Privacy policy

This policy describes what Browser Tanks collects and why.

What we keep about you

• Your Google account id and email, from Google sign-in. The email is never shown to anyone.
• Your username, the only name shown publicly (leaderboard, results).
• Game data: your skill rating, campaign progress, stats, recent battles, ranked results and their replays.
• Your IP address, briefly, to limit request rates and stop abuse. It isn't stored with gameplay analytics.

Guests don't sign in: their progress stays in their own browser.

Gameplay analytics

Only if you agree (you're asked once, and you can change it in Settings). Analytics are battle events and frame rates under a random id, never your email or account, used to balance the game.

Website analytics

On the website's pages only, never in the game, Google Analytics sets cookies and receives the pages you view, how you arrived (the site that linked you and any campaign tags in the link), your browser and device type, and your approximate location, which Google works out from your IP address without storing the address. We use it to see how people find the site. It's kept for 2 months.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar, or anywhere your browser blocks site storage or we can't tell your country, this happens only if you click Allow. Elsewhere it happens unless you turn it off, or your browser sends Global Privacy Control. To know whether to ask first, the site uses your country as the network service in front of it reports it, and doesn't store it. You can change your choice at any time with "Cookie settings" at the bottom of every page.

Ranked battle records

When you play ranked battles while signed in, we record each battle's era, mode, campaign battle number, tank, map and difficulty, your skill rating rounded to a band, the result (including whether you left early or abandoned the battle), whether the result passed the server's checks and how many automated suspicion flags it received, the game version, and the day it was recorded. These records use a random ID instead of your account ID, email or username, and we use them to balance the tanks. We keep them for 90 days. When you delete your account, the deletion process removes the record of which random ID is yours, along with your other account data (backups roll off as they expire). After that, the remaining records keep the random ID but can no longer be linked to your account.

Who else handles data

• Google, for sign-in.
• Google, for website analytics.
• Hosting: the game, its data and its backups are hosted by service providers in the United States. Players outside the US have their data transferred there.
• Site protection and delivery: a network service in front of the site handles every request and response between your browser and the game, including your IP address and what you send, and blocks abusive traffic.
• Username check: the username you pick, and nothing else, goes to a service that checks it for offensive names.
• Contact messages: an email delivery service delivers messages sent with the contact form to the developer: the topic and the message, the name and reply address if you give them, and your username if you're signed in (never your email). The game itself doesn't store them.

We don't sell personal data or share it for advertising.

How long we keep it (proposed)

• Raw analytics events: 90 days, then only non-identifying totals.
• Website analytics: 2 months.
• Replays: 30 days (longer only while a leaderboard win is under review).
• Account and profile: until you delete the account.
• Server logs: up to 30 days.

Deleting your account, and a copy of your data

Settings → Delete account removes your profile, battle history and leaderboard entries and signs you out. Your username is held for 30 days, then freed. Backups roll off within 30 days. A copy of your data is available on request for now: ask through the contact form.

Age

The game isn't aimed at children. The proposed terms ask players to be 13 or older.