Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Who provides the game
SYNDICATES is provided by SIG Expert, a company registered in Poland, publishing under the name Drypoint Studio. Wherever this document or the game says Drypoint Studio, it means SIG Expert. Write to contact@drypointstudio.com about anything in this document.
Who may play
You must be at least 13 years old. You state your age when you register and you are responsible for stating it truthfully. If you are under 18, play with the knowledge of a parent or guardian.
Your account
Your account is bound to the device you registered on. There is no password and no way to move it to another device yet. If you lose the device, delete the app, or reset it, the account cannot be recovered. One account per device.
What you get
Agents, gear, skills, programs and every currency in the game are licensed to you for play, not sold. They have no value outside the game, cannot be exchanged for money, and may be changed, rebalanced or removed as the game develops. During the test period progress may be reset.
How to behave
Do not cheat, automate play, exploit bugs, attack the service or interfere with other players’ games. On the zone board, do not harass, threaten, expose or demean anyone. Lines are filtered automatically and may be removed. Breaking these rules may lead to a mute, a suspension or the deletion of the account, at our discretion.
Ending things
You may stop playing at any time by deleting the app; ask us at the address above to delete the account itself. We may suspend or delete accounts that break these terms, and we may close the game with reasonable notice.
Changes to these terms
When these terms change, the version number changes and you will be asked to accept them again before playing on.
Privacy: what we collect
An identifier of your device, stored as a hash, so the account can sign in. Your age at registration. Your callsign, sigil and everything you do in the game: agents, gear, currencies, battles and results. Lines you post on the zone board, which are sent to an automated classifier without any identifier attached. Technical records when the app fails, without content of your play. The addresses that requests come from, in short-lived server logs.
Privacy: what we do not collect
No name, e-mail, phone number, contacts, location or payment details. Notifications are scheduled on your device and no notification token leaves it. We do not sell data and we do not share it for advertising.
Privacy: how long and where
Game data is kept while the account exists and for up to 30 days after its deletion. Server logs are kept for up to 30 days. Data is stored and processed in the European Union; the board classifier is run by a provider that may process lines outside the European Union.
Privacy: your rights
You may ask for a copy of your data, its correction or its deletion, and you may object to its processing, at the address above. You may complain to a data protection authority; in Poland that is the President of the Personal Data Protection Office.
Governing law
Polish law applies, without limiting the protection consumers have under the law of their own country.