Water Monsters: Privacy Policy

Last updated: 8 November 2026

Water Monsters is a fishing game. This page explains what information the game and its advertising partner handle when you play it on iOS or Android.

What the game itself keeps

Your progress (money, catches, inventory, settings and where your boat is) is saved on your own device, and is deleted when you delete the app.

Cloud save with your Google account (optional)

If you choose to sign in with Google (Settings › Google account), your game is also saved to your Google account so you can carry on with it on another phone or browser. This uses Google Firebase (Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore), and keeps:

• your Google account's email address and a user ID for it, to know whose save is whose,
• your game save (money, catches, inventory, areas, where your boat is), and when it was saved.

It is used only to bring your game back to you. It is not shared with anyone and not used for advertising. If you never sign in, nothing is sent. You can sign out at any time, and Settings › Google account › Delete Google save deletes your save and your sign-in record from our Firebase project. How Google handles Firebase data is described in Privacy and Security in Firebase.

Advertising

When you choose to watch an ad (for example, to call the fuel boat when you are short of money), the ad is provided by Google AdMob. To show and measure ads, Google may collect:

• your device's advertising identifier (on iOS, only if you allow tracking when asked),
• your IP address and approximate location derived from it,
• information about your device and the app, and how you interact with ads,
• diagnostic data such as crashes and performance.

How Google uses this information is described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and in Google's Privacy Policy.

Fonts

All of the game's fonts, the Chinese one included, are built into the app. No font is downloaded, so no font service receives any information about you.

Your choices

• iOS: the app asks whether it may track you before personalised ads are shown. You can change this at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
• Android: you can reset or delete your advertising ID in Settings › Google › Ads (or Settings › Privacy › Ads).
• European Economic Area, UK and Switzerland: you are asked for consent before personalised ads are shown.
• Ads are only shown when you choose to watch one.

Children

Water Monsters is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: watermonsters@scaleswap.co