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Privacy Policy

This is a plain-language summary, not our final policy. The complete Privacy Policy — reviewed by legal counsel and covering your rights in full — will be published here before PonderBug’s public launch. If you have any question about your data in the meantime, please contact us.

The short version

• We collect as little as possible — only what’s needed to run the games and keep leaderboards fair.
• We don’t sell your data, and there are no advertising networks anywhere in PonderBug.
• Guests stay on their device. If you play without an account, your gameplay is stored in your own browser — not on our servers.

What we collect

If you play as a guest, your puzzle progress, settings, and streak live in your browser’s local storage. We don’t receive it.

If you create an account, we store your email address, the username you choose (shown publicly on leaderboards), and your gameplay stats (solve times, streaks) so they’re available across your devices.

To keep the service secure and working, we also process limited technical information such as IP address and browser type for abuse-prevention and error diagnosis, and we use privacy-respecting analytics to understand which puzzles people enjoy.

Who helps us run it

PonderBug relies on a small number of trusted infrastructure providers — for sign-in, database hosting, content delivery, and error/analytics tooling. Each is bound by a data processing agreement and only handles data on our behalf. The full list, with regions and purposes, will appear in the complete policy.

Your choices

You can play entirely as a guest, delete your local progress by clearing your browser storage, and — once you have an account — request access to or deletion of your account data by contacting us. Controls for analytics consent are being finalized as part of the full policy.

See also: Cookies & storage · Terms of Service.