What we collect, and why.

Who we are

Moonburrow is made by Leonard Harvey Limited, a New Zealand company ("we", "us"). This policy covers the Moonburrow app for iPhone and this website. We follow the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 and, for players in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, the GDPR.

On your phone

Your progress is saved on your iPhone and stays there: levels completed, your streak and spare lanterns, the creatures in your Field Journal, your boosters and your settings. Deleting the app deletes this information. We don't have a copy of it.

The leaderboard

To rank you on the nightly leaderboard, the app creates an anonymous player account the first time it goes online. It has no name, email or password: just a random ID and a made-up digging name such as "Velvet Badger 42".

When you finish all three of Tonight's Dig boards without a booster, the app sends us:

• the date of the boards and your time and mistakes on each, so we can work out your score;
• your finished burrows, so the server can check the boards were really solved;
• your anonymous player ID and digging name, which other players in your group see next to your score.

We also record your group, your place in it and any boosters you win. This runs on Supabase, which stores it in its Sydney, Australia data centre.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, the reminders that tonight's boards are ready, and that your streak needs a board, are scheduled on your phone itself. To tell you when you've won a prize, the app sends us a push token (an address for your phone's notifications), which we store with your anonymous player account. Prize notifications are delivered through Expo's push service and Apple's Push Notification service. You can turn notifications off any time, in Moonburrow's Settings or in iPhone Settings.

Ads

Moonburrow is free because it shows ads, served by Google AdMob. To show, measure and protect ads against fraud, Google's software in the app collects information such as:

• your device's model and operating system, and the app version;
• your IP address, which gives an approximate location;
• which ads you see and tap, and how the app is performing;
• your iPhone's advertising identifier (IDFA), only if you allow tracking when iOS asks.

Tracking. The first time you play, iOS asks whether Moonburrow may track your activity across other companies' apps and websites. If you allow it, Google and its ad partners can use the advertising identifier to show ads more relevant to you. If you don't, you'll still see ads, just less tailored ones, and the game plays exactly the same. You can change this any time in iPhone Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

In the EEA and the UK, Google's consent form asks for your choices before any personalised ads are shown, and you can change them later.

How Google uses this information is explained in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and in Google's privacy policy.

Who we share with

We don't sell your information. We share it only with the services that run the game:

Some of these companies store information outside New Zealand. We use well-established providers with their own security and privacy commitments. We may also disclose information if the law requires it.

How long we keep it

We keep leaderboard records while they're needed to run the leaderboard and work out skill groups. If you ask, we'll delete your anonymous player account along with everything linked to it. Information held by Google for ads is kept under Google's own retention rules.

Your choices and rights

• Notifications: on or off in Moonburrow's Settings or iPhone Settings.
• Tracking: allow or deny in iPhone Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
• Access, correction and deletion: email us at hello@leonardharvey.com with your digging name, which is shown on the Leaders tab. That lets us find your anonymous account.

You have the right to ask for the information we hold about you and to have it corrected. In the EEA and the UK you can also object to or restrict how it's used, and ask for a copy you can take elsewhere. If you're unhappy with our response, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in New Zealand, or to your local data protection authority.

Children

Moonburrow is a general-audience game and isn't directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has used the leaderboard, email us and we'll delete the account.

This website

This website uses no cookies, analytics or advertising, and its fonts are served from our own site. Vercel, our host, receives the standard information any website does when you visit, such as your IP address and browser, to deliver pages and keep the service secure. The practice board runs entirely in your browser and sends nothing to us.

Changes and contact

If we change how Moonburrow uses information, we'll update this page and the date at the top. Questions about privacy go to hello@leonardharvey.com.

Leonard Harvey Limited, Aotearoa New Zealand.