

spellhunt.app does not use cookies, analytics or ads. Our host, Vercel, processes standard request data such as your IP address to deliver pages and protect the site. Share links on this site (for example spellhunt.app/f/…) only point you to the app and do not record who opened them; when the app opens one, the app records that a shared link was opened.

14. Changes and contact

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top, and for significant changes we will tell you in the app. Questions or requests: support@spellhunt.app.

Silk Creative Labs LLC, publisher of Spellhunt.