Privacy note
the short version: this site stores nothing about you unless you leave something — an address, a note — and then it stores exactly that. the party pool and the footer tally store totals, not people. google analytics counts visits — that is the one thing shared with another company.
Who is responsible. Florian Schröder, reachable by e-mail at hello@thelongroad.game. One person, no company, no office — mail is the way.
Google Analytics. This site uses Google Analytics to count visits — which pages are opened, roughly where from, on what kind of device — so one developer can see which parts of the site people actually read. Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser for this and processes your IP address to work out a rough location; the reports themselves only ever show totals, never you. The service is run by Google, and what Google does with measurement data is described in Google’s own privacy policy. If you’d rather not be counted, Google’s opt-out or any ordinary content blocker keeps you out of the count entirely, and the site works exactly the same without it.
Nothing else from other companies. Beyond Google Analytics, this site loads no fonts or scripts from other companies and embeds nothing from other servers. It also counts arrivals as one plain number of its own — see the footer tally below.
The party pool. If you send a party to the Gathering, your browser keeps the three hero IDs in its local storage so it can remember your choice and let you replace it. The server stores only the combined totals for each trio. It stores no browser key, IP address, user agent, account, or submission time for this feature. When you choose again, the browser sends the old trio once so its count can move to the new one. Clearing this site’s browser data forgets your choice locally; the anonymous total cannot be linked back to you.
The tally in the footer. The number of arrivals at the bottom of the home page is a single running total on this server. The first time your browser opens the site it adds one to that total and puts one flag in its own local storage — the word “counted”, nothing else, no identifier — so that later visits are only read, never counted again. Nothing about you is stored on the server: no browser key, IP address, user agent, account or time, and the tally has no column any of them could go in. It cannot be linked back to you, and clearing this site’s browser data simply means your next visit is counted as a new one.
Server logs. The hosting provider may keep standard access logs (IP address, time, requested page) for security purposes. These logs are the hoster's; they are deleted on the hoster's usual schedule.
The mailing list. If you leave an e-mail address at the fire, this site stores the address, the moment you submitted it, the moment you confirmed it, and a random code that the confirmation and unsubscribe links are built from. No IP address, no name, nothing else.
Signing up sends one mail to that address with a link in it, and nothing else is ever sent until you open that link — it is how this site knows the address belongs to whoever typed it. An address that is never confirmed is deleted automatically after two weeks. The confirmed address is used for a small number of mails about the game's release — no advertising for anything else, and it is never shared or sold. Every mail carries an unsubscribe link, and replying to one works just as well; either way nothing more is sent, and all that is kept is the note that you asked to be left alone.
The ideas door. If you leave a note at the ideas door, this site stores the note and the moment it arrived. An e-mail address is stored only if you leave one for an answer — no IP address, no name, nothing else. One person reads the notes. If a note is answered in the open, it is usually re-told in the site’s own words — your exact words or your name appear only if you were asked first, by mail, and said yes. The address is used to answer you and then deleted, at the latest after six months; the note itself may be kept longer, with nothing in it that points to you. The address is never added to the mailing list. If a note contains personal details you want gone, one mail to the contact address above is enough.
Your data, your call. Want to see, correct or delete anything this site holds about you? One mail to the contact address above is enough.