Splatz Privacy Policy
Effective 16 September 2026
The short version: Splatz runs entirely on your phone. The photos you pick are never uploaded, never sent to a server and never shared with anyone. There are no accounts and no feed. The only things that leave your phone are what you save or share yourself, the signals Google AdMob uses to serve ads in the free version, and a crash report if the app crashes.
Who we are
Splatz is a stress-relief game for Android: pick a photo, or one of the built-in targets, and throw things at it. This policy explains what the app does with your data. If anything here is unclear, write to mohdhtu@gmail.com.
Your photos
When you choose a photo, Splatz reads it from the picker you chose it in and works on it in the app's memory, on your device. It is not uploaded, not sent to a server, and not shared with anyone.
Face detection is on-device. If you choose to put a face on one of our targets, the face is found by Google ML Kit running on your phone. No image is sent anywhere to do this.
A photo is not kept unless you ask. By default the picture is discarded when the session ends. If you tick KEEP ON HOME while framing it, or tap KEEP THIS TARGET at the end of a session, a copy is stored in the app's own private storage on your phone — not your gallery, and not anywhere another app can read it. At most six are kept. You can delete any of them from the home screen, or all of them from Settings, and uninstalling the app removes them.
What you make stays with you. A wrecked photo or a clip only leaves the app when you save it to your gallery or hand it to another app through the share sheet yourself. Free exports carry a small Splatz watermark.
Advertising
The free version shows ads served by Google AdMob. To serve and measure them, the AdMob SDK may collect your device's advertising identifier, device and app information, coarse location derived from your IP address, and information about how ads are viewed. Your photos are never part of this — they never leave the phone at all. How Google uses this data is described in Google's Privacy Policy and in how Google uses information from apps that use its services. You can reset or delete your advertising ID, and opt out of ad personalisation, in your phone's settings under Privacy › Ads.
Buying No Ads removes every ad, and the AdMob SDK is no longer called.
Purchases
The one-time No Ads purchase is handled by Google Play Billing. We never see your payment details; Google handles the transaction and tells the app only that the purchase exists.
Crash reports
If Splatz crashes, Firebase Crashlytics (a Google service) sends a report so the fault can be fixed. A report contains the crash's stack trace, the app version, your device model and operating system version, whether the device is rooted, free memory and disk space at the time, and a random identifier Crashlytics generates for the installation. It never contains a photo, a face, or anything you made — the app does not hand those to it. Reports are kept by Google for 90 days. How Google handles this data is described in Firebase's privacy documentation.
Analytics
Splatz does not send usage analytics off the device. A handful of counters — whether you have made a first throw, finished a first session, come back the next day — are kept in the app's own settings on your phone. They contain no personal information and are removed when the app is uninstalled. If a future version adds an analytics service, this policy will be updated first.
What we do not do
- No accounts, sign-in or registration.
- No feed, no sharing between users, no way for anyone else to see what you wrecked.
- No upload of photos, faces, or anything you make — not to us, not in an ad, not in a crash report.
- No selling of personal data.
- No access to your contacts, location, microphone or camera.
Permissions the app asks for
- Photos — through the system photo picker, one photo at a time, only when you tap Pick a photo. Saving a wrecked photo or clip writes to your gallery through the system's media APIs.
- Vibration — for the impact feedback, which you can switch off in the app.
- Internet — used only by the ads SDK, Google Play Billing, and crash reporting.
Children
Splatz is not directed at children under 13 and is rated for teens. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, contact us and we will delete it.
Your rights and choices
Because nothing personal is held by us, there is nothing on our side to access, correct or delete: every photo the app keeps is on your phone, under your control, deletable in the app or by uninstalling. For data the AdMob SDK handles, the controls are in your phone's ad settings and in Google's privacy tools. Crash reports are tied to a random installation identifier, not to you; if you want one deleted, email us the approximate time of the crash and your device model and we will ask Google to remove it. If you have a request or a question about your data, email us and we will answer.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new effective date. Changes that affect what the app does with your photos will also be reflected in the privacy text inside the app's Settings.