Privacy Policy
Last updated 30 October 2026
Who is responsible: Samer Moujaes, based in the United Arab Emirates, runs Operation Salvo and decides what happens to your data. Write to legal@operationsalvo.com about anything below, including to use your rights.
In the game
What we keep: your account name, a scrambled form of your password, your email address, your date of birth, a scrambled fingerprint of your phone number (not the number itself, only enough to tell that it was used before; the number is held only until its code is used, a day at most), your ratings and match results, your settings, and what the AI has learned about how you play. To stop cheating and second accounts we also keep, for 30 days, scrambled fingerprints of the network you connect from and of a random id your browser keeps for this game (not your address itself), and how fast and how often you give orders in online matches.
Chat and moderation: chat messages go to the other players and are checked automatically for the rules above. Messages that break the rules, reports, warnings and bans are kept so the moderators can review them and handle appeals.
Voice: voice goes directly between players' computers and is not recorded, except the 30 seconds attached to a report, which the moderators listen to and then delete.
Why: to run your account and matches, keep one account per person, stop cheating and abuse, and keep the game safe.
Who else sees it: codes are sent through an email service and a phone message service. Nothing is sold or used for advertising.
Your rights: you can ask for a copy of your data, to correct it, or to delete your account.
On this website
The website itself keeps nothing about you, and has no analytics, advertising or tracking.
If you are logged in to the game in the same browser, the website reads the game's saved login from your browser and sends it to our game server, only to show your own place in the Beat the AI table. It does not count you as playing and stores nothing new.
The website and the game load everything from our own server, fonts included: no other company sees your visit. See the Cookies notice for what is kept in your browser.
Beat the AI
Your account name, points, wins and fastest win are shown publicly on the season table, in the game and on this website, and stay on the all-time table after the season. If you win a prize, we ask for your real name, country and an email address to check you can win it and to send it. We use those only for the prize, and keep them for up to two years as a record that it was handed over.
Why we may use it
- To give you the game you signed up for (your account, matches, ratings, settings, the AI learning from your matches, the competition): this is needed for our agreement with you, the Terms.
- To keep the game fair and safe (one account per person, catching cheats and bots, checking chat, handling reports and bans): our legitimate interest, and every player's, in a fair game without abuse. You can object to this, but we may keep what we need to protect other players.
- To hand over a prize and keep a record of it: our agreement with the winner, and our legal duties.
We don't use your data for advertising, don't sell it, and don't build profiles of you outside the game.
Automatic checks
Chat is checked automatically: a message that breaks the rules can bring a warning, a short mute or a short ban straight away, and longer bans go to a moderator. Signs of cheating or bots are only flagged for a person to look at. Every ban can be appealed, and an appeal is always decided by a person.
How long we keep it
- Your account, ratings and results: until you delete your account, or we close it after a ban.
- Your phone number: only until its code is used, a day at most (after that only its scrambled fingerprint).
- Network and device fingerprints, and how you give orders in matches: 30 days.
- Messages that broke the rules, reports, warnings and bans: as long as they are needed to handle appeals and repeat breaks.
- A voice clip attached to a report: until a moderator has listened to it.
- Your Beat the AI wins: your account name stays on the public season and all-time tables.
- A winner's prize details: up to two years.
When we delete your account at your request, we remove your personal details and take your name off the tables. Matches the AI already learned from stay learned, but nothing in them points to you.
Where it is kept
The game and the website run on a server we rent from a hosting company in Europe, which only stores it for us. Emails are sent through an email service and phone codes through a messaging service, which handle them only to deliver them. We run the game from the United Arab Emirates, so we look at the data from there. We protect it the same way wherever we are: scrambled where we can, never sold, seen only by the people who run the game.
Your rights
You can ask us for a copy of your data (also in a form you can take elsewhere), to correct it, to delete it, to limit what we do with it, or object to how we use it. Write to legal@operationsalvo.com; we answer within a month. You don't have to give a reason, but we may need to check that the account is yours.
You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live.