Stalemate Gaming

TO BE A KING · Legal

Privacy Policy

This policy explains what TO BE A KING by Stalemate Gaming Development stores and sends. Last updated 2026-10-22.

1. Stored on your device only

Saved games, settings, achievements, challenge progress and your profile (name, banner and crest, and an optional email if you create a local profile) are kept in the app's storage on your device. Local profiles are not server accounts (online accounts are described in section 4), and a local password, if set, is only stored as a salted one-way hash. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data deletes all of this. We cannot see or recover it.

2. Ads (optional) and purchases

3. What can leave your device

4. Online accounts (only if you play online)

Offline play needs no account. If you create an online account, our server stores: your username (visible to other players); your email address (only for password resets and important account notices, never shown to others, never used for marketing, never sold); your password only as a salted one-way hash (scrypt); a sign-in session token, stored as a hash, lasting 30 days; a keyed one-way hash of your IP address, used only for abuse limits; your game data (kingdom, buildings, armies, ships, resources, wars and in-game messages; there is no fog of war online, so others see the shared map); the items you bought; and technical server logs.

How long we keep it: your account until you delete it (a kingdom offline for 7 days leaves the world, the account stays); purchase records for as long as you have the account and up to 5 years where tax law requires; reset codes 15 minutes; IP hashes up to 24 hours; server backups: daily backups kept 14 days, hourly backups kept 7 days, so deleted data leaves all backups within 14 days. Ad data is kept by Google under its own rules.

5. International transfers

We are based in South Africa and our server is in Germany (EU). Google, Discord and DigitalOcean may process data in the United States and other countries; Brevo processes data in the EU. For transfers across borders we rely on the providers' standard contractual clauses or data processing terms and adequacy decisions where they exist, and share only what each service needs.

6. Children

The game is suitable for a general audience and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Online accounts need an email address: do not create one if you are under the age of digital consent where you live without a parent's or guardian's permission. Ratings are anonymous and feedback is only sent if you choose to email us. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

7. Your choices

You can skip ratings, feedback and reward videos. Delete your online account with Online → Account → Delete account (it erases your account, email, password hash, sessions and kingdom at once). Restore purchases with Royal Shop → Restore; refunds: see the Refund Policy. Depending on where you live (for example POPIA in South Africa or the GDPR in the EU/UK) you may have rights to access, correct, delete or object: email us, or complain to your data protection authority (in South Africa, the Information Regulator). To delete all your data, use Settings → Delete account & data: it erases every profile, saved game, setting and your agreement from the device at once (clearing the app's data or uninstalling it does the same). To ask about or delete anything you emailed us, write to us.

8. Changes

If this policy changes, the game will show the new version and ask you to accept it again.

9. Contact

Stalemate Gaming Development: stalemategp@gmail.com