Privacy Policy
Last updated October 26, 2026
The short version. Surf Animals has no accounts. If you post a score to the world leaderboard, we store that score along with the initials and pet name you typed, plus a random ID the game made up. If you redeem an unlock code, report a leaderboard entry or send in-game feedback, we store that too, nothing personal. The game also sends us anonymous play statistics (like which lessons you finish) to help us improve it, unless you turn that off in Options → Help make the game better; in the EU, UK and Switzerland it starts off. You can delete your scores and statistics from the game at any time: Options → Delete my scores. We don't sell your data.
Ads: Surf Animals has never shown ads and doesn't use your advertising ID. If that ever changes, we'll update this policy first.
Who we are
Wicked Kitty Games is an independent game studio. This policy covers our game Surf Animals (on Android, including Android Auto, and iPhone), Comet Cat, Dare Divers, our Roblox games, and this website, wickedkittygames.com. Every version of Surf Animals collects the same things. Questions or requests: [email protected].
What Surf Animals collects
Apart from anonymous play statistics (see Play statistics), nothing leaves your device unless you post a score to the world leaderboard, redeem an unlock code, collect a contest prize, report a leaderboard entry, or send feedback. When you do, the game sends:
| What | Details |
|---|---|
| What you typed | The 3 initials you pick, and your custom pet's name (up to 8 letters) and look, if you ride one. |
| Your run | Score or wipeout value, run length, season, game mode, the rider you chose, the game's build number, and the time. |
| A random install ID | The game makes up a random ID the first time it runs and uses it to sign your scores, so nobody else can post or delete them as you. It isn't your device ID or advertising ID and isn't linked to any account. We also keep when the ID was created and whether it has been banned for abuse. |
| An unlock code, if you redeem one | Unlock codes are free codes we hand out (never sold). Each one unlocks something: ad-free play, or in-game items like clams or gear. If you redeem one, we record that your install ID redeemed it, which code it was, and when. If it was an ad-free code, we also mark your install as ad-free. We only keep a scrambled (hashed) form of the codes themselves. Each code has a short note we wrote when we gave it out, such as a first name or a group like a team, so a redeemed code can tell us who we gave it to. If you type a wrong code, we keep that attempt (install ID and time) for one day to stop code-guessing. |
| A contest prize, if you win one | If a score of yours wins a contest, we may send a prize (clams, gear or ad-free play) to the install that posted it. We keep the prize, a short message (like "You won the Wipeout Contest!"), which score won, and when it was sent and collected, all tied to that install ID. Nothing extra is sent from your phone: the game just checks whether a prize is waiting. |
| A report, if you report another player's entry | If you report a leaderboard entry, we keep which entry you reported, from which install ID, and when, so a person can review it. Nothing typed is sent. An entry reported by three different players is hidden until we've looked at it. The player you reported is never told who reported them. |
| In-game feedback, if you send it | The button you tapped (Fun, Too hard, Confusing, Bug or Idea) and, if you picked one, your mood. The game adds its build number, your platform (Android, Android Auto or iPhone), your screen size, which screen you sent it from, and your last run's score, length, how it ended, and the season. There's no name and no typed text. Your install ID is stored with your feedback so we can limit how often feedback is sent and delete it when you ask. |
We don't collect: your name, email, account, location, contacts, photos, advertising ID or device identifiers. The game uses no third-party analytics, tracking or ad tools.
Play statistics
To see how people play, so we can make the game better, the game sends us anonymous play statistics. We collect these ourselves: no third-party analytics tools, and nothing is used for ads.
- What's sent: when you open the game; Surf School lesson steps you finish or quit; the end of each run (run number, length, score, how it ended, best multiplier and clams picked up); shop items you look at or buy, with their price and your clams at the time; boards you buy, with how many runs and minutes you'd played; "Learn more" lessons offered, tapped and finished; and trophies earned. Each comes with your platform (Android, Android Auto or iPhone), the game's version, and how many days since you installed it.
- What it's tied to: only your random install ID. No initials, pet names, names, advertising ID or other identifiers. Your IP address isn't stored.
- Your choice: turn it off any time in Options → Help make the game better. When it's off, nothing is recorded or sent, and anything waiting to be sent is deleted. In the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland it starts off, and only you can turn it on. Until the game knows which region you're in, it sends nothing.
- Where and how long: stored with Cloudflare in North America for one year, then deleted. Options → Delete my scores deletes them sooner.
Ads
Surf Animals has never shown ads. It contains no ad software and doesn't use your advertising ID. If we add ads in a future version, we'll describe them here before that version is released.
What's public
The world leaderboard shows your initials, score, rider and pet (including its name) to everyone. Don't type anything into those fields that you wouldn't want others to see. Names are checked against a blocked-words list, both in the game and on our server, and we remove anything inappropriate.
How we use it
Only to run the game's online features: showing scores, stopping cheating, spam and code-guessing, moderating names, keeping what an unlock code unlocked working, and reading feedback to make the game better (including the play statistics above), and reviewing reported entries. We don't use the data we store for advertising, we don't build profiles, and we don't sell it.
