Privacy Policy

Introduction

Welcome to DrawAFish.app ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our services. It also explains the choices available for analytics, advertising, public content, and account data.

Information We Collect

We collect information you provide directly to us, such as:

• Account Information: When you create an account, we collect your email address and username.
• User Content: Fish drawings, tank configurations, and other content you create and share on our platform.
• Communications: When you contact us, we keep a record of your correspondence.
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our services, including your interactions with fish drawings, voting patterns, and feature usage.
• Technical Data: Browser type, device type, approximate location derived from IP addresses, referring pages, timestamps, diagnostic events, and other identifiers used to operate, secure, and measure the service.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve our services
• Process transactions and send related information
• Send you technical notices and support messages
• Respond to your comments and questions
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities
• Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities
• Personalize and improve your experience

Information Sharing

We do not sell personal information. We share limited information when needed to operate the service, process user choices, comply with law, protect users, or provide advertising and measurement services that have been disclosed here. Recipients may include:

• Public Content: Fish drawings and tanks marked as public will be visible to all users.
• Service Providers: Firebase and related Google Cloud services may process account, authentication, database, file storage, security, and diagnostic information on our behalf.
• Analytics and Advertising Providers: Google may process device and usage data when Google Analytics is accepted or when Google AdSense is enabled subject to applicable consent.
• Legal Requirements: If required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
• Protection of Rights: To protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property.
• Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition.

Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Access and receive a copy of your personal data
• Rectify or update your personal information
• Delete your account and associated data
• Object to processing of your personal data
• Request restriction of processing your personal data
• Withdraw consent at any time

Children's Privacy

DrawAFish.app is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. We do not use interest-based advertising for users we know are covered by child-directed treatment requirements. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has provided personal information, please contact us so we can review and delete it where appropriate.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use local storage and may use cookies for authentication, preferences, security, analytics, and advertising. Technologies used by us or our providers may include cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device information, and other identifiers. Essential storage supports account sessions and site functions. Optional Google Analytics is loaded only after you choose "Accept analytics" in our notice.

Google Analytics and Google AdSense

Google Analytics helps us understand aggregate site use after consent. Google AdSense may serve ads on eligible content pages after the site is approved and advertising is enabled. As a result of ad serving, third parties may place and read cookies in your browser or use web beacons, IP addresses, and other identifiers to collect information. Google and its advertising partners may use this information for ad delivery, frequency control, fraud prevention, measurement, and, where permitted, personalized ads.

Learn more from Google at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. You can manage Google advertising personalization through My Ad Center and browser or device privacy controls. Declining our analytics notice prevents this site from loading Google Analytics through the consent controller.

Regional Consent and Advertising Choices

For visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, personalized ads will not be enabled until the required disclosures and consent signals are collected through a Google-certified consent management platform integrated with the applicable Transparency and Consent Framework. The consent interface will provide options to accept, reject, and manage eligible purposes and providers. Similar privacy choices may be presented where required by United States state laws or other local rules.

You can change the optional analytics choice by opening this Privacy Policy and selecting cookie settings. Browser controls can also delete stored choices, after which the notice will be shown again.

Data Retention and International Processing

We retain account and public-content information for as long as the account or content is active and as reasonably needed for security, dispute resolution, legal compliance, and backups. Service providers may process information in countries other than your own, subject to their contractual and legal safeguards.

Third-Party Services

Our service may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those independent sites. Our principal platform providers include Google Firebase, Google Cloud, Google Analytics when accepted, and Google AdSense when enabled.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.