user Data Collection

Details on what information we collect, through what means, and in which product are listed below. 

If any product or publication of ours is not listed, then it does not collect data at all other than that which is required for players to have accounts on our servers.

We take your privacy seriously and will not collect any information which can be used to track your personal information or identify you as a person, we will not share or publish this information in its raw form, only the extrapolated data, such as the percentages and averages we have worked out. We will never publish the data as itemised by user etc. 

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 receive 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 receive from this process is the client side (your pc's) updater telling our server which version it is on so that it knows whether 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 actually displayed/stored.

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, if you have an account it is stored in a database managed by our Accounts and Social Server. 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 deceived 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 occasionally 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.