Happy Queens Privacy Policy
25 October 2026
1. Who is responsible for your data?
Happy Queens is published by Studio Vaxa, SASU with a share capital of €1,000, 47 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, SIREN 130 725 781, France. For any question about your data: queens [at] studiovaxa [dot] com.
2. The data we process
You can play Happy Queens without signing up. A guest profile is created when you first use the app.
- Profile and social links: an identifier (guest or permanent), your username, your invitation code or public reference, your friend links and requests, the players you have blocked, and your discovery and sharing preferences.
- Games: the dates, grids, attempts and progress (including saved checkpoints), times, moves, errors and results of your Daily, Rush and Free Play games, your Streak Savers and their history, and the receipts that prevent an action from being counted twice. We use them to let you play, resume and sync your games, and to calculate your statistics and streak.
- Rankings: your username, score and rank are public in the global leaderboard. Switching off sharing with your friends removes your result from their view and the social marker shown in the global leaderboard; it does not remove you from the global leaderboard.
- Optional Apple or Google sign-in: if you choose to sign in, we use the information provided by that service, including your sign-in identifier and, where supplied, your name and email address, to link access to your profile and let you recover your data. We do not receive your Apple or Google password. A guest profile that is not linked to an account may not be recoverable on another device.
- Apple sign-in: we store an encrypted token on our server so we can revoke the access associated with your Apple sign-in when you delete your Vaxa Games account.
- Contacts (optional): only if you agree in the app and then allow access on your phone. Happy Queens reads your contacts' email addresses on your phone, trims them and puts them in lowercase, turns each one into a SHA-256 fingerprint on your phone and sends only those fingerprints (2,000 at most) to our social service. The service compares them with the fingerprints of players who allow being found by email, and respects blocks. Names, phone numbers and the addresses themselves are not sent by this function. This fingerprint is not salted and does not guarantee anonymity: anyone who already has an email address can calculate the same fingerprint. We do not keep the list you send in our game database. We only keep a count of your searches per day (10 per day at most, with 200 matches at most).
- On your phone: your sessions, a cache and logs are also stored on your phone.
- Studio Vaxa game promotions: Happy Queens may also feature other games from the studio, including when a third-party ad is unavailable. If you choose to open a promotion, you are taken to that game's page. No external website opens without your action.
- Advertising: Happy Queens shows ads provided by Google AdMob, never during a game. To show them, Google may receive your phone's advertising identifier, your IP address, information about your device and about how you interact with the ads. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, a message asks for your consent before personalized ads; on iPhone, the tracking permission is requested. You can refuse or change your choice at any time in your phone's settings. More information: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
The sign-in, profile and game features described here do not collect your phone number, your payment details or your precise location.
3. Why we use this data
- Run the game: manage your profile, games, progress, statistics, streak, friends and leaderboards, and your optional sign-in. This processing is necessary to perform the service's terms of use.
- To let you find your friends through your contacts: with your consent, given in the app, in addition to your phone's "Contacts" permission.
- To protect the service (limits against abuse, such as the daily limit on contact searches, and blocks): our legitimate interest in keeping Happy Queens safe.
- Advertising: to show ads and, with your consent, personalized ads.
4. What other players see
Your username, score and rank are public in the global leaderboard. Depending on your sharing settings ("What your friends can see"), your friends can also see your results. You can choose whether you can be found, and you can block players.
5. Who we share data with
We do not sell your data. These providers take part in running Happy Queens:
- Supabase: authentication, database and server functions for accounts, games and social features, shared with other Studio Vaxa games.
- Apple and Google: when you choose to sign in with them. Apple's servers also receive the authorization code exchange and, when you delete your account, the revocation of access.
- GitHub: runs our backup and operations tasks, and sends us aggregated alerts.
- Google AdMob: displaying ads (see above).
Some providers, such as Google AdMob, may process data outside the European Union, with the safeguards required by law (for example standard contractual clauses).
6. Keeping and deleting your data
We keep your profile and game data while your profile exists, to provide the game, retain your progress and enable synchronisation. You can request deletion at any time using either option below. Security data and operation records are kept for the time needed to prevent and investigate incidents, handle requests and meet applicable legal obligations.
From Settings, you have two separate choices, each explained on a confirmation screen before anything is deleted: "Delete my Happy Queens data", which erases your Happy Queens history and progress but keeps your Vaxa Games account, your username and your social relationships; and "Delete my Vaxa Games account", which deletes your shared account and the data of the games that use it, within the scope shown on the confirmation screen. The details, and how to ask from outside the app, are on the <queensDelete>account deletion page</queensDelete>.
If you signed in with Apple, deleting your Vaxa Games account also revokes the Apple credential we hold. If we hold none, deletion goes ahead anyway and the app tells you how to remove the access yourself in your Apple Account settings.
After a deletion, we keep a receipt that records the operation, a hashed proof and its state. This receipt no longer contains your account identifier. Deletion applies to the active service; backup and technical copies are handled separately and are not necessarily erased at the same moment. The backup files created by our operations workflow are kept for 14 days; that duration applies to those files only.
Deleting a Vaxa Games account affects the data linked to that same account in games that use it, including Happy Queens and KOMOJI if you use that account there. It does not delete separate profiles that are not linked to it.
7. Your rights
You can ask for access to your data, to have it corrected, erased, to receive it in a portable form, to restrict its processing, and to object to its processing. Where processing is based on your consent (contact search, personalized advertising), you can withdraw it at any time. To exercise your rights: queens [at] studiovaxa [dot] com. Never send a password, a sign-in code or an authentication token.
We respond to data rights requests as soon as possible and within one month. If the complexity or number of requests requires a further two months, we explain the extension within the first month. This is the time we take to respond, not a promise that every backup copy is erased within that time.
If you believe your rights are not respected, you can contact the data protection authority of your country (in France: the CNIL, cnil.fr).
8. Children
Happy Queens is not intended for children under 16. We do not knowingly collect data about them. If you think a child has created a profile, write to us and we will delete it.
9. Security
The credential kept to revoke Apple access is encrypted on our server. Where the law requires it, we notify the competent authority and the affected individuals within the time limits set by law.
10. Changes to this policy
If we change it significantly, we will tell you in the app. The date of the last update is at the top of this text.
11. Personal Data Protection Contact
Personal data protection contact: Studio Vaxa, queens [at] studiovaxa [dot] com. Role: to answer questions about personal data, requests for access, correction and deletion, and complaints. Response times are those given in "Your rights".
12. Contact us
queens [at] studiovaxa [dot] com