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Privacy Policy
How Ashen Throne handles account, gameplay, and social reward verification data.
This Privacy Policy explains how Ashen Throne ("Ashen Throne," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, stores, and shares information when you visit ashenthr.one, play the game at play.ashenthr.one, or use related community and alpha services.
Information we collect
Account information. We collect the username, password credential, guest account status, and player identifier needed to create and secure your account. If you use Google sign-in or link a Google account, we may store your Google account identifier and email address.
Gameplay information. We store game progress and gameplay state, including resources, commanders, troops, buildings, alliance membership, messages, battle results, marketplace activity, rewards, and related timestamps.
Technical information. Our servers may receive IP address, device or browser information, user agent, authentication timestamps, error logs, and security-related events.
Community reward verification information. If you choose to verify a social follow or membership reward, we may store the platform, verification status, verification timestamp, external account identifier or handle when provided by the platform, and the in-game mail reward identifier. We do not ask for your social platform password.
Google and YouTube data
If you choose to verify a YouTube community reward, we request permission to use the YouTube Data API scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly. We use that permission only to check whether the Google account you authorized is subscribed to the official Ashen Throne YouTube channel.
We do not store your Google OAuth access token for this reward flow. We do not store your full YouTube subscription list, videos, comments, playlists, watch history, or channel analytics. We may store the fact that the reward was verified, the time of verification, and your YouTube channel identifier or title if available.
Ashen Throne's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
How we use information
- To create, authenticate, and secure player accounts.
- To operate gameplay systems, mail rewards, battles, alliances, leaderboards, and alpha services.
- To verify optional community rewards that you choose to start.
- To prevent abuse, cheating, spam, account theft, and duplicate rewards.
- To debug crashes, monitor server health, and improve the alpha.
- To respond to support, privacy, and account deletion requests.
How we share information
We do not sell personal information. We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate the game and website, such as hosting, deployment, authentication, analytics, payment, email, or security providers. These providers may process information only as needed to provide their services.
If you initiate a third-party OAuth or social platform flow, your browser is redirected to that third-party service. Their use of your information is governed by their own privacy policies and terms.
We may disclose information if required by law, to protect players, to investigate abuse or security issues, or to enforce our Terms of Service.
Cookies and local storage
Ashen Throne may use cookies, local storage, or similar browser storage to keep you signed in, remember settings, secure sessions, and operate the game client. You can control some browser storage through your browser settings, but disabling it may prevent the game from working correctly.
Data retention
We keep account and gameplay information for as long as needed to operate Ashen Throne, preserve game integrity, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Short-lived OAuth state records are used to complete the verification flow and expire automatically.
Your choices
You can choose not to connect a third-party account or not to participate in community reward verification. You can request account deletion, access, or correction by contacting us at [email protected]. We may need to verify that you control the account before making changes.
Children
Ashen Throne is not directed to children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use the service. If we learn that we collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information. No online service can guarantee complete security, especially during an alpha, so you should use a unique password and keep your login credentials private.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy as the alpha evolves. If changes are material, we will update the date above and may provide additional notice in-game, on the website, or through community channels.
Contact
Privacy questions, account deletion requests, and support inquiries can be sent to [email protected].