Lumenvale
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What Lumenvale saves about you, why, how long we keep it, and how to delete it. In plain words.
Last updated 14 September 2026 (passwords added)
The short version: you play with a pony name and a password, never your real name or email. We save what the game needs (your pony, coins, cottage, friends) and a little chat history so moderators can handle reports. No ads, no trackers, no selling anything. You can delete your pony yourself, any time.
Who runs Lumenvale
Lumenvale is a small hobby game made by Seppe and Marie, who are also its moderators. Questions about your data, or anything on this page? Use Feedback in the game (under Settings, or the Feedback button at the bottom).
Who can play
Lumenvale is for players aged 13 and older. When you make a pony you confirm that you are. If we learn that a pony belongs to someone younger, we delete it.
What is saved on our server
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your pony's name, how it looks, your chat setting, when it was made and last played | So your pony exists and others can see it | Until you delete your pony |
| Your password and recovery code, only ever as a strongly scrambled version (scrypt, with a random salt), never the real thing | So you can log in, and nobody else can | Until you delete your pony |
| Login sessions: a scrambled copy of the random key that keeps your browser logged in, and when it was made and last used (up to 5 devices) | So you don't have to type your password every time | Until you log out, change your password, or 30 days without playing |
| Where your pony is, coins, things you bought, your cottage and furniture, baked treats, quests and finds | To keep your game going between visits | Until you delete your pony |
| Your character: a title, pronouns, a short bio and your roleplay status, if you fill them in; and the ponies you blocked | So others can see who your pony is, and blocked ponies stay away from you | Until you change it, unblock them, or delete your pony |
| A note you pin on the notice board in the Lantern Inn, with your pony name | So other ponies can read it and find you for a story | One day, or until you take it down or delete your pony |
| Your friends and friend letters | For the friends list and visiting | Until you or they end the friendship, or a pony is deleted |
| Your last 50 chat messages and phrases | So moderators can check what was really said when someone is reported | Older lines are replaced as you chat; all of it goes when you delete your pony |
| Moderator actions on your pony (kicks, mutes, bans, with the reason) | Fair and consistent moderation | Until you delete your pony |
| Reports: who reported whom, the reason, the reported pony's last few messages, where it happened. A reported drawing is included as a picture. | Keeping Lumenvale safe | About 6 months |
| Feedback you send: your message, pony name, where you were, and your screen size and browser type | Fixing bugs and making the game better | About 6 months |
| Daily backup copies of all of the above | To recover from a mistake or a broken save | 14 days |
| Short technical logs (for example "a new pony joined", errors) | Keeping the server running | A few weeks, as the server's logs roll over |
To stop people guessing passwords, the server counts wrong login attempts per pony name and per internet address, in memory only, for up to an hour. Your internet address is not saved to your pony.
Drawings in the Doodle Studio are not saved. They disappear when the round ends, unless someone reports one.
What stays in your own browser
Some things are only kept on your device, in your browser's storage: the login key that keeps you logged in (never your password), your pony's look from the creator, your sound settings, your wishes on the Wishing Tree, and whether you have seen the welcome. We don't use cookies. Clearing your browser's site data removes these; you can log in again with your pony name and password.
Who else is involved
- Hetzner hosts our server in Germany.
- Discord: reports and feedback are posted in a private channel that only our moderators can see, so we can act quickly. Discord is based in the United States.
- Google Fonts: the pixel font is loaded from Google, which means Google can see your internet address when the page loads.
We don't sell or share your data with anyone else, and there are no ads, analytics or trackers.
What other players can see
Your pony's name, look, character (title, status, pronouns and bio) and what you say in chat, while you're nearby. Friends can see which place you're in. Nobody, including us, can see your password or recovery code.
Your rights, and deleting your pony
You can ask what we have saved about you, have it corrected, or have it deleted. The quickest way to delete everything is in the game: Settings → Delete my pony. It removes your pony and everything saved on it straight away. It also takes you off your friends' lists. Copies in the daily backups disappear within 14 days.
Reports you were part of are kept for about 6 months for safety reasons, and messages already posted in our Discord channel stay until a moderator removes them. For anything else, use Feedback in the game. If you're in the EU and think we got something wrong, you can also contact your country's data protection authority.
Changes
If we change what we save, we'll update this page and the date at the top.