Robospiders: privacy
Last updated: 29 October 2026
In short
Robospiders has no accounts and does not ask who you are. With your permission it sends play statistics (with a random number, never your name) to our own server. It shows ads from Google AdMob, picked to suit you only if you allow it. You can change both at any time in Settings → Privacy choices.
What stays on your device
The game keeps your progress in its own storage on your device: the pictures you finished, stars and best times, coins and boosters in stock, the spiders' charge, the daily-gift calendar, the sound and language settings, your privacy choices and which tips you have already seen. It is not sent to us. If backup is on for your Google account, Android may include it in your device backup, so that your progress comes back when you install the game on a new phone; that backup is kept by Google in your account. Coins are a play currency only: they cannot be bought, sold or exchanged for money. "Reset progress" in the settings erases the album; uninstalling the game or clearing its data in the Android settings erases everything.
Play statistics
To learn which levels are too hard, which boosters help and where players stop, the game can send events such as:
- a level started or finished, how long it took, the stars, and how far a lost round got;
- boosters, rewinds and continues used, coins earned and spent, daily gifts collected, ads shown, tips shown, settings changed;
- the version of the game, the language, the kind of device (iOS, Android or other), the screen size and time zone;
- a random number made on your device the first time you play, so the events of one player can be told apart.
They do not include your name, e-mail, contacts, location, advertising ID or IP address: our statistics log does not store the address, only the country our network provider (Cloudflare) derives from it. Because of the random number the statistics are pseudonymous rather than anonymous. They are kept for at most 25 months, are used only to improve the game and its rewards, and are not sold or shared. Where the law requires it (the EU and EEA, the UK and Switzerland), the game asks first and records nothing until you allow it; the legal basis is then your consent, which you can withdraw in Privacy choices at any time. Elsewhere you can turn the statistics off there, and the random number is erased from your device.
Our website and server
This page and our statistics server are reached through Cloudflare, which handles each request on our behalf and sees its technical details (IP address, time, the address asked for, browser) in order to deliver it and protect it from abuse. Our own server keeps no log of ordinary requests; its error log, used only to keep the service running and safe (our legitimate interest), may note the IP address of a request that failed or was blocked for flooding. Those entries are kept for 14 days, are not combined with the statistics or anything else, and are not shared.
Advertising
Some optional rewards (an extra booster, the spare dock, a continue after a jam, double coins for a win) are given after a short advertisement you choose to watch. From level 10 a short advertisement may also appear between levels, at most once every few minutes. The ads come from Google AdMob. To show and count them and to prevent fraud, Google's ad software in the game collects your device's advertising ID, an approximate location derived from the IP address, how you interact with the ads, and diagnostic information about the app and the device, and sends them to Google. In the EU and EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google's consent form asks you first, and you can open it again from Privacy choices. Ads picked to suit you are shown only if you allow them; otherwise you see ads that are not based on your data, which Google still uses for counting, limiting how often an ad is shown and fraud prevention. Ads are limited to content suitable for teens and older. How Google uses this data: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Age
Robospiders is a puzzle game intended for adults (18 and over). It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has used the game with statistics on, write to us and we will delete what we hold.
Your rights
The statistics cannot be linked to your name, but you may ask what we hold, ask us to delete it or object to it: write to the address below. Turning the statistics off in Privacy choices stops them at once. If you live in the EU or EEA, you may also complain to your data protection authority.
Who is responsible
Robospiders is made by Ivan Karatayev, who is responsible for the data described on this page (the controller). Write to robospiders@heyteacher.org with any question or request about it.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new date.