Privacy

Updated October 9, 2026. This notice covers the FoolFish Games website at foolfishgames.com, its developer portal and the platform services used by browser games.

Your account

You can sign in with Google or Apple through Firebase Authentication. We use the verified sign-in identifier and the name and email provided by your sign-in service to create or recognize your FoolFish account. Apple may provide a private relay email address. Your profile can include a player name and selected avatar. A secure session cookie keeps the website signed in for up to 30 days. Google and Apple identities are not automatically combined just because their email addresses match. We do not receive your Google or Apple password.

Website games and social features

Signed-in users can sync favorites, recent games and liked games. For supported browser leaderboards, the server validates completed-game actions and stores verified results, weekly positions and historical trophies. Public player pages show names and game results, not email addresses. Game progress is stored by each game. Participating signed-in game versions can also send checkpoints to FoolFish cloud storage, linked to your account, game and save version. Guest progress and older game versions remain local to the browser. Cloud saves remain until you remove them or delete your account; deleting an account removes its associated cloud checkpoints. When devices conflict, the game asks you to choose the progress to keep.

Friends features store invitations, requests and accepted relationships. Friend lists and pending requests are available to the participating accounts, not as public lists. Country or region is optional and self-selected; it is not inferred from your connection. Profile visibility defaults to private. Joining a country leaderboard is a separate optional choice that reveals the association to signed-in players viewing that country leaderboard. You can change these settings, clear the country, remove a friend or leave country rankings from your account. Invitation tokens are excluded from website analytics.

Contact messages

When you send the contact form, we store your name, reply email, selected topic and message in a private support inbox. Authorized website administrators use these details to understand and respond to your request. Messages are retained for up to 90 days in the active inbox. Submitting the form does not subscribe you to marketing email. Do not include passwords, verification codes, payment information or private save files. We keep short-lived hashed network and email identifiers to limit repeated submissions; contact form rate-limit records do not store raw IP addresses. Server access logs are described below.

Development requests

If you choose “Help build this sooner” in the journal, we record the concept, request time and a random request identifier for up to 90 days. This does not subscribe you to email. This browser stores a record of your request to avoid sending it repeatedly; clearing browser storage removes that local record.

Game diagnostics

We record game build identifiers, loading and start events, active playing time and limited error codes to diagnose failures and give each developer aggregate feedback for their own games. Developers do not receive player emails or individual cloud checkpoints through this dashboard. The dashboard covers the last 30 days; diagnostic records older than 35 days are cleared when new diagnostic sessions are recorded. Signed-in diagnostic records are removed when the account is deleted.

Saved in your browser

The portal stores favorite, liked and recently played game IDs in local storage and synchronizes these lists with your account when signed in. You can clear recent games, remove favorites using the bookmark button, or clear portal preferences below. Each embedded game has its own storage; clearing portal preferences does not erase that game's progress.

Developer submissions

If you use the developer portal, we store the studio and contact information you provide, game details, uploaded builds and artwork, test records, review feedback and publishing activity. These records support submission review, updates and troubleshooting. Approved game details and artwork become public when published; submission access is restricted to authorized accounts.

Sign out or request account deletion

Signing out ends your website session; it does not delete your account or browser-local game saves. For account deletion or help accessing your information, contact support@foolfishgames.com. We may need to verify that the account belongs to you. Deleting an account removes its associated platform profile and cloud checkpoints; copies stored locally by a game must be cleared in that browser.

Storage and service operation

Account data is retained while the account remains active, until you delete it. Operational backups may retain earlier copies after deletion; a fixed backup deletion period is not currently enforced. Web servers record request information such as IP address, request path, time and response status to operate and protect the service. Google, Firebase and Apple process sign-in information under their respective privacy terms.

Advertising and analytics

The website uses Google Analytics to understand website visits and interactions. We also keep first-party page, guide-reading, navigation and guide-to-game interaction records for up to 90 days. These records use random page-visit identifiers and exclude account IDs, email addresses, search text and URL query parameters. They help us find loading problems and understand which guides lead to play. Google Analytics uses cookies and processes usage information such as visited pages, browser and device information. We do not send Apple account identifiers, names, email addresses, passwords or sign-in tokens to Google Analytics. See Google’s Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites that use its services. Google AdSense may display advertisements beside games on desktop screens. Google and its partners may use cookies and similar technologies to deliver and measure ads. Where applicable, Google’s consent message lets you accept, decline or manage advertising choices and revisit them through its privacy settings link. Ad availability depends on Google’s review, consent choices and available inventory. In-game advertisements are not enabled by this website ad unit.

Contact

For privacy or account questions, email support@foolfishgames.com.