Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 30, 2026
Galactic Thrones is operated by Quality Work Software LLC ("we", "us"). This policy explains what information we collect when you play Galactic Thrones on our website or in our mobile app, why we collect it, who we share it with, and the choices and rights you have. The website and the app use the same servers and the same commander account, so this one policy covers both.
1. Information We Collect
- Account details: your callsign (username) and password. Your password is stored only as a one-way hash, never in readable form. Your email address and phone number are optional. A guest account in the mobile app needs no personal details at all.
- Game data: your stations, structures, fleets, resources, missions, alliance membership, leaderboard standing, map bookmarks and preferences, Nexus Credits and perks.
- Communications: messages you send to other commanders (private, alliance and public channels), and any blocks or reports you file.
- Payments: when you buy Nexus Credits on the website, the payment is handled by Stripe. We keep a record of the purchase (package, amount, time and a Stripe reference). We never receive or store your full card details.
- Technical information: your IP address, browser or device type, operating system and app version, session tokens, and error and security logs created when you use the service.
- Advertising and analytics data: cookie identifiers on the website and, in the app, your device's advertising identifier, together with records of whether you watched a rewarded ad. See the Advertising section below.
- Notifications: if you allow push notifications in the app, your device's push token and your notification preferences.
- Crash and error reports (app): technical details of a crash or error, such as the error message, app version, phone model and operating system version. They are not linked to your name or email address.
The app does not ask for your location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone.
2. How We Use Your Information
- To run the game: create and secure your account, keep your empire and its timers up to date, deliver messages, and show leaderboards and the galaxy map.
- To process purchases and reward credits for rewarded ads.
- To send account emails and, if you opt in, text messages (for example a verification or password reset).
- To send push notifications you have allowed, such as an incoming attack or a new message.
- To keep the game safe and fair: prevent cheating, spam and abuse, and review reports.
- To find and fix bugs, measure how the service is used, and improve it.
- To show ads that help pay for the game, and to measure them.
- To meet our legal obligations.
3. Legal Bases (EEA, UK and Switzerland)
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we rely on these legal bases: contract (providing the game you signed up for), legitimate interests (security, preventing abuse, fixing bugs and basic analytics), consent (personalized advertising, optional text messages and push notifications, which you can withdraw at any time) and legal obligation (for example, keeping payment records).
4. Who We Share Information With
We do not sell your personal information in exchange for money. We share information only with the service providers that help us run Galactic Thrones, and only what they need:
- Google (AdSense, AdMob and Analytics): advertising and usage measurement. See How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
- Stripe: payment processing on the website (privacy policy).
- Sentry: crash and error reports from the app (privacy policy).
- Twilio: text messages you have opted in to (privacy policy).
- Mailgun: account emails such as verification and password reset (privacy policy).
- Expo, Google and Apple: delivery of push notifications to your device (Expo privacy policy).
- DigitalOcean and Cloudflare: hosting, delivery and protection of our servers (DigitalOcean, Cloudflare).
Your callsign, station names and public messages are visible to other commanders, as is normal for a multiplayer game. We may also disclose information if the law requires it, to protect the safety of players or our service, or as part of a sale or reorganization of our business.
5. Cookies on the Website
We use essential cookies to keep you logged in and remember your preferences as you move between pages. The website also uses analytics and advertising cookies from Google. A notice on the site explains this the first time you visit. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings, but the game needs its session cookie to work. To opt out of Google Analytics, use the Google Analytics opt-out add-on.
6. Advertising
We show ads to support the continuing development of Galactic Thrones: Google AdSense on the website and Google AdMob (rewarded video ads) in the app. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies or, in the app, your device's advertising identifier, to serve and measure ads, and may use your visits to our service and to other sites or apps to personalize them.
- Consent: where the law requires it, the app shows a consent form before loading ads. You can review or change your choice at any time from Ad Privacy Choices in Profile Settings.
- Opt out of personalized ads: visit Google Ad Settings, www.aboutads.info or, in Europe, www.youronlinechoices.com.
- On your phone: you can reset or limit your advertising identifier in your device's system settings.
Our goal is to keep these transmissions minimal and respectful of your command dashboard real estate while sustaining our orbital operations.
7. The Mobile App
- Guest play: you can start as a guest without providing any personal details. A guest account is tied to your device until you secure it with a callsign, password and (optionally) an email address. If you lose the device or its app data before securing the account, it cannot be recovered.
- Notifications: alerts that a build has finished are scheduled on your phone and need no data from us. Push notifications for incoming attacks and messages use your device's push token. You can turn each kind off in Profile Settings or in your phone's settings.
- Crash reports: sent to Sentry as described above. We do not send screenshots.
8. How Long We Keep Information
We keep your account and game data for as long as your account exists. When you delete your account, your personal details are erased as described in the next section. Security and error logs are kept only for as long as needed to protect and maintain the service. Payment records may be kept for as long as the law requires, and our payment processor keeps its own records under its own obligations.
9. Your Rights and Choices
- Access and correction: you can view and update your email, phone number and password in Profile Settings.
- Deleting your account: you can permanently delete your account and its personal data at any time from Profile Settings in the app. Your name, email address, phone number, messages, credits and our record of your payments are erased. A well-developed station may remain in the galaxy as an anonymous computer-controlled (NPC) outpost, with a new in-game name and no link to you; smaller stations simply return to empty space.
- EEA, UK and Switzerland: you have the right to access your data, have it corrected or erased, receive a copy in a portable format, object to or restrict certain uses, and withdraw consent at any time. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
- California and other US states: depending on where you live, you may have the right to know what personal information we collect and use, to have it deleted or corrected, and to opt out of the "sharing" of personal information for targeted advertising. We do not sell personal information for money, and we will not treat you differently for using these rights. Advertising choices are described in the Advertising section above.
To use any of these rights, contact us at [email protected]. We may need to confirm it is really you, and we will respond within the time the law requires.
10. Children
Galactic Thrones is not intended for children under 13 (or the minimum age to consent to online services in your country, if higher), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
11. Security
We protect your information with encrypted connections (HTTPS), one-way hashing of passwords, and access controls on our servers. No system is perfectly secure, so please choose a strong password and keep it private.
12. International Transfers
We operate from the United States. Your information may be processed in the United States and in other countries where our service providers operate. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards for these transfers.
Payment Processing
Payment transactions for Nexus Credits and virtual game items are securely processed through Stripe. Quality Work Software LLC does not collect, store, or process full payment card details on our servers. All transaction details provided to Stripe are handled under Stripe's Privacy Policy.
SMS/MMS Messaging and Phone Numbers
If you choose to provide your phone number for account verification, password resets, or other communications, we will only use it for those specific purposes. We do not share your phone number or SMS consent data with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the new version on this page and change the "Last updated" date above. If a change is significant, we will also tell you in the game. You are advised to review this policy periodically.
Contact Us
Quality Work Software LLC (qualityworksoftware.com). If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your information, please contact us at [email protected].