Grunt Leaderboards

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 3, 2025

1. What This Policy Covers

This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you use our Halo leaderboard community site.

2. Information We Collect

When You Sign In with Microsoft

  • Your Xbox network gamertag and basic profile info
  • Your save files through Microsoft's Title Storage API

When You Upload Steam Save Files

  • Save file data containing your scores
  • Statistics extracted from these files (scores, completion times, etc.)
  • We don't store the actual save files

Automatically Collected

  • Basic usage data (pages visited, time spent)
  • IP address and browser information
  • Error logs to help us fix problems

3. How We Use Your Information

  • Display leaderboards: Show your stats and rankings
  • Community features: Enable comparisons with other players
  • Service improvement: Fix bugs and add new features
  • Communication: Send important updates about the service

4. Information Sharing

We may share information when:

  • Required by law (court orders, legal requests)
  • Protecting our service from abuse or attacks
  • With your explicit consent

Public information:

  • Your gamertag, ranks and scores are visible to other users
  • Leaderboard rankings are public by design
  • You can request to remove your profile from the leaderboards

5. Your Rights and Choices

You can:

  • Disconnect your Microsoft account anytime through Microsoft's settings
  • Request to see what data we have about you
  • Ask us to delete your account and data
  • Hide your profile from public leaderboards
  • Contact us with privacy concerns

Microsoft account access:

  • You control what we can access through Microsoft's permission system
  • Revoke our access anytime in your Microsoft account settings

6. Data Security

  • We use HTTPS encryption for all data transmission
  • We follow industry-standard security practices
  • No system is 100% secure - we do our best to protect your data

7. Data Retention

  • We keep your scores to maintain historical rankings
  • Inactive accounts may be removed after 2 years
  • You can request immediate deletion of your data

8. Third-Party Services

Microsoft/Xbox Network:

  • We access your data through Microsoft's official APIs
  • Microsoft's privacy policy also applies to this data
  • We only request the minimum permissions needed

Analytics and Error Tracking:

  • We may use basic analytics to understand how our service is used
  • No personally identifiable information is shared with analytics providers

9. Children's Privacy

  • Our service is not intended for children under 13
  • We don't knowingly collect data from children under 13
  • Parents can contact us to remove their child's data
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