Privacy Policy

Welcome to The Magic 8 Ball ("we," "our," or "the Service"), accessible at themagic8-ball.com. We are dedicated to providing a faithful digital rendition of the classic fortune-telling novelty toy while adhering to strict privacy-by-design principles.

This Privacy Policy explains how our website operates, what minimal technical data is handled when you access our services, and your rights regarding digital privacy.

On mobile and tablet devices, our application supports physical shake detection using the W3C DeviceMotionEvent and DeviceOrientationEvent APIs.

When granted permission by your browser (e.g. iOS Safari motion prompt), acceleration and tilt vector numbers are calculated strictly in-memory by JavaScript running on your CPU. This sensory feedback is immediately discarded once the shake threshold triggers the fortune reveal. At no time are motion vectors recorded, uploaded, or stored on external servers.

Where voice transcription features are made available, speech recognition is executed via your operating system's native browser SpeechRecognition API (e.g. Apple Siri speech synthesis engine or Google Web Speech API).

We do not capture, record, or archive any audio stream files on our servers. Processing complies strictly with your browser vendor's native platform privacy protections.

We do not use invasive third-party tracking cookies or digital advertising identifiers. We strictly limit web storage to necessary functional tokens for caching UI preferences.

You have full autonomy to clear your browser cache, cookies, and local storage at any time via your browser settings, which instantly purges all client-side records.

Our website is served globally via Cloudflare edge infrastructure. When you request a web page, Cloudflare automatically processes standard transient HTTP connection headers (such as IP address, User-Agent, and requested URI) to securely route packets, prevent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, and maintain web application firewall (WAF) integrity.

These server logs are maintained strictly for network security and operational telemetry, and are never correlated with personal identities.

Online Magic 8 Ball is designed as a family-friendly recreational toy. We do not knowingly solicit, collect, or store personal information from children under the age of 13 in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and international child privacy directives.

Under global data protection laws (including the European General Data Protection Regulation and California Consumer Privacy Act), users enjoy rights regarding personal information. Because we do not harvest or maintain personal user records, there is no remote database to access, modify, or erase.

To erase your client-side question records, you can click "Clear History" inside the application or clear your browser's site data at any time.