Privacy

Who we are

Midnight Harvest is a free browser game at midnightharvest.net, made and run by DC Software. When this policy says we, it means us. Write to us any time: support@midnightharvest.net.

This page says what we keep about you, why, who else sees it, how long we keep it and how to have it deleted. It is written to be read.

What we keep

Your account. The name you play under, your password (only as a scrambled hash — nobody can read it back), and, if you add them, an email address and a link to your Twitch account (Twitch’s id for you and your Twitch name). Your portrait, title, colour and the words you write in your profile.

What you do in the game. The matches you play (who sat where, roles, votes, how they ended), your Silver, items and progress, your friends, the notes you keep about them, the players you block, and the letters you send and receive.

Chat. What is said at a table is kept with that match’s case file so the staff can look into a report: 30 days (7 at a table of villagers), or longer while a report about that match is open.

Payments. A Patron’s Charter, and a villager from the Moonlit Gallery, is paid on PayPal’s own page; we never see your card or your PayPal login. We keep the order: its number, the amount, the date, PayPal’s transaction id, who it was for, and a scrambled form of the internet address it came from (to stop fraud). A Gallery purchase also keeps which villager it was and its number. The artist’s signed picture that comes with it is given only to its owner, signed in to the game — never by a link in an email.

Reports you send. A bug report keeps what you wrote, a picture if you add one, and a few details of the page (its size and version). A report about a player keeps what you wrote and the lines of chat around it.

To keep the game running. Internet addresses are used, as they arrive, to slow down guessing at passwords and keys; they are not stored with your account. If the page breaks, the error is reported to us with which account (or a scrambled address) saw it, so it is counted once — never with what you were doing.

What we do with it

We use it to run the game: to sign you in, keep your progress, show other players your name and profile, send the account emails you ask for (confirming an address, resetting a password, a receipt when you pay) and keep the village fair (reports, case files, bans).

We do not sell it, show you adverts, use advertising or tracking cookies, or send marketing email.

Who else sees it

Other players see what the game shows at the fire: your name, portrait, title, colour, level, Moon, profile words, the pet you bring, whether you are a patron (you can switch that off) and, if you choose, your Twitch name. Never your email.

Our staff (the Warden and the moderators) can see account details and case files to keep the game fair.

Services we use: PayPal (payments), our host Bluehost (the server), HostGator (sending account emails) and Twitch (only if you sign in with it). Each handles what it needs under its own policy.

On your device

The game keeps your sign-in and your settings in your browser’s own storage. No advertising cookies. Signing out removes the sign-in.

How long we keep it

As long as you have an account. When you delete it:

• Your account and everything that is yours is deleted 7 days after you ask (signing in during those days keeps it).
• Matches you played stay in other players’ histories as a former villager; letters you sent stay with those who got them, signed the same way.
• Payment records stay as long as the law requires.
• Reports about you or by you stay for a year. If your account was banished or muted when it was deleted, the ban and a scrambled copy of your email stay for a year too, so deleting cannot be used to escape it.
• Your name is held 90 days, then anyone may take it.
• Our backups roll over: within 30 days nothing of your account is left in them.

Your choices

• Delete your account yourself: Profile → Account → Leave the village (how).
• Rest your name: hidden from the boards, the Patron’s Book and your friends’ lists, with everything kept until you sign in again.
• See or correct what we keep, or ask for a copy of it: write to support@midnightharvest.net from the email on your account.
• Switch off showing yourself as a patron, or your Twitch name, in the Account window.

Children

Midnight Harvest is not made for children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has made an account, write to us and we will delete it.

Changes

When this policy changes we say so in the village news and change the date below.

Last changed: 11 October 2026