Privacy Policy

Oddgrounds is run by Bonneville Solutions (“we”, “us”), 276 Widow Sweets Rd, Exeter, RI 02822, USA. This policy explains what information we collect when you use oddgrounds.com, the Oddgrounds app, and the games and tools on them (together, “Oddgrounds”), what we do with it, and the choices you have. It goes with our Terms of Service.

We've tried to write it so anyone 13 or older can follow it. If something isn't clear, ask us.

When you sign up

Username

Your public name on Oddgrounds. We ask you not to use your real name.

Email address

For your account and to contact you about it. It's never shown to other people.

Password

Stored only in scrambled (hashed) form. We can't see it.

Date of birth

To check you're old enough (13+) and to apply the rules for people under 18. Other people never see it, and games only ever learn whether a player is a teen or an adult.

If you're under 13, we don't create an account and we don't keep what you typed. We remember on your device, for a day, that signing up didn't work, so the form can't simply be tried again.

When you use Oddgrounds

Games you make

Your games' files, versions, titles, descriptions, levels, and your settings such as whether others may remix them.

Builder chats

What you write to the AI builder, the pictures you attach, and the builder's replies.

What you post

Comments, ratings, reports, follows, blocks, jam entries and votes.

Play

Which games you play, for how long (games send a small “still playing” signal every 15 seconds), scores, saves, achievements and daily challenge results. This is how leaderboards work and how creator earnings are split.

Game events

Games can record simple events, like finishing a level. When we test two versions of a button or label, we record which one you saw and whether you used it.

Credits and payments

Your credit balance and history, your plan, and payment records from Stripe (what you bought, when, and whether it worked). We never see or store your full card number.

Creator earnings

Your earnings and payouts, and your Stripe payout account. For creators under 18, the name and email of the parent or guardian who owns the payout account, and when they gave consent.

Jam prizes

If you win a jam prize, how you'd like to be paid, whether a tax form is needed, and a parent or guardian's consent if you're under 18.

Email preferences

Which emails you want, and a record of the emails we sent.

Collected automatically

Sign-in sessions

When you sign in, we store a session with your device's browser or app name (its “user agent”) and a scrambled version of your internet (IP) address, so we can spot misuse. We don't store your IP address itself.

Security and rate limits

We use a scrambled version of your IP address to stop spam, attacks and password guessing.

Server logs

Our servers log each request (the page or action, whether it worked, how long it took, and your account ID if you're signed in). These logs are kept by Cloudflare for a limited time.

Last active

When you last used Oddgrounds.

We don't ask for your photo, phone number, address, contacts or location, and games can't access your camera, microphone or location.

• To run Oddgrounds: your account, the builder, publishing and playing games, leaderboards, comments, jams and credits.
• To keep people safe: checking age, moderating content, handling reports, blocking, and stopping spam, cheating and fraud.
• To pay creators: working out earnings from play time, and paying them (through a parent or guardian for people under 18).
• To send emails you can control, like a weekly summary of how your games are doing, and emails we must send, like asking a parent or guardian for consent.
• To fix bugs and improve Oddgrounds, using our own records (not third-party analytics).
• To follow the law, like tax and payment rules, and to respond to legal requests.

We don't sell your personal information, we don't show ads, and we don't share your information with advertisers or data brokers.

If the law where you live (for example in the EU or UK) asks us to name a legal reason for using your information, ours are: to provide the service you asked for (our terms); our legitimate interests in keeping Oddgrounds safe, working and fair; following the law; and your consent where we ask for it.

The builder is powered by Claude, an AI made by Anthropic. When you build or change a game, we send Anthropic, through its API:

• your messages to the builder;
• pictures you attach to a message (PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF, up to 5 MB each);
• your game's files, error messages from your game, and screenshots the builder takes while it tests your game.

We ask first. Before your first build, on the site or in the app, we tell you this and ask you to agree. We keep the time you agreed, and the builder doesn't run for your account until you do. If you don't agree, you can still play games, comment and use everything else.

We don't send your email, date of birth or password to the builder. Please don't put personal information in your messages, pictures or games.

We also use Claude to check content for safety: usernames, game titles and text, comments, levels, builder messages and attached pictures.

Anthropic handles this information to provide its service to us. Under its commercial terms, it doesn't use what we send through its API to train its AI models.

If you use voice input in the builder, your browser or phone turns your speech into text (using its own speech service, such as Apple's or Google's). Only the text comes to us.

• Your profile: username, generated avatar, when you joined, your published games and their stats (plays, remixes, followers), and jam badges.
• Your published games, with your username as the creator. Remixes show which game they came from.
• Your comments and leaderboard scores, with your username and avatar.
• Your ratings aren't shown one by one; games only show an average.
• Your drafts, builder chats, email, date of birth, credits and earnings are private.

In multiplayer games, other players see your username and avatar. There's no free-text chat between players, only preset phrases and emotes.

