At ShortsCoin, developed by Sandeep K Apps, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy outlines what information we collect when you use our mobile application and our services, how we use it, and your rights concerning your personal data.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
ShortsCoin is a micro-earning reward and gaming application built to provide a fun, engaging environment where users can play mini-games, complete daily challenges, take quizzes, and earn virtual coins that can be redeemed.
This Privacy Policy applies to the ShortsCoin mobile app and website. By using our application, you consent to the data collection and usage practices described in this policy. If you do not agree with any terms in this Privacy Policy, please discontinue use of our application immediately.
2. Information We Collect
To provide a seamless, secure, and rewarding user experience, we collect specific information when you use our app. We only collect details essential for running and securing our platform features.
Identity & Account Info
We collect your **Name**, **Email Address**, **Firebase UID**, and **Profile Photo** (if available/provided through Google Sign-In) to establish your secure user account.
App Rewards & Progress
We maintain records of your **Coin Balance**, **Check-in Progress**, **Referral Code**, **Game Progress** (e.g., Tower Game), **GK Quiz Progress**, and **Reward History** to handle redemptions accurately.
Technical & Diagnostics
To prevent fraud and maintain stability, we collect **Device Information**, **Android Version**, and **Crash Logs** in real-time during app usage.
Our Data Principles
We do NOT host, upload, or collect any personal media content. ShortsCoin does NOT collect, watch, share, or store short videos, reels, comments, user-to-user messages, captions, or hashtags. We are solely focused on providing game-based micro-rewards and progress tracking.
3. How We Use Information
The collected information is utilized solely to provide, personalize, protect, and optimize the micro-earning experience. Specifically, we use your data for:
- Login & Authentication: Verifying your identity and securing access to your account via Firebase.
- Saving Progress & Balances: Ensuring your current Coin Balance, Daily Check-in Progress, Tower Game state, and General Knowledge (GK) Quiz results are stored safely.
- Referral System Management: Crediting correct reward balances to referees and referrers using referral codes.
- Competitive Leaderboards: Publicly displaying top performing user names and scores on our official Leaderboard.
- Reward Redemption Processing: Processing request histories and validating authentic claim details to complete redemptions.
- Fraud Prevention & Integrity: Monitoring activity to block automated bots, clickers, or multiple account exploits, ensuring high-standard game fairness.
- Diagnostics & Support: Resolving application issues, analyzing crash logs, and providing dedicated customer support.
4. Third-Party Services
To support monetization, secure logins, and app stability, we partner with reputable third-party service providers. These services may access non-sensitive parameters as outlined in their privacy policies:
Firebase
Used for user account creation, real-time database progress storage, and secure profile management.
Google AdMob
Displays personalized and non-personalized advertisements. Helps keep our mini-games free to play for everyone.
Google Play Services
Provides critical APIs and system-level tools to run the application seamlessly on Android platforms.
Play Integrity API
Helps verify authentic, un-tampered interactions to prevent fraud, emulator abuse, and reverse-engineering.
5. Data Security
We take the security of your data extremely seriously. All sensitive user data is fully encrypted both in transit (via secure HTTPS/TLS channels) and at rest on state-of-the-art cloud database systems provided by Google Firebase.
- We enforce robust security rules on our Firebase database so only you can access your private files and rewards data.
- Sandeep K Apps absolutely NEVER sells, rents, trades, or commercially shares your personal data with any third-party organizations.
- While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
6. User Rights & Data Removal
We believe in complete transparency and give you full control over your personal information. You can exercise the following rights directly from within the app:
Update Profile
Modify your profile photo, name, and basic user details at any time through the in-app User Profile interface.
Disable Notifications
You have the right to disable push notifications entirely using the system settings of your Android device.
Delete Account & Data
To completely erase your existence on our platform, you can trigger the **Delete Account** option in the app Settings, or request account and data removal by sending an email to our support team.
Upon triggering an account deletion, we immediately and permanently purge your Name, Email, Firebase UID, Profile Photo, Coin Balances, Referral records, and Game/Quiz progress from our live servers.
7. Children's Privacy
Strict Age Restriction
ShortsCoin is strictly **NOT** designed or intended for children under 13 years old. We do not knowingly collect or request personal identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register an account or input any information into ShortsCoin. If we discover that a child under 13 has successfully signed up, we will immediately delete their data and terminate their Firebase UID. Parents or guardians who believe we might have any child data are requested to contact us immediately at shorts.coins.contact@gmail.com.
8. Policy Updates
We reserve the right to modify or replace this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes we make will be posted on this page with an updated modification date.
We encourage users to periodically check this legal page to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the ShortsCoin application following any revisions indicates your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
Get In Touch
If you have any questions, security concerns, or requests regarding this policy, please reach out to us: