🐞 Ladybug Family — Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 18, 2026

Short version: Ladybug Family has no accounts and does not collect your name, email, or any personal information you'd type in. Your progress and hearts live on your own device. If you join the worldwide Top Foragers board, the 3-letter initials and score you submit are shown publicly — that's the whole point, and it's the only thing you can publish. The site may show ads through Google AdSense.

Information we do NOT collect

We never collect your name, email, phone number, location, contacts, or photos. There is no login and there are no user accounts. We don't run our own analytics or trackers.

Data stored on your device

The game saves the following in your browser's local storage only, so your progress survives between visits. It stays on your device except for the leaderboard submission described below:

Your best food total and level progress
Your banked hearts (lives) and the initials you last used
An offline copy of the leaderboard, used only when the shared board is unreachable

Clearing your browser data removes all of this.

The worldwide leaderboard

When you finish a flight and add your initials, the game sends your 3-letter initials, score, and level to our leaderboard server so you can be ranked among the world's top 10,000 foragers. Those three things are shown publicly on the board, and they are all it sends: no device identifier, no location, nothing else. Each player holds exactly one slot (your single best flight). Initials are chosen by you and aren't tied to your identity. Don't want to be on the board? Tap SKIP — the game plays identically.

Anonymous counters

When a fresh flight starts, the game sends a single anonymous signal to our server that increments a global "games played" counter. It contains only the words ladybug-family — no personal information and no device identifier. Completed purchases increment an equally anonymous sales counter server-side. If the game ever crashes, it reports the error message (never anything about you) so we can fix it.

Purchases

Optional heart packs at Ms. Lady's Flower Stand are processed by Stripe on Stripe's own checkout page — we never see or store your card details. See Stripe's privacy policy.

The site may show ads served by Google AdSense — including optional watch-a-video-for-hearts rewarded ads, which are never forced. Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads, and depending on your settings and region those cookies may personalize ads based on your visits to this and other sites. You can opt out of personalized advertising at Google Ads Settings, and read how Google uses data from partner sites at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Beyond this we run no ad networks of our own.

Children's privacy

Ladybug Family is family-friendly, but because the site can serve general-audience ads it is not designed or directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided information, contact us at the address below.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted at this same address with a new date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email 1schadhoffman@gmail.com.