Privacy Policy — Silver and Fang

At Silver and Fang, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience while playing our game. This Privacy Policy explains what we collect, why, how long we keep it, and how you can delete it when you use the Silver and Fang Android app, the browser version at game.silverandfang.com, and our related services.

1. Information We Collect

We only collect what we need to run a real-time multiplayer game:

Account Data: a random account identifier and the display name you choose. If you register with email, your email address and a password (stored only as a one-way hash, never in plain text). If you sign in with Google, the Google account identifier, email address and name that Google shares with us at sign-in. We do not store your Google profile photo. You can also play as a guest, without an email address.
Profile and Avatar: the avatar you build from our catalog of drawn items (hair, hat, glasses, and so on), the image we generate from it, and the items you have unlocked. Avatars are illustrations, not photos of you. Your display name, avatar and public game statistics are visible to other players.
Game Data: the matches you play (room code, the role you were dealt, your team, the result), your lifetime statistics (games played, wins by team and by role) and your skill rating, together with the per-match rating changes that explain it.
Match Event Log: a record of what happened during each match (phase changes, votes, eliminations, ability uses, the players involved). It powers the in-game match history (the “moon log”), statistics, game balancing, and bug investigation.
Player Notes: the private notes you write in the in-game notebook during a match (up to 200 characters each), either about another player or general. They can only be read by you, the author, and only while you are still alive in that match: other players, including the player a note is about, never see them. Once you are eliminated, the notebook closes and your notes are no longer shown to you. All the notes of a match are deleted from our servers as soon as the match ends, whether it finishes, is cancelled, or its room closes.
Feedback: when you send feedback from the app, the text you write and, if you send it during a match, a technical snapshot of that match’s state to help us reproduce the problem.
Technical Data: IP addresses and connection information processed by our servers to deliver the service, keep it stable and protect it against abuse. The app does not include advertising or analytics SDKs, and we do not collect your location, contacts or advertising ID.

2. How We Use Your Information

Service Provision: to create and manage your account, put you in a game room with other players, and run matches in real time.
Game Features: to show your statistics, rating, match history and notes, and to display your name and avatar to the other players at your table.
Improvement and Fair Play: to balance roles and gameplay, fix bugs, and investigate reports of abuse or cheating.
Communication: to answer you when you contact us.

We do not sell your data and we do not use it for advertising.

3. Voice Communication and Microphone Access

Silver and Fang is a voice game: players talk to each other in real time, like at a real table.

Where voice is used: in the lobby (the waiting room before a match) and during the match. During the match, the public table room is open to the players at the table, including at night unless the host turns night chat off for the room. Some roles share a private voice room at night (for example, the werewolf pack). The game itself mutes or limits voice at certain moments (for example, push-to-talk during some phases), and you can mute yourself at any time.
Microphone access: we ask for microphone access only for this voice chat. Your microphone is used only while you are in a game room with voice chat; it is not used outside a room. Spectators and eliminated players who can only listen are not asked for the microphone.
Voice while the app is in the background (Android): so that you can keep talking and listening if you switch apps or turn off the screen during a game, the Android app runs a foreground service (types “microphone” and “media playback”) while you are in a voice room. Android shows a visible ongoing notification, “Match in progress”, the whole time this service is running. It stops when you leave the room.
How voice is carried: your voice is streamed, encrypted in transit, through our own voice server (built on the open-source LiveKit software and operated by us on cloud servers that we rent), which relays it to the other players in your room. It is not sent to any other third party.
No recording: we do not record, store, transcribe or analyse your voice. Audio only passes through the voice server in real time and is not saved after it has been delivered. The voice server only keeps technical connection logs (such as which account joined which room and when, and network addresses), which never contain audio.
Your choice: you can refuse or revoke microphone access at any time in your device settings. You can still play and listen; you just will not be heard.

4. Android Permissions

Microphone: voice chat, as described above.
Nearby devices (Bluetooth): only to send voice-chat audio to, and take it from, a Bluetooth headset or earbuds you have already connected. The app does not scan for devices and does not use Bluetooth to determine your location.
Notifications: only to show the “Match in progress” notification while voice chat runs in the background. We do not send marketing or push notifications.
Network, audio settings and keeping the device awake: to connect to our servers, route game audio, and keep voice running during a match.

5. Data Retention and Deletion

Your account: we keep your account data while your account exists.
Deleting your account: you can delete your account at any time in the app (Account settings → Delete my account), or ask us by email. Your account is deactivated immediately and you are signed out on every device. It is then permanently deleted after a grace period (currently 30 days; the app shows it before you confirm). If you sign in again during the grace period, the deletion is cancelled and your account is restored.
What is deleted: the permanent deletion erases your account data, sign-in sessions, statistics, rating and rating history, the record of the matches you took part in, and any player note still stored for a match in progress, whether you wrote it or it is about you.
What remains: the shared history of matches you played in (the match event log and the final state of each match) is kept so that other players’ statistics and match histories stay correct and so that we can balance the game. After your account is deleted, these records are no longer linked to any account and only keep the display name you used in those matches and a random identifier. Feedback you sent is kept, detached from your account.
Player notes: notes only exist while their match is running. They are deleted when the match ends (finished, cancelled, or room closed), and are never kept after it.
Sign-in sessions expire automatically and are purged regularly.

6. Hosting and Third-Party Services

Game servers and database: Railway (railway.app).
Voice server: operated by us on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure servers (see section 3).
Avatar and role images: stored on Amazon Web Services (S3) and served through its content delivery network (CloudFront).
Web version and this website: served by Google Firebase Hosting.
Sign-in: Google Sign-In, if you choose to sign in with Google.
App distribution: Google Play.

These providers only process data as needed to provide their service to us. Your data may be processed in countries other than your own. All data is encrypted in transit between the app and our servers.

7. Platform Availability

Silver and Fang is available in the browser at game.silverandfang.com and as an Android app on Google Play. An iOS version is not yet available, so we do not collect data from iOS apps at this time.

8. Children

Silver and Fang is not directed at children under 13, and you must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age required in your country) to play, as set out in our Terms and Conditions. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.

9. Your Data Rights

Silver and Fang is operated by an independent developer based in France, who is the data controller for the data described in this policy. We process your data because it is necessary to provide the game you signed up for (your account, matches, voice chat, statistics and notes), and on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping the game fair, secure and balanced (match event log, technical data, feedback).

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and French law, you have the right to:

Access: Request a copy of the data we hold about you.
Correction: Ask us to rectify any inaccurate or incomplete information. You can change your display name and avatar yourself in the app.
Deletion: Delete your account in the app, or ask us to (see section 5).
Portability: Request a transfer of your data to another service provider.
Objection and restriction: Object to processing based on our legitimate interest, or ask us to restrict it.

To exercise these rights or for any privacy question, please contact us at ahamdaoui.dev@gmail.com.

We answer within one month. If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL (www.cnil.fr), or with the authority of the country where you live.

10. Security

We implement security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure: encrypted connections, hashed passwords, and restricted access to production data. Please note, however, that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Effective Date.” We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.