REPUTATION & RUIN PRIVACY

Ditmer Partners ("we," "us," or "our") provides Captain Derkin: Reputation & Ruin (the "Game"). This policy explains how the Game handles information.

Summary

• Core gameplay and save data stay on your device. No account is required to play.
• Optional playtest analytics are off by default and can be disabled at any time.
• You may optionally create or link a Captain Derkin account for supported cross-game cosmetic entitlements. Account linking is not cloud save.
• We do not sell personal information or use Game data for third-party advertising.

Local gameplay data

The Game stores save files, settings, progress, and gameplay history locally on your device. This local data is not uploaded as part of ordinary gameplay. Deleting the Game or its local data may remove it permanently unless your device platform provides its own backup.

Optional playtest analytics

If you choose to enable playtest analytics, the Game may send PostHog:

• randomly generated anonymous installation, session, and run identifiers;
• gameplay events such as run starts and outcomes, navigation, trades made with in-game currency, travel, contracts, upgrades, encounters, guidance, faction milestones, and failed actions;
• limited game context such as scenario, captain archetype, run day, location, balance version, and anonymous run seed; and
• app and build metadata such as version, update identifier, and platform.

Analytics do not include your name, account email address, password, precise location, contacts, advertising identifier, save contents, typed free-form text, or session replay. Analytics are disabled by default. You can withdraw consent from System → Playtest analytics. Disabling analytics stops future collection and resets the local anonymous analytics identity.

Optional Captain Derkin account linking

Core gameplay does not require an account. If you choose to create or link a Captain Derkin account, the Game sends your email address and password to Google Firebase Authentication to create or authenticate the account. We use the resulting account identifier and authentication tokens to confirm eligible cosmetic entitlements across supported Captain Derkin games.

The Game stores a refresh token and account identifier in the device's secure credential storage when available. The current access token is held in memory. Signing out removes the locally stored refresh token and account identifier; already confirmed cosmetic entitlements and locally earned gameplay progress may remain on the device. If secure storage is unavailable, the link may last only for the current session.

Account linking does not upload, synchronize, restore, or back up your run, save file, inventory, reputation, or other gameplay progress. It is an optional entitlement link, not cloud save.

How we use information

• operate optional account authentication and cosmetic entitlement processing;
• understand closed-test use when analytics consent is enabled;
• balance the economy, difficulty, encounters, and progression;
• identify confusing or unreliable parts of the experience; and
• protect, maintain, and improve the Game.

Service providers

• PostHog processes optional analytics on our behalf.
• Google Firebase processes optional account authentication and related identifiers and tokens.

These providers may process information in countries other than where you live. Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for international processing.

Retention, security, and deletion

Information is transmitted using encrypted connections. We retain analytics and optional account or entitlement records only as long as reasonably necessary to provide these features, improve the Game, protect security, and meet legal obligations, after which they are deleted or de-identified as appropriate.

You can stop future analytics collection in the System menu and sign out to remove locally stored account credentials. To request deletion of optional account or server-side entitlement data, or analytics associated with an identifier you provide, email [email protected]. We may need to verify your request. Deleting an account does not automatically delete local save data, and deleting local save data does not automatically delete an optional account.

No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but we use reasonable safeguards appropriate to the information involved.

Children

The Game is intended for people age 13 and older and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the Game or our practices change. We will update the "Last updated" date when we make changes.

Contact us

Questions or requests can be sent to Ditmer Partners at [email protected].