Our promise to grown-ups
Wild Zoo Facts is made for kids and families, so we keep it boringly safe. Here's exactly what happens — and what never does — in plain language.
No accounts, ever
There is no sign-up and no login. Kids just play — nothing to create, nothing to remember.
No personal information collected
We never ask for a name, email, age, photo or location from anyone playing the games.
Progress stays on the device
Streaks, scores and unlocked critters are saved in your browser's local storage — a private space on your own device. The one exception is the optional daily leaderboard (below): if a child taps to submit a Critter Run score, we send only a made-up nickname, the score and the date — never a name or anything personal.
The leaderboard is anonymous
The Critter Run daily has an optional high-score board. Submitting is a choice, and all it stores is a random nickname (like “BraveAxolotl42”), the score and the date. No accounts, no names, no email, no location, no IP address — nothing that could identify a child.
Kid-safe, non-personalized ads only
To keep the site free we show a small number of ads served by Google. Because our audience includes children, ad personalization is switched OFF — the ads are contextual (based on the page, not your child), and we don't allow behavioural profiling or advertising cookies that build a profile. More detail below.
Videos load only when tapped
The weird-animal clips are hosted by us. The only outbound links go to our own YouTube channel, and they open in a new tab so a grown-up is in control.
No chat, no uploads, no strangers
There is nowhere for anyone to message your child or post anything. It's just animals and puzzles.
The longer version
What we store, and where. When you play, your browser remembers things like your daily streak, your stats, which Critter Run characters you've unlocked, and which animals you've discovered. This is saved using your browser's local storage — a private space on your own device that we can't read from our end. Clearing your browser data erases it.
The one small server: the daily leaderboard. Critter Run has an optional daily high-score board. It runs on a tiny anonymous database. If — and only if — a child taps “submit score”, it stores a random auto-generated nickname (e.g. “BraveAxolotl42”), the score and the date, so everyone can see the day's top runs. It never receives or stores a real name, email, age, location or IP address, there are no accounts, and nothing ties a score to a person. Not submitting means nothing about you leaves your device at all.
Children's privacy (COPPA / GDPR-K). We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children. We have no accounts, and the only thing we ever store is an anonymous nickname + score on the opt-in leaderboard — so there is nothing personal to request, export or delete.
Advertising. To keep Wild Zoo Facts free, we show a small number of ads served by Google AdSense. Because this is a site for children, we have turned ad personalization off: ads are non-personalized (chosen from the page's topic, not from a profile of your child), and we do not permit behavioural remarketing or ad-profiling cookies. Google may still use limited, non-identifying information to serve a page-relevant ad and to prevent fraud and abuse; you can read how Google handles this in the Google advertising policies. We never let advertisers collect personal information from children, and we keep ads to family-safe categories.
Third parties. The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Embedded clips are self-hosted and only begin loading when a child taps play. Links to YouTube open our channel, @thewildzoofacts, in a new tab — YouTube has its own privacy practices once you're there, so we recommend YouTube Kids for younger viewers.
The shop (grown-ups only). If you buy something from our shop, checkout happens on a secure page hosted by Stripe, our payment processor. Stripe collects the name, email and delivery address needed to take payment and post your parcel — we never see or store card details. We pass only the delivery address and the items to our print partner (Printful) so they can print and ship the order, and we use your email only to send receipts and order updates. Shopping is meant for a grown-up, we never ask a child for these details, and we never sell anyone's data. Both partners have their own privacy policies (Stripe, Printful). Want your order details deleted after delivery? Just email us.
If anything ever changes. If we ever add something like a parent newsletter, it will be clearly labelled “for grown-ups”, will only ever involve an adult, and will never ask a child for information. We'll update this page first.
Questions or requests? Email a grown-up on our team at [email protected] and we'll help. Last updated July 2026.