Privacy policy

Last updated: 10 November 2026

This policy explains what Hot Shooter collects when you use the app and this website, why, and what you can do about it.

Who we are

Hot Shooter is made by [name of the data controller, to be confirmed]. You can reach us at support@hotshooter.app.

What we collect

• Your e-mail address, when you sign in. We send you a sign-in link and use the address to recognise your account.
• Your age confirmation. Hot Shooter is for players 18 and over. We store that you have confirmed you are 18 or older, and when.
• Your game: your chip balance, bets, rolls, winnings and losses in chips, experience, level, achievements and settings such as favourite bets. We need them to run the game and keep it fair.
• Your Mojo and your look: how much Mojo you have earned and spent, the items you own and wear (such as dice, chips, frames, badges, clothes and things to hold), and the rooms you have reached. Your figure, room, frame, badges, chips and dice can be seen by the other players at the table.
• Your figure. Everyone at the table is shown as a drawn figure, not a photo. We store the parts you choose for it: skin colour, build, face, nose, eyes, brows, mouth, beard, hair, top and its colour, glasses, hat and the thing in its hand. Until you choose, you get a standard figure picked from your account, and we store nothing extra for it. The figure is made only from our own drawings; we never ask for or store a photo of you. Other players see your figure's head in your seat at the table, among the players shown on a table in the lobby and on your card when they open it from a table or the lobby, and they see it from the chest up, with what it holds, while you are rolling. Your friends list shows your frame, not your figure.
• Your table name and your card. We give you a name for the table, a first name and a last name drawn from our own lists. You never type it yourself, and no two players have the same name at the same time. You can draw a new name with "New name" under You, at most once every 30 days. We store your name and when it was last changed. Other players can open your card from the table, from the players shown on a table in the lobby, and from their friends list. The card shows your table name, your figure's head in its frame with your badge, your title, your level, the room you are in, the month you joined ("here since"), how many evenings you have played, how many achievements you have, and your records as counts and lengths (such as your longest hand and naturals in a row). It never shows your chip balance, what you have won or lost, your purchases, your e-mail address, your Mojo or whether you have premium. Under You you can hide "here since", your evenings and your records; hidden parts are hidden from everyone. Your name, look, level and room always show.
• Your purchases of chips. Payment is handled by Apple. We receive a receipt of what you bought, not your card details.
• Ads. Hot Shooter shows ads from Google AdMob in two ways: a short ad between rounds at the table (at most one every few rounds and a limited number a day, and none if you have premium), and video ads you choose to watch for free chips. Ads are only shown to players who have confirmed they are 18 or older, and we ask Google only for ads rated suitable for teens and up.
  • What Google receives. To show and measure ads and to prevent ad fraud, Google's ad software in the app sends Google your IP address (from which Google works out your approximate location), identifiers for your phone and for the app on your phone, the iPhone model and iOS version, which ads you were shown, how you interacted with them (for example whether a video was watched to the end or an ad was tapped) and technical information about the app's performance and crashes in the ad software. If you allow tracking (see below), Google also receives Apple's advertising identifier (IDFA). Google uses this data as described in its own policy: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
  • Video ads for chips. When you watch a video ad for chips, the app gives Google a random number that identifies your Hot Shooter account (not your e-mail address or name). When the video has been watched to the end, Google sends that number back to our server with a signed confirmation, so we can give the chips to the right account, once. We store the confirmation with your account. We also store each ad you are shown between rounds, with the day, so we can keep to the daily limit.
  • Personalised or not. Ads can be personalised (chosen from what Google knows about your interests) or not personalised (chosen from the app and your approximate location only). Before the app loads any ad, it asks for your choice where the law requires it, using Google's consent message (in the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, and in the US states that require it). After that, Apple's "Allow tracking" question appears. We only show personalised ads if you allow tracking and, where Google's consent message is shown, also agree to personalised ads there. If you say no, you still get ads, but they are not personalised, and you still get exactly the same free chips.
  • Changing your mind. You can change your ad choices at any time in the app under Settings, Ad privacy choices. You can turn tracking on or off for Hot Shooter in your iPhone's Settings, Privacy & Security, Tracking.
• Your approximate location, worked out from the IP address of your internet connection when you sign in and when you buy chips. We only use it to check that Hot Shooter is allowed where you are, because it is not available in some countries and regions, such as the US state of Washington. We do not use your phone's location (GPS), we do not ask for location permission, and we do not store your location with your account. Like most online services, our hosting provider may keep IP addresses in technical logs for a short time for security and troubleshooting.
• Crashes and errors in the app. When the app crashes, closes unexpectedly or shows you an error, it sends a short error report to our own database. It also sends a short report when a connection to our server is cut off and the app has to try again, even if you did not notice. The report says what went wrong, the screen you were on, the app version and build, that it is an iPhone, a random number the app makes for your phone and, if the app closed unexpectedly, how much memory it was using. If you are signed in, the report is linked to your account. Before sending, the app removes e-mail addresses, passwords and sign-in keys from the text, and the server removes them again. The random number is not Apple's advertising identifier and is not used to track you. These error reports stay in our own database.
• Crash reports through Sentry. If the app crashes inside the phone's own code, freezes, or is closed by iOS (for example because it used too much memory), the app sends a crash report to Sentry, a service that collects crash reports for us. The report holds the technical details of the crash: where in the app's code it happened, the app version and build, the iPhone model and iOS version, memory and storage at the time, and the last steps in the app before the crash, such as which screen was open. It does not include your account, e-mail address, name or chip balance. Sentry receives the report over the internet like any other server, and we have set it not to store the IP address. We only use crash reports to find and fix crashes.
• Visits to this website. We count visits to hotshooter.app with Vercel Web Analytics: which page was visited, which site you came from (for example Instagram), your country, and the type of device and browser. It uses no cookies and does not store your IP address, and we cannot tell who you are from it. We only use it to see how many people visit and where they come from.
• Notifications. All notifications are off until you say yes. If you turn them on, your iPhone gives us a push token, an address Apple creates so we can send a notification to that phone. We store the token with your account, one for each phone you use. We also store the choices you make under You, Notifications: the hours you want to hear from us (such as evenings), which kinds of notification you want, and whether other players may see your name when you are rolling or sit down at a table ("Announce my hands" and "Announce my seat", both off until you turn them on). We store whether you have played at the shared table, because some notifications are only for players who have. We keep a log of the notifications we have sent you, with the date and the kind, so we never send more than we promised. We do not work out when you usually play, and notifications never contain offers. A notification may name another player only if that player has turned on "Announce my hands" or "Announce my seat".
• Support messages: when you write to us through the support form or by e-mail, we store your e-mail address, the topic and your message so we can answer you.

