Color Hunt Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 20, 2026

Color Hunt ("we", "our", "us") is a photo and color game that assigns you a color, helps you find it in the world with your camera, and turns what you find into a collage.

This Privacy Policy explains what data Color Hunt collects, how it is used, and your rights regarding that data.

1) Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to the Color Hunt mobile application on iOS and Android, published by Adem Beno / Beno Studio.

2) The Short Version

The photos you take while hunting never leave your phone. Only a finished collage is uploaded, and only when you choose to back it up, submit it to a group event, or share it. We do not sell your data to anyone.

Color Hunt is free, and advertising is what pays for it. The free tier shows a small number of ads, supplied by Google AdMob; a Color Hunt Plus subscription removes them entirely.

Right after you sign in, Color Hunt asks — using Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt — whether it may track your activity across other companies' apps and websites. If you allow it, Google may use your device's advertising identifier to choose and measure the ads you see. If you don't, you still see the same ads, but they are not chosen using that activity. Either way, every feature works the same, and you can change your answer at any time. Section 7a explains both choices.

3) What Stays On Your Device

The following data is stored only on your device and is never sent to our servers:

• Raw hunt photos: every photo you capture or import while hunting, stored in the app's private storage.
• Hunt drafts: in-progress collages, their layout, the photos in each cell, and how you have framed them, stored in a local database.
• Color-match results: the match and coverage values calculated for each photo. All color analysis runs on your device; no image is sent anywhere to be analysed.
• Feed history: which shared collages you have already seen, so the Inspire feed does not repeat itself.
• App settings and cached images.

If you take a photo in the app it may also be saved to your device's photo library, which is your own storage, not ours.

4) Data We Collect

To provide the shared and social parts of Color Hunt, we collect the following categories of data:

• Account data: your name, email address, and user identifier provided by your sign-in provider (Apple or Google) when you create an account.
• Profile data: the display name you choose, a generated avatar color, and the hunt preferences you pick during onboarding.
• Collage images: the finished collage images you choose to back up, submit to a group event, or share to the Inspire feed. These are rendered images, not your original photos.
• Group and event data: the groups you belong to, invite codes, events you join, the color drawn for you in an event, and submission timestamps.
• Reactions and saves: the ♥ and ✦ reactions you give, and the collages you save from the Inspire feed.
• Subscription status: whether Color Hunt Plus is active on your account, and when the current period ends. Payment details are handled entirely by Apple or Google; we never see your card or billing information.
• Diagnostics: crash reports and technical error data, used to fix problems.
• Usage data: which screens and features are used, recorded by Firebase Analytics against a random app-instance identifier rather than your name or email address.
• Advertising data (free tier only): when an ad is requested, Google receives the technical data described in section 7a — and, only if you allow tracking, your device's advertising identifier.

5) How We Use Your Data

We use the data we collect only to:

• authenticate your account and keep it secure,
• sync your profile, backed-up collages and subscription status across devices signed in to the same account,
• run groups and events — assigning colors, tracking who has joined, and revealing collages when an event closes,
• show the Inspire feed and your saved collages,
• respond to support requests and questions you send us,
• maintain and improve the reliability of the service.

We do not sell your data, and we do not build advertising profiles about you ourselves. Your account, your collages and your groups are used to run Color Hunt and nothing else; they are never handed to an advertiser. The separate, limited data that advertising itself involves — and what changes if you allow tracking — is described in section 7a.

6) Who Can See What

Visibility is always driven by a choice you make:

• Private by default. A collage you back up is visible only to you.
• Group events. A collage you submit to an event becomes visible to the members of that group when the event is revealed — not before, and not to anyone outside the group. Groups are private and joined only by invite code.
• Inspire. A collage you share to Inspire becomes visible to all signed-in Color Hunt users, together with the color you were hunting. You can turn sharing off at any time; doing so removes it from the feed and from every other user's saved list.
• Website and social media. Only if you separately enable the "feature my collages" setting do we display collages you have shared to Inspire on Color Hunt's website or social accounts. Attribution is by first name or omitted entirely, at your choice, and we never publish your email address or account identifier. Turning the setting off removes them.
• Your profile. Other members of a group you join can see your display name, avatar color, and whether you have Plus. They cannot see your email address.

7) Third-Party Services

Color Hunt uses the following third-party services:

• Firebase (Google): Authentication (sign-in with Apple or Google), Firestore (profiles, groups, events, reactions), Cloud Storage (collage images), Cloud Functions (server-side logic such as event reveals and account deletion), Remote Config (palette, weekly-color and feature delivery), Cloud Messaging (push notifications), Analytics (usage counts such as which screens are opened — shared with Google's advertising services only if you allow tracking, see section 7a), and Crashlytics (crash reporting). For Firebase's privacy practices, see firebase.google.com/support/privacy.
• Google AdMob: the advertising that funds the free tier, together with Google's User Messaging Platform, through which the app checks Google's advertising-consent requirements for your region.
• Apple: Sign in with Apple, and the App Store / StoreKit for subscription purchases and validation.
• Google Sign-In: used when you choose to sign in with a Google account.

