Privacy

The short version: no accounts, no cookies, no ads, and nothing is sold. Nehemiah is made by Takiko Games.

This website

We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views. It does not use cookies and does not store information that identifies you. Visitors are counted using a short-lived value that resets every day, and we only see totals, such as how many people visited a page and which country or site they came from. It also counts a few clicks the same way, such as how many people pressed the Play button, shared the link or watched the trailer.

The trailer

The trailer on the home page is hosted on YouTube. Until you press play, the page only shows a still image from our own site and nothing loads from YouTube. When you press play, the video loads from YouTube in its privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com), and Google's privacy policy applies to that video.

Email updates

If you sign up for updates, we store your email address, when you signed up and which page you used. We only use it to tell you about Nehemiah news, such as the Steam release. When we send email, we'll use an email service to deliver it, and every email will have a one-click unsubscribe link. You can also remove yourself any time on the unsubscribe page.

Android testing

Testers join the Android test through a Google Group and Google Play, both run by Google under its own terms. As group owner we can see the email address of each member, and use it only to run the test. Earlier sign-ups made on this site are kept only for the same purpose. To be removed, leave the group or email us (address below) and we'll delete it.

Suggestions

When you send a suggestion, we store what you wrote, the time, and your email address if you chose to give one, so we can read it and reply. It is kept in a database run by Upstash on our behalf. To stop repeated spam, we briefly keep a scrambled (hashed) form of your IP address for one hour; the IP address itself is never stored.

The game

• You don't need an account, and the game doesn't ask for your name or email.
• Settings and progress are saved in your own browser's storage, on your device.
• To start an online game, your browser connects to our matchmaking server, which passes the room code and connection details between players. It doesn't store a record of your games. Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, keeps short-lived technical logs of requests to it.
• Once connected, players talk to each other directly (peer to peer). As with most peer-to-peer online games, this means the other players in your room can see your IP address. Only play with people you know.

The Android app

• The app has no ads, no analytics and no in-app purchases, and it doesn't ask for your name or email. Settings and progress are saved on your phone.
• Online games on Android use Epic Online Services, run by Epic Games, to find rooms and connect players. When the app starts, it signs in anonymously with an identifier made for your device, so online play is ready; no Epic account is needed. Epic processes that identifier and your IP address to run the service, under Epic's privacy policy.
• As on the web, once a game starts players connect directly, so the other players in your room can see your IP address.

Questions

Email chris@nohall.dev.