PLANET MADO DBZ RPG

Privacy Policy

UPDATED OCT 2026

Last updated: October 23, 2026

Planet Mado (planetmado.com) is a free, fan-made Dragon Ball Z role-playing game run by one person as a hobby. This policy explains what information the game keeps about you, why, who else sees it, and what you can do about it. Questions: [email protected].

What we collect

Your account

  • When you sign up: a username, email address and password. Passwords are stored only in scrambled (hashed) form; nobody, including us, can read them.
  • Your character: name, race, sex, an optional description, your starting choices, and everything that happens in the game (powerlevel, items, location, quests, fights and so on).
  • If you add them to your profile, an optional first and last name.
  • If you play as a guest, we keep no email address until you choose to keep the character.
  • If you upload a custom avatar, we resize it and strip its photo information (such as location) before a staff member reviews it.

Chat and messages

  • Local, yell, whisper and telepathy messages are saved in the chat history of the players who receive them, which keeps roughly the last 15 to 25 messages each.
  • Global chat keeps the newest 50 messages for everyone.
  • Conversations with NPCs are saved so the NPC can remember them, and may be shared with the staff who run that part of the world.
  • Messages you send to staff with /help are kept until staff delete them.

Safety and moderation

  • Every chat message, and new character names, usernames and descriptions, are checked before they appear (see “Who else sees your information”).
  • We keep a moderation log of blocked messages, mutes and deleted messages (the newest 300 entries), any mute on your account, and reports players send about messages, including who sent the report (the newest 300). Reporters’ identities are only shown to staff.

How the game is used

  • To find bugs and improve the game, we record which buttons and screens characters use (for example “opened the inventory” or “moved on the map”), never chat text. These records are kept for 90 days. You can turn this off in Settings.
  • We note when an account was last active, to remove accounts that are never used again.

Voting

  • If you vote for the game on a toplist site, that site tells us your account number and the IP address you voted from, so we can credit your vote and stop repeat votes. We keep the newest 50 vote records.

Guest play

  • To limit spam, we count guest characters created from each internet address per day. We store only a scrambled version of the address, for one day.

Cookies and browser storage

  • Login cookies keep you signed in (for 7 days, or 30 days if you choose “Remember me”).
  • Your browser also stores game preferences, such as whether Game Mode is open, map zoom and window positions. These never leave your device.
  • Cloudflare’s anti-spam check on the sign-up page may set its own cookies.
  • We don’t use advertising or third-party tracking cookies.

Who else sees your information

We don’t sell your information or use it for advertising. We share it only with these services, only as needed for the game to work:

  • Other players see your character, your chat messages, and your character name once they have met you.
  • OpenAI checks every chat message, plus new character names, usernames and descriptions, for content that breaks the rules. When you talk to an NPC, your message, recent conversation and basic character details (name, race, powerlevel) are sent to OpenAI to write the NPC’s reply. OpenAI states it does not use data sent through its API to train its models.
  • Cloudflare protects and delivers the website and runs the anti-spam check on sign-up.
  • Email: account and game emails (sign-up confirmation, password reset, “you are being attacked”, which you can turn off in Settings) are sent through Google’s email service.
  • Discord and our forum, only if you choose to link them: we receive your Discord ID and name or your forum username, and send your chosen in-game title and flair.
  • Toplist sites, only if you vote (see “Voting”).
  • Gravatar may supply a profile picture on website posts and comments if you don’t have a custom avatar.
  • Hosting: the game runs on our own rented server (DigitalOcean).
  • We may also share information if the law requires it or to protect players’ safety.

How long we keep it

  • Your account and characters: until you delete them.
  • Sign-ups that are never confirmed: 24 hours. Guest characters: 72 hours unless kept. New accounts that are never played again: about a week.
  • Chat, moderation records, reports and vote records roll off as newer ones come in (see the limits above). Usage records: 90 days.
  • Conversations with NPCs: 90 days.

Your choices and rights

  • Delete your account any time in Settings. This removes your account, your characters and your conversations with NPCs. Messages already sent to other players’ chat, records in the moderation log and reports, and usage records stay until they roll off as described above.
  • Change your email or password in Settings.
  • Turn off usage tracking, attack emails and other options in Settings.
  • Ask us for a copy of your information, or to correct or erase it, by emailing [email protected]. Depending on where you live (for example the EU, the UK or California) you may have further rights, and we will honor them.

Children

Planet Mado is not for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, email us and we will delete it.

Security

We protect the game with encrypted connections, hashed passwords, and limited staff access, but no website is perfectly secure.

Changes

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows the latest version, and big changes will be announced in the game.