Privacy

What is stored

When someone starts playing, they choose a nickname and a four-digit PIN. That is the whole sign-up. There is no email address, no password, no real name, no date of birth, no phone number and no way for us to work out who anybody is.

What is not stored

Who else sees it

Nobody. Nothing is sold, rented, shared or handed to anyone for advertising, and there is no third-party code in the app — no software kits, no trackers, no chat widgets.

Two technical exceptions, both unavoidable and neither of them about your family:

Cookies

One, from this site: a session cookie that remembers which monster is open while the app is being used. It carries no personal information and is not used for advertising. It disappears when the browser or the app is closed. Cloudflare sets its own, as above. The game itself is also kept on the device so it works with no connection; that copy never leaves the device.

Children

This app is meant to be used by children, so it is built to know as little about them as possible. It asks for a nickname and nothing else. There is no chat, no messaging, no way for a child to be contacted, no links out to the web, no purchases of any kind, and no advertising. The only thing kept is what the game needs to still be there tomorrow.

The page for grown-ups — where you add a player, set a daily limit, add another device or delete things — is behind a separate PIN that only a grown-up should know, and the app never mentions that the page exists.

Deleting it

You can do it yourself, at any time, without asking anyone:

  1. Open the app and type the grown-up's PIN on the front screen.
  2. Remove a player deletes that child and everything of theirs. Delete everything removes the whole household — every player, the family code and the list of devices.

Both happen immediately and neither can be undone. There is no copy anywhere else and nothing is kept back. Deleting the app from a device also removes the copy of the game held on that device.

If you are in the EU or the UK you have the right to see what is held about you, to have it corrected, and to have it erased. The buttons above are the fastest route to all three; you can also ask, and a request will be answered within a month.

Where it is kept, and for how long

On a server in the European Union, run by the person named below. Nothing is copied to another country. It is kept until you delete it, because a game you come back to after a summer should still have your monster in it.

Changes

If this ever changes, the date at the top changes with it, and anything significant will be said inside the app rather than quietly here.

Who is responsible