Privacy Policy
Effective Date:
MeteorBall is operated by ShareDev Technologies, LLC ("ShareDev," "we," "our," or "us").
We respect your privacy and are committed to explaining how information is collected, used, and protected when you visit MeteorBall.
This Privacy Policy applies to meteorball.net and its associated online game, accounts, and community features.
1. Information We Collect
Information You Provide
When you register for an account, we collect information such as:
- Email address
- Public display name
- Account authentication information
Passwords are processed using secure authentication mechanisms rather than stored as readable text.
Before showing the registration form, we ask for your month and year of birth. We use them only to decide whether an account can be created, and we do not store them.
When you participate in community features, we may also store:
- Levels you create and publish
- Level names and configurations
- Verified gameplay solutions
- Scores and leaderboard records
- Ratings
- Reports submitted about community content
- Comments and replies you post on community levels
- The creators you follow
- In-app notifications we create for you (for example, when someone replies to your comment)
- Moderation records about your account and content, such as decisions on reports, warnings and temporary community restrictions, with notes our moderators write
Contact Form
When you send us a message with the contact form, we receive your name, email address, chosen subject and message. They are sent to our support mailbox by email so we can reply to you; the website does not keep a copy in its database. Your email address is used only to reply to you.
The contact form uses Google reCAPTCHA to help keep out automated spam. reCAPTCHA collects hardware and software information, such as device and application data, and sends it to Google for analysis. Its use is subject to Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Information Collected Automatically
When you use MeteorBall, our systems may process technical information including:
- IP address
- Browser and device information
- Requested pages and server activity
- Security and diagnostic information
- Gameplay and community activity associated with your account
We use this information to operate, secure, maintain, and improve MeteorBall.
Browser Storage
MeteorBall uses browser storage to maintain certain preferences, game progress, and locally created levels.
Local drafts and progress may be lost if you clear your browser storage or change devices.
2. How We Use Information
We use information to:
- Provide gameplay and community features
- Create and maintain accounts
- Verify email addresses
- Support password recovery
- Publish user-created levels
- Maintain ratings and leaderboards
- Verify gameplay results
- Prevent fraud and abuse
- Moderate community content
- Respond to support requests
- Maintain website security
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
We do not sell account email addresses to advertisers.
3. Public Community Information
Certain information is publicly visible when you participate in MeteorBall's community.
This may include:
- Public display name
- The avatar you choose from MeteorBall's built-in set (we store only which one; you can't upload pictures)
- Published levels
- Level ratings
- Verified leaderboard scores
- Public gameplay statistics
- Comments and replies you post, with your display name
- The number of followers a creator has (who follows whom is not shown publicly; a creator is notified, with your display name, when you follow them)
Your account email address is not displayed on public community pages.
Do not include personal or sensitive information in public display names, level names or comments.
When you delete a comment, its text is removed, except that text under an open report is kept until a moderator has reviewed it.
4. Advertising
MeteorBall may display advertisements provided by Google AdSense or other advertising partners.
When advertising is enabled, advertising providers may use cookies, device identifiers, or similar technologies to deliver and measure advertisements, subject to applicable law and consent requirements.
Advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized depending on your location, applicable privacy requirements, consent choices, and advertising settings.
Google provides information about its advertising practices and privacy controls through its own privacy documentation.
When advertising is enabled, third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on visits to MeteorBall and/or other sites on the Internet.
By default, MeteorBall requests non-personalized ads. Non-personalized ads are not based on your past browsing, but they may still use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as limiting how often an ad is shown, aggregated ad reporting, and preventing fraud and abuse.
You can opt out of personalized advertising by Google in Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info.
Where required, we will provide appropriate consent choices before using advertising technologies.
We do not intentionally use personalized advertising to target children. The month and year asked before registration are not stored and are never used for advertising.
Advertisements are not shown during gameplay, in the Level Creator, on account or sign-in pages, or within community discussions and comments.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
MeteorBall uses technologies necessary for account authentication, security, and website functionality. These include:
- A sign-in cookie that keeps you signed in, set only when you sign in
- A security cookie that protects MeteorBall's forms from requests made by other websites
- Browser storage for your settings, game progress and the levels you create (see Browser Storage above)
The contact page uses Google reCAPTCHA, described above, which may set or read its own cookies on that page.
Additional technologies may be used for advertising or other optional purposes when those services are enabled.
Where required by applicable law, we will request consent before activating nonessential technologies.
If the answer to the registration age question means we cannot create an account, a necessary cookie that contains no personal information is kept for one day, so the question gives the same answer if it is asked again.
Users may also manage certain cookies through their browser settings.
Disabling necessary browser storage or cookies may affect account access or game functionality.
6. Children's Privacy
MeteorBall is a general-audience puzzle game primarily intended for teenagers and adults.
Users must be at least 13 years old to register for an account. Registration begins with a neutral age question (month and year of birth), which is not stored.
MeteorBall is not specifically directed toward children under 13.
We do not knowingly permit children under 13 to maintain registered accounts without an appropriate legal basis.
If we learn that an account belongs to a child under 13 and the required legal conditions have not been met, we will take appropriate steps concerning the account and associated personal information.
Parents or guardians who believe their child has provided personal information may contact us using the contact information provided on our website.
7. Information Sharing
We may share information with service providers when necessary to operate MeteorBall.
These may include:
- Website hosting providers
- Email delivery providers
- Infrastructure and security providers
- Advertising providers, when advertising is enabled
We may also disclose information when legally required or reasonably necessary to protect the security and integrity of our services.
We do not publicly disclose registered users' email addresses through community features.
8. Data Security
We use technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect information.
These include authentication controls, access restrictions, secure communications, and server-side validation of published levels and leaderboard submissions.
No internet service can guarantee absolute security.
9. Account Deletion
Registered users may request or initiate account deletion through the available account controls.
When an account is deleted:
- Account credentials and identifying account information are removed or anonymized.
- The public display name is replaced with an anonymous designation.
- Historical ratings, scores, and community records may be retained in anonymized form.
- The text of your comments is removed (except text under an open report, which is kept until a moderator has reviewed it), your follows are removed, and notifications addressed to you are deleted.
- Users may choose whether their published levels remain publicly available or are withdrawn, subject to the applicable account deletion process.
Certain records may be retained where necessary for legitimate security, legal, or operational purposes.
10. Data Export
Registered users may access the available account data export feature.
The export may include account information, published level documents, ratings, verified scores, and reports associated with the account.
11. International Availability
MeteorBall is available to users worldwide.
Information may be processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.
Where applicable, we will provide privacy rights and safeguards required by relevant laws.
12. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights to:
- Access personal information
- Request correction
- Request deletion
- Obtain a copy of certain information
- Object to or restrict certain processing
- Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent
You may contact us to exercise applicable rights.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as MeteorBall evolves.
The updated policy will be published on this page with a revised effective date.
Where legally required, we will provide additional notice.
14. Contact
MeteorBall is operated by:
ShareDev Technologies, LLC
Website: meteorball.net
For privacy questions or requests, please use the email address provided on our Contact page.