Privacy Policy

When you host (create) a game, our server records the IP address and browser user-agent string of that request. We use this only to protect the service — investigating abuse, spam, and automated game creation, and enforcing rate limits.

Joining a game as a player does not record your IP address. Our hosting providers may keep short-lived operational request logs of their own, as is standard for any website.

The display name you enter (or a random one we generate if you leave it blank) is shown to the other players in your game and stored with that game's data. It is not linked to any account or to you as an individual. Names are cleaned of hidden and control characters and screened against a short list of slurs before being stored.

Your game session is kept in your browser's sessionStorage so a refresh doesn't remove you from the game; it is scoped to that browser tab and cleared when the tab closes. Your language and background-music preferences are kept in localStorage on your device. Neither is sent anywhere beyond what is needed to run the game.

If you choose to join voice chat, your audio is carried in real time through LiveKit, our voice infrastructure provider (see Resources below). The conversation is not recorded or stored by us.

On the public site we use Google Analytics to understand aggregate usage and Google AdSense to show ads. These services may set cookies or similar identifiers and collect device and usage data under Google's policies (see Resources below). You can manage ad personalization through Google Ad Settings.

To run games and keep players connected; to prevent abuse, spam, and automated misuse; to understand how the game is used in aggregate; and to display ads that keep the game free.

We do not sell your information. We share it only with the infrastructure providers that run the service on our behalf — Supabase (database and game API hosting), AWS Amplify (web hosting), LiveKit (voice), and Google (analytics and ads) — and where we are legally required to.

Game records, including the host IP address and user-agent, are kept no longer than needed for the security and abuse-prevention purposes above, and are deleted on a rolling basis once a game is over. On-device storage (section 3) stays until you clear it or your browser does.

If you would rather your IP address not be recorded, join a game someone else hosts instead of hosting one yourself. You can clear this site's on-device storage at any time through your browser settings, and control cookies and ad personalization through your browser and the Google links below.

Sheep & Wolves is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has provided information to us, contact us and we will remove it.

If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top of this page. Continued use of the game after a change means you accept the updated policy.

Questions about this policy or your information: privacy@sheepandwolves.app