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Privacy Policy

Effective

WAGGLE GAMES (the "Operator") processes the personal information of players of Waggle Cells (the "Game") in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act of the Republic of Korea and other applicable laws. This policy applies to the Game and its website (https://www.waggle.games).

When you play the Game on another site such as itch.io, the information the Game itself processes is covered by this policy. Information that site processes on its own is covered by that site's policy, and account linking is not offered on other sites.

1. Personal Information We Process

You can play as a guest without signing up, and you may link a Google, NAVER or Discord account if you wish. Depending on how you play, we process the following.

When you play (every player, guests included)

  • Device identifiers: a random device ID created for each browser, and a device key
  • Nickname: the name you choose
  • Game data: match results (mode, rank, kills, deaths, level and so on), coins, items and titles, achievements and cell mastery, equipped cosmetics, and a one-time copy of earlier records kept in your browser
  • Environment: device type (phone, tablet or computer), game version, language, and the site the Game was opened on
  • Connection records: when you connected and left, the mode you played and how long you stayed

When you link a social account

  • Google: your Google account's unique identifier, email address and whether the address is verified
  • NAVER: your NAVER account's unique identifier, email address, nickname (if you agree to share it) and the authentication token used to unlink the account
  • Discord: your Discord account's unique identifier, email address, whether the address is verified, and display name (or username if there is none)
  • Signed-in devices: a device name (for example Chrome · Windows), when it was last used, and the information that keeps you signed in
  • Account security records: when linking, sign-in, sign-out, unlinking and account deletion happened, and on which device

We never receive your Google, NAVER or Discord password. We do not collect your name, date of birth, phone number or photo.

When you visit the website

  • Visit statistics: the pages you visit, the address of the previous page, browser and operating system, approximate location (country and city), and in-game events (the mode you joined, the cells you picked and so on)

Visit statistics are processed by the analytics services in sections 6 and 7.

2. Purposes of Processing

  • Providing the Game: matchmaking, showing nicknames and cosmetics, saving records, coins and items, and granting rewards
  • Account linking: signing in and staying signed in, continuing your records on other devices, naming the account of a player who has not chosen a nickname, unlinking and account deletion
  • Preventing abuse and keeping the service secure: checking abnormal connections and reward gains, responding to security incidents
  • Support: handling your questions and requests
  • Improving the service: analysing usage statistics and finding errors

3. Legal Basis

  • Information needed to provide the Game and link accounts: processed to provide the service you request (Personal Information Protection Act, Article 15(1)4).
  • NAVER nickname: processed only if you agree to share it on NAVER's consent screen (Article 15(1)1 of the same Act).
  • Abuse prevention, security and usage statistics: processed to the extent necessary for the Operator's legitimate interests (Article 15(1)6 of the same Act).

The Game does not ask your age and processes only the minimum information needed to provide the service.

4. Retention and Destruction

  • Social account information (unique identifier, email address, NAVER token): destroyed as soon as you unlink the account or delete your account.
  • Nickname and game data: kept while you use the Game. When you delete your account, your nickname is erased, and the coins, items and records stay with the deleted account and can no longer be continued.
  • Sign-in information: expires 90 days after it was last used, and is invalidated immediately when you sign out, unlink or delete your account.
  • Temporary sign-in data: erased as soon as sign-in completes; data from a sign-in that never completes is destroyed after one day.
  • Connection records, usage statistics and account security records: kept for one year, then destroyed.

Electronic files are destroyed in a way that cannot be recovered.

5. Provision to Third Parties

The Operator does not provide your personal information to third parties, except where required by law.

During a match, your nickname, profile icon, title, cell cosmetics and match record (kills, rank and so on) are visible to other players in that match. A result card leaves the Game only when you save or share it yourself.

6. Processors

The Operator entrusts the following companies with processing personal information to provide the service.

  • Amazon Web Services, Inc.: running the game server and storing data (Seoul region, Republic of Korea)
  • Vercel Inc.: serving the website, relaying social sign-in results, visit statistics (Vercel Web Analytics)
  • Google LLC: visit and usage statistics (Google Analytics)

7. International Transfers

Because the website and analytics use companies abroad, the following information is sent abroad over the network while you visit the website and play the Game. These transfers are disclosed in this policy under Article 28-8(1)3 of the Personal Information Protection Act.

Vercel Inc.

  • Country: United States (with delivery points around the world)
  • Contact: privacy@vercel.com
  • Information: website connection records, browser and device information, visit statistics, and the data needed to relay social sign-in results
  • Purpose: serving the website, relaying social sign-in results, visit statistics
  • When and how: sent over the network each time you visit the website
  • Retention: under the company's policy; the visitor hash used for visit statistics is discarded after 24 hours

Google LLC

  • Country: United States
  • Contact: https://support.google.com/policies/contact/general_privacy_form
  • Information: cookie identifiers, pages visited, browser and device information, in-game events
  • Purpose: visit and usage statistics (Google Analytics)
  • When and how: sent over the network while you use the game page
  • Retention: under the Google Analytics data retention setting

You can refuse the transfer of statistics to Google in the ways described in section 8; refusing does not affect the Game. The transfer to Vercel is necessary to serve the website, so without it you cannot use the website or the Game.

8. Cookies and Browser Storage

  • The Game itself does not use cookies. Instead it keeps the device ID, device key, sign-in information, nickname, settings and a copy of your records in your browser's storage. Clearing the site's data in your browser removes them, and guest records without a linked account can no longer be continued on that device.
  • Google Analytics uses cookies to tell visitors apart. You can block cookies in your browser settings or opt out with the add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  • YouTube videos on the About and Patch Notes pages load only when you press play, and YouTube's (Google's) policy applies from then on.

9. Your Rights and Those of Legal Guardians

You can ask at any time to access, correct or delete your personal information, or to stop its processing.

  • Changing your nickname: in the Game's Profile.
  • Unlinking and deleting your account: under Manage account in your Profile. You may be asked to sign in again to confirm it is you.
  • App approvals on your social accounts: unlinking leaves the Game's approval in your Google and Discord accounts, and you can remove it in each service's account settings. For NAVER, the Operator requests its removal when you unlink or delete your account.
  • Other requests: email the address in section 11. We will tell you the outcome within 10 days of receiving your request.

The legal guardian of a child under 14 may exercise the same rights over the child's personal information.

10. Security Measures

  • All communication between the Game and the server is encrypted.
  • Device keys and sign-in information are stored as values transformed so they cannot be reversed, never as the original values.
  • NAVER tokens are stored encrypted.
  • Only the Operator's staff can access the operating tools, with a password.

11. Privacy Officer

For questions, complaints or requests about personal information, please contact:

12. Remedies

If you need advice or dispute resolution about a privacy infringement, you can contact the following Korean agencies.

13. Changes to This Policy

When we change this policy, we will announce it on this page at least 7 days before the change takes effect. This is a translation; if it differs from the Korean original, the Korean original prevails.

  • Effective: October 20, 2026
  • Main change: Discord account linking added (the previous policy took effect on October 18, 2026)