Privacy Statement
At PawnGame.com we believe in minimal data collection, and keeping data safe from third parties.
Since our 2019 relaunch we haven't served advertisements or embedded analytical tracking into our website. We will always strive to ensure your relationship with PawnGame.com stays on PawnGame.com and is not shared with any third parties.
Outlined below is our collection and use of your data, and what you can expect as a visitor.
Website
| Data Stored | Who Has Access | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Username | Everyone | This is your public forum identifier. |
| Password | No one | Passwords are always hashed before they are stored. |
| Email Address | Administrators | Our forum software provides access to emails any time a user's properties are edited, such as user groups. Emails are used by administrators for account verification and site-wide announcements. Our forum software may send you emails for verification and notification purposes based on your account settings. |
| IP Address | Administrators | IP addresses are sometimes used to keep our website safe. Our web server and forum software stores temporary logs of IP addresses for debugging and security measures. |
| Forum Submitted Content | Everyone, Forum Moderators, Administrators | Most forum content except for conversations are published publicly, or to their corresponding user group. Moderators and administrators retain access to deleted messages. Conversations can be accessed by administrators to keep our website safe. |
| Page Requests | Site Administrator | Our web server stores temporary logs of web page requests for debugging and security measures. |
| Data Stored On Your Device | Details |
|---|---|
| Session tokens and Cookies | When you login to our website, a session token is saved to your browser cookies to keep you logged in. Our forum software may use other cookies to save user preferences. Third party embeds in forum content others post or share may attempt to set their own cookies. We have a cookie notice to prevent it from happening automatically. |
Tracking by Third Party Media Providers
Forums allow users to share media from other websites. Embedded media may download from a third party website and embed
into the page using an iframe.
Embedded content doesn't know what web page it's loaded on, due to us setting our referrer policy to no referrer.
So viewing this content on our forum is no different from directly visiting the website it's loaded from.
What forum visitors may not expect is that the video provider's own privacy policy will apply to how they handle data
about the video being watched.
Our forum software now prevents third party media from automatically loading if you selected 'Reject optional cookies'
(and third party cookies) or didn't yet pick an option in the cookie prompt. Additionally, our forum has an image proxy to
fetch images from third party websites on behalf of the user for added speed and privacy.
Accepting all cookies may be unavoidable to unblock video players. We're always looking for better ways to prevent third party tracking.
Please contact us if you have a solution for our forum software.
Games
Our games utilize our website login system to access your username and log you into your game account.
Pawn
| Data Stored | Who Has Access | Details |
|---|---|---|
| IP Address | Game Moderators, Administrators | IP addresses are sometimes used to enforce rules and keep our games safe. |
| Chats | Game Moderators, Administrators | Chats are monitored to ensure our game remains safe for everyone. |
| Game Progress | Everyone, Administrators | Your game progress is saved in our database. We may publish it in leaderboards and other places, or make it available. Unpublished game progress can be accessed by administrators. |
| User Submitted Maps | Everyone, Administrators | Your maps are stored in our database. We may from time to time publish user maps. Administrators have access to user maps. You may allow others to play your map by hosting a game. |
Pawn Tactics
| Data Stored | Who Has Access | Details |
|---|---|---|
| IP Address | Game Moderators, Administrators | IP addresses are sometimes used to enforce rules and keep our games safe. |
| Game Progress | Everyone, Administrators | Your game progress is saved in our database. We may publish it in leaderboards and other places, or make it available. Unpublished game progress can be accessed by administrators. |
When is data aggregated and who is it used by?
When investigating harmful user behaviours such as game or account hacking, collected data may be aggregated by the staff investigating the incident. The staff will only have access to the data their role permits. Aggregated data can ensure we apply the appropriate security measures in response to an incident.
Due to the nature of their duties, the site administrator theoretically has access or potentially has access to any data stored or transmitted by PawnGame.com, and may access it to perform their duty of keeping PawnGame.com online and secure.
Use of Third Party Providers
We use AWS (Amazon Web Services), and Cloudflare to keep our services online. Your data is stored on services provided by AWS and Cloudflare. Please see their privacy policies to learn how they keep our data secure.
We use Discord for communication, and moderation. Some collected game data is logged and temporarily stored on Discord in private chat channels. Please see their privacy policy to learn how they handle chat data.