PRIVACY POLICY

Cargostrife is a hobby project run by one person. This page says exactly what the servers and this site keep about you, and what they do not.

01WHAT THE SERVERS SEE WHILE YOU PLAY

• The name you join with, the company you run, and everything you build, haul and earn. That is the game.
• Chat you type in game.
• The IP address your client connects from, in the game server's own log, exactly as any multiplayer server does. It is never extracted from those logs, never published, never shown to other players and never attached to your career. System logs roll over on disk by themselves - about a week's worth exists at any time.

02WHAT IS PUBLIC, DELIBERATELY

Careers, XP, levels, achievements, records, rankings and session recaps are published on this site under your player name. That is what a leaderboard is - if you would rather not appear on one, this is the part to know about before playing.

03WHAT IS KEPT PRIVATE

• Your Discord ID, if you link your account, and your Steam ID if you sign in with Steam. Both are stored on the server and neither is ever served: the public copy of the career book is stripped of them before it is published.
• Device keys. OpenTTD gives each installation its own public key. When you bind a machine we store that key, so a returning player can be told apart from somebody typing your name. Never published.
• Moderator notes and player reports. Staff only.
• Postcard votes. A vote cast while signed in is stored against your account. A vote cast without signing in is stored against a keyed hash of your network address, so each connection counts once; the address itself is never stored.

04WHAT WE DO NOT DO

• No ads, no analytics, no tracking pixels. Not on any page.
• The trailer on the front page is a click-to-load embed on youtube-nocookie.com: nothing reaches YouTube unless you press play.
• The Watch page is the one page that loads from elsewhere by itself: it plays the live broadcast from YouTube and loads its video player from cdnjs, so opening it contacts those two services. No other page does.
• The typefaces are served from cargostrife.com itself. No page fetches a font, a script or a stylesheet from a font service.
• Nothing is sold, rented or shared with anybody.
• We never ask for your email address, real name, age or location.

05COOKIES

One, and only if you sign in with Discord or Steam: a session cookie that remembers you are signed in. It is HttpOnly and Secure, and it expires after thirty days. There are no others, and browsing the site without signing in sets no cookie. Pages keep a few things in your browser's own storage - a short-lived copy of what they fetched, the currency you picked - and none of it is sent anywhere.

06WHERE IT LIVES

One rented server in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA, which runs the game worlds and this site, plus a second in the same place for the TV stream. Backups are taken nightly and fourteen are kept.

07DELETING YOUR DATA

Ask on Discord and your career, records and any linked Discord or Steam ID are deleted. Two honest caveats: chat already relayed to Discord stays in Discord's own history like any other message, and results already posted to the Discord channels stay there too.

Questions about any of this go to Discord. See also the Terms of Service and the Server Rules. Last updated 18 September 2026.