Privacy

Last updated 3 October 2026

Gatefell is a game you play in your browser. You can play without an account: then your game is saved in your browser only, and nothing about you or your game is sent to us. This page is about what happens when you sign in to keep your game in the cloud.

What we keep

• Which service you signed in with (Discord, for example) and the ID it gives you, a number that names your account there. We never ask for your email address, and of what the service tells us we keep only that ID: not your name, your picture or your friends.
• Your cloud saves: your game's progress, the newest 10.
• Your Hall of the Fallen: the hardcore heroes that died, so they stay dead on every device.
• Your sessions: each browser you are signed in on holds a random key in a cookie. We keep only a scrambled (hashed) form of it, and when it runs out.
• When your account was made, and when it was last used.

That is all. Our server does not record your IP address or what you do. There are no analytics, ads or trackers, and we never sell or share your data. To stop people hammering the sign-in, the server counts sign-in attempts per IP address in its memory for ten minutes; that count is never written down.

Why

Only to keep your game in the cloud and let you reach it from any device you sign in on: the service you ask for by signing in. Under the GDPR, that is the performance of a contract with you (Article 6(1)(b)), and keeping it secure is our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f)).

Cookies and your browser's storage

• gf_session keeps you signed in. It lasts 30 days, renewed as you keep playing.
• gf_signin holds a sign-in on its way, for up to 10 minutes.

Both are needed for signing in, which you ask for, so there is no cookie banner. The game also keeps your save and settings in your browser's storage; those stay on your device.

Who else is involved

• The service you sign in with. You sign in on its site, under its own privacy policy (Discord's); it tells us only your ID there.
• Cloudflare carries all traffic to gatefell.com, to make it fast and protect it from attacks. To do that it handles your IP address and requests (its privacy policy).
• Hetzner runs the server and the database that hold your data, in Helsinki, Finland, in the EU (its privacy policy).

How long

• Your cloud saves: the newest 10. Older ones are deleted as new ones come.
• Everything else: until you delete your account. An account nobody has used for 3 years is deleted, with everything in it.
• A session: until it runs out (30 days, renewed as you keep playing) or you sign out.
• Backups of the database are kept for at most 30 days, so what you delete is gone from them within 30 days too.

Your choices

• See it: Settings, Cloud shows how you sign in, and History lists your cloud saves.
• Take it with you: Settings, Download saves your game as a file.
• Delete it: Settings, Cloud, Delete account deletes your account, your cloud saves and their history, your Hall and your sign-ins, at once. The game in your browser stays.

You also have the right to ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, and to object to how we use it. You can complain to the data protection authority in your country.

Who we are

Gatefell is made and run by one person. Write to [email protected] about anything on this page, and you will get an answer within a month.

Age

To sign in you need to be old enough to have an account with the service you use (13 or older for Discord).

Changes

When this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.