🔒 Privacy

bodegameow is a labour of love, not a data business. Everything runs on our own server — there are no third-party trackers, no ad networks, and nothing is ever sold. Here is exactly what we keep and why:

• Your account. Signing in with Google or Apple gives us your email address and name. The email is used only to sign you in — it is never shown to other users and never leaves the auth system. Other users see only what you choose on the Account page: your alias (or full name, unless hidden) and profile picture.
• What you post is public: photos, videos, captions, comments, cat names and places. If a photo carries GPS coordinates we read them to place the cat on the map — that location is public too, so mind what you upload.
• Traffic analytics, self-hosted. When you view a page we record the page, the time, the referring site, your IP address, your browser’s user-agent, the IP’s public hostname, and the approximate city/country derived from the IP (looked up against a database on our own server — never sent to a geolocation service) — all on our own server, shared with no one. Visitor counts use a daily anonymous hash, and the raw IP, hostname and user-agent are deleted automatically after 90 days; only the coarse city/country remains for aggregate statistics. They exist only so we can spot abuse and see that real people (not bots) visit.
• Cookies: only to keep you signed in. No tracking cookies, no analytics cookies — which is why there is no cookie banner to click away.
• Third parties we do use: Google/Apple handle the sign-in itself on their side; map tiles load from OpenStreetMap (their servers see your IP when the map displays, as with any image on the web); store-name searches are forwarded to Foursquare or OpenStreetMap to find the place — without your identity attached.
• Your data is yours. See and edit everything on the Account page, and delete your account there at any time — your posts, comments, uploads and profile are removed on the spot, nothing is kept in a drawer. You can also ask the site operator for a copy or correction of your data, and you have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.

Questions or requests about your data: use the report button, or contact the site operator. See also the terms of use.