our stuff, and what it collects about you
Cards of Yore Advance Accessibility Demo, and its Server.
We will list what data is taken about you, the player, and stored for us to review and access by each part of the service.
Download page – Not a whistle, not a stitch, not a sausage. Whether using the download page on the website, or using the alternative Google Drive link, we store or recieve absolutely zero information about you. We do not feel it is our right to collect information about who is downloading a free and openly distributed product/game/service.
Installer/updater – The only peace of information we recieve from this process is the client side (your pc's) updater telling our server which version it is on so that it knows wether or not to send the update. We do not store this data, nor is it viewed by anyone unless monitoring the server operations. This data is also impersonal and cannot be traced back to an individual user or device based on the information actual displayed.
The Server – Our server is made up of a few different parts. We have our queue server which is what your game initially connects to from the main menu, and when pressing play you are connected to our Game servers. This is a list of the information which the server is being set up to gather, and a brief explanation of why,
- Your mac address - This is a reference ID given by your device, it is used by us to keep a running count on the rough number of unique users who have accessed the game server, and how many times that address has appeared, we need this information for working out percentages as explained below
- Your country - We DO NOT store IP addresses, but we do grab the first 2 digits from it which will give us an indication of where in the world our player base was mainly situated. This is easily decieved with a VPN and many security suites will prevent us from getting it properly, if you are concerned about this, we encourage you to circumvent our efforts for your own peace of mind on this matter. We do take privacy very seriously.
- Your Game's Stats - After every match we will store a report, this tells us things like how long the average turn was, how long the shortest turn was, how long the longest turn was, How many turns were in the game, did the game end in a defeat/victory, a player quit, or a timeout. This is to help us understand how people are getting on, are our time limits too harsh, or too open? This information is not stored along side your Mac Address.
- Ratings and feedback - The player will occassionally be presented with options to give us ratings or feedback, the answers given will be stored.
Information collected by this process about an individual;
All we will be collecting which we can determine as a single user is, the MAC address, the number of games played by that Mac address, the general country/region the connection comes from, the ratings given in feedback by that MAC address.
