What the Forum Stores
Last updated: August 2026
A one-page summary for the forum. The forum privacy policy is the full version; the game's data safety page is a different document about a different service.
At a glance
| Data | Collected? | Shared with anyone? | Can you delete it? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Posts and topics you write | Yes — and they are public | Published to everyone, including search engines | Yes, any of your own posts, any time |
| Display name (e.g. Bob#4271) | Yes | Shown on your posts | Change it in the game; ask us to remove old posts |
| Email address | No — the forum never stores it | Only your mail provider, when a sign-in code is sent | Nothing here to delete |
| Age | Asked once, checked, not kept | No | Nothing here to delete |
| Sign-in cookie | Yes, one, strictly to keep you signed in | No | Yes — sign out, or clear your cookies |
| Avatar | Assigned from the game's icons | Shown on your posts | Nothing of yours is stored |
| IP address | In server logs and abuse counters | No — moderators cannot see it | Deleted automatically (14 days / 24 hours) |
| Location, contacts, photos, files, device identifiers | No | — | — |
| Advertising or analytics data | No — there is none of either | — | — |
How it is protected
- The whole forum is served over HTTPS.
- The sign-in cookie cannot be read by scripts in your browser, and is sent only over HTTPS and only to this site.
- Forum pages run no JavaScript at all — not ours and not anyone else's. The pages are plain documents, so there is nothing on them for an injected script to hide in, and a strict content policy blocks scripts even if one were ever introduced.
- Nothing is loaded from another company. No fonts, no trackers, no captcha service — the distorted letters on the sign-in page are drawn by our own server.
- The email address you sign in with is stored as a one-way hash, used only to count the three sign-in attempts a day, and cannot be turned back into an address.
- Moderators see only what everyone sees, plus reports. Not your email, not your IP.
Deleting things
You can delete your own posts from the forum yourself. To have all of your posts removed, or your forum account closed, write to us from the address your account uses — see our contact page — and we will do it.
Deleting your Alderun account in the game removes your email address and your game account, but does not automatically remove your forum posts — they are part of conversations other people took part in, so we leave that decision to you. Ask, and they go.