Privacy policy

Effective date: to be set at the game’s release.

Game data

Pocket Pawns is made by Pocket Pawn Games. It does not collect, transmit, or store any personal information about you. The game has no accounts, no servers, no analytics, and no advertising. It does not connect to the internet to play. Steam Cloud saves and Steam achievement updates are described below.

Your save data

Your progress is saved to your own computer, in the game’s local application data folder. We cannot see it, and we do not receive a copy.

If you have Steam Cloud enabled, Steam copies your save file to your own Steam account so it follows you between your computers. That copy is held by Valve under Valve’s privacy policy, and it contains only your game progress — no personal information. You can turn Steam Cloud off for this game at any time in its Properties in your Steam Library. Deleting the game’s data folder deletes your local saves permanently.

What we receive from Steam

Pocket Pawns is distributed through Steam. Steam is operated by Valve Corporation, and Valve’s own privacy policy governs the information Steam collects from you, including your account details and playtime. As a developer, Valve provides us only aggregated, anonymised sales and usage statistics. We are not given your name, your email address, your payment details, or your Steam account credentials.

The game uses Steam to confirm that the copy you are running is owned, to support controller input through Steam Input, and to unlock Steam achievements on your own Steam profile as you earn them. Achievement unlocks are recorded by Valve against your Steam account, under Valve’s privacy policy. The game sends nothing else, and nothing to us.

Children

Pocket Pawns does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.

Your rights

To ask about your personal information, contact us at the address below. For information held by Steam or Cloudflare, see their privacy policies linked on this page.

Changes

If a future update adds a feature that collects or transmits data, this policy will be updated before that update is released, and the change will be described here.

This website

pocketpawns.com has no analytics software, advertising trackers, or contact or sign-up forms. Searches and filters in the piece gallery work in your browser and are not sent to us. Your Motion on or off choice is saved in your browser under pp-motion. It stays on your device and is not sent to us. Older visits may also leave a session-only flag for the opening animation; that flag disappears when the tab closes.

The site is hosted by Cloudflare. Its security checks may save a cf_clearance cookie in your browser. Cloudflare processes information such as your IP address and browser details to deliver pages and block abuse, under Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Links to Steam, X, YouTube and Reddit take you to those services, which are governed by their own privacy policies.

Contact

therealpocketpawns@gmail.com· or on X at @PocketPawnsGame.