Privacy Policy
Your privacy matters.
This policy explains what information The Respect Society uses, why it is needed, who may process it, and how a parent, guardian or adult user can request access or deletion.
Players can use a nickname. There is no player-to-player chat. We do not need a real name, date of birth, school, contact list or precise location to play. Online competitions need a small amount of profile and game-result data so matchmaking and leaderboards can work.
1. Who we are
The Respect Society is an educational life-skills game published by AMDGAMES LTD. This Privacy Policy applies to the web game and supported app versions of The Respect Society. Privacy and data-protection enquiries can be sent to support@amdgames.co.uk or through our Support form.
2. Information stored on your device
The game may store information locally on your device or browser so your experience can continue between sessions. This can include your nickname, selected age or age band, portrait choice, accessibility/settings choices, Journey and Mastery progress, Virtue Coins, XP, streaks, support-item inventory, achievements, ad-free status where applicable, and a private server authentication token.
3. Information used for online play
If you use Arena, Daily Challenges or room-code duels, our server may process and store a generated player ID, nickname, age band, Arena rating, wins and losses, room or match identifiers, scores, completion times, match results and leaderboard positions. This information is used to provide matchmaking, competition, fraud/abuse protection and leaderboard features.
4. Support and privacy requests
If a parent, guardian, teacher or adult user contacts Support, we may receive the contact name they choose to provide, contact email, platform, support category and message. A data-deletion request may also include a nickname or generated player ID so that we can identify the correct online profile. Please do not include passwords, home addresses, school names or other information that is not needed for the request.
5. Technical and hosting information
When the website or online features are used, hosting and security providers may process ordinary technical request information such as IP address, browser/device information, request time and error/security logs. We use this only to deliver, secure, diagnose and protect the service.
6. Purchases and advertising
The Android version may use Google Play Billing for one-time purchases such as Respect Coin packs, support bundles and Remove Ads. Google processes the payment; AMDGAMES LTD does not receive your full payment-card details. The Android version may also use Google AdMob for interstitial and optional rewarded ads and Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) for privacy choices where required. We use age-aware controls: advertising is disabled for the youngest age band, and child or under-age users are given restricted, child-appropriate advertising treatment rather than personalised advertising. Rewarded ads are optional. Removing ads disables standard interstitial advertising but does not remove an optional rewarded-ad choice.
7. What we do not require for normal play
We do not require a player's real name, exact date of birth, home address, school, contacts, phone number, precise location, microphone recordings, camera access or player-to-player chat messages for normal gameplay. We do not sell personal information.
8. Why we use information
- to save game progress and settings;
- to create and recognise an online player profile;
- to operate room-code duels, Arena matchmaking, Daily Challenges and leaderboards;
- to prevent abuse, cheating and technical misuse;
- to respond to support, privacy and deletion requests;
- to process purchases or advertising where those features are enabled and permitted.
9. Service providers and sharing
We use service providers to run the game. These currently include Netlify for web hosting and form delivery and Render for server and database hosting. App-store versions may also use the relevant platform provider (for example, Google Play) for distribution, billing, consent or advertising services. We share only information reasonably needed for those services, legal compliance, security or fraud prevention. We do not sell personal data.
10. Children and families
The Respect Society is designed for children, families and older users. We use an age-selection screen to adapt content and age-appropriate features. We deliberately minimise information used for children: there is no open chat, room-code duels do not require contact details, and normal play does not require precise location or contacts. Children should involve a parent, guardian or trusted adult for purchases, support requests and privacy requests.
11. Retention
Local game information remains on the device until the user resets it, clears the browser/app data or removes the app. Online player and competition records are retained while needed to provide the online profile, ratings, results and leaderboards, or until a valid deletion request is completed, subject to any limited retention that is genuinely required for security, fraud prevention, dispute handling or law. Support and privacy-request records are kept only as long as reasonably needed to answer and document the request. Hosting providers may retain limited operational logs under their own security and retention practices.
12. Access, correction and deletion
A parent, guardian or adult user can request access to, correction of, or deletion of an online profile through Support. A dedicated deletion request is available at Delete online profile/data. When a valid deletion request is completed, we delete the associated online profile data unless limited information must be kept for a legitimate legal, security or fraud-prevention reason. Resetting local progress inside the game only removes local game progress; it does not by itself delete server records.
13. Security
We use HTTPS for data in transit, authenticated server requests and access-controlled hosting. We also minimise the information collected for gameplay. No service can guarantee absolute security, so users should avoid putting private information in nicknames, room codes or support messages.
14. International processing
Some service providers may process data in countries outside the user's home country. Where data-protection law requires safeguards for international transfers, the relevant provider and AMDGAMES LTD are expected to use appropriate legal and technical protections.
15. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when the game, service providers, advertising, purchases or legal requirements change. The current version will remain available at this public URL and inside the game.
16. Contact
Privacy enquiries, support requests and data-rights requests can be sent to support@amdgames.co.uk or submitted through The Respect Society Support form. The developer/publisher is AMDGAMES LTD.