Apex Armada Privacy Policy

Max Q Games. Last updated: October 1, 2026

The short version

Apex Armada is an online game. Your fleet battles fleets built by other real players, so the game has to send your fleet and your results to our server, where other players can fight it. To keep that fair and to tell players apart, the game uses a random player ID, never your real name, email or password. Extra balance data is only sent if you say yes, and you can change your mind any time. We never sell anything and never use it for ads.

What the game sends for online play

This list comes straight from the game's code and our server. If something is not on it, we do not collect it.

• A random player ID. The game makes it up. It is not your name and it is not your Steam account.
• Your Steam profile name. The game asks Steam for it in the background, so other players see who they are fighting. It is the name you already chose on Steam; we never ask you to type one.
• Your Steam ID, kept in one place. When you sign in through Steam, we keep your Steam ID in a single record that links it to your random player ID, so your progress follows your Steam account. It never appears in your fleets, matches or any other game data.
• Your fleet after each round. Your captain, faction, ships, parts and formation, plus the round and your wins and losses at that point, so other players can be matched against it.
• Your match results. Which fleet you fought, whether you won, and when.
• Your runs. When each run started and ended, and how many wins and losses it had.
• Checks that stop cheating. Fingerprints of the game's version and of each fight's result, so the server can tell a real result from a faked one.
• Your platform (for example Windows or Steam Deck), and when you were last online.

Online play needs all of this, so it has no switch. Playing offline against computer fleets sends nothing.

What other players see

Your fleet, your Steam profile name, your rank, and the profile picture and frame you wear. On leaderboards they see your Steam profile name and your result. They never see your player ID, your Steam ID or anything else on this page.

Balance data, only if you pick Share

The first time you play, the game asks whether you want to send extra detail to help us balance the game. If you pick Share, it also sends, under the same random player ID:

• What the shop offered and what you picked.
• What you sold, froze and upgraded, and how much gold you had.
• Your rerolls and merges.
• How long you took to decide.

Pick Don't Share and none of this is sent.

Feedback you send on purpose

The in-game feedback form sends what you type, the kind of note it is (a bug, a balance note or an idea), the game's version, your platform and window size, and, if you leave the switch on, a record of your last fight so we can replay it. If you are signed in, it carries your random player ID. That form is the one place your own words reach us, and only when you press send.

What we never collect

Your real name, email address, password, payment details, contacts, location, microphone or camera, the files on your computer, or anything you type outside the feedback form.

Where it goes

Our game server runs on Supabase, on servers in the United States. Like anything on the internet, the server can see the network address a request comes from. We use it only to stop spam and abuse (a short counter that is deleted within the hour), and we never store it with your player data. Supabase's own policy is at supabase.com/privacy. Steam's is at store.steampowered.com/privacy_agreement.

What we use it for

• To find you opponents and serve your fleet to other players.
• To run ranks and leaderboards.
• To stop cheating.
• To balance and fix the game.

We never sell your data, never share it for advertising and never use it for ads.

How long we keep it

If you go 12 months without playing online, we delete your data. Feedback reports are deleted 12 months after they arrive. The one thing we keep longer is a record that an account was banned for cheating.

Your choices

• Change your balance data answer any time in Settings, under Your data.
• Switch to Don't Share and we delete the balance data you already sent.
• To see or delete your data, email privacy@maxq.games. We do it within 30 days.

Kids

Apex Armada is not made for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, this page changes and so does the date at the top.

Contact

Max Q Games
privacy@maxq.games