Privacy Policy

Last updated 1 October 2026

1. Who we are

Spaten is operated by Christian Apeku, an individual based in Ghana. Contact us about your data at support@spaten.online.

2. What we store

Your sign-in detail — the phone number or email address you verified. We store one per account and use it to let you sign in, and to reach you if we ever need to about your account.

Your profile — the name you chose and your picture, whether a generated face or one you uploaded. Both are shown to other players.

Your play — chips, rating, level, matches played and how they finished, tournament entries and placings, and rewards you have collected. This is what makes a leaderboard possible.

Your country, worked out from your phone number's dialling code if you signed in with one. We store the country only, never a location.

How the game is used — which screens you open and which main buttons you press, with the time, your app version and whether you are on Android or iPhone. We use this to see where the game is confusing or broken. It is linked to your account when you are signed in, and is never shared.

A key identifying your device, made when you first open the game. It lets the app hold a session before you have signed in.

3. Advertising

The free game shows ads, served by Unity LevelPlay and Google AdMob. To choose an ad, show it and count it, those companies receive from your device its advertising identifier, its IP address, basic information about the device and the app, and how you interact with the ad. They handle that under their own policies: Unity and Google.

• On iPhone, they receive the advertising identifier only if you allow tracking when the app asks. You can change that at any time in Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking.
• On Android, you can reset the advertising identifier or opt out of personalised ads in your device's settings, under Google > Ads.

We do not give advertisers your name, phone number, email address or account. When you watch an ad for a reward, the ad network tells our server only a one-time code we issued for that ad, so that we can pay the chips.

4. What we do not do

We do not sell your data.

We do not know your location, read your contacts, use your microphone, or see anything on your device beyond the picture you choose to upload.

5. Who else sees it

Other players see your name, your picture, your rating and tier, and your results — on leaderboards, at a table, and in tournament standings. Nothing else is shown to them, ever. Your phone number and email are never shown to another player.

Some services carry or host things for us and see only what that needs:

• Nalo Solutions sends sign-in codes by SMS and sees the number.
• Resend sends sign-in codes by email and sees the address. It also delivers messages sent through this website's contact form to us.
• Unity LevelPlay and Google AdMob serve ads, as described above.
• Vercel hosts this website and keeps the ordinary records any web server keeps of a visit.
• Our game servers are rented from a hosting company and hold the data described here.

6. This website

The website sets no cookies and runs no trackers or advertising. Its fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so Google sees the address your browser connects from. The game played on this website stores your sign-in in your browser, as the app does on a phone, and records how it is used in the same way.

If you write to us through the complaints or contact form, we receive what you typed and the email address you gave, and use them only to reply.

7. How long we keep it

For as long as your account exists. Sign-in codes are deleted within minutes of being used or expiring.

When you close your account we remove your name, your picture and your sign-in details, and set your chips to zero. Matches you played stay in the record without your name, because they belong to the other players in them as much as to you.

8. Your choices

You can change your name and picture at any time, remove an uploaded picture and go back to a generated face, and close your account — all from the profile screen. If you no longer have the app, see deleting your account.

For anything else, including a copy of what we hold about you, write to support@spaten.online.

9. Security

Sign-in codes are stored hashed, never as text, and are compared in a way that does not leak them. Sessions expire. Your device key is kept in your phone's secure storage rather than in the game's own files.

No system is perfectly secure, and we do not claim otherwise.

10. Children

Spaten is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has given us data, write to us and we will remove it.

11. Changes

We may update this policy. The current version is always on this page and in the app.