Privacy Policy
Last Updated: May 15, 2026 · Version 1.2
1. Overview
Play Spotter ("we", "our", or "the app") is a community-driven mobile application designed for adult parents and caregivers to discover family-friendly places and activities.
This app is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 13, we will delete it promptly.
By using the app, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
2. Information We Collect
A. Information You Provide
- Name, if provided
- Email address
- Account information
- Submitted content, such as reviews, photos, listing edits, reports, and place suggestions
- Advertiser or business information, if applicable
- Messages or requests you send to us
B. Location Data
With your permission, we may collect approximate or precise location, ZIP code, city, or manually entered location data. Location data is used to show nearby places, personalize search results, support map features, and serve geographically relevant local advertisements.
We do not track location in the background unnecessarily, sell precise location data, or use location for unrelated purposes. You can disable location access at any time in your device settings.
C. Automatically Collected Data
We may collect certain information automatically, such as:
- Device type and operating system version
- App interactions, such as screens viewed, taps, searches, saved places, and feature usage
- Session data and basic analytics
- Crash logs, diagnostics, and performance data
- Ad impressions, ad requests, ad clicks, and related ad performance events
- IP address and approximate region, where collected by service providers
D. Advertising-Related Information
If ads are enabled, third-party advertising services, including Google AdMob, may collect, receive, use, or share certain device and ad-related information. This may include device identifiers, advertising identifiers, IP address, approximate location, app interactions with ads, diagnostic information, crash or performance data, and other information used to serve, measure, limit, personalize or non-personalize, and improve advertising.
3. How We Use Information
We may use information to:
- Provide, operate, maintain, and improve the app
- Show local search results, maps, saved places, and nearby recommendations
- Display local sponsored ads when available
- Display third-party fallback ads when no local ad is available
- Measure ad performance and prevent ad fraud
- Monitor usage, performance, reliability, and security
- Review, moderate, validate, or rank submitted content
- Detect fraud, abuse, safety issues, or policy violations
- Process advertiser submissions and payments
- Comply with legal, platform, tax, payment, and safety obligations
4. Data Sharing
We do not sell personal data.
We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate the app, such as payment processors, analytics providers, infrastructure providers, cloud storage providers, database providers, authentication providers, mapping/place data providers, moderation tools, and advertising partners.
Service providers may include Stripe, Google Cloud, Firebase, Google Maps Platform, Google AdMob, MongoDB Atlas, and similar providers used to operate, secure, analyze, advertise, or improve the app.
Third-party services may process information according to their own privacy policies and terms. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security practices, or policies of third-party services.
5. Advertising and Google AdMob
Some content is labeled as "Sponsored." Sponsored content may include paid advertising from local businesses. We do not endorse or guarantee advertised businesses, products, services, offers, or claims.
We may also display third-party fallback advertisements using Google AdMob when no approved local advertisement is available for a placement, region, or screen.
When ads are shown, Google and its advertising partners may collect, receive, use, or share certain information from your device to provide, measure, improve, personalize, or non-personalize advertising, depending on your device settings, consent choices, location, applicable law, and Google policies.
We do not provide local advertisers with individual user profiles, saved places, uploaded photos, search history, precise personal location data, or personal information for ad targeting.
Google explains how it uses information from sites and apps that use its services here:
How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services
You can manage personalized ad settings here:
6. Crowdsourced Content
Play Spotter is a community-driven platform. Content may be submitted by users or third parties. We do not guarantee accuracy, completeness, reliability, safety, availability, accessibility, or suitability. Users are responsible for verifying information before visiting or relying on a listed place, activity, or business.
7. Children's Privacy
This app is intended for adults, including parents and caregivers. The app is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If we discover that we have collected personal data from a child under 13, we will delete it promptly.
Advertising is not intended to be directed to children, and the app does not provide child accounts.
8. Data Retention
We retain data only as long as necessary to operate the app, provide services, comply with legal obligations, maintain business records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent abuse, and improve app safety and reliability.
Some submitted content may remain available in the app unless removed by us, deleted through app functionality, or required to be removed by law or policy.
9. Security
We implement reasonable safeguards to protect data. However, no system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, data loss, misuse, or service interruptions will never occur.
10. Your Choices
You may be able to:
- Disable location permissions in your device settings
- Limit or reset your device advertising identifier in your device settings
- Manage personalized ads through Google Ad Settings
- Delete your account and associated account data from the app: Delete your account
- Opt out of non-essential communications
- Contact us with privacy questions or deletion requests
If personalized ads are disabled, you may still see ads, but they may be less relevant or based on general factors such as approximate location, app context, or the content being viewed.
11. Consent for Certain Regions
For users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we may request consent before using cookies, local storage, advertising identifiers, or personal data for personalized advertising where required by law or Google policy. Users may be able to manage their choices through a consent prompt or device settings.
12. Tracking
We do not sell user data or provide local advertisers with personal profiles.
If third-party advertising is enabled, Google AdMob and its advertising partners may collect and process ad-related information through their SDKs and services. Depending on your device settings, consent choices, and applicable law, this may include information used for personalized or non-personalized advertising, ad measurement, frequency capping, fraud prevention, security, and reporting.
13. Google Play Data Safety
Because the app may use Google AdMob and other Google services, some data may be collected or shared for advertising, analytics, app functionality, fraud prevention, security, diagnostics, and performance. The app's Google Play Data Safety disclosures should be reviewed and kept consistent with this Privacy Policy and the SDKs used in the app.
14. Limitation of Liability & Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Play Spotter and Lucht Applications LLC are not liable for privacy violations, data corruption, unauthorized access, service interruptions, hardware or software failures, third-party service issues, or other legal causes of action reasonably anticipated by Play Spotter or the user of these services.
The user agrees to indemnify and hold Play Spotter, Lucht Applications LLC, and their officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents harmless from any and all claims, damages, liabilities, losses, expenses, and costs, including reasonable legal and accounting fees, related to: (a) your access to or use of our services or third-party services; (b) your violation of this Privacy Policy or our Terms; or (c) your negligence or willful misconduct.
Our total liability to you for any claim arising from use of Play Spotter shall not exceed the amount you paid for your current subscription period at the time of dispute or claim, or $100 USD, whichever is greater, unless applicable law requires otherwise.
Any action, regardless of form, arising out of or relating to a dispute must be brought within one (1) year after the cause of action has accrued.
15. Governing Law
This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Nebraska, USA. Any legal proceedings shall be filed in Douglas County, Nebraska, unless applicable law requires otherwise.
16. Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Continued use of the app after updates means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.