Privacy Policy

Hanging Spider · Last updated 17 September 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how the Hanging Spider Android app ("the app", "we", "us") collects, uses, and shares your information when you use it. By using the app, you agree to this policy.

1. What we collect

When you sign in with Google, we receive from Google:

• Your Google account email address
• Your display name and profile picture URL
• A unique Firebase user ID

As you use the app we generate and store:

• Your points balance, level, games played, and games won
• Your progress: stars earned per level, achievements, win counts per game, and your daily play streak
• Your daily puzzle results (whether you solved each day's puzzle and the shareable summary)
• Your Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) token so admins can send you in-app messages and announcements
• A copy of your name and points in a public leaderboard visible to other signed-in users, including a weekly leaderboard of points earned that week
• Records of any gift-card cash-out requests made in earlier versions of the app (this feature is no longer offered)
• Timestamps of first sign-in and last app open

We do not collect: your precise location, your contacts, your microphone or camera input, your health data, or your web browsing history.

If you turn on the optional daily reminder, the app keeps a small copy of your streak and daily puzzle status on your device to decide what the reminder says. That copy never leaves your device. Sharing a result only sends the text you choose to share to the app you pick.

2. Advertising

The app shows ads served by Google AdMob. AdMob may collect and use your device's advertising identifier and IP address to serve personalised ads, subject to Google's Ads Policy. You can reset or delete your advertising ID at any time in your device's Google Settings.

3. How your data is used

• To authenticate your account and keep your progress in sync across devices.
• To display your name and points on the in-app leaderboard.
• To let admins deliver announcements to your in-app inbox.
• To serve ads and measure their performance (via AdMob).

4. Sharing and processors

We do not sell your data. Data is stored on and processed by these third-party services, acting as our processors:

• Firebase (Google LLC) — Authentication, Realtime Database, Cloud Messaging. Region: asia-southeast1 (Singapore). Firebase Privacy.
• Google AdMob — Ad serving. AdMob Privacy.

5. Children

The app is intended for users aged 13 and over. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us information, contact us at the email below and we will delete it.

6. Your rights

You can:

• Access the data we hold about you — email us and we will send it in a machine-readable format within 30 days.
• Delete your account and all associated data — email us and we will complete the deletion within 30 days. This removes your profile, points, level, leaderboard entry, any past cash-out records, and in-app messages.
• Withdraw consent by signing out and uninstalling the app.

7. Security

All data travels between the app and Firebase over HTTPS. Firebase Realtime Database access is controlled by server-side security rules that limit each user to reading and writing only their own record, except for the public leaderboard.

8. Changes to this policy

If we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above and, where practical, notify you in the app's Missives inbox.

9. Contact

Questions or data requests: sandeepmt407@gmail.com

This app is not affiliated with Marvel, Sony Pictures, or any Spider-Man rights holder. "Hanging Spider" is an original word-guessing game.