Privacy Policy

Presidential ("Presidential.app", "the game", "we", "us") is a multiplayer strategy game. You govern a fictional version of a real country for one week, and the next player inherits it. This policy explains what we collect, why we collect it, and the choices you have. It covers the Presidential web game at presidential.app (in any desktop or phone browser), the Presidential apps for iPhone and Android, and the presidential.app website.

The short version:

• You can play as a guest. We don't ask for your name, phone number, contacts, photos or location.
• Signing in is optional. If you sign in with Google, Apple or an email link, we receive your email address and an account identifier, and we keep nothing else about you: no name, no photo.
• We don't show ads, we don't sell data, and we don't use advertising or tracking SDKs or cookies.
• AI replies are your choice. Unless you allow them, nothing you write, and not your handle, is sent to an AI provider.
• You can block other players, and you can delete your account from inside the game at any time.

#1. What we collect

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We do not collect precise or coarse location, contacts, photos, health data, financial information, advertising identifiers or browsing history.

In your browser. The web game keeps a few things in your browser's local storage so you stay signed in: your guest device identifier, your session token, and preferences such as light or dark mode. If you sign in, Firebase Authentication also keeps its own sign-in state in your browser's storage. None of this is used for advertising or tracking, and we don't use analytics or advertising cookies. Clearing the site's data in your browser signs you out on that browser; it does not delete your account (see section 6).

#2. How we use it

We use this data only to:

• operate the game
• keep the world fair and safe (rate limits, the text filter, blocking, moderation, preventing abuse)
• fix problems and improve balance

We do not use it for advertising or profiling, and we do not sell or rent it.

Keeping the game safe:

• Text filter. An automatic filter on our servers checks messages, handles, treaty names, handoff notes and report details before they are saved. It refuses text with slurs or hate speech, replaces other profanity with "•••", and replaces contact details (email addresses, phone numbers, links, "add me on…" handles) with "[contact removed]". We store only the filtered text, so what you see after sending is what everyone else sees. The filter runs on our own servers; no third party is involved.
• Blocking. When you block a player, we keep a record of the block so that their messages, and any notifications their messages would trigger, never reach you. They aren't told. The block is tied to the person, so it follows them to another seat.
• Moderation. When content is reported, a person on the Presidential team reviews it. They see the report, the reported content, and account details of the players involved: when the account was created, its devices, how it signs in, its terms, and the reports filed by and about it. A moderator can remove a message (its text is replaced with "[removed by a moderator]" for everyone) and can suspend an account. A suspended account can't use Presidential, except to delete itself.

#3. AI-generated replies

Ministers, AI presidents, briefings and press headlines in Presidential are written by AI language models. AI presidents are labelled as AI in the game. Whether anything you write goes to an AI provider is up to you.

Your choice. Before your first message to an AI president or your first question to a minister, the game asks you once whether to allow AI replies. You can change your answer at any time in Settings → Privacy → AI replies.

Earlier beta versions. iPhone beta builds 1.0.0 (4) and earlier can't ask this question. Until you open a version that can (including the web game), AI replies stay on as they were before the question existed, and the updated game asks you. To turn them off before then, email support@presidential.app.

If you allow AI replies, to write a reply or a briefing we send the model the relevant game context (country names and figures, open decisions, treaties) and can include:

• your handle
• your messages to AI presidents and your questions to ministers
• the recent lines of a conversation an AI president is replying to, including yours
• your handoff note, which is quoted to the AI that writes your successor's briefing

If you don't, nothing you write, and not your handle, is sent to the AI provider:

• your questions to ministers and your messages to AI presidents get pre-written replies instead
• your lines are left out of what an AI president sees of a conversation
• your successor still reads your handoff note in the game, but it isn't quoted to the AI that writes their briefing
• wherever a request would name you, it says "the president" or "your predecessor" instead

Either way, game state (figures, country names, events) is used to write briefings and headlines.

We send these requests through OpenRouter, a routing service, to the model provider. Today that is a DeepSeek model, which may be hosted by DeepSeek or by OpenRouter's infrastructure partners.

