Legal
Privacy
What we collect, why, and for how long, in plain words.
The short version
- No ads, no tracking cookies, and no selling or renting of anything about you.
- You don’t make an account with us. The game makes its own account key on your device, and servers only see a separate key made for their world.
- We keep what we need to run the website, the server list and the official server, and we delete it when we no longer need it.
This website
The site is hosted on Cloudflare. Like any website, it receives your IP address and browser details with each request, and Cloudflare uses them to deliver pages and block attacks. We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and doesn’t track you across sites.
The site remembers your light or dark theme choice in your own browser; it never leaves your device. If you write to us, we use your email only to reply.
The server list
When a game server lists itself, we store what it sends: its name, description and message, game version, port, player count and limit, its public certificate, and simple health figures. We also store the internet address it connects from, and the region and country that address is in.
- The address is not shown on the website. It goes only to players’ games when they choose to join, because that’s how they connect.
- To limit abuse, we note which address registered a listing and when.
Playing online
When you play on the official server, it keeps your farmer and everything in its world: your character’s name, money, property and progress, along with a key made for that world from your account key. It also keeps the internet address you connect from, to apply connection limits and bans, and a log of moderation actions. Chat messages are passed to other players and are not saved.
Servers hosted by other players are run by those players, not by us. They see what any game server sees, including your character and your internet address, and their own rules and privacy practices apply.
How long we keep it
| What | For how long |
|---|---|
| Server listings | Until the host removes them, or 30 days after the server last checked in |
| Listing registration records | 2 days |
| Town news from the official world (no names or locations) | 90 days |
| The official world and your farmer in it | As long as that world runs. The beta world is archived at launch as a backup. |
| Moderation records and the owner’s action log | Up to 1 year |
| Emails to support | As long as needed to help you |
Who we share it with
Only with the services that run Acre by Acre for us: Cloudflare (website, server list, downloads and analytics) and our server host for the official world. They process it on our behalf. We don’t sell or rent information, and we don’t share it for advertising. We would disclose information only if the law required it.
Your choices
You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, including your farmer on the official server. Hosts can ask us to remove their listing at any time, and a listing is deleted 30 days after its server stops checking in. If you think a child has given us personal information, tell us and we’ll delete it.
Contact
Write to support@acrebyacregame.com. If this policy changes, we’ll update the date at the top of this page and mention important changes in the news.