Privacy Policy

Emoji Bee is built by one independent developer, and the privacy posture is deliberately boring:

• You can play every day without ever giving us an email address.
• No ads in the game, and no trackers in the iOS or Android apps. We never sell your data.
• We advertise Emoji Bee on Reddit, and on emojibee.com we use Reddit’s ad pixel to learn whether those ads bring in players. You can turn that off (see Advertising measurement), and we honor your browser’s Global Privacy Control signal.
• We collect what running a daily word game needs — your results, your streak, your score — and not much else.
• Payment details for Emoji Bee+ are handled by the payment platform (Apple on the App Store, Stripe on emojibee.com); we never see your full payment information.

An anonymous device account. The first time you play, we create an account identified by a random ID — no email, no name required. Everything below hangs off that account (or off your signed-in account once you link one).

Sign-in identity (only if you sign in). If you choose to sign in with Apple, Google, or an email magic link, we store the email address and/or the Apple or Google account identifier, and your device history is merged into that account.

Profile. A display name, initials, an avatar color, and — if you signed in with a provider that supplies one and you keep it — a profile photo from that provider.

Comments (only if you post). The text of any comment you post in a day’s conversation, when you posted it, and any reports or blocks you make. Your comment is shown, with your display name and avatar, to other players who have finished that day. Comments need a signed-in account.

Gameplay records. Your puzzle results, EQ ledger (how your score was earned), streaks, and hint usage. This is the game — without it there’s no score to keep.

First-party product analytics. Usage events (like app opens and feature usage) recorded in our own database, tied to your account. This is an in-house events table, not a third-party analytics service — no outside SDK ever sees it.

How you found us. When you first arrive, we note where from: the campaign tags on the link you followed (like utm_source=reddit), the website that sent you, and whether you opened us inside another app’s browser (Reddit, Instagram and so on). We keep the first one on your account, so we can tell which ways of finding Emoji Bee lead to people who stay.

Ad measurement (website only). On emojibee.com, the Reddit Pixel and Reddit’s Conversions API report visits and two milestones — starting your first puzzle and finishing your first day — to Reddit. See Advertising measurement for exactly what that involves and how to turn it off.

Purchase status. Whether your account holds a one-time Emoji Bee+ membership (either tier) — provided to us by the payment platform. We never receive your full card, bank, or Apple ID payment details. If you joined the Original Colony, we also store that membership; the OC badge is visible beside your name on leaderboards and friend surfaces (and nothing else about your purchase is).

Mailing address (Original Colony sticker only, and only if you want it). The sticker is a free gift mailed to Original Colony members. We collect the address by email, outside the app, use it only to mail the sticker, and don’t keep it afterwards.

• Running the game: recording solves, computing your EQ and streaks (the server keeps the authoritative score), and syncing your progress across devices when you sign in.
• Keeping the game fair: results are verified server-side.
• Improving the product: our first-party analytics tell us which features get used and where players get stuck.
• Measuring our advertising: learning whether the ads we run on Reddit bring in people who actually play, so we don’t pay for ones that don’t.
• Managing Emoji Bee+ memberships: knowing which accounts have access to member features, showing the Original Colony badge, and mailing the OC sticker to members who want it.
• Moderating comments: each comment is checked automatically before other players see it, and by a person when the automatic check is unsure or players report it.
• Answering you when you email support.

We’re a small operation running on well-known infrastructure. These providers process data on our behalf:

• Supabase — authentication and our database (accounts, gameplay records, analytics events).
• Vercel — hosting for emojibee.com.
• Resend — delivers our sign-in and account emails (like magic links) when you use email sign-in.
• Payment platforms — Apple for App Store purchases of Emoji Bee+, and Stripe for purchases on emojibee.com (both with RevenueCat, a purchase-management service, validating receipts and managing purchase state). They handle billing; we receive purchase status, not payment details.
• Anthropic — reviews the text of each comment you post, to decide whether it can be shown. Only the comment’s text is sent, not your name or account, and Anthropic does not use it to train its models.
• Reddit — ad measurement on emojibee.com only (the Reddit Pixel and Conversions API; see Advertising measurement). Reddit handles what it receives under its own privacy policy.

Beyond these, we don’t share your data with anyone, and we never sell or rent it.

Reminders in the iOS and Android apps are local notifications, scheduled entirely on your device. There is no push-notification server: nothing about your notification schedule leaves your phone, and turning them off is purely a device-side setting.

We run ads for Emoji Bee on Reddit. To know whether they work, emojibee.com loads the Reddit Pixel, a small script from Reddit, and our server uses Reddit’s Conversions API. Here is what that means:

• The pixel sets a Reddit cookie in your browser and tells Reddit when you visit a page, start your first puzzle, and finish your first day. Like any request to a website, Reddit also receives your IP address and browser details.
• If you arrived by tapping one of our Reddit ads, the link carries a click identifier from Reddit. We keep it on your account and, for up to 28 days after the click, our server tells Reddit when that visit led to your first puzzle or your first finished day, so Reddit can credit the right ad.
• We never send Reddit your name, email address, results or anything else about your play.
• The iOS and Android apps never do any of this. They contain no pixel and no ad SDK, and activity in the apps is never reported to Reddit.

Some US state privacy laws call this kind of measurement “sharing” personal information for advertising. You can opt out of it at any time, here, and it stays off in this browser. Opting out also removes any Reddit click identifier from your account. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat that as an opt-out automatically.

• No ads inside the game, and no advertising identifiers (IDFA / AAID) in the apps.
• No third-party analytics or tracking SDKs in the iOS or Android apps.
• No tracking across other sites or apps, apart from the Reddit ad measurement on emojibee.com described in section 6, which you can turn off.
• No selling, renting, or trading your personal data — to anyone, ever.

We keep your account and gameplay data for as long as your account exists — a streak only means something if we remember it. If your account is deleted (see below), the personal data tied to it is deleted with it, except where we’re legally required to keep something (e.g., records of purchases).

Account deletion: you can delete your account and all of its data yourself, in the app: go to You → Manage account → Delete account. Deletion is immediate and permanent — your profile, EQ, streak, play history, friendships, and comments are erased. If you’d rather we do it, email support@emojibee.com from the address on your account. The same address works for access or correction requests.

• You can play anonymously forever — signing in is optional.
• You can sign out at any time; the device keeps playing anonymously.
• You can turn off ad measurement on emojibee.com at any time — see section 6.
• Emoji Bee+ (either tier) is a one-time purchase — there’s no subscription to cancel; refunds are handled where you bought it (see the Terms of Use).

Depending on where you live, you may have additional legal rights over your data (access, portability, erasure, objection). Email us and we’ll honor them.

Emoji Bee is a general-audience game and is not directed at children under 13. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if you believe a child has provided us personal information, email support@emojibee.com and we’ll delete it.

If what we collect or how we use it changes — say, a new feature adds a new data flow — we’ll update this page and the “Last updated” date above, and we’ll flag material changes in the app or on the site.

Emoji Bee is operated by Michael Pugh, an independent developer. For anything privacy-related, email support@emojibee.com.