Privacy Policy

The Short Version

• We collect: your account name + password (hashed), your IP at login, your in-game actions (logs), and if you donate, the payment metadata Tebex sends us.
• We don't sell or share your data with marketers.
• We don't use tracking cookies. The site has zero third-party trackers.
• Payments go through Tebex — they handle your card data, we never see it.
• You can delete your account and all associated data by emailing support@brevison.org. We respond within 30 days.

1. Who we are

Brevison is operated by [DEIN NAME], [ADRESSE], Deutschland. See Impressum for full details. Contact for data protection: privacy@brevison.org.

2. What we collect

Category	Examples	Why	How long
Account data	Username, hashed password, email (optional)	Login, support, password recovery	Until you delete your account
Technical data	IP address at login, user-agent, session ID	Anti-abuse (ban evasion, fraud), required by §13 TMG	90 days, then hashed
Game logs	Actions you take, chat messages, trades	Support, anti-cheat, restoring lost progress	180 days
Donation metadata	Transaction ID, amount, package, billing country (no card number)	Granting perks, tax compliance	10 years (German tax law, AO §147)
Vote records	Voting site name, timestamp, IP hash	Prevent vote abuse, grant reward	30 days

3. Legal bases (GDPR Art. 6)

• Contract performance (Art. 6 (1) (b)) — to provide the game to you and process donations.
• Legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f)) — anti-abuse, security, debugging.
• Legal obligation (Art. 6 (1) (c)) — tax records, ban records.
• Consent (Art. 6 (1) (a)) — if you opt in to appear on the Hall of Patrons page.

4. Payment processing (Tebex)

Donations go through Tebex Limited, a UK-based payment processor for game communities. Tebex acts as a data processor on our behalf under a Data Processing Agreement. They receive your card or PayPal data; we receive only the transaction ID, your chosen billing country, the package, and the amount. We never store payment credentials.

5. Third-party services

• Voting toplists — when you click a "Vote Now" button you leave our site. Each toplist has its own privacy policy. Read theirs before voting.
• Tebex — see Section 4.

6. Cookies

Brevison's public site sets no cookies and embeds no third-party trackers. The game client uses local storage for cache (not transmitted). The Tebex storefront uses Tebex's own cookies — opening it leaves our domain.

7. Your rights (GDPR Art. 15–22)

• Access — request a copy of your data.
• Rectification — correct anything we have wrong.
• Erasure — request deletion. Some data (donation records) we must keep for German tax law, but we'll delete everything we lawfully can.
• Restriction — ask us to pause processing while a dispute is resolved.
• Portability — request a machine-readable export.
• Objection — to legitimate-interest processing (e.g., game-log retention) where your case overrides our interest.

Send any of these requests to privacy@brevison.org. We respond within 30 days.

8. Complaint

You can lodge a complaint with the German data protection supervisor: Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI), or the supervisory authority of your state.

9. Changes

If we change this policy materially (new data category, new processor) we'll post a notice on the front page for 14 days.

This is template wording with placeholders. Before going live, replace [DEIN NAME] / [ADRESSE], confirm the retention periods match your operational reality, and have it reviewed by a data-protection lawyer if you are taking real donations. The template is informative, not legal advice.