Privacy

Last updated October 9, 2026. Questions: [email protected].

Kids

Children play without accounts. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you think a child has sent us personal information, email us and we will delete it.

Payments

Card details are entered on Stripe’s checkout page and handled by Stripe. Your card number never touches our server. Stripe’s own privacy policy covers what you type there.

What we keep

• For a membership: your Stripe customer id and subscription id. They sit in a cookie on your device and in our membership records, so the rooms know you are a member.
• If you join with a gift code: a random membership id (in a cookie on your device and in our records), the time the code was used, and our own note of who we gave the code to. No email and no card.
• If you use the "Already a member?" form: the email you type, your customer id and the time, so we can send you your link.
• If you sign up for news on the Arcade Deck: that email, so we can write to you.
• Game settings and progress are saved in your own browser, on your device.

What we do not do

• No ad trackers.
• We do not sell or rent anyone’s data.

Our YouTube channel

We publish videos of our own games on our YouTube channel, Starship Arcade. We upload them with our own tool, StarshipArcade Uploader, which uses YouTube API Services. By using our YouTube-related features you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service. Google’s handling of data is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.

• What the uploader uses: only our own channel. It uploads our videos, sets their titles, descriptions, tags and thumbnails, and adds them to our own playlists. To do that it reads our own channel id and our own playlist names.
• What it does not touch: it never reads, collects or stores anything about you, your child, or anyone who watches, likes, comments on or subscribes to our videos, and it has no access to any other YouTube channel. Nobody but us signs in to it.
• What it stores: one sign-in token for our own channel, kept on our server where only we can read it, plus the ids of our own uploaded videos in our upload log. Any other information it reads from YouTube is deleted or refreshed within 30 days. We never sell or share any of it.
• Removing access: the channel owner can revoke the tool’s access at any time from the Google security settings page, which cuts it off immediately, and we then delete the stored token. Questions or complaints about how we handle data: email [email protected].

The usual web plumbing

Like any website, our server and Cloudflare (which delivers the site) see your IP address to send you the pages. Our pages load a font from Google Fonts, which sees the same.

Where we are

Starship Arcade is run from Ontario, Canada. To see or delete what we hold about you, email [email protected].