Privacy Policy

Last updated 9 October 2026

This page explains what Empire of Golden Sails keeps about you, why, who else can see it, and how to have it changed or removed. We keep as little as the game needs. We don't sell your information, we don't show ads, and we don't use tracking or analytics services.

The game is run from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. We are responsible for your information under Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). For any privacy question, write to brandom.designer@gmail.com.

1. What we collect

What you give us

We do not ask for a password, your real name, your date of birth, your address, your phone number or your location.

What the game records as you play

• Game progress: level, ships, guns, upgrades, currencies, points, race and battle results, crew membership, and leaderboard placings. Your captain's name, level, ship and results appear on leaderboards, seat charts and race fields that other players see.
• Activity: when you first joined, when you were last seen, how many visits and races you've had, and roughly how long you've played.
• Purchase records: what you bought, when, what it cost and whether it was delivered. Your card details go to the payment processor, never to us.
• Technical: the IP address you last connected from (each visit replaces the previous one), and a one-word device type worked out from your browser, such as “iPhone” or “Windows”. We don't build a device fingerprint.

What stays on your device

The game saves things in your browser's local storage, not in cookies. We use no cookies. On your device it keeps:

• your saved game and the sign-in key that connects this browser to your captain;
• recent chat, so it's there when you come back;
• preferences such as music on or off and fullscreen.

You can clear these by clearing site data for egs.ca in your browser. Your captain on our server isn't deleted when you do this. See section 6 for that.

2. Why we use it

• To run the game: your account, your progress, races, Royales, Versus matches, crews, chat and leaderboards.
• To deliver what you buy, and to keep the records the law and our payment processor require.
• To keep it fair and safe: spotting cheating, the same person running many accounts (this is what the IP address is mainly used for), abuse in chat and payment fraud.
• To help you when you contact us, and to tell you about important changes to the game, these terms or your account. We don't send marketing email unless you have separately agreed to it.
• To understand the game as a whole, for example how many captains played this week, from our own records and never by sharing them with an analytics company.

3. Who else receives it

We don't sell or rent your information, and we don't share it with advertisers. It goes outside the game only to:

• Our hosting provider, whose servers store the game's database.
• Stripe, our payment processor, when you buy something. It receives your payment details, your email address and what you bought, and handles them under its own privacy policy (stripe.com/privacy).
• Adobe Fonts, which serves the game's lettering. When a game screen loads, your browser fetches the font from Adobe, so Adobe receives your IP address and browser details as part of that request. Adobe says it doesn't use font requests to track you or set cookies.
• The authorities, if the law requires it, or to protect someone's safety.
• A new owner, if the game is ever sold. The new owner would have to follow this policy or tell you first.

Some of these providers may store or process information outside Saskatchewan or Canada, including in the United States, where it is subject to local law.

4. How long we keep it

• Your account (email, names, progress, activity) is kept while your account exists, and deleted when you ask us to delete it.
• Race fields are cleared from the server shortly after each race ends, and finished battles are cleared when they expire.
• Chat messages are kept so the game can show recent chat and so abuse can be dealt with. They are deleted with your account, or sooner if we remove them.
• Purchase records are kept for as long as tax and accounting law requires (in Canada, generally six years), even after the rest of your account is deleted.

5. Keeping it safe

The game is served over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection, and your sign-in key is a long random value that the server checks securely. Access to the back office, where emails and IP addresses can be seen, is password protected and limited to us. No system is perfectly secure, though, and since there is no password, anyone using your browser can play as you. Keep your device locked.

6. Your choices and rights

You can ask us to:

• show you what we hold about you;
• correct something that's wrong, such as your email address;
• delete your account and the information tied to it (apart from purchase records the law requires us to keep);
• stop using your information for something you've agreed to.

Email brandom.designer@gmail.com from the address on your account, with your captain name, and we'll reply within 30 days. Deleting your account removes your captain, progress and anything bought with it, and can't be undone.

If you aren't satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca). If you live elsewhere, you may also have rights under your local law, and we'll respect them.

7. If you live in the UK or the EU

If you live in the United Kingdom, the European Union or the European Economic Area, the UK GDPR or the EU General Data Protection Regulation also applies to your information. This section adds what those laws ask us to tell you.

Who is responsible

Empire of Golden Sails, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, is the controller of your information. Contact brandom.designer@gmail.com.

Why we are allowed to use it

Your rights

As well as the rights in section 6, you have the right to:

• a copy of your information in a common, machine-readable format, to keep or move elsewhere (portability);
• object to our using your information for our legitimate interests, and to have its use restricted while a question about it is sorted out;
• withdraw consent you have given, without affecting what we did before.

These are free to use. We reply within one month, and tell you if we need longer for a complicated request.

Automatic decisions

We don't make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you purely by automated means. The one thing the game does automatically is pause purchases on an account while a payment dispute (chargeback) on it is open. If that happens, contact us and a person will look at it.

Transfers outside the UK and EU

The game's server is in Canada. The UK and the EU recognise Canada as giving adequate protection to personal information handled by businesses under PIPEDA. Stripe and Adobe may process information in the United States and other countries, under the safeguards set out in their own privacy policies (such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses).

Complaints

Please contact us first. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK (ico.org.uk), or to the data protection authority in your EU country.

Young players

Some countries set a higher age than 13 for agreeing to online services yourself (up to 16 in parts of the EU). If that applies where you live, you need a parent or guardian's permission before you make a captain.

8. Children

The game isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them. If you think a child under 13 has made a captain, tell us and we'll delete it. Players under the age of majority need a parent or guardian's permission to play and to buy anything.

9. Changes to this policy

If we change what we collect or how we use it, we'll update this page and its date. If the change matters, we'll tell you in the game before it takes effect.

10. Contact

Empire of Golden Sails · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada · brandom.designer@gmail.com