Privacy Policy
How Ugly Pumpkins LLC handles — and mostly doesn't collect — your data across our website, our Android app, our free web tools, and our games.
Short version: we're a small, independent software company. We don't sell your data, and we don't run advertising or cross-site tracking networks. Like essentially every website, our pages are served through standard web hosting (Cloudflare), which keeps automatic access logs — and our Android calculator collects nothing at all.
① The website
This covers our company and marketing site — the pages under
uglypumpkins.com, including this Privacy Policy page itself.
Server access logs
As with virtually every website, our hosting and CDN provider (Cloudflare) automatically records standard request information so we can operate the site and protect it from abuse: your IP address, browser / user-agent string, the page or file you requested, the referring page, and a timestamp.
This applies to this page too: if you followed a link to get here, simply loading the Privacy Policy placed your IP address in our access logs. That's normal web-server behavior, not something unique to us.
The "notify me" form
If you voluntarily enter your email to be notified when the CIDR app launches, we store that email only to send you that one announcement. We use a honeypot field and Cloudflare Turnstile to keep bots out. We don't sell or share it, and you can ask us to delete it at any time at [email protected].
Cookies, analytics & tracking
We don't use third-party advertising trackers, cross-site tracking, or analytics profiling cookies. For basic traffic measurement we use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless: it sets no cookies, doesn't fingerprint your device, and doesn't follow you across sites — it only records aggregate page views and performance timings. Because it stores nothing on your device, it needs no cookie-consent banner.
Separately, Cloudflare (our CDN) may set a strictly-necessary security cookie, and the Turnstile widget runs, as part of protecting the site.
② Ugly IPv4 CIDR Calculator (Android)
The Ugly IPv4 CIDR Calculator Android app runs entirely on your device. It:
- collects no personal data and has no accounts or sign-in;
- requests no Android permissions;
- makes no network connections to perform its calculations;
- contains no ads, analytics, or third-party tracking SDKs.
Its Data safety declaration on Google Play is therefore simply "No data collected."
The one exception: links you tap
The app's menu includes a few links — About (uglypumpkins.com), Try more free tools online (uglytools.uglypumpkins.com), and this Privacy Policy. Nothing leaves your device until you choose to tap one. When you do, your phone's browser opens our website, and at that point the standard website access logging described above applies — your IP address lands in the web access log, exactly as it would for any site you visit. The app itself still sends us nothing.
③ UglyTools (web)
UglyTools is our free, no-signup suite of browser-based IT utilities — "what's my IP" and connection details, DNS and network lookups, the web version of the CIDR calculator, and more.
What it processes
Some of these tools exist specifically to tell you about your own connection. A "what's my IP" or connection-details tool, by its very nature, has to read and display your IP address and related request metadata to do its job. That information is processed to return your result and appears in the same standard server access logs described above. There are no accounts and no paywalls, and we don't build advertising profiles from it.
UglyTools is served through Cloudflare, so the same strictly-necessary security cookie and access logging apply.
④ UglyGames & Daily Puzzle
Daily Puzzle is our free daily logic game and the first title on our UglyGames account system. You can play every day's puzzle without any account at all — an account is only for keeping stats and replaying past puzzles.
Playing without an account
- Your day streak lives in a signed cookie in your browser. It contains only dates and counts — no name, no identifier that follows you anywhere else.
- Your in-progress puzzle is saved in your browser's local storage, on your device.
- The standard access logging described above applies, and both cookies the game sets are strictly necessary (streak and, if you sign in, your session). No advertising or tracking cookies.
UglyGames accounts
If you create an account — with an email address and password, or with Google Sign-In — we store your email address and your gameplay records: which daily puzzles you completed, how long solves took, and your streaks. That's the entire point of the account, and the entire list.
Sign in with Google
If you choose Sign in with Google, Google sends us your name, email address, and profile picture — the basic sign-in profile, nothing more. We use it solely to create and sign you into your UglyGames account. We do not request access to your Gmail, Drive, contacts, or any other Google data. We never use Google account information for advertising, never sell it, and never share it with third parties. Daily Puzzle's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.
You can revoke Daily Puzzle's access to your Google account at any time from your Google Account → Third-party apps & services page.
Deleting your account & data
Email [email protected] from your account's address and we'll delete your UglyGames account, its sign-in identity, and all associated gameplay records.
Your choices, retention & contact
- Selling data: we never sell or rent your personal information.
- Retention: access logs are kept only as long as needed for security and operations; notify-list emails are kept until the launch announcement is sent or you ask us to remove you.
- Your requests: email [email protected] to ask what we hold about you, or to have it deleted.
- Children: our products are general-purpose IT tools and are not directed at children.
Changes to this policy
If we change how we handle data, we'll update this page and the "last updated" date at the top.