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Pathfinder Chronicles · last changed 13 October 2026

Pathfinder Chronicles is a game for children aged 10 to 16. It is built to know as little about its players as a game with accounts can: a nickname, a PIN and what the player has done in the game. This page says exactly what that is, in the website and in the iPhone, iPad and Android apps, which are the same game.

Who runs the game

Pathfinder Chronicles is made and run by Ben White, a leader in Wahroonga Pathfinder Club in Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia. To ask anything about this page, or to ask for a player's information or its deletion, write to:

What the game keeps

To play, a child makes up a nickname and a 4-digit PIN. The game then keeps, for that player:

• The nickname. The game asks for a nickname, not a real name, and other players see it.
• A scrambled form of the PIN. The PIN itself is never stored. What is stored cannot be turned back into the PIN, by us or by anyone who took a copy of it.
• How the player's character looks: the choices made on the character screen.
• What the player has done in the game: badges, quests, coins and what they were earned or spent on, things bought and worn, race times, fish caught, match results, choices made in the story, letters opened, the parts of the map explored, votes on ideas for the game, and where the character was last standing.
• When the account was made and when it was last used.
• Ideas typed into "Have your say". A player may type a short idea for the game. It goes to the people who make the game and to nobody else; no player ever sees another's.
• Players hidden and names reported. A player can hide another player from their own game, and report another player's nickname to the leaders. The game keeps who they hid and whose names they reported. Nobody is told who hid them, and who made a report is never shown to anyone, leaders included.
• A sign-in record for each device the player is signed in on, so that they stay signed in. It is a scrambled form of the cookie described below.

What the game never asks for or collects

• No real name, email address, phone number, home address, school, age or date of birth.
• No photos, contacts, microphone, camera or location.
• No advertising, no analytics or tracking, no in-app purchases, and no code from other companies inside the game or its apps.
• No chat. Players cannot type to each other; they can only wave and use a few other fixed gestures.

Cookies and what is kept on the device

The game sets one cookie, pf_session, when a player signs in. It keeps them signed in for up to 30 days after they last played, is used for nothing else, and cannot be read by any other website. Signing out removes it.

The browser or app also remembers whether the player turned the sound off. Nothing else is stored on the device.

Who else handles the information

The game runs on Cloudflare, a hosting company, which stores the information above on our behalf and delivers the game to each device. Like every website's host, it sees the internet address of a device while it is connected. The game uses that address for one purpose: to slow down anyone trying many PINs in a short time. The game does not save it. Cloudflare keeps its own short-lived technical logs of requests.

The leaders are emailed when a nickname is reported, and each morning with the day's reported nicknames and new ideas, so that they can act on them quickly. The emails are sent through Cloudflare and go only to the people who make the game. They never say who made a report.

Nothing is sold, and nothing is given to anyone else. The game loads no fonts, scripts or pictures from any other company, so no other company learns that a device has opened it.

What other players see

Other players in the game see a player's nickname, their character, the badges they have earned and, on the leaderboards, their best times and scores. Nicknames are checked against a list of words that are not allowed.

How long it is kept

An account, and everything the game keeps with it, is kept until someone asks for it to be deleted. Nothing is removed just because an account has not been used for a while. A player or their parent can delete an account at any time, as described next.

Deleting an account

A player can delete their account from inside the game: open the menu (☰), choose Delete my account and type the PIN. Everything listed under "What the game keeps" is removed at once, on every device. How to delete an account has the steps, what to do if the PIN is forgotten, and the little that remains afterwards.

Children and parents

Pathfinder Chronicles does not require a parent's or guardian's consent to play. It asks a child for a made-up nickname and a PIN, and for nothing else about them.

A parent or guardian can ask to see, correct or delete what the game holds about their child: write to the address at the top of this page with the child's nickname, and say how we can reply. We may ask a question or two first, to be sure the request comes from the child's parent or guardian. An account can also be deleted at once from inside the game, as described above.

Changes to this page

If what the game keeps ever changes, this page changes first, and the date at the top with it.