In short

Bravenbloom keeps a few things in your browser because the game cannot work without them: your login, your answer to the age check, and your progress and settings. Those need no permission.

Cookies that help us improve the game are different: they show us how Bravenbloom is played. We use them only if you are 16 or older and say yes when the game asks. Your progress is saved either way, and if you say no, or never answer, the game works exactly the same. There are no advertising cookies.

How we handle the rest of your data is in our Privacy Policy.

Strictly necessary

The game cannot work without these, so it does not ask before using them.

Session cookies from our login provider (Clerk), which keep your account signed in.
bb_age_gate, bb_age_block and bb_age_until: your answer to the age check; after an answer under 13, a mark that keeps the game closed on this browser for 24 hours (it holds only the time it ends, not a date of birth); and for a player aged 13 to 15, the month they turn 16.
bb_guest: an echo of your guest session, so a returning guest goes straight back into the game.
bb_did: a random device id, used only to stop mass-created accounts.
bb_garden_guest: set when a guest votes for a garden, so each guest can vote for each garden only once.
bb_consent: your answer to the cookie question, kept for 6 months. After that, the game asks again.
Local storage in your browser: your game progress and settings, and a second copy of your age answer and your cookie choice.

Only with your yes: analytics

If you are 16 or older, the game asks “Can we use cookies to improve the game?” Only if you say yes do we use:

PostHog analytics cookies and local storage (their names start with ph_), holding a random visitor id and a few details of your visit, so we can see how the game is played from one visit to the next.
A person profile for these analytics. If you have an account, the profile is linked to it, so it follows you from device to device.
Bug replays: recordings of the game screen that help us find bugs. All text is masked in them — chat, names and anything you type — and players under 16 are never recorded.
bb_src: which site or campaign link first brought you here and the page you arrived on, kept for 30 days, so we can tell which places bring players. It holds no identifier.

Without a yes

If you say no, or have not answered, nothing for analytics is stored on your device. We still count visits, in ways that store nothing:

After the age check, PostHog counts without cookies: it stores nothing on your device, and its servers count with a hash they make and forget every day. There is no person profile, no link to your account and no bug replay.
Vercel Web Analytics counts page views without cookies and stores nothing in your browser.
Before the age check, our server only counts visits and finished age checks for each campaign link, without cookies, identifiers, IP addresses or browser details — only the device type and country.

Players under 16

Players under 16 are never asked. For them we only count without cookies, as above: nothing for analytics is stored on their device, and there is no person profile and no bug replay.

Playing on CrazyGames? We don’t ask there either: CrazyGames runs its own cookie choices.

Changing your mind

You can change your answer at any time. This button forgets it, and the question comes back so you can answer again. In the game, Settings → Cookies opens this page.

You can also clear or block cookies in your browser settings. Blocking the strictly necessary ones may stop login, saved progress, the age check or multiplayer from working.