Does hexodic collect my data?
hexodic records completed games, anonymously. A game record is never attached to an account, so it carries no name, no email, no device fingerprinting, no precise location, no contacts, no advertising identifiers. You can play without an account at all. Signing in is optional and unlocks the app’s account features — and if you do sign in, that account holds your name and email address, which is a separate thing from these game records. A recorded game is the game itself — the sequence of moves, the outcome, and optionally a region-level country tag (the country, never anything finer).
What the records are used for
One thing: making the bots stronger. hexodic’s bot-improvement loop works by studying how humans beat the current production bot — a decisive human win is analyzed for the move where the game turned, a candidate bot is generated to account for that weakness, and the candidate must beat every existing bot with statistical significance before it’s promoted. The mechanism is a classical search-agent evolution loop — programs playing tournaments against programs — not a neural network training on personal data. The full mechanism is written up on play-to-train.
What the country tag is for
The optional country tag exists for one future purpose: national bots — the roadmap vision of bots trained by their own country’s player base, representing their players. That hasn’t shipped; today the tag simply sits with the anonymous record. It is region-level only, and the game works identically if it’s absent.
What a game record does not contain
- No link to an account, and no name, email or phone number
- No precise location — country-level at most, and optional
- No contact lists, photos, or anything else on your device
- No advertising identifiers, no cross-app tracking
- No gameplay data sold to anyone, ever
Where the final word lives
Recording is anonymous by design — nothing links a game record to you or to an account, whether or not you have one. The authoritative statement of exactly what applies to the build on your device is the privacy policy, which also carries the contact for any data question. If any part of this page and the privacy policy ever disagree, the privacy policy wins — and we’d want to hear about it.