Privacy & safety

duggu.uk is a hobby project made by a kid, for kids. Here’s exactly what happens with your information. (Short version: almost nothing.)

No ads. No cookies. No real names. No chat. Nobody can message anyone else here, and every idea is read by a person before anyone else can see it.

What we collect

Only what you type into the Idea Board form:

  • the kind of idea, its title and its description,
  • a nickname, if you choose to give one (we ask everyone to make one up), and
  • the time it was sent.

We never ask for real names, email addresses, ages, schools or locations. The form blocks links, email addresses, phone numbers and social media usernames, so they can’t be shared by mistake.

Who sees it

Every idea goes into a private waiting list. Duggu, with a grown-up’s help, reads each one. Only approved ideas are shown on the board. Ideas that aren’t approved are deleted, not kept. Private notes to Duggu are never shown publicly.

So nothing waits too long, a copy of each new idea is also emailed privately to the grown-up who helps look after the site. That email only goes to them.

Orbit pilots and scores

To save scores in Orbit you can make a pilot: a call sign built from fun word lists (like “Cosmic Otter 42”) plus a secret pilot code. You can’t type your own name, so nobody can put a real name on the leaderboard.

  • We store the call sign, the scores and waves you reach, when you played, and your avatar.
  • Avatars are made by the game from shapes and colours (an astronaut, a robot, a space animal or a friendly monster), never from photos. We only store the number each picture is made from.
  • We never store the pilot code itself, only a scrambled fingerprint of it, so even we can’t see it.
  • Leaderboards show call signs, avatars and scores, nothing else.
  • Delete your pilot and all its scores any time: in Orbit, open Pilot, then Delete my pilot.

Online co-op

Online games happen in private rooms. You can only join with a room code from a friend, and only as a pilot. There is no chat: players can only send a few friendly cheers like “Nice shot!”. The host can lock the room and remove players. Rooms disappear after two hours, or ten minutes after everyone leaves. Only the final score is kept.

Counting visits

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count how many people visit and which pages they look at. It doesn’t use cookies, doesn’t build a profile of you and doesn’t follow you to other websites.

What we don’t collect

  • No cookies and no ad trackers.
  • No adverts, and no social media buttons or widgets.
  • No email sign-ups, passwords, real names, ages, schools or locations.

Stored on your own device

Your browser remembers a few things on your device only, such as your Orbit settings, avatar and best score, your pilot code (so you stay signed in), and which ideas you’ve already starred. This never leaves your device, and you can clear it any time by clearing your browser’s site data.

Where the site lives

duggu.uk is hosted by Cloudflare. Ideas, pilots and scores are stored in a Cloudflare database. Like every website host, Cloudflare handles visitors’ internet (IP) addresses to deliver pages and to stop spam (for example, by limiting how many ideas can be sent in a minute). duggu.uk doesn’t save IP addresses.

Want an idea taken down?

Send a private note to Duggu on the Idea Board saying which idea (its title is enough). Private notes are never shown publicly, and we’ll remove it.

For parents and teachers

duggu.uk was built to follow the spirit of the UK’s Age Appropriate Design Code: collect as little as possible, keep everything private by default, and have no nudges, ads or social features that put kids at risk. If anything here worries you, please tell us with a private note and we’ll sort it out.

Last updated: November 2026