Privacy policy

Data you give us

• Account: the email and password you sign in with. The password is stored only as a hash (scrypt), never as text.
• Characters and progress: your survivors’ names and looks, gear, gold, chips and each one’s save, kept on the game server so you can continue on any device.
• Chat and friends: the messages you send in the game chat go through the server to reach the other players in the channel; your friends list and friend requests are tied to your account.

Data generated while you play

• Position in the game world: in real-time mode, your character’s position, animation and looks are sent to players in the same area of the map.
• Rankings: kills count toward the rankings of the neighborhood, city, country and continent where they happened. The server works out the place from the position on the game map (OpenStreetMap reverse geocoding). The game does not use your device’s GPS or location.
• Error and performance reports: when the game fails or closes unexpectedly, it sends a technical report — the error message, version, browser, screen size, memory and performance figures. Reports do not include your password, your save or your IP address, and are used only to fix problems.

Storage on your device

The game stores in your browser (localStorage, IndexedDB and the Service Worker cache) your settings, your sign-in session, the save of offline players and copies of the 3D models so they load faster. This data stays on your device and can be deleted by clearing the site’s data in your browser. Apart from Google Analytics and Google ads (below), the game uses no other analytics or tracking cookies.

Third-party services that build the map

To draw the cities, your browser fetches data directly from these services, which receive your IP address and map requests under their own policies: Google Maps Platform (3D buildings and terrain), Cesium ion (terrain and satellite imagery), OpenStreetMap and OpenFreeMap (streets and names), Open-Meteo (terrain height) and Google Fonts (text fonts). The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes visits to deliver the pages and protect against abuse.

• Google privacy policy
• Cesium privacy policy
• OpenStreetMap Foundation privacy policy
• Cloudflare privacy policy

Usage statistics (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and understand how the site and the game are used: pages viewed, scrolling, clicks on external links, device type and browser, language and approximate region (country and city, estimated from the IP address, which Google Analytics does not store). These are statistics to improve the game; they do not identify you by name or email.

Google Analytics uses first-party cookies (_ga) to recognize repeat visits. In the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, these cookies stay off until you consent; without consent, Google receives only cookieless signals with no identifier.

You can block Google Analytics on every site with Google’s opt-out browser add-on.

• Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on
• Data protection in Google Analytics

Google ads (AdSense)

This site uses Google AdSense to show ads. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google’s Ads Settings, and out of other vendors’ personalized advertising cookies at aboutads.info.

In the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, ads only use cookies and personal data with your consent, requested through a Google-certified message — you can decline or change your choice at any time.

• Google Ads Settings
• Opt out of other vendors’ cookies (aboutads.info)
• How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services
• How Google uses cookies in advertising

How we use the data

To keep your account and progress; to run real-time play, chat, friends and rankings; to prevent cheating and abuse; to fix errors, measure usage and improve performance; and to show the ads that keep the game free. We do not sell your personal data.

The legal bases (LGPD and GDPR) are performance of the service you asked for (account and game), legitimate interest (security, anti-cheat and bug fixing) and consent (personalized ads, where the law requires it).

How long we keep it

Account and character data is kept while the account exists; asking for deletion erases the account and its characters and ranking entries. Error reports are kept only as long as needed to analyze and fix problems. In Google Analytics, data tied to each visitor is deleted after 2 months; only aggregated reports remain.

Your rights

Under the LGPD (Brazil) and the GDPR (Europe), you can ask to access, correct, port or delete your data and withdraw any consent you gave. Write to contato@dashify.net from your account’s email; we reply within 15 days.

Children

Game Cities has zombie combat and simulated casino games and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect children’s data; if you know of such an account, write to contato@dashify.net and it will be deleted.

Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, the new version is published here, with the update date at the top of the page.