Privacy

BeavKat is made by one family for other families. The short version: we don't ask children for anything about themselves, nobody else watches them play, and anything we keep you can delete yourself.

What we never ask for

A player account is a name you make up and a passcode. We don't ask for an email address, a real name, a birthday, or an age — not at sign-up, not later. There is nowhere on this site for a child to enter any of those, and the sign-up form asks for a nickname rather than a real name.

What we do keep

• Your player name and passcode. The passcode is stored scrambled (hashed), so nobody here can read it — including us.
• Your scores and progress, so a game remembers where you got to.
• Levels you make in the workshop, with the name you gave them.
• Which circles you joined — private groups you enter with an invite code.
• Characters made from your drawings — see below.
• A count of visits, using a random number stored in your browser. It isn't tied to your name and tells us nothing about who you are.

Grown-up accounts

A parent account has an email address, because that is how we send the confirmation link and how a parent signs back in. It belongs to the grown-up, never to a child. Parents can set play-time reminders, decide who their children share scores with, take a child out of a circle, and say yes or no to a drawing before anything is made from it.

Drawings and characters

A child can send a picture of a drawing to be turned into a character they can play as — only if a parent has switched that on for them, and only once that parent has looked at the drawing and tapped approve. Until the tap, nobody sees it. If no one approves it within a week, it is deleted.

When a parent approves, the drawing is sent to the image model we use (Google's Gemini) to make the character. The moment the character exists, we delete the original drawing; what we keep is the character art. That art is private to the family that made it: it is never public, never in a gallery, and never shown to other families. A parent can remove a character at any time from the family page, and the art goes with it. What Google keeps or does with images sent to its model is set by Google's own terms for that service, not by us.

Before anything is sent to the model, an automated check refuses photos of real people and pictures with a readable name or address in them. Send drawings, not photos of children.

Who else sees any of this

Nobody. There is no advertising on this site, no tracking pixels, and no analytics company watching. Your browser loads nothing from anyone else's servers. Your scores are visible only inside circles you chose to join, and a circle has no public listing — you can only see people who share one with you. The one thing that leaves our servers is an approved drawing, to the image model described above.

Cookies

Three, all ours: one random visitor number for counting visits, one that keeps a player signed in, and one that keeps a parent signed in. None of them follow you to other websites.

Deleting

• A player can delete themselves from their players page by typing their passcode. Scores, circles, levels and characters go with them, immediately.
• A parent can delete any of their children's players from the family page, or delete the family account itself. Deleting the family removes the grown-ups, their settings and the family's characters; the children's players are released and keep playing as ordinary players.
• Anything else — a question, a mistake, a request we haven't thought of — email hello@beavkat.com and a person will answer.

Last updated 4 September 2026.