Suspect is a face-to-face murder-mystery party game: one phone or computer per player, played together around a table. The app and the website share the same accounts and games. This policy explains what information the app collects, why, and how it's handled. If anything here is unclear, contact us — see Contact below.
Account information. When you sign in, we receive what your chosen method provides:
We store your display name, email address, and/or phone number, along with an internal account ID.
Content you create. If you write a story in the app's Studio (rooms, characters, items, and their descriptions) and publish it, that content — and any images you upload for it — is stored on our servers and, once published, shown to other players together with your display name as its author.
Gameplay data. While you play, the app records the actions needed to run a shared, live game: which story and session you're in, which character you're playing, your moves between rooms, items you take or give, who you question, and your final accusation. Some of this (your current room, whether you've been questioned) is visible to other players at your table, the same way it would be if you announced it out loud. A detective's private notes about each suspect are the exception — those stay only on your own device (see below) and are never sent to us.
Purchases. Suspect uses Google Play's billing system for wallet top-ups. We never receive or store your payment card details — those are handled entirely by Google Play. We do store a record of each transaction (the amount, the date, and a one-way cryptographic hash of Google's purchase token) so we can credit your in-app wallet and prevent the same purchase from being credited twice.
Sales of stories you publish. When another player buys a story you published, we record the sale (which story, the price, and the date) and the wallet credit it adds to your account, and show both in your wallet history. Profit sharing for stories you create isn't officially available yet; credit from sales made before it officially launches stays in your wallet but isn't covered by profit sharing (see the Terms of Service).
Reports. If you report a story, we store your account ID, the story, the reason you chose, and any note you add, so it can be reviewed.
Diagnostics and analytics. The app uses Firebase Analytics to understand basic usage (such as which screens are used) and help us find and fix problems. This can include device identifiers, such as the advertising ID Android assigns your device. Suspect shows no advertising, so this identifier is never used to target or personalize ads — only for app analytics.
Copies kept on your device. To open quickly, the app and the website keep a copy of your own stories list and the draft you're writing on your device (in the app's private storage, or your browser's local storage). It's a copy of what's already on our servers, it's refreshed from them each time, and it's deleted when you sign out. The website also remembers your chosen interface language in your browser.
The website. The website uses no analytics and shows no advertising. It doesn't offer adding wallet credit; credit you already have can be spent there as in the app.
We do not sell your personal information.
We keep your account and gameplay data for as long as your account is active. Older, superseded versions of a story are automatically deleted 180 days after being replaced by a newer one, unless a game still in progress refers to them. You can delete your account at any time, in the app or on the website (or ask us to — see Contact). Deleting it signs you out everywhere and permanently deletes its data straight away, as described on our Delete Your Account page.
Suspect is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Your data is stored on Google Firebase infrastructure. Access is enforced on our servers (Firestore security rules), so another player can never read your private information — only what this policy says is shown to them.
We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
Questions about this policy, or a request about your data: