Privacy policy

Last updated November 2, 2026. Written for parents, in plain words.

The short version. Children's accounts are only made by a parent. We keep what the game needs to work (names, passwords, saved games, play time) and nothing else. There are no ads, no chat, no tracking, and we never sell or share your family's information. You can download or delete all of it at any time on the parent website.

Who we are

Ranger's Craft is a small family-made game, designed and built by Carter Jonsson with a parent. Questions or requests: email the address on the parent website.

What we collect

Parent account: your email address and password. Passwords are stored scrambled (hashed), so nobody, including us, can read them.
Each Ranger (child) account, made by you: the name shown in the game, a username and password (hashed), and the rules you set (screen time, play hours, chores).
Game progress: saved worlds, items, quests, and how long each Ranger played each day (for screen-time limits).
Reports: if a Ranger reports another player, we keep who reported whom, why, and when.
Payments: every family plays free for 14 days with no card. After that a membership is $3 a month (a private server adds $5 a month), paid in Stripe's secure payment form shown on our site. Your card details go straight to Stripe: we never see or store card numbers; we keep only Stripe's customer and subscription numbers, so we know your membership is paid for. Promo codes let some families play free.
For security only: your internet address is used for a few minutes to stop people guessing passwords. We don't store it.

We do not ask children for their email, real name, age, location, photo or anything else. Please use a nickname for each Ranger's name.

What other players can see

On the shared public server, other players see each Ranger's name above their character and what they build. There is no chat, so nobody can send your child messages. On a private server only your family's Rangers can join. If someone is unkind, Rangers can press P to report them, and a grown-up who runs the game can pause that account on the public server.

How we use it

Only to run the game: signing in, keeping progress, applying the rules you set, running private servers, and keeping players safe. No advertising, no profiling, no selling, no sharing, except with the services that run the game for us: Render (hosting, in the United States), Stripe (payments) and an email service (password-reset emails only).

Cookies and tracking

None. Sign-ins are kept only in the open browser tab and end when you close it. There are no analytics or advertising trackers.

Your choices, as a parent

See it: "Download our data" on the parent website gives you everything we store about your family.
Delete it: remove a single Ranger, or "Delete our family account" to erase everything. Deleting is immediate; backup copies are removed within 8 weeks.
Stop it: you can delete a Ranger's account at any time, and they can no longer play or be seen.
Ask us: email us and we'll help with anything on this page.

Children under 13

Children can't sign up on their own: a parent creates every Ranger account from the parent website, which is how we ask for a parent's permission. If you think a child's information is here without a parent's permission, contact us and we'll delete it.

Keeping it safe

The site uses an encrypted connection (HTTPS), passwords are hashed, repeated wrong passwords are blocked for 10 minutes, and backup copies are kept so a mistake can be undone. Backups are deleted after at most 8 weeks.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll update the date above and tell parents on the parent website.