What The City collects.

The game

The City does not ask for your name, email address or a password. The Steam version shares your city on this website, as described under Player pages below.

The game contacts our server at wubur.com in these cases:

• Checking for updates and news. Each time the game starts it asks our server for the latest version number, the news and the update notes, and downloads an update if there is one. These requests carry no information about you or your city.
• Sending a report. If you press F8 and save a bug report or feature request, the game sends it to us. A report contains the text you typed, a screenshot of the game at that moment, the game's version, and the game's own figures at the time (such as population and frame rate). A copy is also kept on your computer. Nothing is sent unless you save a report.

Asking for help. If you send a message from the help page on this website, we receive what you type: your message, your email address, and your name if you give it. We use your email address only to reply to you.

Please do not put personal information in a report. We use reports only to fix bugs and decide what to build next.

Player pages (Steam version)

If you play the Steam version, the game sends your city to this website so it can appear on your player page and the leaderboards. What is sent: your Steam ID and Steam name, your city's name and figures (such as population, happiness and money), the achievements you have earned, how long you have played, and a picture of your city.

• It is public by default. Your page and cities can be seen by anyone, and your city can appear on the leaderboards.
• You can switch it off. In the game, open Settings and turn off "Share my city online", and nothing more is sent.
• You can make it private or delete it. Sign in on the Players page to make your page private, remove a city, or delete your account and everything stored with it.
• Play tester applications. If you apply to be a play tester, we store the name, email address, Steam name and answers you give on the form. They are used only to choose and contact play testers, are not shared, and are deleted on request.
• Voting. If you sign in and vote on the Coming soon page, we store which items you voted for with your Steam ID. Only the totals are shown to other people.
• Signing in on the website is done through Steam. We never see your Steam password. The site keeps one cookie to remember that you are signed in.

The website

Apart from the sign-in cookie described above, this website does not use cookies, advertising or analytics, and has no sign-up forms. The only form is the one on the help page, described above.

Server logs

Like nearly every website, the company that hosts our server keeps standard logs of the requests it receives. These include the IP address, the time, and the file requested, for both the website and the game's update checks. We use them only to keep the service running and to investigate problems, and we do not combine them with anything else to identify you.

What we do not do

• We do not sell or rent any information.
• We do not share reports or help messages with anyone outside the people working on the game.
• We do not show ads or use advertising trackers.

Steam

If you get the game through Steam, Valve handles your account, purchase and downloads under its own privacy policy. We do not receive your personal or payment details from Steam.

Children

The game does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Removing a report

If you sent a report and want it deleted, tell us roughly when you sent it and what it said, and we will remove it.

Changes

If the game starts collecting anything new, this page will be updated first and the date at the top will change.