What this site knows about you

What gets stored

• Your account. Your email address, the name you choose to show, and when you signed up and last signed in. If you use a password, it's stored scrambled (hashed), never as the password itself. If you sign in with Google or Microsoft, there's no password here at all.
• Your request to join. The note you wrote asking for access, and what I decided. Kept so a mistaken "no" can be fixed later without losing the history.
• The server chat. Everything said out loud on the Minecraft server, plus joins and deaths, with the player's username and the time. That history is the whole point of the parent portal.
• Family messages. What your kid sends with the /family command, and the replies you send back, recorded against your account.
• Your kids' usernames. The Minecraft usernames or Xbox gamertags you link to your account. A Java username is checked against Mojang's public directory to confirm it exists; that lookup sends the username and nothing else.

That's the list. There's no browsing history, no location, no contacts, nothing scraped from anywhere.

Who can see what

• You see the public server chat, and the private family thread for your own kids. Nobody else's.
• Other approved parents can see your display name in the members list, your linked players once I've verified them, and roughly when you were last here. Never your email address.
• Private whispers between players on the server are not shown to parents. A kid's /family messages go to that kid's own parents and no one else.
• Me. I run the machines, so like the staff at any service you use, I can technically see everything. In practice I look when something breaks or a parent raises a concern.

The live map of the game world is a separate, public page. It shows in-game positions and player names, the same things anyone standing in the game would see. It knows nothing about portal accounts.

Cookies and signing in

One cookie, and it's the one that keeps you signed in. There are no analytics cookies and no ad cookies, because there are no analytics and no ads. Fonts, styles and scripts are all served from this site, so pages here don't call out to anyone else.

If you sign in with Google or Microsoft, they know you signed in here (that's how the button works) and they pass me your email address. That's the entire exchange.

Like every web server, this one keeps routine logs: which pages were requested, and from which address. I read them when something breaks, and they stay in the house like everything else.

Where it lives, and for how long

On my own hardware, at my house, with the connection encrypted in transit (that's the padlock in your browser). Nothing sits in anyone else's cloud.

Chat history is kept so parents can read back through it; it isn't deleted on a schedule. It's backed up, because losing everyone's stuff would be the worse failure.

If you want out, ask me: I can delete your account, remove a linked player, or take your whole family off the server. What was said in the shared chat stays part of the server's history, the same way a message you sent to a group chat doesn't vanish from everyone's phones, but everything about you (account, email, links, access) is removable.

About the kids

Kids don't have accounts here. Parents do.

Children show up in the chat history because they play on the server, which is invite-only: I add every player by hand, and every player is the child (or the parent) of someone I know. If you'd rather your child's messages weren't part of what other parents can search, that's a conversation to have with me, and the answer might simply be that this server isn't the right fit.

If any of this changes

It's a family server, so this page changes when the software does, not because a lawyer rewrote it. If something on this page stops being true in a way that matters (say, chat starts leaving the house), I'll tell the parents directly rather than quietly editing this page.

And if you want to know exactly what's stored about you, ask. I'll show you.