Spell the Tea — Privacy Policy

Spell the Tea is a word game published by Isaiah Santiago, an individual in Colorado, United States, using the Plenteaful name. You can play the regular puzzles without creating an account. Optional Inbox, customer service, profiles, Tea Clubs, club chat and weekly tournaments use Plenteaful's account and game services, hosted by Supabase. Purchases and platform leaderboards use Apple's or Google's services as explained below.

• Your regular puzzle save (cups finished, sugar cubes, pets and settings) is stored on your device, not in a developer-operated cloud backup. Connected features process selected gameplay information as described below; this is not a backup of your complete save. Progress codes are text you copy yourself. They can include game progress, pet nicknames, settings and local purchase-related records; treat a code as a private backup, not a public code.
• The native game includes Google AdMob ads between some completed puzzles and optional reward videos. Ads are not shown while entering a word. The permanent No Ads purchase removes between-puzzle ads and unlocks available calendar puzzles without ads or a daily unlock limit; optional reward videos remain your choice. The web version has no AdMob ads.
• The native game does not ask for an age selection. It applies restricted-data ad treatment for every player and checks Google's consent status before loading ads. This treatment does not disable ads. You can review available privacy choices in Settings.
• Ad requests are configured as non-personalized. This does not mean no data is processed: Google may receive IP address (including approximate location), app/device identifiers, ad impressions and interactions, and diagnostic or performance information for ad delivery, measurement, analytics and fraud prevention. The app does not request Apple's tracking permission or access to contacts, camera, microphone or precise location. Google's consent controls and device privacy settings apply. Data processed by Google is governed by its privacy policy; the developer does not receive your individual ad profile.
• The game does not include a separate developer analytics service. Platform services can process their own service and diagnostic data.
• The App Store and Google Play versions offer optional sugar cube packs, helper bundles, companion and outfit unlocks, and ad removal. The purchase itself is handled entirely by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play) under their own terms and privacy policies. The billing integration processes product, transaction and purchase-status information to deliver your items or permanent unlocks and finish the purchase. The game does not receive your full payment-card details. On your device it keeps your cube balance, purchase total and transaction identifiers and permanent-unlock records to avoid duplicate rewards and restore access. Apple or Google retains its purchase records under its own policy. The game is fully playable without buying anything.
• Platform leaderboards use Game Center on iPhone and iPad or Google Play Games Services on Android. Choosing VIEW in Rankings, or a platform leaderboard/sign-in control, enables the game's platform sign-in and score sharing. The game remembers this choice and can sign in and synchronize scores on later launches. Synchronization includes saved cups-completed and aroma totals, and the current week's best tea-party scores, including eligible scores earned before sign-in or offline. Your platform player name and scores are handled by Apple or Google and may be visible to other players according to platform settings. On Android, Google Play Games may also sign in automatically if the device already has a Play Games profile; manage this in Play Games settings. The Play Games SDK also processes gamer identity, analytics and diagnostics. These platform rankings are separate from Tea Clubs' weekly club and solo tournament rankings. Manage platform profile visibility and game-data deletion through Game Center or Play Games. Deleting the app or your Spell the Tea account does not itself delete platform purchase or leaderboard records.
• Word definitions open a public dictionary website in your browser only when you tap a word.
• If you choose Inbox and sign in, we process your email address to send sign-in codes through Supabase and Resend. We associate your account ID with your Spell mail profile, a randomly generated installation ID, messages, gift contents and claim timestamps, and support requests and replies. Service providers may also process connection and security logs, including IP addresses. This information is used for account access, delivery, support and abuse prevention, not for advertising. It is not sold or shared with advertisers. Your email is not displayed to other players; support can identify you using your STT player ID.
• The connected game service keeps an account-linked profile with a separate public player identifier, nickname, selected portrait/avatar and frame, and earned appearance unlocks. A linked installation sends pet-progress information to determine eligible portraits and sends activity updates while the app is in use. The service records last activity for club leadership and voting eligibility. A profile can therefore be created or updated after connecting Inbox, even before you join a club. Profile appearance, nickname and scores are visible to other players in the relevant member lists, chat and rankings. Your email and sign-in tokens are not part of that public profile. Choose a nickname that does not reveal private information.
