What this site collects

EmuWars is a game in development. This site is the marketing page and the campaign codex for it, and that is all it is. There is nothing to buy, no account to create, no newsletter to join and nowhere to leave a comment, so most of what a privacy policy normally has to explain simply does not happen here.

Who runs it

EmuWars is made by one individual developer in South Australia. There is no company behind it. This page, and anything arising from it, is governed by the law of South Australia, Australia.

The short version

• There are no accounts, so nothing here asks you for a name, an email address or a password.
• Nothing is for sale, which keeps card and billing details off the site entirely.
• Advertising never enters it: no ad network, no ad cookies, and nothing sold or handed to a data broker.
• Marketing trackers are absent too. Google Analytics, the Meta pixel and the rest of that machinery exist to follow you between sites, and none of them run on this one.
• You cannot post anything. There is no comment box, no forum and no upload form, so nothing you write ends up on these pages.
• One analytics tool, running on a server we administer ourselves. Described below.
• Two things do count your visit: our own analytics, and Cloudflare's, which arrives with the hosting. Both are described below, and neither uses cookies.

Cookies

This site sets no cookies. None for analytics, none for preferences, none for anything else, which is why there is no cookie banner to click through when you arrive. Both analytics tools described below are built to work without them. Loading a page here and then reading back what it left behind returns nothing: no cookies, and nothing in browser storage. If that changes, this page changes with it.

Analytics

The tool is Umami, which is open source, and we run it ourselves on a server we rent and administer. The script is served from analytics.betatasters.com, which is our own machine and not a vendor, so no analytics company sits in the middle of it. The records live in a database on that machine, which is not exposed to the internet. The machine is in Phoenix, in the United States.

For each page view it records the page you looked at, the page you arrived from if there was one, your screen size, your browser and operating system, and the country the request came from. Your IP address reaches that server, because your IP address reaches every server you make a request to. The tool uses it to work out the country and to tell one visit apart from another, and it does not appear in any report we read. We have not audited what the software then does with that address internally, so we are not going to tell you it is hashed or thrown away.

Some analytics setups also record a replay of the visit, meaning your mouse movements, clicks and scrolling played back as video. This site does not load that. It counts page views. We look at the result to see which pages get read and whether anyone found the site at all. That is the whole use.

We do not read Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signals, so please do not assume that switching either of them on has any effect here. A content blocker will stop the analytics from loading, and we do nothing to work around one.

Cloudflare

This site is served by Cloudflare, which means every request you make already passes through their network before it reaches the files. That is true of the pages, the images and the fonts, and it is the ordinary consequence of using a host. Cloudflare sees your IP address, your browser string and the address you asked for, because a server cannot answer a request without them.

Cloudflare also adds its own Web Analytics script to each page as it passes through. It records page views, the page you came from, rough device and browser details, and the loading speeds a visit produced. It sets no cookies, which is the part we checked rather than took on trust. What Cloudflare keeps, and for how long, is governed by their terms rather than ours, and we cannot delete a record on their side.

A content blocker will stop it loading, and we do nothing to work around one.

Google Fonts

Two typefaces used across this site, Lora and Oswald, are loaded from Google at fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. That means your browser contacts Google every time you open a page here, and Google receives your IP address, your browser and operating system details, and the address of the page that asked for the font. We receive none of that, and we have no control over what Google does with it. Google's own privacy terms cover their side.

If you would rather that request never happened, a content blocker that blocks Google Fonts will prevent it, and the site falls back to typefaces already on your machine. It will look slightly wrong. It will still read fine, because the fallback faces are named in the stylesheet rather than left to chance.

The contact form

The contact page carries a form. Nothing is collected there unless you fill it in and send it, and what you type goes to SplitForms, a form service that stores the message and mails it on. That means your name, your email address, whatever subject you picked and whatever you wrote. Use it to say what you want answered, rather than to tell us anything you would mind sitting in two inboxes.

Server logs

This site is a set of static files served by a hosting provider. Web servers keep request logs as a matter of course, so that provider holds a record of requests made to this site, usually an IP address, a timestamp, the file requested and the browser string. We do not run that logging, we build no reports from it, and we do not control how long the provider holds it.

How long it is kept

Analytics records sit in the database on our server until we clear them out. No fixed retention period has been set, so treat them as held until deleted rather than expiring on a timer. Cloudflare's analytics and its request logs run on Cloudflare's schedule, which is theirs and not ours, and the same goes for anything SplitForms holds about a message you sent.

Who it is shared with

Nothing is sold, to anyone, ever. There is no ad network, no data broker, no mailing list provider and no customer database, because none of those exist for this site. Three companies do sit in the path, and each is named on this page: Cloudflare, which hosts the site and runs its own analytics over it, Google, which serves two fonts, and SplitForms, which receives a message only if you choose to send one through the contact form. If a court or Australian law compelled us to hand something over we would comply, and there would be very little to hand.

Your rights in Australia

The Privacy Act 1988 exempts most very small operations, and rather than argue about whether it covers this one, we handle the little that is collected in line with the Australian Privacy Principles. You can ask what we hold, ask for it to be corrected, and ask for it to be deleted.

Your rights in the EU and the UK

If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, the GDPR and the UK GDPR give you the right to ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it erased, to have its use restricted, to object to it being used, and to receive a copy in a portable format. Our legal basis for the analytics is legitimate interests, being a plain interest in knowing whether these pages are read.

There is a catch, and it runs in your favour. We hold no accounts, no names and no email addresses, so in almost every case there is nothing in our records that identifies you and nothing for us to look up. Where that is the case we will say so plainly rather than perform a search that cannot produce anything.

Our own analytics reaches a server in the United States, which is a transfer out of the EU and the UK. We are the only party at the receiving end of that one. Cloudflare and Google both operate globally and handle their own transfers under their own terms, which is something to weigh if that matters to you, because we have no say in it.

How to ask

No address is published yet, which is worth saying plainly rather than pointing you at a mailbox nobody reads. The contact page carries whatever channel is open, and one opens when the domain does.

If the answer does not satisfy you, you can complain to a regulator. In Australia that is the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. In the United Kingdom it is the Information Commissioner's Office. In the European Union it is the data protection authority for the country you live in.

Changes to this page

If what the site does changes, this page changes at the same time and the date below moves. There is no mailing list to announce it with, so that date is the only notice you get.