Privacy policy

Gotchi Galaxy is a pixel pet game for everyone, children included. It has no ads, no accounts and no login, and it never sells or rents anything about you. This page says exactly what the game keeps, what it sends, and how to switch things off.

Last updated: 17 October 2026. The game is made by Qifi. Questions, or a request to delete something: support@gotchigalaxy.app.

What stays on your device

Your game lives on your device: your pets and their names, your player name, your rooms, your settings and a random device id. None of it is sent anywhere unless you use one of the online features below.

• Steps ("Walk with me"), only if you turn it on: the game reads today's step count from your phone to make trips shorter. The count stays on your phone and is never sent.
• Pictures you take with the in-game camera button only leave the device if you choose to share or save them.
• Backups: on Android, your phone may include the game's save in its own backup to your Google account, like other apps. That is your phone's backup, which we never see.

What the game sends, and why

Everything the game sends travels encrypted (HTTPS).

Anonymous usage counts. Once a day the game sends a short summary: which parts of the game were opened and for how long, how many times things were done (for example games played or eggs hatched), how quickly our server answered, the game version and the kind of device (Android, iPhone, Mac, web). It carries a random id that changes every 30 days, and no names, no pets and no device id. We use it to see which parts of the game players enjoy. A grown-up can switch it off under Settings > Grown-ups > Share usage; nothing is counted or sent after that.

Crash reports. If the game crashes, it sends a report so we can fix the problem: what went wrong, the game version, the device model and system version, and the game's last steps before the crash. Reports do not include player or pet names. They carry your friend code (the random code Pet Plaza shows, made from the device key), so that when you write to us we can find the reports from your game. They go to Sentry, the service we use to read them.

Playing online (the town square, friends, visits, gifts, leaderboards, the community goal), only when you use it:

• Your device has a random device key that signs what it sends, so nobody else can pretend to be you. Our server keeps it next to your leaderboard scores and your share of the community goal.
• On the town square, other players see your pet and a small number, never your name. Messages between players are ready-made ones and stickers only: there is no chat.
• Friends you add see your player name and the pet cards you send them. Messages to friends wait on our server for at most 7 days, and are gone as soon as they are read. A gift for you from the game's maker can wait for up to 30 days.
• Moving your island to a new device sends it locked with a one-time code; our server cannot open it, and it is deleted after 10 minutes.
• To stop floods of fake requests, our server counts requests per internet address for a minute at a time, and for the community goal keeps a scrambled tag of the address (it cannot be turned back into the address) for at most 4 weeks.
• Settings > Friends online switches friends off.

Playing on the same Wi-Fi. Nearby players on your network can see your player name, your pet and its name. Settings > Findable hides you.

Updates and events. The game reads the list of live events (and, on Mac and the web, the list of updates) from our public pages on GitHub. Like any web page, GitHub sees the device's internet address when it is read.

Names are nicknames

The game never asks for a real name, an email, a birthday or where you live. Player and pet names are nicknames: please do not use a real full name. Names you type are only shown to friends you add and to players on your own Wi-Fi.

Who else is involved

• Cloudflare runs our online server and stores the usage counts.
• Sentry receives crash reports.
• GitHub hosts the public pages the game reads.

None of them may use the data for anything but running these services. There are no ads, no advertising ids and no tracking across other apps or websites.

Children

The game is made to be safe for children. It collects no contact details and has no chat, and the only things another player can see are a pet, a number and, for friends and nearby players, a nickname. A grown-up can set a daily play limit, quiet hours and school hours, and switch the usage counts off, under Settings > Grown-ups (behind a small grown-up check). Purchases, when the game offers them, sit behind the same check.

Keeping and deleting

• Usage counts are kept for up to 90 days, crash reports for up to 90 days.
• Leaderboard scores and community goal shares are kept for the season they belong to, then removed.
• To delete everything on your device, use Settings > Start over, or remove the game.
• To delete what our server holds for your device, write to support@gotchigalaxy.app with your friend code (Pet Plaza shows it). We delete it within 30 days.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version goes on this page with a new date, and the game's What's new card mentions it.