• Tea Clubs store club names, invite codes, open/private settings, leadership, membership and join dates, help requests and contributions, leadership votes, and departure/removal records. Open clubs appear in search and browsing. Private clubs require an invite code and are hidden from those discovery lists; this does not make their name or tournament results confidential. Club members can see the member list and shared club activity, and tournament participants can see relevant standings. The service uses these records to run clubs, determine eligibility, prevent duplicate rewards and enforce tournament rules.
• Club chat is optional free-text messaging for members of the same club. The service stores message text, author, club, time and delivery identifiers, along with block/report records. Authorized support can review reported content: a report copies the message, club name and public player identifier into a support request. Do not post passwords, sign-in codes, contact details or other sensitive information. Other members may copy or share what they see. Block player hides that player's messages for you; it does not remove them for everyone. Delete message hides a message from club chat but does not immediately erase its server record. The chat view shows up to 50 recent, visible messages from the last 30 days; this display limit is not a 30-day deletion schedule.
• Weekly tournaments store player and club entries, grouping, puzzle identifiers, submitted words, round start/expiry/finish times, scores, prize eligibility and delivery records. These are used to validate rounds, calculate club and solo rankings, award in-game prizes, and prevent duplicate submissions or claims. Nicknames, profile appearances, club names and scores can appear in the relevant standings. A round deadline, week end or prize-claim expiry limits participation or claims; it does not automatically erase the associated records.
• Sign-in tokens are stored in the device's Keychain or encrypted credential storage. Progress codes exclude these tokens and the mail account identity and receipt journal. Mail is separate from cloud progress backup: puzzle progress stays on the device. Gift delivery is linked to one installation to avoid duplicate claims; contact customer service when moving to a new device.
• Account-linked mail, gifts, support, profile, chat and tournament records are retained by the connected service until account deletion, except where a feature removes particular records sooner, such as removing a block or clearing leadership votes. There is no fixed automatic deletion period for old chat or tournament records. An expiry date ends a gift's claim period; it does not by itself erase the message. Inbox's "Delete read" hides messages locally and is reversible. Leaving a club, signing out, resetting progress or uninstalling the app is not account deletion.
• To delete your Spell the Tea account, use Inbox > Delete mail account, or contact hello@plenteaful.com if you cannot access the app. Despite its mail label, this deletes the account's mail, gift and support records, club profile and membership, authored chat messages, linked help/block/report/vote records, tournament entries and runs, and departure records. Shared club and tournament-level records can remain. Copies of your messages in another player's report or support correspondence can remain until those associated support records are deleted; copies held by other players are outside the app's deletion controls. Contact support about content in a report. Deletion leaves local puzzle progress and store purchases unchanged. When the same sign-in is used in Last Cup Standing, that game's account is retained. Otherwise the shared sign-in identity is also deleted. Operator audit entries targeting the deleted player are de-identified. A confirmation record containing hashes derived from a random request token, rather than a plaintext email or account ID, lets the app recover if a deletion response is interrupted. Service-provider backups and security logs follow each provider's retention processes.
• The optional online version (played on claude.ai) keeps a weekly leaderboard and a cloud save under the account you use there; that service's own privacy policy applies to that account.

Local progress is retained until you reset it or remove the app's stored data. Back up a progress code before resetting or uninstalling if you want to keep that progress. Progress codes contain game state; share them only with people you intend to give that state to.

If you contact support, we use the information you send to respond to your request. Email correspondence is separate from the in-game account database; deleting the game account does not automatically erase an email conversation. For privacy questions or a request to access, correct or delete information, email hello@plenteaful.com. No new game or website account is needed. Include your STT player ID if available, but never send passwords, sign-in codes or payment-card details. We may need to verify account ownership before acting; sending a request does not itself confirm deletion.

Platform information:

• Apple privacy policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
• Google advertising privacy information: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
• Google privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Google Play Games data and deletion: https://developer.android.com/games/pgs/data-collection
• Supabase privacy policy: https://supabase.com/privacy
• Resend privacy policy: https://resend.com/legal/privacy-policy

Last updated: October 3, 2026