ShipSnatch privacy

Last updated 14 October 2026

ShipSnatch is a free browser game by Radomir. There are no accounts, no ads and nothing to buy. This page says what is stored when you play and how visits are counted.

Playing the game

Your browser keeps an anonymous player ID (ship-snatch:player-id), your sound settings and your achievement progress, so a returning captain keeps their achievements. When you play, the game server receives the player ID and the captain name you enter, or a generated one, and stores them with the achievements you unlock. Clearing your browser's site data removes the browser's copy.

Visit statistics

ShipSnatch uses DataFast to count visits and a few game moments, such as pressing Play, the game finishing loading, clearing a wave, unlocking an achievement or winning the campaign. These carry coarse labels like the wave reached or whether you play on a phone, never your captain name or player ID. A small bar on the start screen asks whether a cookie may be used for this.

• Until you choose, and if you say no: your visit is counted without cookies. DataFast makes a hash of your IP address and browser details with a key that changes every 24 hours, so the visit cannot be linked to you or to your visits on other days.
• If you allow the cookie: from your next visit on, DataFast sets four first-party cookies on shipsnatch.com. datafast_visitor_id, datafast_visitor_first_seen_at and datafast_visitor_session_count recognise a returning visit and are kept for one year; datafast_session_id groups one visit and lasts 30 minutes. The legal basis is your consent.
• Changing your mind: your choice is kept in your browser as ship-snatch:analytics. Cookie choice, at the bottom of the start screen, lets you change it at any time; saying no deletes the four cookies.

DataFast also counts the pages that known crawlers read, such as Googlebot indexing the site or ChatGPT opening a page to answer someone. For those requests only, the host sends DataFast the crawler's IP address and the name it identifies itself with, so DataFast can check that the crawler is genuine. Visits by people are not part of this.

Hosting

Netlify serves this website and Render runs the game server and its database. Like any host, they process your IP address in server logs to deliver the game and keep the service secure.

Questions

To ask what is stored about your player ID, or to have it deleted, message @radomir_3 on X with the ID shown in your browser's site data.