Astral Command — Privacy Policy

Effective / last updated: 2026-10-09

Astral Command ("the game", "we") is a real-time multiplayer space-combat game. This page explains what data the game collects, why, and who it's shared with. If anything here is unclear, contact us — see Contact below.

What we collect

• Guest play requires nothing. You can play, host and join sessions as a guest with just a display name and chosen avatar; guest progress and stats are not persisted between visits.
• Email, if you sign in. Signing in only needs an email address — we send a one-time 6-digit code to verify it (no password). A signed-in account's session results, rank/honor, and leaderboard entries persist across visits.
• Profile data. Display name, chosen avatar and language preference, stored with your account (or kept locally for guests).
• Gameplay & chat data. Match results, honor/rank, kills, and in-game chat messages (automatically filtered for profanity) may be logged for leaderboards, session history and abuse prevention.
• Network data during multiplayer matches. Astral Command hosts matches peer-to-peer: one player's browser acts as the game server and other players connect to it directly over WebRTC. This means the players in a given match can see each other's IP address as a normal, unavoidable part of how peer-to-peer connections work — this is different from most online games, where players only ever talk to a company's servers. If a direct connection isn't possible, traffic may relay through a TURN server operated by us or a third-party provider.
• Payment data, if you buy premium. Premium purchases are processed entirely by NOWPayments, a third-party crypto payment processor. We receive confirmation that a payment succeeded; we never see or store your wallet credentials or payment details.
• Standard technical/analytics data. Like most websites, our hosting (Google Analytics, and Amazon CloudFront/AWS) automatically logs things like IP address, browser/device type and pages visited.

Cookies & advertising

On your first visit, a bar at the bottom of the screen asks whether you accept cookies for ads and analytics. Until you accept, Google's ad tags stay in a restricted/denied state and no ad cookies from Google are set — ads you may see before then are first-party placeholder creatives only, unrelated to any ad network. If you are in the European Economic Area, the UK or Switzerland, Google Analytics likewise sets no cookies until you accept. Elsewhere, Google Analytics is on by default to measure traffic; choosing DECLINE turns it off. You can change your choice at any time via the "COOKIE SETTINGS" link at the bottom of the home screen.

If you accept, this site uses cookies and similar technologies from Google (Google Analytics, and Google AdSense / the Ad Placement API for in-game ads) to operate, analyze traffic on, and serve ads on the game. Your IP address and user-agent are shared with Google, together with performance and security metrics, to ensure quality of service, generate usage statistics, and to detect and address abuse. Google may use this data, and data from other sites you've visited, to personalize ads. You can learn more about how Google uses this information at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and control ad personalization at adssettings.google.com.

How we use this data

• To run matches, sessions and the session directory (who's hosting, who's joined).
• To keep an account's stats, rank and leaderboard position across visits.
• To detect cheating, abuse, spam and chat-policy violations.
• To operate premium purchases and ad-supported gameplay (rewarded videos and interstitial ad breaks).
• To understand how the game is used and improve it (analytics).

We do not sell your personal data.

Data retention

Guest data lives only in your browser and is not retained by us once you close the tab (beyond routine, short-lived server logs). Signed-in account data is kept until you request deletion — see Contact.

Your choices

• Accept or decline ads/analytics cookies any time via "COOKIE SETTINGS" at the bottom of the home screen.
• Play as a guest to avoid persistent data collection entirely.
• The lobby's asset-caching checkbox lets you opt out of the game caching 3D models/art in your browser.
• Ask us to delete your account and associated data at any time.
• Manage Google ad personalization directly at adssettings.google.com.

Children's privacy

Astral Command is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us personal data, contact us and we'll remove it.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the game changes. Material changes will update the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Questions, data-deletion requests, or anything else: fragment_shader@yahoo.com