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Privacy Policy About
🔒 Privacy Policy

Pastry Pirates is my game, and this is me telling you plainly what it records.

If you just play, the game records three things. None of them is a cookie.

  • How the game is played. Move data — what happened on the board — so I can see where the game is confusing or unfair and fix it. It carries no name and no email: only a random number your browser makes up the first time you play, so I can tell one voyage of yours from the next. That number says nothing about who you are.
  • Basic visit numbers, through Google Analytics: which page you landed on, where you came from, and roughly where in the world you are. It is set up in what Google calls cookieless mode, so nothing is stored on your device and nobody is asked to consent to anything — which matters to me because children play this game. The trade is that I cannot tell repeat visitors from new ones, and I am happy with that.
  • A small log on your own device. Your browser keeps a note of your voyages — how many you have sailed, your wins, your best score, the recipes you have baked, your trophies and doubloons — so the game can tell you when you have beaten your best. It stays in your browser and is never sent anywhere unless you sign in.

If you sign in. Signing in is free, and you never need it to play. It is how your log follows you from one device to another. When you sign in, the game keeps:

  • Your email address, from Google or the one you typed to get a sign-in link. It is used only to sign you in, and I never send you anything else. Google also passes along the name and picture on your Google account; the game does not show them or use them.
  • Your captain name, reserved to you so that nobody else can reserve it. Other players can see that a name is reserved — it wears a small mark at the table — and the reservation is linked to a random account number, which says nothing about who you are.
  • Your Bakery: voyages sailed, wins, best score, recipes baked, trophies and doubloons. Other players can see your captain name and your Bakery's numbers; nobody else can see your email.

If you post your score to the daily board, everyone can see your captain name, your score and a replay of that voyage.

All of this is kept in Google Firebase, which runs the online side of the game. Your browser remembers that you are signed in until you sign out.

Signing in is for players aged 13 and over. Anyone can play without signing in.

If you send feedback, it goes to me with what you typed and, unless you untick the box, a picture of the game and your screen size and browser. Only I can read it.

If you play with friends online, the names you type and anything you write in the chat are kept in the game's room, so the other ships can see them. They are not private, so please don't put anything there you would not say out loud at the table.

The apps. Pastry Pirates on iPhone and Android is this same game, and it records less: no visit numbers and no move data, only what an online crew game needs, and your feedback if you send it.

On Reddit, the game keeps your Reddit username and, if you post a score, your score, the pastry you baked and a replay of your voyage, so everyone on that post can see the board. Reddit stores it, for that post, and it is all deleted about six months after the last score on that post. To have yours taken off sooner, send me a note through Feedback.

The App Store, Google Play and Reddit keep their own records under their own privacy policies.

Deleting it all. On the welcome screen, tap your Bakery, then the ⚙, then Delete my account. That erases your Bakery, frees your name and removes your sign-in, straight away. You can also just sign out at any time. If you never signed in and want your play records gone, or have any question about this page, send me a note through Feedback in the ☰ menu.

There are no ads, no advertising trackers, and nothing is sold to anyone. If you would rather not be counted at all, any browser's tracker blocking will stop the visit numbers, and the game plays exactly the same.