Privacy policy

Last updated: 10 October 2026

Six Shores is designed to use as little of your data as possible. This page explains what the game and this website use, why, and for how long. “We” means the Six Shores team.

The short version

• No accounts, no passwords, no email sign-up.
• No ads, no analytics or tracking, and we never sell data.
• Online games send your nickname and your moves to our server, and that information is discarded when the game ends.

What stays on your device

The game saves your settings (such as your nickname, preferred colour, sound and display choices) on your device, in your browser’s local storage or the app’s own storage. While you are in an online game it also saves a small “resume ticket” (the room code, your seat and a reconnection token) so you can get back into the game after a reload or a dropped connection. This information stays on your device. You can delete it by clearing the site’s data in your browser settings or by uninstalling the app. Games against bots on your device are played entirely on that device.

What we receive in online games

When you host or join an online room, the game sends our server your nickname, your chosen colour and the moves you make, so they can be shared with the other players in that room. Other players in the room see your nickname and your moves. Rooms are kept only in the server’s memory: they are discarded when the game ends or the server restarts, and we do not keep game histories. Our server runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Mumbai, India.

Server logs

Like most websites, our web server (nginx) keeps standard access logs: your IP address, the date and time, the page or file requested, and your browser’s user agent. We use them only to keep the service running and secure, for example to investigate errors or abuse. They are deleted automatically after about two weeks.

Fonts on this website

This website (sixshores.com) loads its fonts from Google Fonts. When your browser downloads them, Google receives your IP address and the usual browser details. See Google’s privacy policy. The game at play.sixshores.com serves its fonts itself.

Children

Six Shores is a family-friendly game, but online play is not aimed at children under 13. If you are under 13, please play online only with a parent’s or guardian’s permission, and do not use your real name as your nickname. If you believe a child has shared personal information with us, contact us and we will delete it.

Your choices and rights

You can play without ever going online, use any nickname you like, and clear the game’s data from your device at any time. Because rooms are not stored, we usually hold nothing that identifies you beyond the short-lived server logs. To ask about or delete any data we may hold, email contact@sixshores.com.

Changes

If the game starts to use data differently, we will update this page and the date at the top before the change takes effect.

Contact

Questions about privacy: contact@sixshores.com.