Last updated: 10/6/26
Account Information: When you create an account, we collect your email address, username, and optional display name and profile photo.
User Content: Photos you send as puzzles, and the message with each, are uploaded to our servers and shown to the people you send them to. A puzzle you share as a link can be opened by anyone who has the link, and one you make public appears in the app’s Feed for every user. Puzzle images are kept while your account exists and are deleted with it.
Usage Data: We collect puzzle solve times, puzzle send/receive counts, and general app usage analytics to improve the app experience.
Device Information: We collect device tokens for push notifications and crash reports for debugging.
Farcaster mini app: when you post a Phuzzle from phuzzles.app/mini inside Farcaster or the Base app, Farcaster’s sign-in gives us your Farcaster ID, and we look up your public Farcaster username. Both are stored with the puzzle, along with the photo and the note you chose, and the puzzle shows your username as its sender. A posted puzzle is public: anyone with its link can solve it and see the photo and the note. The photo is cut to a square and saved again, so none of your camera’s data comes with it, location included. To limit abuse we also keep, for each Farcaster ID, its username, how many puzzles it has posted, when it last posted and the times of the last day’s posts. Solving a puzzle in the mini app does not ask for your Farcaster sign-in.
We use the following third-party services:
Website analytics: this website (phuzzles.app) uses Google Analytics to count visits: which pages are viewed, the site that sent you, and your approximate location, device and browser. It is not used for advertising and is not linked to your Phuzzles account. Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland get a cookieless mode that sets no cookies. You can opt out with Google’s browser add-on.
Puzzles in a browser: when you open a puzzle on phuzzles.app, the page signs your browser in to Firebase anonymously, with no name, email or account, because only a signed-in visitor can read a puzzle. When you solve a puzzle that was shared as a link, the page tells our server, which counts the solve on that puzzle and sends its sender a notification that someone with the link solved it, and how long it took. It does not say who you are.
Deleting your account removes your profile and photo, the puzzles you sent and their photos, your comments and solves, your friends, blocks, requests and group memberships, and your phone’s notification token. Two things stay: puzzles other people sent you remain in their Sent list, with your name shown as “Deleted User”, and reports you filed are kept for review. The full list is at phuzzles.app/delete-account.
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Phuzzles is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
We use Firebase security rules and encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS) to protect your data. However, no method of electronic transmission is 100% secure.
We may update this policy from time to time. We will notify you of significant changes through the app.
If you have questions about this privacy policy, contact us at: support@phuzzles.app