Privacy policy

What this site does not have

At this stage the site has no user accounts, no analytics and no advertising, and it loads no scripts from other companies' websites. We do not sell or share personal information.

There is one thing you may notice. Cloudflare, the network service in front of the site, can rewrite e-mail addresses on our pages so that spam robots cannot read them. When it does, it adds a small script of its own to the page, served from our own address, so that you can still see and click the address. It sets no cookies and is not used to track you. It is a feature of Cloudflare, not something we built, and it can be switched off.

What the game saves on your device

Species Match keeps your progress in your browser's localStorage, under the key moss-scale:terrarium:v1. It stores:

• which species you have collected and the best medal for each;
• the fewest attempts you needed at each level, and whether you earned the Sharp Eye seal;
• the date of your latest improvement;
• your two game settings: Slow mode and Hide timer.

This stays on your device. It is never sent to us. We cannot see it, and it does not follow you to another browser or device.

How to erase it. Use the "Reset my Terrarium" button on the Terrarium page, or clear this site's data in your browser settings. If your browser blocks storage, the game still works, but your progress lasts only for the current visit and the site tells you so.

The contact form

If you write to us, we receive your name, your e-mail address and your message, by e-mail. We use them only to answer you and to fix content. We keep a message only as long as we need it for that, and then delete it.

To stop abuse, the form handler keeps a short-lived counter per visitor. It is made from a one-way hash of your network address, stored on the server's temporary storage and cleaned up regularly. It is never read for any other purpose.

Hosting and network services

Like any website, our hosting provider and any network service placed in front of the site, such as a content delivery network or a security filter, may log technical data like IP addresses and request times. If they add measurement or tracking tools, we will describe them on this page and on the cookies page.

Children

The site is written for everyone, including students and families. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. The contact form is meant for adults. If a child has written to us, a parent or guardian can ask us to delete the message.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what we hold about you, to correct it or to have it deleted. Write to [email protected] and we will answer.

Changes

If we change what the site collects, for example by adding analytics or ads, we will update this page before the change goes live and show the new date at the top.