Legal and privacy notice

Notice on copyright and resource usage

The materials included in this repository are shared exclusively for educational and scientific communication purposes related to Aequorea content. All material is attributed to its original authors and cited following the corresponding standards.

The only copies of materials hosted directly on this server are those under open licenses, such as Creative Commons, and the conditions of those licenses are respected, including the required attribution information.

In the case of materials without open licenses (for example, works under traditional copyright), no local copy is hosted. Only an external link to the official source is provided, in order to respect the intellectual property rights and usage policies of each site or publication.

If you believe any resource infringes intellectual property rights or you wish to request the modification or removal of a link or material, you can contact me and I will gladly address the request.

License for materials created by Aequorea

All files, materials and content created by Aequorea and published on this site are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. This allows sharing and adapting the material, including commercially, as long as authorship is credited (attribution) and whatever you build from it is shared under this same license. See the full license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

Note: This license does not apply to videos. Videos published by Aequorea on YouTube are governed by the YouTube Standard License, in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service.

Using the minigame and the leaderboard

Playing is free and needs no account. What identifies you is the player code saved in your browser: whoever holds it can use your identity and delete it, so do not share it. Lose it and you lose control of that identity.

Names go through an automatic filter. It rejects insults, names impersonating someone else, and names that stop everyone else from playing on equal terms. The filter gets it wrong sometimes: if it rejects a name it shouldn't, write through the form and it will be reviewed.

Scores obtained by cheating —tampering with the game, automating it or faking the timings— are removed from the leaderboard, and the identity may be blocked. The board may also be reset when the scoring rules change, so that every score is measured by the same yardstick.

You can withdraw your name and your scores whenever you want with the “Delete my data” button. Any name is also taken down at the request of the person concerned or their parent or guardian.

Privacy notice

Data controller

Aequorea is the controller of the personal data collected on this site. It is a personal project; there is no company behind it and data is never sold or handed to anyone for commercial purposes.

For anything related to this notice, including exercising your rights, write through the contact form on this site.

Data processed

From the contact form: the name, email address and message you write.

From the minigames, only if you choose to save your score: the name and country you pick, your scores and whether you played on mobile or desktop. Name and country are public, because they appear on the leaderboard. No email or password is asked for.

From browsing: the IP address and technical browser data, used to serve the pages and curb abuse. The IP is never stored in full anywhere: where it has to be remembered —the one-message-per-24-hours limit and the minigame's anti-cheat checks— it is first turned into an irreversible code, and that is what is kept alongside your score.

From the minigame's name filter: if it rejects the name you typed, that text is logged next to the IP code, so the lists can be corrected and unfair rejections reviewed.

No sensitive personal data is processed: no health, ethnic origin, beliefs, political opinions, sexual orientation, biometric or financial data.

What it is used for

Necessary purposes, without which the service cannot run: replying to the messages you send, showing the leaderboard, keeping the site secure and curbing mass sending and cheating in the game.

Purposes that are up to you: publishing your name and country on the leaderboard. Playing does not require saving your score; if you do not save it, nothing about you is recorded. Tuning the game difficulty using response times, which carry nothing that identifies you.

Your data is not used for advertising or profiling, and no automated decisions producing legal effects on you are made. The filter that rejects offensive names is an automatic text check, and any rejected name can be reviewed on request.

For readers in the European Union: the lawful basis is consent when you send the form or save your score, and legitimate interest in keeping the site secure and free of abuse.

How long it is kept

Contact form messages, for as long as they are still needed to deal with what you asked: they land in a Gmail mailbox and are deleted once the matter is closed. Those set aside by the anti-spam filter are kept on the server for thirty days —so the ones it sets aside by mistake can be recovered— and are then deleted automatically.

Leaderboard data, for as long as you want to appear there: it is deleted as soon as you ask.

Technical server records, fourteen days. The IP code that rate-limits the form, forty-eight hours.

Game response times, only a recent sample; the rest is deleted automatically.

Game sessions, thirty days. Names rejected by the filter, thirty days or the last three thousand, whichever comes first; and they go immediately if you ask for your data to be deleted.

Third parties and transfers

Your data is neither sold nor shared with third parties for their own purposes. Providers do act on behalf of this site: Google (Gmail, which carries and hosts the messages you send), Cloudflare (page delivery, protection against attacks and Turnstile, the form's anti-robot check, which only loads once you touch it) and YouTube (embedded videos, which only load if you press play).

Those providers are established in the United States, so using them involves an international transfer of data. Each is governed by its own privacy notice.

Fonts and images are served from this site itself, not from external services, so that your browsing does not reach third parties just for opening a page.

Cookies and browser storage

This site uses no advertising or analytics cookies: no Google Analytics, no social pixels, no trackers.

The only thing stored is in your browser’s local storage and exists so the site works: the light or dark theme you chose, the minigame player code and whether you have seen the tutorial. You can clear it whenever you want from your browser settings.

Your rights

You may request access to your data, its rectification if inaccurate, its deletion when it should no longer be processed, and object to specific uses. You may also withdraw any consent you gave and ask that the use or disclosure of your data be limited.

The fast route is in the game itself: inside the leaderboard, under your player code, the “Delete my data” button removes your name, your country and every score of yours instantly and for good.

For anything else, write through the contact form stating which right you want to exercise and which data it concerns. Requests are answered within twenty working days at most.

If you believe your request was not handled properly, you can turn to Mexico’s Secretaría Anticorrupción y Buen Gobierno, which took over the functions of the former INAI in 2025. If you live in the European Union, you may lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority.

Minors

The content is educational and suitable for any age. The leaderboard publishes the name each person chooses: a nickname rather than a full name is recommended. Any name can be taken down at the request of the person or their parent or guardian.

Changes to this notice

Any change is published on this same page, with the update date at the bottom. If the change affects what your data is used for, it will also be announced on the home page.

Last updated: 12 August 2026.

Changes in this revision: it now spells out that the IP is stored as an irreversible code, declares the names rejected by the filter, gives every retention period in concrete terms, names Gmail as the mail carrier, and adds the minigame's rules of use.