YOUR WORK, YOUR CHOICE
Privacy
Create a free account or log in before using Hobbieness, including its free quests, lessons and project guides. Verify your email to save progress across devices and earn XP. Creating an account does not subscribe you to marketing emails. Your work is private unless you choose to share it.
Saved in your browser
Quest progress, step notes, writing, and images in My showcase are saved in this browser, including drafts. Course and quick-lesson practice sketches, code, and notes also stay in this browser and are not uploaded as proof. A microphone recording starts only when you tap Record; it stays in that tab until you leave or download it. An image selected for a practice preview is not uploaded. Clearing site data may remove work that has not been submitted for XP. You can download a backup of My showcase and restore it later, but that backup does not include every course practice tool. Keep backup files private because they contain your work.
Your account and XP
If you create an account, Google Firebase Authentication processes your email address, password, verification and reset emails, and sign-in information. We do not receive your password. Once your email is verified, quest steps and notes are also saved in our Cloudflare database. When you submit finished work for XP, we store the title, process note, and required writing or compressed images with your account's identifier. These submissions are private, not a public gallery. Automatic checks confirm required steps and evidence format, but cannot prove who made the work. XP can be earned once per quest. Hiding an awarded project in your browser does not delete its original submission from your account. Your earned character Style Points are calculated from your overall level. We store which cosmetic items you unlock, their point cost, and your equipped look under your account identifier; these are not real-money purchases. Account progress, awarded submissions, and character items stay until you ask us to delete them; drafts that were not awarded stay only in your browser.
Quest Plus courses
If you take a paid course, we save which lessons you completed, your written reflections, and the XP earned for each lesson in our Cloudflare database under your account identifier. The quick checks can confirm an answer and a sufficiently detailed reflection, not who made the work. We do not publish your reflections. If you start a subscription or free trial when checkout is available, Stripe handles payment and billing details. We store Stripe customer and subscription identifiers to check access, show the trial or billing end date, and let you manage billing; we do not receive your card number. For an active free trial, Resend may process your account email address to deliver a Hobbieness trial-ending reminder. Stripe and Resend may retain records under their own retention rules.
Feedback and past signups
If you send feedback, we store the quest, rating, message, time, and any email you optionally give for a reply. Feedback email does not add you to marketing. We previously collected email signups for Quest Plus, including the time of consent and course interest where supplied. That form is no longer available, but those records remain in Cloudflare's database until deleted. To withdraw consent or ask us to delete your data, email hobbieness@hotmail.com. We do not sell these details.
When you share or contact us
Share uses your device's sharing options, or lets you download or copy your project. You choose where it goes. If you email us, we receive the information you send and use it to respond to your request.
Website services
Cloudflare hosts this website and provides basic visitor analytics. Account sign-in loads Firebase software from Google. Your browser also loads fonts from Google Fonts and icons from jsDelivr; those providers may receive technical request information such as your IP address. Paid checkout is available only when the Membership page shows a Start Quest Plus button.
Questions and deletion
For a copy of account data or to delete your account, quest progress, awarded submissions, feedback, or past signup email, contact hobbieness@hotmail.com from your account email where possible. You can also delete local drafts by clearing this site's browser data, after downloading any backup you want to keep. See Support for more detail.
Updated 2 November 2026