The plain version, for Fable on the web and in the Fable app for iPhone and iPad.
Fable is free, there are no ads, and nothing here is sold or shared with anyone who wants to advertise to you. There is no account and no sign-up, so we never learn your name or your email unless you write to us. We set no cookies at all.
WILD SPACE GAMES LTD (company number 17459686), Lytchett House, 13 Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Poole, Dorset, BH16 6FA, United Kingdom. We are the data controller for everything below. Write to hello@wild.space.
When you first open Fable, your browser makes up a random number for itself and keeps it. That number is all we know you by. It is not tied to your name, your email, your phone or your other devices, and if you clear the browser or open a private window, you become a new player with a new number and no history.
In the Fable app it works the same way. The app also keeps a copy of the number in the device's own storage, because iOS sometimes clears a web page's storage to make space, and that number is the only key to your collection. Deleting the app deletes both.
If you bring your collection from the web into the app with a code, we join the two numbers into one and keep a note of which became which.
Your progress: which creatures you've named, when, and how each round went, including how long it took.
Where you played from: the country, which our hosting provider works out from the internet address you came in on. We keep the country and nothing finer, and we don't keep the internet address itself.
How you arrived: if you followed a tagged link of ours, the tag it carried; if you followed a link a player shared, which share it was, and whose. That is how we can tell that people who arrive through one place go on to share, and people who arrive through another don't. And when you tap a share button, we record the tap, what you shared and the country you shared from.
Other players see a name for you on the Daily boards and in live rooms. The game makes one up until you choose your own. Every name is checked when it reaches us, and a rude one, or one with a link, an @ or a phone number in it, is swapped for a made-up one. Anyone can report a name with a tap. It is hidden for everyone straight away, and we keep the report (the name, who sent it, where) so a person can look at it.
The Fable app keeps a few rounds ready on the device, photos included, along with the drawings and the music, so it plays without a signal. Rounds played offline wait on the device and reach us when the signal comes back.
If you turn on the daily reminder in the Fable app, Apple gives the app an address for your device so we can send it. We keep it with your number, use it for the reminder and nothing else, and delete it when you turn reminders off.
We don't take contacts, photos, files or location from your device's GPS. There is no tracking pixel, no advertising network and no analytics company anywhere in Fable.
Our lawful basis is legitimate interests: running the game, keeping it working and fair, fixing what's broken, and understanding where players come from so we know where to spend a small amount of effort. We think this is what you'd expect from a game that asks for nothing, and none of it is used to make decisions about you as a person.
We keep it while the game is running. We're a very small operation and we don't promise a deletion schedule we haven't built, so we'd rather say plainly: assume it stays until you ask us to remove it.
Our hosting and database run on Supabase, in their West EU region (Paris), and the site and its edge on Cloudflare and Vercel. They process this data for us and nobody else. The photographs load from Flickr and iNaturalist, so they see that your device asked for those pictures, under their own terms. If you turn on the reminder, Apple carries it to your device. Nobody else receives anything.
You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email hello@wild.space. Because we only know you by the random number on your device, we'll tell you how to find it and send it to us. If you'd rather just disappear, clearing the site's data in your browser detaches you from everything we hold. In the Fable app, deleting the app does the same.
If you're in the UK or the EU you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority; in the UK that's the Information Commissioner's Office.
Fable is played by children too, so it is built to ask for nothing about them. There is no sign-up, no email and no real name, only the random number. The name other players see is checked, and anyone can report one. Fable keeps the country it was played from and nothing finer.
If you think we hold something about a child that we shouldn't, write to us and we'll remove it.
If any of this is unclear, or you want something taken out, write to hello@wild.space and a person will answer.