WAKING CATS: privacy

WAKING CATS is made by Clouthier Simulation Labs in Ontario, Canada. This page says in plain words what the game collects.

What we collect

The moves made in each run (which way each player pushed and looked, and what they pressed), the room played, the kind of device (keyboard or touch), a loudness number from 0 to 15 if your microphone is on, and a random number kept in your browser so runs from the same device can be grouped. Our host also keeps ordinary server logs, which include IP addresses, for a short time.

What we do not collect

No account, no email, no real name. The name you type is shown to the players in your room and is not saved with the run. Your voice is never recorded and never reaches our servers. With the microphone on, your voice goes straight from your browser to the other players in your room. If a direct link is not possible, it passes through a relay that carries it without recording it.

What stays on your device

Your browser remembers a few things for you: the random device number, your name, which golden crumbs you have found. Clearing your browser's site data removes them.

Clips

When something big happens (the cat gets up, the toaster fires) the game records a short video of what you see, with the game's own sounds. It is made and kept in your browser only, and is gone when you close the page unless you press SAVE CLIP. It never contains your microphone or other players' voices, and it is never sent to us.

What we do with play records

We use them to fix and improve the game, and we may license them to others for research and for training and testing machine learning systems, as the terms say. They carry no name, voice, face or messages.

Adults only

The game is for people 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect anything from children.

Asking us to delete

Write to kyle@simgen.dev with the random device number from your browser (shown on request in the game's Home screen) and we will delete the runs recorded under it.

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