Almost nothing
about you.

What this website knows

Nothing that tells us who you are. No accounts, no cookies, no ads, and nothing from social media or advertising companies.

Visit counts

We count visits with Vercel Web Analytics: how many, which pages, which countries, and what kind of device and browser. It doesn't use cookies. To avoid counting the same visitor twice in one day, it makes a scrambled code from your connection and throws it away after 24 hours. We only ever see totals.

Button counts

We also count how often some buttons are pressed:

• “Open my email app”, with the animal or country that was chosen.
• Ocean Explorer: an activity started or finished, a card or badge downloaded, a passport saved or restored.

Each count comes with at most the name of the activity, card or animal, always a value from our own list. Never your score, never what's in your passport, never your restore code, never your name, and never anything you write yourself.

Hosting

The site is hosted by Vercel. Like any web host, its servers see your IP address so they can send you each page. Vercel's privacy notice

Your Ocean Explorer passport

Ocean Explorer keeps your passport in your browser, on this device only: the animals you've added, the activities you've done, and the cards and badges you've earned. It's never sent to us or to anyone else, and there's no name or anything else about you in it.

When you play a quiz, a game of Guess That Animal or a field check, your browser also remembers which questions or animals you've had and what you answered, so reloading the page or going back doesn't lose your place or bring the same question straight back. Only that tab remembers it, and it's forgotten when you close the tab.

It isn't backed up anywhere. Clearing your browser's data can erase it, and so can a long break: Safari, for one, clears a website's saved data if you haven't visited it for a while. That's what your restore code is for. Write it down, and you can type it in to get your passport back, on this device or another one.

Your restore code holds everything needed to rebuild your progress: the animals you've added, the field checks you've passed and the activities you've done. Anyone who has your code can type it in and get a copy of your progress. A passport file you save works the same way, and it also has your best scores and the dates. Neither one says who you are, but both show what you've learned and done here, so keep them like a page of your own notebook, and share them only with people you choose. We never ask for them, and they're never put in a web address.

If a saved passport ever can't be read, a new one starts, and your browser keeps the old one to one side instead of deleting it.

To delete your passport, press Reset my passport on the passport page. To delete everything Ocean Explorer keeps in your browser, including a passport kept to one side, press Delete everything there instead. Both ask you to make sure first. Clearing this website's data in your browser's settings deletes it all too.

The forms and the membership card

The Join form and the Register your club form don't send anything to this website. They write an email and open it in your own email app, so nothing goes anywhere until you press send. If your email app doesn't open, the form shows you the email to copy instead.

The membership card works the same way: the name you type stays on your device. It isn't sent or saved, and closing the page forgets it.

Emails you send us

They arrive at our email address, the club's inbox, which runs on Apple's iCloud Mail (Apple's privacy policy).

Who reads them

Right now, a parent of Luca and Fabio, the club's founders, reads and answers every email. If that ever changes, this page will say so first.

What we use them for

Answering you, welcoming new members, fixing facts you tell us about, and adding clubs to the register.

What we never do

Publish your email address, your full name or your school's name. Pass your email on to anyone. Add you to a mailing list.

How long we keep them

We keep emails so we know who's in the club. Ask any time and we'll delete yours. You don't need a reason.

For kids, and for grown-ups

Club Foca is run by kids, for kids. So ask a parent or guardian before you email us. That's a club rule.

On this website we only show first names and last initials, and only with a parent's permission.

Parents and guardians: to find out what we have about your child, correct it, or have it deleted, email us and we'll take care of it.

Other websites

Our fact sources and the places our recordings come from, like NOAA, the IUCN Red List, Wikimedia Commons and Freesound, are separate websites with their own privacy policies. Following a link takes you there.