Effective 5 November 2026

Privacy Policy

Manhunt is a game you play outside with friends, so it needs your location while you play. Here's exactly what we collect, who sees it, and how to get rid of it.

Who we are

"Manhunt", "we" and "us" mean the team that makes the Manhunt iPhone app and runs its game server and this website, getmanhunt.com. Questions about privacy go to support@getmanhunt.com.

What we collect

Your account

• Playing as a guest: the name you pick, an optional player photo, and a random ID the app creates on your phone so it can recognise you next time. It isn't your phone's hardware ID or advertising ID.
• Sign in with Apple: the identifier Apple gives us for your Apple account, the email address Apple shares with us (this can be an Apple private relay address if you choose to hide your email), and your name if you choose to share it.
• Sign in with Google (when the app offers it): your Google account identifier, email address, name and a link to your Google profile picture.
• Sign-in sessions: when you sign in, the app gets a session key. We store only a scrambled (hashed) copy of it, plus when it was created.

You can change your name and photo at any time in Profile. If you start as a guest and later sign in with Apple or Google, your guest games move to that account.

Your player photo

If you add a photo (taken with the camera or picked from your library), the app uploads that one photo to our server so other players can see who they're chasing. It's stored on our server and loaded by a long, hard-to-guess link. We don't access the rest of your photo library.

Your location

This is the important one, so here's the detail.

• When: only while a game you're in is running (the head start and the game itself). The app stops all location work in the lobby, when the game ends, and when you leave it. That's why the app asks for "Always" access: so the game keeps working with your phone in your pocket, not so it can follow you around afterwards.
• One exception, when you host: creating a game reads your current location once, to center the map and to place the hunters' start on the far side of the play area from you. That point is saved with the game.
• What we keep: your most recent position in each game (every new one replaces the last), the snapshots taken at each exposure or radar ping, where captures happened, and your total distance for the end-of-game stats. We don't store a continuous trail of your route.
• Anti-cheat: if your reported position jumps faster than a person can run, the game flags it for the host.

Game data

The games you create or join, the play area and rules, your side and team, your status (caught, safe and so on), your points and captures, the quick pings you send ("Spotted!", "On my way"), and the game's timeline of events. This powers your history, results and replays.

Things that stay on your phone

• Camera: QR codes are read on your phone. Only a player photo you choose is uploaded.
• Motion: while the Bump phones screen is open, the app watches the accelerometer for a knock. Only the fact that a bump happened is sent, not motion data.
• Notifications and Live Activity: exposure warnings and round alerts are scheduled on your phone. We don't collect a push notification token.
• Settings: sounds, haptics, appearance and similar preferences.

Technical information

Like any internet service, our server sees your IP address and basic request details when the app talks to it. We use this only to run the game, and our error logs may record which request failed. We don't use it to build a profile of you.

Who sees what

Everything below happens inside one game, among the players in it. The host can turn map locations off entirely.

• Everyone in the game sees your name, photo, side, team, status and points.
• Your allies (your team, or your whole side, depending on the game's settings) see your live position on their map.
• Hunters never see a runner's live position, except when that runner is outside the zone and the game's rules expose it. Otherwise hunters only see snapshots: every runner's last known spot during an exposure, and the nearest runner when their team uses its radar.
• Runners never see hunters' positions.
• The host also sees anti-cheat flags.
• After the game ends, everyone who played can see the full replay: the zones, exposures, where captures happened and final positions.
• Anyone with a game's code or invite link can see a preview card: the game's name, the host's name, how many players are on each side, the play area and the rules.

What we don't do

• No ads, and no advertising or analytics SDKs in the app.
• No selling, renting or sharing your data with data brokers or advertisers.
• No using your location for anything except the game you're playing.
• No tracking you across other apps or websites.

Services we rely on

• Our game server and database store the data described above.
• Apple provides Sign in with Apple, the maps you see in the app (Apple Maps), and the App Store. Apple's own privacy policy covers those.
• Google provides Sign in with Google, if you use it. Google's privacy policy covers that.
• This website is static and sets no cookies. It's served by a web host that keeps standard request logs, and it loads its font from Google Fonts. The invite page (getmanhunt.com/join/...) asks our game server for that game's preview card.

The app also lets you point it at a different game server (Profile, Server). If you do, that server's operator, not us, handles your data.

How long we keep it

• Your account, sign-in sessions and photos: until you delete your account.
• Games: kept so everyone who played can look back at their history, results and replays. If you delete your account, you're removed from them as described below.

Deleting your account

In the app, open Profile (your photo on the Home screen) and tap Delete account. It happens straight away:

• Your account, your sign-in sessions, the photos you uploaded and your game history are deleted.
• If you're in a game that's still running, you leave it.
• In past games you're anonymised: your name becomes "Deleted player" and your photo and last position are removed. Scores and the game's timeline stay, without your name, so the other players' results still add up.

Can't get into the app? Email support@getmanhunt.com from the address on your account, or tell us your player name and a game code, and we'll delete it for you.

Your choices and rights

• Location, camera, photos, motion and notifications are each controlled by iOS permissions, and you can change them any time in Settings, Manhunt. The game needs location to work; the rest are optional.
• You can view and edit your name and photo in Profile, and delete everything as above.
• Depending on where you live (for example the UK, the EU or California), you may have rights to access, correct, delete or get a copy of your data, or to object to how it's used. Email us and we'll help. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Security

The app talks to our server over encrypted connections, session keys are stored only in hashed form, and the data you share in a game is only sent to the players that game's rules allow. No system is perfect, but we work to keep your data safe.

Children

Manhunt isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. If you think a child under 13 has made an account, email us and we'll delete it.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update this page and the date at the top. If a change is significant, we'll also point it out in the app or on our home page before it takes effect.

Contact

support@getmanhunt.com