Plain-language policy · 14 July 2026
Privacy, without surprises.
Tickerworld is an independent browser game. You can explore anonymously, without an account or wallet. This policy explains the limited information the Tickerworld service handles, why it is needed, where it may go, and how to ask a question or make a complaint.
Who operates Tickerworld
The service operator is the Tickerworld project. Privacy requests and complaints can be sent to privacy@tickerworld.io. The project’s public source and issue tracker are at github.com/eshanhack/tickerworld; do not post private information in a public issue.
Information we collect and hold
- Anonymous play data: a random opaque actor identifier, chosen animal, room, movement snapshots, emotes, and connection state needed to show a shared world. Raw wallet addresses are not placed in room state.
- Chat and safety data: room chat is held in memory, up to 50 recent messages. If a report is made, the server attaches its own recent room context. Blocks are stored in your browser.
- Security data: the service sees network and request information such as IP address and user agent. Where throttling is active, IPs are converted to keyed, non-public identifiers rather than synchronized into the game.
- Preferences: volume, mute, accessibility, quality, animal, blocks, last market, and the public X account identifiers and handles you choose to follow in each world may be stored locally in your browser. Your personal watchlist is not uploaded as a user profile.
- Public X news data: to provide the live news feature, the shared service may hold public account identifiers, handles, display names, profile images, per-world source associations, and the exact public posts shown in the game. The shared catalog is not linked to the player who first requested an account.
- Aggregate product data: page visits, performance measurements, and coarse events such as game ready, first movement, emote used, invite created, or session duration. Event properties exclude chat, player names, actor IDs, wallet data, party tokens, query strings, fragments, and raw IP addresses.
How and why we use it
Information is collected from your browser and network connection only as you use the service. It is used to deliver live multiplayer play, remember local choices, show market and news content, prevent abuse, investigate reports, measure aggregate reliability and activation, and comply with law. Tickerworld does not sell personal information or use chat contents for advertising.
Sharing and overseas processing
Information may be processed by infrastructure and service providers used to run Tickerworld, including Vercel for web hosting and privacy-oriented analytics, a Colyseus hosting provider for multiplayer, a managed database provider for safety and live-news records, X for requested public account and post data, and public market providers. These providers may process data outside Australia, primarily in the United States and in the hosting region selected for the multiplayer service. The active region and providers will be kept current on the service-status page.
Retention
- Ordinary room chat: memory only, maximum 50 messages.
- Scrubbed operational logs: up to 14 days.
- HMAC-derived IP throttling identifiers: up to 24 hours unless attached to an active ban.
- Report evidence: up to 90 days.
- Moderation audit actions: up to 12 months.
- Public X posts shown in the game: up to 10 minutes.
- Custom public X account-to-world associations: removed after approximately 24 hours without a request; configured default sources remain while configured. Unused public profile records are removed with their final association.
- Browser preferences, per-world X watchlists, and blocks: until you clear site data.
Access, correction, deletion, and complaints
Email privacy@tickerworld.io with enough information to locate your record without sending secrets. We may need to verify that a request concerns you. We aim to acknowledge requests promptly and respond within 30 days. You may ask for access, correction, or deletion where applicable.
If you believe information was mishandled, contact us first so we can investigate. If you are not satisfied after allowing a reasonable response time, you may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner or another authority available to you.
Children and security
Tickerworld is not designed to collect children’s personal information. Do not share personal, financial, wallet, seed-phrase, or contact information in chat. No internet service can promise perfect security, but the launch service limits collection, validates inputs, rate-limits abuse, and keeps paid wallet features off.
Changes
Material changes will update the date above and be publicised in the product or launch notes. This policy will be updated before collection practices materially expand.