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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 1, 2025 · Last Updated: June 1, 2025

🛡️ Summary: Garden Gnome stores only your local high score. We collect no personal data, no accounts, and no tracking of any kind.

The Gnome Guards Your Vegetables — We Guard Your Privacy

Garden Gnome is about protecting your patch. The gnome keeps out the rabbits; our privacy policy keeps out unwanted data collection. Your high score is saved in localStorage under the key gnom_best. It is stored on your device, in your garden, visible only to you. We have no key to your browser's localStorage and no way to read its contents remotely.

Server Logs and External Requests

Visiting Garden Gnome causes our web server to create an access log entry: your IP address, browser string, request timestamp, and URL path. These logs are rotated and deleted on a 30-day schedule. They are used only for monitoring and security. Garden Gnome uses the Comfortaa typeface, loaded via Google Fonts if not already cached in your browser. This represents the only potential third-party data exposure in the Game. No advertising network, analytics SDK, social widget, or tracking pixel runs in Garden Gnome. The patch is clean.

Children, Rights, and Policy Updates

The garden welcomes all ages. Garden Gnome is safe for children. We collect no personal data from any player. Parents need not take any action. Future data additions — if any — will be named and described in this policy before they are planted.

Your Data Rights

Players in jurisdictions with formal privacy rights — including GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and similar legislation — may request information about data we hold. Because we retain only brief, anonymised server-access logs, such requests will ordinarily confirm that we hold no personal data linked to any individual. We respond within legally required timeframes. To submit a request, use the official Garden Gnome website or repository contact channel.

No Sale, No Sharing

We do not sell, rent, trade, or share any data with third parties for commercial purposes. If we were ever legally compelled to disclose server-log data — for example, by a valid court order — we would comply with applicable law. We would not do so voluntarily for commercial reasons, because we have no commercial relationship with any data buyer or broker.

💬 Questions about this Privacy Policy? Reach out through the official Garden Gnome website or repository. We maintain this document carefully and take privacy questions seriously.