Privacy
Short answer: nothing leaves your device.
What we collect
Nothing about you. There are no accounts, no sign-in, no profile, no email address asked for, no chat free-text. The arcade does not run analytics, does not have tracking pixels, does not have advertising networks, does not load third-party SDKs at runtime, and does not send anything about you to any server. Ever.
What stays on your device
The browser's localStorage is used to remember a few small things between sessions so the arcade isn't annoying to come back to:
- Your best scores for each game mode.
- Your settings (sound on/off, accessibility toggles, AI quips on/off).
- Which country balls you've collected in the Atlas.
All of this stays in your browser, on your device. Clearing your browser's site data wipes it. We can't see it.
When the arcade talks to the network
The arcade itself is a static website served from countryballs.cc. The page
makes requests only for its own files (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, country flag images, the world
map). One additional connection is made only when you choose a multiplayer mode: a WebSocket to our realtime
Worker at countryballs-realtime.ash-c68.workers.dev so two browsers can play
together. That connection carries only what's needed for the game (chosen avatar, room
code, in-game actions, auto-generated room name) — no profile, no chat free-text.
Kids
The arcade is built for a 9-year-old. There are no chat boxes, no usernames or free-text anywhere a child could type into; multiplayer uses an auto-generated name (e.g. "Brave Brazil") and a country-ball avatar. We don't ask for an age, we don't ask for an email, we don't collect anything that could identify a child. We comply with the spirit of COPPA and the Play Families Policy by design: there is nothing to collect.
Changes
If this policy ever changes — for example if the arcade adds an opt-in feature that talks to a server we don't run today — this page will be updated before any new behaviour ships. The version line above will move when it does.
Contact
Questions: [email protected].