Privacy Policy

Effective date: 31 August 2026

Detamon is a virtual pet game published by Qode LTD. This policy explains what data the game collects, why it collects it, how long it is kept, and how you can have it deleted. We have tried to keep it short and in plain language, because that is how we would want to read it ourselves.

Who we are (data controller)

The data controller for Detamon is Qode LTD, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 17259547, with its registered office at Liberty House, 30 Whitchurch Lane, Edgware, England, HA8 6LE. For anything related to your data, contact privacy@detamon.io.

The short version

• You do not need an email address, phone number, or password to play. Accounts are anonymous guest accounts tied to a random identifier generated on your device.
• The pet simulation runs entirely on your phone. We never see your step counts in raw form, your camera images, or anything you scan.
• We collect only what the online features need: a device identifier, your chosen username, team chat messages, and your purchase/claim history.
• We do not sell data, show third-party ad tracking, or profile you.
• The detamon.io website uses our own anonymous, cookieless analytics to help us improve the site — it sets no cookies, collects no personal data, and is never sold or shared. The game app itself uses no analytics.
• You can delete your account and its data at any time, from inside the app or via detamon.io/delete-account.

Data we collect

• Device identifier (guest account key). On first launch the app generates a random credential on your device and registers it with our server. We store a hash of it. It identifies your game account; it is not your hardware ID, advertising ID, or anything reusable outside Detamon.
• Chosen username. If you pick a username for the social features, it is stored on our server and visible to other players (friends lists, teams, chat).
• Team chat messages. Messages you send in team chat are stored so they can be delivered, filtered for abusive content, and reviewed if another player reports them.
• Purchase and claim history. A ledger of in-game currency (Pixels) earned and spent, shop purchases, and reward claims. This keeps balances correct and helps us investigate errors or abuse.
• Basic technical logs. Login timestamps and app version, used for support and abuse prevention.

We do not collect your name, email address, contacts, precise location, camera images, or raw step data. Steps are counted and processed only on your device.

How we use the data

• To operate your account, wallet, friends list, team, and chat.
• To moderate chat: automated filtering plus human review of reported messages, so the game stays safe for everyone.
• To prevent cheating and fraud (for example, reward claim limits).
• To fix bugs and provide player support.

We do not use your data for advertising, and we do not sell it. We share it only with processors that act on our behalf under contract: the hosting providers that run our infrastructure (server and database hosting in the European Union). Our website analytics is first-party — we run it ourselves, on our own server, so it is not shared with Google or any other third party (see Website analytics below).

Website analytics (detamon.io)

This section is about the detamon.io website, not the game app. To understand how the site is used so we can improve it, we run our own first-party, cookieless analytics on our own server (the Detamon API). Nothing is sent to Google or any other third party, it sets no cookies, and it collects no personal data.

• What we measure. Pages viewed, time spent on each page and on the site, clicks (which element you clicked and roughly where on the page, for an anonymous heatmap), how far you scroll, device type (mobile, tablet, or desktop), and approximate country.
• No personal data, no IP storage. We do not store IP addresses — an IP is used only for a moment, in memory, to derive an approximate country and to rate-limit abuse, then discarded. We never record anything you type or enter into forms. The only browser storage is a single anonymous, random session id kept in sessionStorage for one visit, which clears when you close the tab — it is not a cookie and is never used to recognise you across visits or across sites.
• Legal basis and your controls. We rely on our legitimate interest in understanding and improving the site, kept proportionate by collecting only anonymous, aggregated data with no cookies and no personal data. It runs on every visit rather than behind a separate toggle, but it honours your browser's “Do Not Track” / Global Privacy Control signal (if you send that signal you are not measured at all) and it does not run if you decline our storage banner.
• How the data is used. Only by us, internally, to improve the website. It is never sold, never shared with or passed to any third party, and never used to train AI or any machine-learning models.
• Retention. Raw analytics data is kept for at most 180 days, then deleted. See the Cookie Policy for the browser storage details.

Security

All traffic between the app and our servers is encrypted in transit using TLS. Account credentials are stored as hashes, not in plain form. Access to production data is restricted to the operator of the service.

Retention

• Account data (identifier, username, wallet, inventory) is kept while your account exists.
• Team chat messages are kept on a rolling basis (roughly the most recent 500 messages per team) and are deleted when older messages push them out, when the team is disbanded, or when your account is deleted.
• Reported-message snapshots are kept while a moderation case is open and for a short period afterwards for appeal handling.
• After account deletion, ledger rows are anonymized (kept only as accounting totals with no link to you).

Deleting your account

You can delete your account from inside the app under Settings → Account → Delete Account, or follow the instructions at detamon.io/delete-account if you no longer have the app installed. Deletion removes your account, username, chat messages, friends and team memberships; the local pet on your device is unaffected until you uninstall the app.

Children

Detamon's online features are not directed at children under 13. The app asks for a date of birth at first launch; players under 13 play in fully offline mode — no account is created, no data is sent to our servers, and social features are unavailable.

Your rights (GDPR)

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you have the right to access, rectify, export, and erase your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing, to withdraw any consent you have given, and to lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority. The legal bases for our processing are the performance of our contract with you (running the game service) and our legitimate interest in keeping the service safe and fair. (Our website analytics holds no personal data, so it does not process personal data about you — see Website analytics above.) To exercise any of these rights, contact us at the address below — please include your in-game username or player ID so we can find your account.

Contact

Data controller: Qode LTD (company number 17259547), Liberty House, 30 Whitchurch Lane, Edgware, England, HA8 6LE.
Email: privacy@detamon.io

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update this page and the effective date above. Material changes will also be announced in the app.