Kid safety

Bazoodle is built for players of all ages. Two rules shape everything the public API returns: every list is filtered to kid-friendly games, and responses contain no private details about players.

Tiers

Every game has a tier, decided by Bazoodle’s checks and moderation. It is tier on game cards and, in words, rating_label on game pages.

tier	rating_label	For
kid	Kid-friendly	Everyone, including players under 13
teen	Teen	Players 13 and older
mature	Mature	Players 17 and older

What the public API shows

The public API is called without signing in, and a caller whose age is not known is always treated as a child. So:

• every list (home, browse, search, trending) contains only kid games;
• the page of a teen or mature game answers 404 not found, as if it did not exist;
• search never reveals that a hidden game exists, and trending searches are chosen so that a word only mature games explain never appears.

You cannot raise the level with a parameter or a header. Teen and mature games are only visible to signed-in players whose account age allows it, in the Bazoodle apps; the public API has no way for another tool to sign a player in.

Note

You will see fewer games than a signed-in player does. That is intended. Every game you receive can be shown to a child, but how you present it is up to you: do not put adverts, chat, tracking or links to unmoderated content next to it. If a tier value you do not know arrives in the future, treat it as the strictest and do not show it to children.

People: the creator object

A creator says who made a game. It appears in game cards and game pages, and Bazoodle holds very little about creators, so the object holds even less:

{"id": "BZSAMPLES00001", "name": "Bazoodle Samples", "games": 3}

Field	Type	Meaning
id	string	A public player id: a random code used to refer to the player on Bazoodle. It is not an account id, an email or anything that could identify a real person.
name	string	The player’s username. Players are asked not to use real names, and usernames are checked. They are already shown on game pages.
games	number	On a game page only: how many public games the creator has.

BZSAMPLES00001 (“Bazoodle Samples”) is a system creator for the sample games Bazoodle publishes itself.

What is never in the API

No real name, email address, birthday or age, school, address, picture of a person, sign-in method or any other private detail. The public API has no way to look a player up by name; you can search for a creator’s name, but search returns games, not people.

Do not collect names or ids into lists, try to work out who a player is, or build anything that follows a person across games. That is against Fair use.