BriarholdBriarhold Privacy Policy
Version 2, effective November 9, 2026
This explains what Briarhold, run by Nathan Holloway, collects and why. There are no ads, no analytics services and no tracking, and your information is never sold.
What we store
- Your email address, to sign you in and to reach you about your account.
- Your player name and game data, such as your towns, armies, reports and settings.
- Your push token, if you allow notifications, so alerts can reach your device.
- A device security key from Apple's App Attest, which shows requests come from the real app. It does not identify you.
- Whether you are 13 or older. We do not keep your birth year.
- Which version of the terms you accepted, and when.
- What you send us: feedback, which includes your phone model and game version, and reports about players.
Our servers also handle your IP address to deliver the game and limit abuse.
If you are warned, banned or renamed, we keep a record of it: what happened, the reason, when, and your player name at the time. It is kept after a ban ends, for as long as your account exists.
Who helps run the game
- DigitalOcean hosts the server.
- Cloudflare protects and carries traffic to the server.
- Resend delivers email, such as sign-in codes.
- Apple delivers push notifications and checks that the app is genuine, and distributes the app through TestFlight.
They receive only what they need to do these jobs. We may disclose information if the law requires it.
Backups
Encrypted database backups are kept on private storage at the operator's home for up to about eight weeks. Briarhold is in testing, so game data can be wiped at any time, and backups are not a promise that it can be restored.
Deleting your data
Delete your account any time from Settings → Delete My Account. You choose how:
- Delete (the usual way). You are signed out everywhere and your account is kept, untouched, for 90 days; your kingdoms stay in their realms as they were. Sign in with the same email within that time to recover it as it was, or to start a new account instead. After 90 days the account and its game data are deleted for good.
- Delete permanently now. Your account and game data are deleted at once.
Either way, any record of warnings, renames and bans is kept for 90 days after the account is deleted, so that deleting an account does not escape a ban. It is not kept with your email address: only a keyed one-way code made from it (a hash), which can be matched against an email but not turned back into one, with your old player name and what happened. After the 90 days it is deleted. If you create a new account with the same email within that time, the record carries over to it.
Deleted data ages out of backups within about eight weeks. Some admin records keep your old player name and id. Used hero and artifact names stay taken.
Children
Briarhold is not for anyone under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes
We may update this policy. We will change this page and its version.