Why we use it

• To give you an account and run the game (our agreement with you).
• To keep Hot Shooter for adults only and to prevent cheating and abuse (our legitimate interest and legal duties).
• To keep Hot Shooter out of countries and regions where games like it are not allowed (our legal duties and legitimate interest).
• To deliver the chips you buy or earn and to answer your support messages.
• To find and fix crashes and errors in the app, so it runs well for you (our legitimate interest).
• To send you the notifications you have turned on, and to keep them within the limits we promise (your consent). You can turn each kind off under You, Notifications, and turn off all notifications for the app in your iPhone's Settings.
• To show ads, which pay for the free chips and the free game, and to give you chips for the video ads you watch (our legitimate interest and our agreement with you). Personalised ads and tracking are only used with your consent, which you can change under Settings, Ad privacy choices.
• To show your table name and your card to the other players at your table, in the lobby and among your friends, because that is part of the game (our agreement with you). You can hide the personal parts of the card under You.

We do not sell your data. Where personalised ads count as selling or sharing personal information under US state privacy laws, you can opt out under Settings, Ad privacy choices, or by not allowing tracking.

Who else handles your data

• Supabase, which hosts our database, sign-in and the app's error reports.
• Vercel, which hosts this website and counts visits to it.
• Sentry, which receives the crash reports described above.
• Apple, for downloads and purchases, and for delivering notifications to your iPhone.
• Google (AdMob), which shows the ads between rounds and the video ads you choose to watch, and asks for your ad choices where the law requires it. Google is a separate controller for the data its ad software collects.

Some of these providers may process data outside your country. Where that happens, they use safeguards such as the EU's standard contractual clauses.

How long we keep it

We keep your account and game data while you have an account. When you delete your account, we delete it and everything in it, including chips, Mojo, items and rooms, within 30 days, except what we must keep by law (for example records of purchases). Support messages are kept for [period, to be confirmed].

Error reports are deleted automatically after 30 days. If you delete your account before then, the error reports linked to it are deleted at the same time as your account.

The log of notifications we have sent you is deleted automatically after 30 days. A phone's push token is deleted when Apple tells us it no longer works, for example because the app was removed from the phone, and with your account. Your notification choices are kept while you have an account.

Our records of the video ads you have watched for chips, and of which days you were shown ads between rounds, are kept with your account and deleted with it. Google keeps the data its ad software collects as described in Google's own policy.

Crash reports in Sentry are not linked to your account and are deleted automatically by Sentry after at most 90 days.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct, export or delete your data, and you can object to how we use it. Write to support@hotshooter.app or use the support form. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

Hot Shooter is not for anyone under 18. If we learn that a player is under 18, we close the account.

Changes

If we change this policy, we update the date at the top and tell you in the app when the change matters to you.