These providers process the request to return a reply. We don't send your device identifier, your email address, your IP address or any data outside the game. Don't put personal information in in-game messages. If an AI provider is unavailable, the game falls back to pre-written text. AI-written text goes through the same filter as players' messages (section 2) before anyone sees it.

#4. Who we share it with

• Other players see your handle, your country, your public actions (treaties, votes, scores) and the messages you send them. The next president of your country reads your handoff note. A player who has blocked you doesn't see your messages.
• The public: your handle, the country you govern and your public actions (for example, treaties signed, crises handled, scores) may appear on the public world feed at presidential.app/live. Messages are never shown there. Your email address is never shown to anyone.
• Service providers process data on our behalf, only as needed to run the game:
  • Railway: application hosting, the database and the web game at presidential.app
  • Vercel: website hosting
  • Google (Firebase Authentication, provided by Google LLC as our processor): sign-in with Google, Apple or an email link, only if you choose to sign in. It handles your email address and account identifier, and sends the sign-in email when you use an email link.
  • OpenRouter and model providers: AI replies, only as described in section 3
  • Apple: Sign in with Apple (if you use it), TestFlight and App Store distribution, crash reports you choose to share
  • Google: Google Play distribution and testing
• The law: we may disclose data if required by law or to protect players and the service.

#5. How long we keep it

• Your account and gameplay data: kept until you delete your account.
• Sign-in details: your sign-in provider, account identifier, email address and its verified status are kept until you delete your account.
• In your browser: your guest device identifier and session token stay in your browser's local storage until you sign out, clear the site's data, or delete your account.
• Your AI choice and your blocks: kept until you change them or delete your account.
• Worlds: shared and persistent. When you delete your account, your handle is removed from past records and replaced with "Former president". Anonymous game history (for example, a country's economic figures) stays, because the next president inherits it.
• Messages and reports: kept for up to 12 months for moderation, then deleted. When a moderator removes a message, its text is replaced at once; the copy in the report about it is kept with that report.
• Suspensions: the date and the reason stay on the account until the suspension is lifted or the account is deleted.
• Technical logs: kept for up to 30 days.

#6. Your choices and rights

• AI replies: turn them on or off at any time in Settings → Privacy → AI replies. The change applies to everything sent from then on.
• Blocking: open a conversation or a player's country, open the "…" menu and choose Block. Settings → Blocked presidents lists the players you've blocked and lets you unblock them.
• Delete your account: in the game (on the web or in the app), open Settings → Delete account. This removes your device identifier, your sign-in details (sign-in provider, account identifier, email address and whether it was verified), your handle, messages and personal records from our systems within 30 days, except where we must keep data for legal reasons. You can delete your account even while it is suspended. If you can't use the game, request deletion at presidential.app/delete-account, which also lists what is deleted and what stays.
• Access, correction or deletion requests: you can also email support@presidential.app. Depending on where you live (for example the EU/UK under the GDPR, or California under the CCPA), you may have additional rights to access, correct, delete or port your data, and to object to processing. We honour these requests wherever you live.
• Legal bases (EEA/UK):
  • contract: to provide the game you asked for
  • legitimate interests: security, the text filter, blocking and moderation, improving the game
  • consent: where we ask for it, such as AI replies (you can withdraw it at any time in Settings)

#7. Children

Presidential is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child under 13 is using Presidential, contact us and we will delete the account.

#8. Security

Data travels over HTTPS. Sign-in tokens are stored in your device's secure storage in the app, and in your browser's local storage in the web game (anyone who uses your browser profile can use them, so clear the site's data on a shared computer). Access to our systems, including the moderation tools, is restricted. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your data and will notify affected players of a breach where the law requires it.

#9. International transfers

Our providers may process data in the United States and other countries. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as standard contractual clauses.

#10. Changes

If we change this policy in a meaningful way, we'll update the date above and tell you in the game.

#11. Contact

Questions or requests: support@presidential.app · presidential.app/support