Privacy Policy

01Who is responsible

The responsible party under the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) is Geopolitiks, a sole proprietorship based in South Africa. The owner also acts as information officer. Contact: support@geopolitiks.site.

02What we collect

• Account details: your email address and your password. Your password is stored only as a one-way hash. We cannot read it.
• Licence records: which products your account owns, when you got them and how (for example, a purchase).
• Time played: a running total of how long you have had each product open, used to apply the refund policy. It does not record what you do in the game.
• Device activation: a code made from your computer's identifier (we cannot read the identifier itself), the device name, the platform (Windows or Mac) and when it was first and last used. You can see and remove your devices on your account page.
• Purchase details: after you pay, our payment provider tells us the order, the product, the amount, your email and your country, so we can give you the game and handle tax and refunds. Your card details go to the payment provider and never to us.
• Technical logs: our hosting providers record things like your IP address, the time and the page or file requested, for security and reliability.
• Messages: anything you send us when you contact support.

Your saved games, settings and play history are kept on your own device and are not sent to us. If we add cloud saves later, we will update this policy first and ask you before turning it on.

03Why we use it

We use your information to: create and secure your account; check that you own the game and let you download it; take payment and give refunds; fix problems and answer your messages; keep our services safe and stop abuse; and meet our legal duties, such as keeping tax records. We rely on these reasons: it is needed to carry out our agreement with you, it is needed to meet a legal duty, it is in our legitimate interest to keep the service secure, or you have given your consent.

04Cookies and similar storage

We do not use advertising or tracking cookies and we do not run analytics. To keep you signed in, the website stores a sign-in session in your browser's local storage, and the game app stores an encrypted copy of your session and licence check on your device. You can clear this by signing out.

Our pages load fonts from Google Fonts, which means your browser contacts Google and your IP address is visible to Google when a page loads.

05Who we share it with

We share information only with the service providers we need to run the game. We do not sell it.

• Supabase runs our accounts and database. Our project is hosted in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Cloudflare stores and delivers game downloads.
• Vercel hosts this website.
• Our payment provider takes payment and handles tax on our behalf.
• ForwardEmail forwards mail sent to support@geopolitiks.site to our inbox.

We may also share information when the law or a court requires it, or to protect our rights or the safety of others.

06Transfers outside South Africa

The providers above work internationally, so your information may be processed outside South Africa, including in Europe and the United States. We choose providers that commit to protecting personal information, as POPIA requires for transfers across borders.

07How long we keep it

We keep your account and licence records for as long as your account is open. If you ask us to delete your account, we delete it and your licence records, except for purchase and refund records we must keep for tax and accounting law, usually five years. Technical logs are kept by our providers for a short period and then removed.

08Your rights

Under POPIA you can ask us to: tell you what we hold about you; correct anything that is wrong; delete information we no longer need; stop using it for a purpose you object to; or take back a consent you gave. Email support@geopolitiks.site from the address on your account and we will reply, normally within 30 days. We may need to confirm it is really you first.

If you are unhappy with how we handled your information, you can complain to the Information Regulator (South Africa) at inforegulator.org.za or by email to complaints.IR@inforegulator.org.za. We would like the chance to fix it first, but you do not have to talk to us before complaining.

09Security

We protect your information with encrypted connections, hashed passwords, and database rules that let each account read only its own records. No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects your information, we will tell you and the Information Regulator as the law requires.

10Children

Geopolitiks is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information. If you are under 18, please ask a parent or guardian before you buy or create an account.

11Changes to this policy

We will post any changes here with a new date. If a change affects how we use your information in a way you would not expect, we will tell you directly.

12Contact

Privacy questions and requests: support@geopolitiks.site. See also our Terms of Service.