Legal
Privacy Policy
Overview
This policy covers all games by Head Bump Studios, currently Grandpa's Garden on Steam, and this website. Our games have no accounts with us, no ads and no analytics or tracking. On this website we only use analytics (Microsoft Clarity) if you agree to it in the cookie banner. Apart from that, we only keep your email address if you sign up for our demo email list (together with which links in our emails you click) or write to us.
Who is responsible
GOODMOODS Ventures GmbH, Kienzlstraße 17, 4600 Wels, Austria, represented by Markus Tückmantel. Email: support@headbumpstudios.com
In the game
- Saves & settings: stored locally on your computer.
- Steam Cloud: if Steam Cloud is turned on in your Steam client, Steam syncs your save files through Valve's servers. You can turn this off in Steam.
- Online co-op: when you play with friends, the game connects through Steam's networking. During the session, game data such as your Steam name, your character and what you do in the game is sent to the other players. We do not store any of it.
- No tracking: the game contains no advertising or analytics services.
Steam
Purchase, download, achievements, Steam Cloud and friend invites are handled by Valve. Valve processes data under its own privacy policy. We have no control over that.
This website
Fonts, images and videos are served from our own domain. The site is hosted by Vercel. To deliver the pages and keep them secure, Vercel processes technical data such as your IP address in server logs. See Vercel's privacy policy.
In your browser's local storage we keep a few small notes that are needed for the site to work the way you chose: your cookie choice, whether you have already seen the demo popup and whether you signed up. They never leave your device.
Analytics with Microsoft Clarity (only with your consent)
If you click Accept in the cookie banner, we use Microsoft Clarity (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA) to understand how visitors use this site and what we can improve. If you click Decline or do nothing, Clarity is not loaded at all.
- What is collected: pages you visit, clicks, scrolling and mouse movement, the device and browser you use and your approximate location derived from your IP address. From this, Clarity creates heatmaps and session recordings. Text you type into fields, such as your email address, is masked.
- Cookies: Clarity sets the first-party cookies
_clck(recognises you as the same visitor) and_clsk(joins page views into one session). Advertising storage is switched off. - Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 165(3) of the Austrian Telecommunications Act 2021).
- Change your mind: click Cookies at the bottom of any page and choose Decline. Clarity's cookies are then deleted and tracking stops.
- Transfer to the USA: Microsoft takes part in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. See the Microsoft Privacy Statement and Clarity's cookie list.
Demo email list
Until the free demo came out on November 5, 2026, you could leave your email address on the Grandpa's Garden page to hear about it. Only when you pressed the button was your address sent to Klaviyo (Klaviyo, Inc., Boston, USA), the service we use to send these emails. You were then on the list right away.
- What we store: your email address, when you signed up and which links in our emails you click. We do not track whether you open our emails.
- How clicks are counted: links in our emails first go through Klaviyo, which notes the click and then takes you straight on to the page, for example our Steam page. We use this to see what interests you, for example whether anyone uses the Steam link. If you joined the list before we added this notice, we do not record your clicks.
- What we use it for: telling you about the Grandpa's Garden demo and seeing which links in those emails get clicked. Nothing else, and we never sell it.
- Legal basis: your consent when you signed up (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which covers the emails and the click counting. You can withdraw it at any time with the unsubscribe link in every email or by writing to us. We then delete your address from the list.
- Transfer to the USA: Klaviyo takes part in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and also uses the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. See Klaviyo's privacy notice.
The signup form we used until November 5, 2026 (on the page and in the popup) talked to Klaviyo directly. It did not load any Klaviyo tracking script and did not set cookies on this website.
Signing up through our Facebook or Instagram ads
Some of our ads on Facebook and Instagram contain a short form to hear when the free demo launches. The form is provided by Meta (Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., Dublin, Ireland). Meta may fill in the email address from your account, and you can change it before you send the form. Nothing is sent to us until you tick the consent box and press submit. Your address then goes from Meta to Klaviyo and you are on the list.
- What we receive: the email address from the form, when you sent it and which of our forms it came from.
- What we use it for, click counting, legal basis and how to withdraw: the same as for the demo email list above.
- Meta: Meta processes what you enter in the form under its own privacy policy. We do not get any other data about you from Meta.
If you write to us, we use your email address and message only to answer you.
Sharing with third parties
We don't sell or share personal data. Apart from the services named above, no one receives data from us.
Children
We do not knowingly collect data from children.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to access, correct and delete your data, to restrict or object to processing, to data portability and to withdraw any consent you gave, with effect for the future. Just email us. You can also file a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority (Datenschutzbehörde).
Changes
You will always find the current version on this page.
Contact
Questions about privacy? support@headbumpstudios.com