Who is responsible
Seas of Glory is operated by Dan Henderson, who is the data controller. For privacy or account requests, email support@seasofglory.com.
Additional operator contact information required by applicable law is available without delay on request.
The game is not yet publicly released. The website and support sections apply now; the game sections explain information handled if you receive private test access or later use the game. Separate services, including Google, Apple, Discord and social networks, have their own privacy notices.
Website and support
Cloudflare delivers and protects this website. It processes technical request information such as your IP address, requested page, browser information and request timing. We use this to provide a reliable site and prevent abuse, relying on our legitimate interests in operating and protecting it where UK or EEA data-protection law applies.
Cloudflare Web Analytics provides website traffic and performance statistics to help us understand use of the site and improve its reliability, relying on our legitimate interests where applicable. It is a cookie-free measurement service, separate from the game’s Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics and Performance SDKs. We do not add advertising trackers or analytics cookies to this website. Cloudflare’s privacy policy explains its handling of technical information.
There is no website registration, payment or contact-upload form. If you email support, we receive your email address and what you send. We use it to answer your request, resolve account or safety issues and meet applicable legal duties. Depending on the request, this relies on steps requested by you, our legitimate interests in providing support, or a legal obligation. Do not send passwords, sign-in tokens, full identity documents or private chat archives.
Email to support also passes through your mail service and our email-hosting provider. Following a link to Discord, the wiki or a social network brings you to a separate service that may collect information under its own policies. Merely reading a policy page does not send a support request.
Game and test access
Google or Apple sign-in uses Firebase Authentication. The game uses a Firebase identifier to recognise your account and authorise access. Firebase and the sign-in provider may process provider account information, including email or profile details. The ordinary game player record does not require an email address.
The game stores your username, selected profile artwork, player identifiers, ports, resources, orders, progress, activity, friendships, blocks, Armada membership and preferences. Messages include text, participant or group identifiers, timestamps and read information. The app also uses an installation identifier, technical request information and, if notifications are enabled, a push token.
These records provide your account, multiplayer gameplay, messages and requested notifications. Where UK or EEA law applies, the basis is providing the service you request under its terms, with legitimate interests for proportionate game-integrity and security measures. Terms and community-rule acceptance records, where collected, identify the accepted versions and time; they do not provide permission for optional analytics.
Your username and relevant profile, port, leaderboard and Armada information are visible to other players. New direct messages require accepted friendship and no block in either direction. Participants retain access to existing direct history after blocking or unfriending. Current Armada members can read group history, including messages sent before they joined. The operator can access stored messages; they are not end-to-end encrypted.
Reports preserve the selected message or username, the reason, an optional explanation and necessary case details. Designated moderators review relevant evidence and record decisions, warnings or restrictions. We use this for legitimate safety and service-integrity interests, and legal obligations where applicable. Ordinary player and Armada roles do not grant access to moderator evidence.
Expo and Apple or Google notification services deliver notifications you enable. Lock-screen notifications can show a sender name or game information; social pushes do not include message bodies. You can manage notification permissions in device settings.
App analytics and diagnostics
Current private test builds include Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics and Performance. These can collect app-use events, installation and device identifiers, app/device information, crash reports, performance traces and network performance metadata. The app can associate diagnostics with a player identifier. Collection can occur automatically through the SDKs; do not assume it is anonymous or stops merely because you sign out.
The game’s custom telemetry is designed to exclude private-message text, moderation evidence and arbitrary player-entered text. This does not remove technical information collected automatically by a provider SDK.
Separate usage-analytics and diagnostic choices are being prepared for the public app. They are not offered by this website, and this notice does not claim they already control every installed test build. Public app availability will depend on the privacy controls and notices required for the release. Acceptance of the game terms is not consent to optional analytics.
If you have test access and want information about its collection or to exercise a privacy right, contact support@seasofglory.com. Signing out, uninstalling or changing a future collection choice does not itself erase information already held by providers.
Retention and deletion
We keep account and gameplay records to provide your active game, its shared history and necessary integrity records. Ordinary direct and Armada messages have no automatic time-based expiry. Account deletion removes relevant messages; ending a game world does not itself erase its history. Ordinary chat is not subject to a 90-day deletion promise.
New report evidence normally expires 90 days after submission. Personal text and identity links are then redacted, while minimal anonymised case metadata can remain. A case-specific hold requires a recorded reason and finite expiry; an extension is limited to 90 days from that decision. This does not extend all chat history.
Support correspondence is kept to handle the request, necessary follow-up, disputes and applicable legal duties. Security and technical records serve service protection, troubleshooting and any relevant investigation. Provider-held records follow the service’s applicable retention settings and processes. There is no single retention period covering all of these records.
Account deletion removes ordinary account, game and chat records and removes or replaces identifying information in retained shared history. Narrow report-evidence retention, a valid legal hold or a limited identity tombstone can remain for safety, deletion enforcement or legal needs. A persistent hashed identifier is not automatically anonymous.
Host backups can contain older copies until they are overwritten or expire. Account deletion does not immediately remove existing backups, and this notice does not promise a fixed backup-deletion period. Provider records and support correspondence also need separate handling. Contact us about a specific retained category or deletion failure.
Deletion cannot recall another player’s screenshots or copies, delivered email or notifications, or independently held Google or Apple account information. We do not promise instant deletion of every copy.
Age and child concerns
The game is for adults aged 18 and over, subject to any higher local requirement. Under-18s may not use it, including with parental permission. This is an account rule; it does not mean a player’s age has been verified. The store’s content rating is separate. The website does not ask for a date of birth or identity document.
If you believe an account is below the permitted age or have a parent or child-safety concern, email support@seasofglory.com with the minimum necessary details. Do not send a child’s identity documents or full private conversations.
Your rights
Depending on applicable law, you may request access or a copy, correction, deletion, restriction, objection or portable information, and may withdraw consent where processing relies on it. Contact support@seasofglory.com with your player identifier if known and a short description. We will verify account control proportionately and protect other people’s information.
Where UK or EEA data-protection law applies, we respond within one month or explain a permitted extension within that month. You may complain to the UK Information Commissioner or the relevant data-protection authority where you live, work or believe an infringement occurred. Japanese privacy concerns may be raised with the Personal Information Protection Commission.
This notice shows its version and effective date. Material new uses will be explained through an appropriate notice and any required choice. Editing a notice does not create your consent.