Version 1, 21 Oct 2026

When you first start Dark Bazaar, the game shows a "Leaderboard & Data" screen with this text. Joining the online leaderboard and sharing gameplay statistics are optional: you choose them with ACCEPT & JOIN. If you decline, the game plays exactly the same.

Dark Bazaar plays fully offline. Joining the online leaderboard and sharing gameplay statistics are optional and go together: you choose them with ACCEPT & JOIN on the in-game "Leaderboard & Data" screen. If you decline, the game plays exactly the same and your runs never leave your PC. You can change your mind at any time.

KeyQuest Studio ApS (CVR 44467240), Ved Ringen 7, 1. tv, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark, is responsible for your data (the "data controller"). Email: info@keyquest-studio.com

The game signs you in through Steam or WeGame and sends us:

• Your Steam or WeGame account ID and your name there. Names that look like an email address are never saved, and offensive names are shown as "Player" and a number.
  
• The country Steam reports for your connection (WeGame: China), for an optional region filter.
  
• Every run you finish while you are on the leaderboard, and your best run from before you joined: money earned, days survived, number of upgrades, the upgrades and loadout weapons you had, game mode, how the run ended, game version and the date and time.
  
• When you joined and when you last signed in.

To sign you in, the game gets a one-time ticket from Steam or WeGame, and our server asks Valve or Tencent to confirm it. We never see your password or payment details.

• To rank players and show the build behind each score.
  
• To catch cheated scores and offensive names, hide them, or keep an account off the leaderboard.
  
• To balance the game, for example by seeing which upgrades show up in the best runs.

Everyone who views the leaderboard can see your name, rank, scores and build. Your country is sent along with your entry for the region filter. Our team can see all leaderboard data to keep it fair.

If you accept, the game also uses Unity Analytics from Unity Technologies to count things like play sessions and play time, so we can find problems and improve the game. Unity receives a random ID for this installation, your IP address and basic information about your device, such as its operating system. Unity handles this only for us and keeps it for up to 13 months.

LEAVE LEADERBOARD also turns statistics off and asks Unity to delete them (see section 10).

The game checks whether the leaderboard is online and loads the list when you open it, also if you haven't joined. Our server then sees your IP address, like any website does. We use it only for a moment, to block too many requests from one address, and never save it.

Our leaderboard server and database are hosted by Microsoft Azure in the EU (Ireland). Microsoft handles the data only for us, under a data processing agreement. Unity keeps statistics in the EU (the Netherlands). If either ever handles your data outside the EU, their agreements with us protect it with the safeguards EU law requires. Valve and Tencent only confirm your sign-in. Their own privacy policies cover your Steam or WeGame account.

• Leaderboard and statistics: your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)). Withdrawing it doesn't affect what happened before.
  
• Blocking abuse and moderating the leaderboard: our legitimate interest in a fair leaderboard that works (Article 6(1)(f)).

• Leaderboard: every run is kept for up to 12 months. After that, only your best run of each season is kept, for as long as you stay on the leaderboard and it exists. If you leave, everything is deleted from our server at once and from our backups within 7 days. If we close the leaderboard, we delete all of it.
  
• Statistics: up to 13 months at Unity.
  
• IP addresses: not saved.

LEAVE LEADERBOARD on the leaderboard screen deletes all your leaderboard data, turns statistics off and asks Unity to delete your statistics. If you are offline, the game does it the next time it connects. You can join again with JOIN LEADERBOARD.

You can also email us at info@keyquest-studio.com to get a copy of your data, have it corrected or deleted, limit or object to how we use it, or get it as a file. Tell us your Steam or WeGame name and ID so we can find it. We answer within one month. In the EU, EEA or UK you can also complain to a data protection authority. In Denmark that is Datatilsynet (datatilsynet.dk).

Our servers are outside China. By choosing ACCEPT & JOIN, you separately agree that the data in section 2 is sent to KeyQuest Studio ApS and stored on servers in Ireland (EU) for the purposes in section 3. To use your rights under China's Personal Information Protection Law, email info@keyquest-studio.com. You can withdraw at any time with LEAVE LEADERBOARD.

Your real name, email address, payment details, precise location, contacts, chat or voice. No advertising or tracking for ads, and we never sell your data.

Dark Bazaar isn't made for children. If you are under 15, or under the age of digital consent where you live, ask a parent or guardian before you choose ACCEPT & JOIN.

If we change how we use your data, we update this text, raise its version number and ask you again before anything new happens.