PRIVACY

1. Controller

Thornike Morher, Südallee 23A, 54290 Trier, Germany
Email: info@thornike.eu

2. Public leaderboard

If you start a run and submit a score, the game processes the nickname you enter, your score, ranking position, game title and timestamps. Nicknames and scores can be displayed publicly in the Top 10 leaderboard. Do not enter your real name or other personal information.

Submitting a leaderboard score is voluntary. The processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is a functional, fair and abuse-resistant highscore system. Only Top 10 entries are retained; an entry is overwritten when it falls out of the Top 10, when the leaderboard is discontinued or when deletion is justified and requested.

3. Necessary game session

The game sets the session cookie ballista_bastards_session. It contains only a random session identifier. Server-side session data is used to assign a one-time run token, the nickname and the start time to your run and to limit manipulation of the leaderboard.

The cookie is restricted with Secure, HttpOnly and SameSite=Strict and expires when the browser session ends. Unused server-side run data is discarded after no more than three hours. This storage is necessary to provide the requested game and leaderboard function (Section 25(2)(2) TDDDG).

4. Local visual preference

When you choose a “Mess Level”, the setting is saved in your browser under the local-storage key bb-gore. It is used only to restore your chosen visual-effects setting, is not transmitted to the server and remains until you change it or delete the browser storage.

5. No advertising or tracking

Ballista Bastards does not use advertising cookies, analytics services, third-party fonts or social-media tracking. Game graphics, scripts and audio are delivered locally from this website. The hosting provider may process technical access data as described in the general privacy policy.

6. Further information and your rights

Details about hosting, server logs, storage periods and your rights under the GDPR are available in the general privacy policy of thornike.eu.