What we do not collect
You do not need an account with an email address or a password to play. The game never asks for your real name, email, home address, phone number, age or birthday. We do not sell or rent any information, and we do not use advertising trackers.
Your save code and progress
- The first time you play, your browser makes a random save code. It is your account: it stays in your browser, and our servers keep only a scrambled (hashed) form of it.
- With it we keep your game progress: the player name you choose, your character's look, level, items, coins and credits, quests, faction and anything you bought in the store.
- Your browser also keeps your settings (sound, graphics, controls) on your device.
Keeping the game fair
- To stop one person from making many accounts to collect rewards, each device gets a device id from our server. It is kept in your browser's storage and in a cookie from this site (
et_dev, up to 400 days). - For the same reason the browser sends a coarse fingerprint: a one-way hash of things like screen size, language and time zone. The raw values never reach our servers.
- Your IP address is used to connect you and is turned into a one-way hash for limits such as how many new accounts or rewarded ads one network may have. We do not store raw IP addresses with your progress.
Chat and voice chat
- Text chat is shown to the players on the same server. The last 80 messages of each server are kept so that people who join can see recent chat. Links are removed and common swear words are hidden.
- Voice chat is optional and off until you join it. Your microphone sound goes straight to the other players in voice (or through Cloudflare's relay service when a direct connection is not possible). We never record or store voice.
- Please never share personal details such as your full name, address, school or phone number in chat.
Payments
Optional purchases are handled by Stripe. We never see or store card numbers. We keep a record of what was bought (item, price and Stripe's payment reference) so that it reaches your account and can be refunded.
Advertising
The game may show a few ads from Google (AdSense and H5 Games Ads), only inside menus and result screens, never over the game. Watching a rewarded video is always optional. Every ad request is marked as directed at children and as non-personalized, so Google does not use it for interest-based ads or remarketing. Google may still use cookies or similar technology to limit how often an ad is shown, measure ads and prevent fraud. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Services we use
- Cloudflare hosts the game and its servers and keeps short-term technical logs to run and protect the service.
- Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views, how long pages take to load, and roughly where visits come from (country, device type, the site that linked here). It uses no cookies and does not identify or follow individual visitors.
- Stripe handles payments and Google provides ads, as described above.
Young players and parents
Elsewhere Together is made for players of all ages, including children. Because the game does not ask for names, emails or ages, we do not knowingly collect personal information that identifies a child. If you are a parent or guardian and want to see or delete what is stored for your child, contact us with the save code (Settings → Account shows it) or the player name and server.
How long we keep things, and deleting them
- Game progress is kept while the account is used, so players do not lose it.
- Recent chat is replaced as new messages arrive (80 per server).
- To delete an account and its progress, email us from the address below with the save code or the player name. Clearing your browser's data removes the save code, settings and device id from your device.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, we will update this page and its date. Questions or requests: contact@elsewheretogether.io.