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Privacy

Van City Grind is a game by Astral Minds Digital Inc. ("we"), made with Shades of YVR. It is for people 19 and older. This page says what we keep and why, in plain words.

What we keep

• On your device: your saved game (credits, belonging, home, days played) lives in your browser's storage. We use no advertising cookies.
• A guest ID: when you start playing, we create an anonymous guest account so we can count which days you played. It has no name or email.
• If you save your game with an email: your email, the name you chose in the game, and your visit history. We use the email only to send your sign-in link.
• If you pin a note on a corkboard: the note, your display name and the time. Other players can see it, and it comes down after three reports or when you take it down. Please keep it free of private details.
• Your display name and bio: other players see your display name at places, on your profile and next to your notes, messages and stories. If you write a short bio (up to 140 characters), your friends and people standing next to you can read it. Please keep both free of private details.
• If you message a friend: the message, who it's from and to, and the time. Messages are checked by automatic filters when you send them (for links, phone numbers, other apps and unkind words) and are deleted after 30 days. We don't read your conversations. If someone reports a message, the person reviewing the report can read that message and a few before it so they can see what happened.
• If you write a street story: the story, your display name and the time. People on our team read it before it goes live. Once it's live, other players see it with your name on it, and you can't edit it (you can ask us to take it down).
• Friends, hangouts, finds and swaps: who your friends are, which places you've been seen at in the last 20 minutes (only to people allowed to see that, and you can hide yourself in Safety), the finds in your Album and swaps you offer or accept with friends, and your companion's name.
• Reports and moderation: if you report someone, or someone reports you, we keep the report, the reason, the context shown to reviewers, any warning, mute or suspension, and the review log, for as long as it's needed to keep the game safe. Staff actions are logged.
• If you send a recommendation: the text you wrote, the in-game day, and your account. Please keep it free of private details.
• Anonymous play stats (you can switch these off in the menu): short events like "a day started", "a shift finished" or "a home was rented", with a few numbers (such as the neighbourhood and price). They carry a random ID that lives only in your browser. They are not linked to your email, guest account or name.

Why

To run the game, to see whether people come back, and to improve it: what's fun, what's confusing, what's too hard.

Who else handles it

• Supabase stores accounts and the data above. [Confirm and state the Supabase region here.]
• Cloudflare serves the game. Like any host, it sees technical details such as your IP address when your browser loads the page.
• The map is built from OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Your browser doesn't contact them while you play.
• We don't sell your information and we don't share it for advertising.

Your choices

• Turn off anonymous play stats any time in the in-game menu.
• Delete your online account and data in the menu ("Delete my online account and data"). That removes your account, email, name, bio, visits, recommendations, corkboard notes, messages, stories, Album and swaps. A report someone made about you, and the review log, may be kept in a form that no longer links to your name where the law allows. Anonymous play stats can't be traced back to you, so they stay.
• To see or correct what we hold about you, or to ask a question, write to [contact email to be added].

How long

[Proposed: accounts with no activity for 24 months are deleted. Confirm.]

Changes

If we change this, we'll update this page and the date below. Last updated: [date].

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