Privacy Policy

Last updated November 14, 2026

The short version: High Score collects what it needs to run your account, your rankings and the social features. Your notes and email stay private. We don't sell your personal information. You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app at any time.

This policy explains what information the High Score app ("High Score", "we", "us") collects, how it is used and shared, and the choices you have. It applies to the High Score apps for iPhone and Android and to gethighscore.app.

What we collect

Information you give us

Account details: your email address and password (stored scrambled, so nobody can read it), your username, and an optional profile photo.
Your rankings: the games you rank, their scores and order, the console you played them on, your Want to Play list, the dates you ranked games, and any notes you write.
Social activity: the people you follow, your likes and comments, posts that are created when you rank a game, and any reports or blocks you make.
Messages to us: anything you send to support@gethighscore.app.

Information collected automatically

Ads: if you use the free version, Google AdMob shows ads and may collect device information such as your advertising ID, IP address and how you interact with ads. On iPhone, the advertising ID is only used if you allow tracking when asked. Where the law requires it (for example in the EU and UK), you're asked for consent first. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services.
Basic technical data: our servers receive standard information such as IP address, device type and app version when the app connects, which is used to keep the service running and secure.

We don't collect your precise location, contacts, or anything from your photo library other than a photo you choose as your profile picture.

What other people can see

Visible to other High Score members: your username, profile photo, ranked games and their scores, the consoles you played them on, your Want to Play list, who you follow, your posts, likes and comments.
Never shown to others: your email address, your password, your notes, and the people you've blocked or reported.

How we use information

To run your account and save and sync your rankings across devices.
To power the social features: friends, the feed, likes, comments and activity alerts.
To show game box art and search results.
To keep High Score safe: filtering offensive words, handling reports, enforcing blocks and preventing spam.
To show ads in the free version and to provide High Score Pro if you subscribe.
To answer your messages and fix problems.

Who we share it with

We don't sell your personal information. We share it only with the services that run High Score, each of which handles it on our behalf or under its own privacy policy:

Supabase stores accounts and app data (servers in the United States).
Expo runs the server that looks up games and box art. Game titles you search for are sent to IGDB (Twitch) to find matches; your identity is not included.
Google AdMob shows ads in the free version.
Apple, Google and RevenueCat process High Score Pro subscriptions. We receive whether you have an active subscription, but never your card or payment details.
Email providers deliver account emails such as password resets.

We may also share information if required by law, or to protect the safety of our users or the public.

How long we keep it

We keep your information for as long as you have an account. We keep up to 30 earlier versions of your list so a mistake can be undone. When you delete your account, your account, rankings, notes, history, posts, likes, comments, follows, reports and profile photo are deleted. Copies in routine backups are erased as those backups expire.

Your choices and rights

Delete your account in the app: Profile → Delete account. You can also ask us to delete it.
Edit your profile, username, photo, rankings and notes any time in the app.
Ads: you can say no to tracking on iPhone, reset or delete your advertising ID on Android, change your consent choices where offered, or remove ads entirely with High Score Pro.
Access or questions: email support@gethighscore.app to ask for a copy of your information or to correct it. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws such as the GDPR or California's CCPA, and we'll honor them.

Children

High Score isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, email support@gethighscore.app and we'll delete it.

Security

Data is sent over encrypted connections, and database rules make sure people can only change their own information. No service is perfectly secure, so please use a password you don't use elsewhere.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. For significant changes, we'll let you know in the app.

Contact

Questions or requests: support@gethighscore.app