Your Data
⚠️ Draft. Some of the controls described here are specified but not yet built. Anything marked (planned) does not exist in the app today. This page must be corrected before it is linked from the app — see user-control-of-data.
What Purple Cat stores about you
- Your account — held by Clerk (our sign-in provider), plus a small settings record on our side: your chat alias, colour, avatar, and preferences.
- Your content — campaigns, maps, characters, tokens, drawings, chat messages, and uploaded images.
- Operational data — server logs and crash reports, used to keep the service running.
We do not sell your data, run advertising, or train AI models on your content.
Exporting
Export a campaign, map, or character to a .cat archive at any time.
(planned) A single "export everything" that bundles all of your content at once.
Deleting
Deleting is reversible for 30 days.
Trash and undelete
Deleted campaigns, maps, characters, tokens, and drawings go to the trash. Open the deleted-items panel to restore them, or to permanently delete them early. Since v0.101.0 the panel is a view of history: it shows who deleted each campaign, map or character, opens its history, and a restore is recorded as a change of its own.
After 30 days they are purged permanently and cannot be recovered.
Selective deletion (planned)
Deleting all of your uploaded images, or all of your chat messages, in one action.
Clearing local data (planned)
Your browser stores preferences, layout, camera positions, and — if you entered them — your AI provider API keys. A single control will clear them.
Until then, clearing site data in your browser's settings does the same thing, and also signs you out.
Sessions
Your active sessions and devices are managed by Clerk. Open the profile menu and choose the account option to see them and sign out of any you do not recognise.
(planned) A "sign out everywhere" button inside Purple Cat.
Closing your account (planned)
Account closure will delete your content and your account, with a 30-day cancellation window, and will ask what should happen to campaigns you own that have other members in them.
Until it ships, email ‹privacy@purplecat.games› and it will be handled by hand.
What deletion does not cover
Deleting your data does not remove:
- content you shared into campaigns owned by other people;
- copies other members exported before you deleted it;
- backups, which are deleted on their own schedule;
- records we are legally required to keep.
Privacy
The full Privacy Policy ‹link once published› describes what is collected, who processes it, and how long it is kept. In summary:
| Third party | What it gets |
|---|---|
| Clerk | Your identity and sessions |
| AWS or Google Cloud | Everything stored, as our hosting provider |
| Sentry | Crash and error reports and a sample of page-load timings, tagged with an account identifier — not your email, IP address or anything you typed. No screen recordings. |
| AI providers | Only what you submit to an AI feature |