IP addresses and logs
Like any internet service, our server sees your IP address when the game connects. We use it only in memory, for a few minutes, to stop spam, and we never store it. Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, keeps routine technical logs under its own privacy policy.
Where it's stored and who processes it
Leaderboard, unlock-code, report, feedback and play-statistics data is stored with Cloudflare, our service provider, in North America, and is encrypted in transit (HTTPS). Cloudflare processes it on our behalf and doesn't use it for its own purposes. No one else receives it.
How long we keep it
- Scores stay on the leaderboard until you delete them. When a new season starts, older seasons' boards may be archived offline.
- Scores hidden by moderation or by our cheat check are deleted 90 days after they were hidden.
- An install ID with no scores that hasn't posted for 12 months is deleted, together with its unlock-code records. Clams or gear you unlocked stay in your game's save on your phone. The one exception is an ad-free unlock: then we keep the ID, its ad-free mark and that redemption record, so ad-free play keeps working.
- Wrong unlock-code attempts are deleted after one day.
- In-game feedback is deleted after 180 days.
- Play statistics are deleted after one year.
- A contest prize record is deleted 180 days after your game collects it, or when its install ID is deleted.
- A report is deleted after 90 days, or when the reported entry or the reporting install ID is deleted.
Deleting your data
In the game, open Options → Delete my scores. That erases every score, every piece of in-game feedback, your play statistics, any contest prize records, the reports you made and any reports of your entries for your install right away. If you no longer have the game, email [email protected] with your initials, roughly when you posted, and roughly what you scored. Since there are no accounts, that's how we find your scores. Delete my scores doesn't touch unlock codes: those records stay, so you keep what you unlocked. To remove those too, email us the code or who we gave it to. Depending on where you live, you may have other rights over your data, such as access or correction. Email us and we'll help.
Saves on your device
Your progress, unlocked gear and settings are saved on your phone. If you have device backup turned on, your phone may back up the game's save (including the key that signs your scores) to your own Google account (Android) or Apple account (iPhone). That backup is between you and Google or Apple; we never receive it.
Children
Surf Animals is made for a general audience and isn't directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children. If you think a child has put personal information on the leaderboard, for example a real name, email [email protected] and we'll delete it.
Comet Cat
Comet Cat (Android, including Android Auto) has no accounts, and we collect nothing from it. There are no analytics, no crash reporting and no in-app purchases. Everything it saves stays on your device: your fish, the cats you own, the high-score table with the initials you type, your settings and how far you've got. Uninstalling the game deletes all of it. We never receive any of it.
Ads: Comet Cat includes Google AdMob (the Google Mobile Ads SDK), which uses the internet. Ads are switched off for now; we'll turn them on in a later update. When they're on, they appear on your phone only, never on the Android Auto (car) screen.
- What you'll see once ads are on: an optional "watch an ad for double fish" button after a run, and a full-screen ad about every fourth run.
- Child-safe settings: every ad request is marked as directed to children, and ads are limited to content rated G, so ads are never personalized. The game doesn't use your device's advertising ID.
- What Google collects: through its ad software, Google may collect your approximate location (from your IP address), how you interact with the app and its ads, diagnostic information, and an app-set ID. Google uses this to show ads and prevent fraud. We don't receive this data. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services.
Dare Divers
Dare Divers (Android) is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases. It has no accounts, and we collect nothing from it and share nothing. There are no analytics and no ad software, and the game doesn't use the internet. The only permission it asks for is vibration.
Your save (progress and best scores) and your settings (sound and vibration) stay on your phone. Uninstalling the game deletes them. We never receive any of it. Dare Divers is made for players 13 and up.
Roblox games
Our games on Roblox, like Candy Siege, are free. We save your best wave score, stored in Roblox's own game storage and linked to your Roblox user ID so the game remembers it next time. We don't save your name, text chat is turned off, and there are no ads or purchases. Your Roblox account, and everything Roblox itself collects, is handled by Roblox under Roblox's privacy policy.
Candy Siege also has an Ideas & Bugs box in its lobby. If you use it, we store the type you picked (Idea or Bug), your short note after Roblox's text filter, your Roblox user ID and the time, in Roblox's own game storage (the same place as your score). Nothing else is saved with it. Notes are private: no other player sees them. We read them to improve the game and delete them once read. Please don't put your name or other personal details in a note.
The feedback form
If you use the feedback form on this website, we store your message, the topic you picked (if any) and your email address (only if you give it), plus the time. We don't store your IP address or browser details; your IP is used only briefly, in memory, to stop spam. We use your message to improve the game, and your email only to reply to you. It's stored with Cloudflare in North America alongside in-game feedback, and deleted after 180 days. To have it deleted sooner, email [email protected].
This website
wickedkittygames.com uses no cookies, analytics or trackers, and loads nothing from third parties. Cloudflare hosts the site and, like any web host, processes your requests and keeps routine technical logs. The Discord link takes you to Discord, which has its own privacy policy.
Changes
If what the game collects changes, for example if we add ads or new tools, we'll update this policy before that version of the game is released, and change the date at the top.