Privacy

Gitemon turns public GitHub activity into a pixel creature. This page says exactly what we keep.

What we read

• Public GitHub profile data: your login, name, account age, follower count, your public repositories (stars, language), and your public contribution counts for the last year.
• The anonymous private-contribution count that GitHub itself shows on your profile — only if you turned that setting on in GitHub. It is a single number, with no repository names.
• We never ask for access to private repositories, and we never read them.

What we store when you sign in

• Your GitHub user id and the sign-in account id from our login provider (WorkOS), plus the email GitHub shares with it.
• A copy of the public GitHub data listed above, refreshed while you play, and the Gitemon made from it.
• Your GitHub sign-in token, encrypted. It can only read public profile data, and we use it only to refresh your own Gitemon and to check "bonded" catches.
• Your catches, your Dex, your steps and streaks, your Legend Log, and your house sign if you set one.

What we never store

• Where you live. We do not read or keep your GitHub location.
• Anything about developers who have not signed in — with one exception below.

Sealed legends

The island's 500 sealed legends are ranked from public information (Wikipedia, Wikidata and public GitHub follower counts). For each one we keep only its GitHub user id, its rank and its creature — no profile, no name on the page, no link to a person. Nobody can tell whose legend is whose. If it is yours, sign in with GitHub: you can wake it (it then shows with your name) or remove it, and a removed legend is never added again.

Cookies

One cookie keeps you signed in. Two short-lived ones exist only while you sign in. There is no analytics, no advertising and no tracking, so there is nothing to consent to.

Error reports

If the map breaks in your browser, it sends us the error message and your browser's name so we can fix it. No account, no address, no location. We keep only the newest 500 reports.

We never contact you

If another player catches your Gitemon, we do not email you, mention you or open issues. You find out when you visit.

Remove your Gitemon

Sign in with GitHub and choose Release on your Gitemon. It disappears from the map, search, profile pages and every Dex at once. You can bring it back the same way.

Questions

Open an issue on github.com/gitemon-fun/gitemon.