HYPHEN LITE

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 10 November 2026.

This policy covers Hyphen Lite on Android and iOS. The paid Hyphen game has a separate policy.

Who is responsible

Farspace Studios operates Hyphen. Privacy enquiries: contact@farspacestudios.com.

Local progress and gaming sign-in

We save progress, preferences, free-triangle allowances and recovery records on your device. Gaming services such as Google Play Games or Apple Game Center process player identifiers and achievement progress when you use their features.

Purchasing triangles requires supported gaming sign-in. Authentication proofs and tokens allow the game and server to verify requests. We do not receive your Google or Apple password. Google and Apple gaming identities are not automatically linked across platforms.

Triangle purchases

Google Play or Apple processes payment; we do not receive your payment-card details. We send the store product and purchase token or transaction identifier to our server, which verifies the purchase with the store and checks that it belongs to the signed-in player.

Our server, keeps account-linked purchased balances, purchase claims, credit and spend operations, timestamps and retry identifiers. This allows us to deliver purchases, prevent duplicate credit and recover interrupted transactions. Some records must survive an app reinstall or a spent balance to prevent a consumed purchase being credited again. Purchase-recovery records are also saved locally until fulfilment succeeds.

Advertising

Hyphen Lite uses Google AdMob for banner, interstitial and optional rewarded advertising. Google and its advertising partners may process IP addresses, device and advertising identifiers, app and ad interactions, and diagnostic information to deliver and measure ads and prevent fraud. IP addresses can indicate approximate location. Personalisation depends on your choices, device permissions and applicable rules. Non-personalised ads may still require data for delivery and measurement.

Google's consent interface explains the available choices and applicable partners. You can revisit these through the game's privacy controls. On iOS, tracking permission is controlled separately in system settings; declining tracking permission does not require you to grant it to play. Android also provides advertising-ID controls. The game does not request access to your contacts, microphone, camera or GPS location for advertising.

Reward completion and ad events may be recorded to grant triangles, diagnose delivery problems and understand how the game is used. See Google's privacy policy and Google's advertising information.

Service providers

Google provides AdMob and Google Play services; Apple provides App Store and Game Center services; These providers also process information under their applicable terms and privacy policies. See Firebase privacy information, Apple's privacy information and Microsoft's privacy statement.

Gameplay information and diagnostics

Builds with gameplay analytics enabled send us a randomly generated installation identifier, session identifiers, game version, platform, timestamps, level and attempt identifiers, gameplay events, performance measurements and error categories. We use this information to understand difficulty, find faults and improve reliability.

Community levels

Downloading community content sends requests to our services and the relevant content providers. Levels shared through Steam Workshop, and their creator names, descriptions and other public details, are handled under Steam's rules and privacy policy. Content you publish is intended to be visible to other players. Please do not include private information in a public level.

Support

If you contact us, we process your email address, message and any information or files you choose to send so that we can respond and investigate your issue. Please do not send passwords or full payment-card details.

Why we use information

We use diagnostic information for our legitimate interests in operating and improving the game. Where consent is required, we ask for it; you can withdraw consent without affecting processing that already took place. We may also retain or disclose information when required by law.

Storage, sharing and retention

We retain information for the purpose for which it was collected, including running requested services, investigating faults, resolving disputes and meeting legal obligations. The specific retention periods and deletion procedures for gameplay events, service logs and support records must be confirmed before publication. Local saves remain on your device until removed by you or your device's app-data controls.

Changes and contact

We will update this policy when the game or its data practices change. The revised date will appear at the top. Contact us at contact@farspacestudios.com.