We use a few companies to run Oddgrounds. They handle information for us, under contracts, only to provide their service:

Cloudflare

Hosting, content delivery, security, file storage (games, thumbnails and builder pictures), multiplayer servers, the builder's workspaces, and server logs.

Supabase

Our main database (Postgres), which stores accounts, games and the other records in this policy.

Anthropic

The Claude AI, for the builder and for safety checks (see above).

Stripe

Payments for plans and credit packs, and creator payouts. Stripe collects your payment details and, for payout accounts, the account holder's identity and bank details, under its own privacy policy. When you buy something, we send Stripe only your Oddgrounds account ID.

Resend

Sending emails, which means it handles your email address and the email's content.

Apple

If you use the iPhone app, Apple delivers it through the App Store.

We may also share information if the law requires it, to protect people's safety or rights, to deal with fraud or security problems, or as part of a sale or reorganization of Oddgrounds (in which case this policy keeps applying to your information).

Some of these companies are in the United States and other countries. When your information moves between countries, we rely on the protections the law requires, such as standard contractual clauses.

We only use cookies Oddgrounds needs to work. There are no advertising or third-party tracking cookies.

gf_session

Keeps you signed in. Lasts 30 days. Can't be read by scripts on the page.

gf_pid

A random ID for playing without an account, so your play time and scores stick together. Lasts a year. Not used once you sign in.

gf_age_gate

Set for 24 hours if sign-up didn't work because of age.

We also keep a few settings in your browser's storage, like your theme and texture settings, a pending daily challenge result, whether you've seen a tip, and progress in games you play without an account. Games can save progress on your device, on their own site (oddgrounds.games). Clearing your browser data removes all of these.

• The app keeps your sign-in token in your phone's secure storage (the iOS Keychain), only on that device. It isn't backed up to iCloud.
• The app has no tracking, advertising or analytics tools, and it doesn't ask to track you across other companies' apps.
• The app doesn't use your camera, microphone, contacts, location or Face ID.
• Games in the app run the same sandboxed way as on the website, and the app tells our site that it's the app so it can hide things the stores don't allow.

• If you have published games, we may send a weekly email about how they're doing. You can turn it off with the link in any email or in your email settings.
• If you're under 18 and set up creator payouts, we email the parent or guardian you name to ask for their consent.
• We may email you about your account, payments or important changes to our terms.

• Your account information, games and builder chats: while your account is open.
• Published games: they stay up, and their published versions are kept, even after you unpublish them, so remix credit and ownership records stay correct.
• Sign-in sessions expire after 30 days.
• Payment, payout and tax records: as long as the law requires (often several years).
• Moderation records and reports: as long as we need them to keep Oddgrounds safe and deal with repeat problems.
• Server logs: a limited time, set by Cloudflare.
• Multiplayer room data: deleted when the room ends.

You can delete your account at any time on your account page, on the website or in the app. You'll need your password. If you pay for a plan, we cancel it first. Then:

• We remove your username, email, password and bio, and sign you out everywhere, in the app too.
• Your profile disappears, and your comments and leaderboard scores are hidden.
• Games you published stay up, under a placeholder name instead of your username, so players and remixes aren't left with a broken link.
• Some records stay attached to the anonymous account, without your name or email: your date of birth, games and drafts, builder chats and pictures, play history, and payment, earnings and moderation records we need to keep.

Deleting can't be undone. If you want us to remove more of what's left, write to support@oddgrounds.com and we'll do what the law allows.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• see the personal information we have about you and get a copy of it (including your games);
• correct it if it's wrong;
• delete it (see above);
• object to or limit how we use it, or withdraw consent you gave;
• complain to your local data protection authority.

To do any of these, write to support@oddgrounds.com from the email on your account. We may need to check it's really you. We'll answer within the time the law sets (usually within a month) and won't treat you differently for asking. A parent or guardian can make a request for someone under 18.

• Oddgrounds accounts are for people 13 and older. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that someone under 13 has an account, we'll delete it. If you think that's happened, write to us.
• Anyone can play games without an account. When nobody's signed in, games treat the player as a teen.
• For people under 18: our safety checks always block sharing personal information, there's no private messaging, and multiplayer only allows preset phrases.
• Cash payouts and jam prizes for people under 18 need a parent or guardian's consent and go to the parent or guardian's account.

We use HTTPS everywhere, store passwords and sign-in tokens only in scrambled (hashed) form, keep games in a sandbox on a separate website, and limit who on our team can see personal information. No system is perfectly secure, though. If you think your account isn't safe, write to support@oddgrounds.com. If we learn of a breach that affects you, we'll tell you as the law requires.

We'll update this policy when Oddgrounds changes. We'll change the date at the top, and if a change matters, we'll tell you on the site or by email before it takes effect.

Questions or requests about your privacy? Write to support@oddgrounds.com, or by post to Bonneville Solutions, 276 Widow Sweets Rd, Exeter, RI 02822, USA.