We use no third-party analytics brokers, and we never sell your data or pass it to data brokers. Your data is used to track you across other companies' apps and websites only if you allow it in Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, and then only for advertising through Google AdMob and Firebase, as described in section 7a.

7a) Advertising

Color Hunt is free to use and is funded by advertising. Ads appear in a small number of places — the Inspire feed, while a group is being created, on the new-hunt screen, and once while a group reveal loads. There are no ads while you are hunting, editing a collage, or looking at a reveal itself.

Color Hunt Plus removes every ad in the app. Subscribers are never sent an ad request at all.

Ads are served by Google AdMob. When an ad is requested, Google receives technical data needed to deliver and measure it, which may include your device type and operating system, your IP address (from which an approximate, city-level location is derived), the app you are using, and your interaction with the ad. Google uses this for frequency capping, fraud prevention, measurement and — where you have consented — for selecting ads. What Google does with it is governed by Google's Privacy Policy and its partner-sites notice.

Tracking and your choice. Right after you sign in, before any ad is requested, Color Hunt shows a short page explaining how ads work in the app, followed by Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt. Everyone is asked once, on iPhone and iPad, in every country.

• If you choose Allow, Google may use your device's advertising identifier (IDFA) and your activity in other companies' apps and websites to choose the ads you see and to measure them, and Firebase Analytics may share usage events with Google's advertising services for the same purpose.
• If you choose Ask App Not to Track, the advertising identifier is not shared, Analytics data is not used for advertising, and ads are not chosen using your activity in other apps and websites.

Neither answer removes the ads or changes any feature; only how ads are chosen changes. Color Hunt Plus subscribers are asked too, because the question comes straight after sign-in; they never receive an ad, so for them the answer only affects whether Analytics data may be used for advertising. You can change your answer at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking, or from the app at Profile → Settings → Ad tracking. If "Allow Apps to Request to Track" is switched off on your device, iOS answers "Ask App Not to Track" for you and the prompt is not shown.

We never pass your email address, display name, photos or collages to an advertiser, and advertising is never used as a reason to collect anything listed in section 3 as staying on your device.

8) Device Permissions

Color Hunt asks for the following device permissions, each used for exactly one purpose:

• Camera: to show the viewfinder and its live color-match meter, and to capture hunt photos. The camera is active only while a hunt screen is open. Frames are analysed on-device and are never transmitted or recorded.
• Photo library (read): only when you choose to add an existing photo to a collage. We receive only the photo you pick.
• Photo library (add): to save photos you capture, and collages you export, to your own camera roll.
• Location (approximate): only when you tap "Use my location" while making a hunt story, to fill in a "district, city" caption. Your device turns the approximate position into a place name using Apple's location services; the position itself is not sent to us, and the caption becomes part of the story like any text you type.
• Tracking: Apple's App Tracking Transparency permission, described in section 7a.

You can revoke any of these permissions in your device settings at any time.

9) Where Your Data Is Stored

Account data, group and event data are stored in Google Cloud Firestore in the europe-west (eur3) multi-region, and our server-side functions run in europe-west1. Collage images are stored in Google Cloud Storage within the same project. Google may process data in other locations as part of operating its infrastructure; see Firebase's privacy documentation above.

10) Data Retention

We retain your data for as long as your account is active.

When you delete your account from within the app, your profile, your uploaded collage images, your group memberships and your reactions are permanently deleted from our servers. This action cannot be undone. Content stored only on your device is removed when you delete the app.

11) Children

Color Hunt is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. Where local law sets a higher minimum age for consenting to online services, that age applies instead. If you believe a child has provided personal data to us, contact us and we will delete the account and its data.

12) Sharing and Community Content

Group hunts are private, invite-only spaces — only people you share your invite code with can join. The Inspire feed is the one place your content becomes visible to the wider Color Hunt community, and it is entirely opt-in: nothing is shared unless you choose to share it, and you can revoke sharing for any collage at any time, which removes it everywhere, including from other users' saved lists.

If you come across content you believe violates our Terms of Use, contact us at the email below and we will look into it.

13) Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards, including encryption in transit (HTTPS/TLS), authenticated access to all stored images, and server-side access rules that prevent one user from reading another user's private data. No system can guarantee absolute security.

14) Your Rights

You can exercise the following rights at any time:

• Delete your account and all data: open Color Hunt → Profile → Delete Account. This permanently removes your data from our servers.
• Stop sharing: turn off "Share to Inspire" on any collage, and the "feature my collages" setting, at any time.
• Stop tracking: switch off tracking for Color Hunt in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking, or from Profile → Settings → Ad tracking.
• Access, correction, portability, or objection requests: contact us at the email below.

Depending on your jurisdiction, additional rights (such as under the GDPR or CCPA) may apply. Contact us to exercise them. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

15) Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will update the effective date above. Where required by law, we will provide additional notice of material changes.

16) Contact

Data controller / publisher: Adem Beno / Beno Studio
Email: [email protected]