Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 21, 2025

1. Information We Don't Collect

We believe in radical privacy protection. Here's what we DO NOT collect:

• 📧 Email addresses - We don't require registration
• 👤 Personal identification - No names, usernames, or profiles
• 📱 Contact information - No phone numbers or addresses
• 💳 Payment information - Our game is completely free
• 🎮 Game data - No scores, progress, or gameplay tracking
• 📍 Location data - We don't track where you're playing from
• 🖥️ Device information - No device fingerprinting or identification
• 🍪 Personal cookies - No tracking or identification cookies

2. How Our Website Works

BubbleBreak.fun operates as a simple, client-side web application:

• 🌐 Static hosting - Our site serves static files only
• 💻 Local processing - All game interactions happen in your browser
• 📱 No servers - We don't have backend servers collecting data
• 🔒 No databases - Nothing is stored about your visit or gameplay

3. Third-Party Services

We use minimal third-party services for basic website functionality:

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics only to understand general website usage patterns (like how many people visit our articles). This helps us create better stress-relief content for students. Google Analytics may collect:

• General geographic region (country/state level, not specific location)
• Browser type and device type (mobile vs desktop)
• Pages visited and time spent on site
• How users found our website (search engines, direct visits, etc.)

You can opt out of Google Analytics by using browser extensions like uBlock Origin or by enabling "Do Not Track" in your browser settings.

Google Fonts

We load the Fredoka font from Google Fonts to make our site more readable and friendly. This font loading is optimized for privacy and performance.

Website Hosting

Our website is hosted on DigitalOcean App Platform, which may log basic technical information (IP addresses, request times) for infrastructure security and performance. This data is not accessible to us and is governed by DigitalOcean's privacy policy.

4. Cookies and Local Storage

Our website uses minimal browser storage:

• 🍪 Essential cookies only - Required for basic website functionality
• 💾 No personal data storage - We don't store any information about you locally
• 🎮 Game state - Any game preferences are stored only in your browser temporarily

5. Children's Privacy (COPPA Compliance)

We are committed to protecting children's privacy:

• 👶 No data from minors - We don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 13
• 🏫 School-safe - Our site is designed to be safe for educational environments
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parent-friendly - Parents can feel confident about their children using our site

6. Data Security

Since we don't collect personal data, there's no personal data to secure. However, we still maintain good security practices:

• 🔐 HTTPS encryption - All connections to our site are encrypted
• 🛡️ Secure hosting - Our website is hosted on secure, reputable infrastructure
• 🔄 Regular updates - We keep our website technology current with security best practices

7. Your Rights

Since we don't collect personal data, traditional data rights don't apply, but we want you to know:

• 🚫 Right to privacy - Automatically guaranteed (we don't collect data)
• 🗑️ Right to deletion - Not applicable (no data to delete)
• 📄 Right to access - Not applicable (no data stored about you)
• ✅ Right to transparency - Fulfilled by this clear privacy policy

8. Changes to This Policy

If we ever change our privacy practices, we will:

• 📝 Update this privacy policy with clear information
• 📅 Display the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page
• 🔄 Continue our commitment to minimal data collection

9. International Users

Our privacy protections apply globally:

• 🇪🇺 GDPR compliant - We don't collect data that would require GDPR compliance
• 🇺🇸 CCPA compliant - No personal information sale (we don't collect any)
• 🌍 Global privacy - Same privacy protection for all users worldwide