Privacy

In short

• An account is a name and a password. We don't ask for your email address, real name or age.
• No ads, no analytics and no tracking cookies, in the launcher, the game or on this site.
• We don't sell your data or share it with advertisers.
• Levels, photos, comments and your profile are public on the server, the same as on PS4.
• Players you play with can see your IP address, because multiplayer connects your PCs directly.

Your account

When you click Create account, the launcher makes two accounts with the same name and password: one on the Refresh server (levels and profiles) and one on the shadNet server (sign-in, friends and multiplayer). Both run on LBPPC's server, rented from Hostinger in Boston, United States. Your password is sent to them encrypted.

The servers store:

• Your online name.
• Your password, stored only in a scrambled (hashed) form that can't be turned back into the password.
• A placeholder email address made from your name, such as [email protected]. It isn't real and receives no mail.
• When the account was made and when you last signed in.

When you play

Playing online stores what the game itself sends, as LittleBigPlanet's own servers did:

• Your friends list, invitations and online status.
• Levels, photos and comments you share, hearts and plays, and your profile.
• Trophies, pins and scores, and small amounts of game data the game saves online.

The servers see your IP address whenever the launcher or game connects to them, and it can appear in their logs.

What others can see

• Everyone on the server can see your online name, profile and anything you share: levels, photos, comments and hearts.
• Your friends can see when you're online and can invite you.
• Players in your game can see your IP address, because LBPPC connects players' PCs directly. Only your friends can join your game.

On your PC

The launcher saves its settings in LBPPC's folder, including your online name and password so it can sign you in. On Windows the password is locked to your Windows account, so the settings file is no use on another PC or account. The game keeps its saves there too. None of this leaves your PC unless you send it.

Bug reports

Make a report saves a zip on your PC and sends nothing. It holds the launcher's and game's logs and your settings, but not your password. The logs can include your online name and your PC's hardware. IP addresses, yours and those of players you joined, are replaced with labels such as <ip-1> before the zip is made.

Bug reports on GitHub are public. If you'd rather not post a report there, send it to us instead.

Archived levels

The server lists community levels from a public archive made in 2023, before LittleBigPlanet's official servers closed. Each one shows its title, description, icon and the PSN name of the player who made it, as they were on the official servers. When someone plays an archived level, the server fetches its files from mirrors of the archive and keeps a copy.

If you made a level in the archive and want it removed, or don't want your PSN name shown, contact us with the level or the name and we'll take it down.

This website

This site uses no cookies and no analytics, and its fonts and images come from the site itself. It reaches you through Cloudflare, which carries the traffic to the web server and so sees your IP address and which pages you open, under its own privacy policy. The Servers page asks the LBPPC server for its live numbers from your browser, so that server sees your IP address too.

Who we share with

No one, except:

• Players, as described above.
• Hostinger, whose data centre runs the LBPPC server and so stores what's on it, under their own privacy policy.
• Cloudflare, which carries this website's traffic, as described above.
• When the law requires it.

Links to GitHub, Discord and other sites take you to services with their own privacy policies.

Deleting your data

To delete your account, contact us with your online name. We'll check that it's yours before deleting anything, then delete both accounts and the levels, photos and comments you shared. You can also ask what we hold about you.

To remove LBPPC from your PC, delete its folder.

Children

You must be 13 or older to make an LBPPC account. We don't knowingly keep accounts for younger children: if you think a child under 13 has one, email us and we'll delete it.

Contact

LBPPC is run by Ethan. For privacy questions, to delete your account or to have an archived level removed, email [email protected]. Please don't post account details in the Discord.

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page.