Privacy Policy

What we collect

• Account: username, email address, and a bcrypt-hashed password (we never store or can see your actual password).
• Applications: in-game name, Discord username, age range, availability, experience, and anything else you write in the application form — plus your IP address, to help spot spam.
• Discord link: if you run /link in Discord and confirm it here, we store your Discord user ID and tag against your account.
• Dog-tag profile: whatever you choose to add — callsign, bio, specialization, self-reported stats. Nothing here is required.
• Activity: a security/moderation log of account actions (logins, edits, admin actions) including IP address, kept so officers can investigate abuse.
• Session cookie: see the Cookie Policy.

What we don't do

• No advertising, no ad networks, no analytics/tracking scripts.
• We don't sell or share your data with third parties for marketing.
• We don't collect anything from the game itself — WARDOGS has no public stats API yet, so anything that looks like a stat on a dog tag is self-reported by that member or manually verified by an officer.

Third parties

The site loads fonts from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / fonts.gstatic.com) — like most font CDNs, that means your browser makes a request to Google's servers when you load a page, which is subject to Google's own privacy policy, not ours. If you link a Discord account, that interaction is also subject to Discord's privacy policy.

How long we keep it

Account and profile data is kept while your account exists. Rejected or withdrawn applications are kept for a reasonable period for moderation purposes, then may be deleted. Wiki page history is kept indefinitely as part of how the wiki works (see the GDPR page for what that means for deletion requests).

Children

The application form has an optional age-range field so officers can make sensible calls about voice-chat groupings and similar — it's self-reported and not verified. The site isn't intended to knowingly collect data from young children beyond that, and we'd delete such data if it came to our attention it had been provided without appropriate awareness from a parent or guardian.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct, or delete the data we hold on you at any time — see the GDPR page for details and how to ask.

Changes

If this policy changes in a meaningful way, we'll update the date at the top. Worth a re-read occasionally.