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This site is a personal, non-commercial project by Christophe Jossart (Colorfield), who is responsible for the data processing described here. For any question about this notice or about your data: write to me.
Personal data
No cookies, no advertising trackers, no account. Your player profile stays on your device, and nowhere else.
Your flight log (the places you found, the sites you read, your favourites), your backpack (stamps, treasures, specialities, tickets), your pilot’s licence (levels, feats, patches, distance and flight time, the date of your first flight, and what you spotted on the way: the peaks, passes and valleys you approached, the neighbouring countries you saw, the places your balloon landed, where you left it) and your settings (quality, sound, navigation) are stored by your browser, on your machine. On the site’s pages, it also remembers your light or dark theme and, for as long as the tab is open, the way back to the map. On pocketsnowboard.com, it also keeps, under keys of its own, your Schuss! records and feats, the ghost of your best runs and the marmots you chose. None of this is sent to me. Each address of the map, one per language, keeps its own game. When a page in German, Italian or English still opens on suissedepoche.ch, your browser carries your game to the address of its language in the link itself, without it passing through a server, and keeps it there once, if it is further along than the one already there. You can refuse this storage by blocking site data in your browser or by playing in a private window: the game works, but forgets your game. Clearing the site data clears everything; a new game clears the game and keeps the settings.
Visits are measured with Plausible, free audience-measurement software that I host myself on a Hetzner server in Finland. For every page read and a few moves of the game (a destination, a site or a hiking guide opened, the licence, the nature guide or a species’ card viewed, a stamp, a patch, a treasure, a riddle, a tool, a quest step, a speciality, a ticket, a level or a feat earned, a species met, a town opened, a chest opened or a secret noticed in a town (its kind and its town), a market stall opened, a purchase or a sale (the stall and the article), a ride down a zipline (its town), a town inhabitant’s request received, its keepsake found or given back, a tower’s door opened or its parade seen through, a new game, the recovery of a game left on suissedepoche.ch (offered, asked for or skipped, and what it brought back), and in Schuss! a mode chosen, a run started, finished or left), your browser sends it the address of the page, the page you came from, the width of your window and the name of what was opened or earned. Plausible uses your IP address and your browser to estimate your country and count the day’s visitors, without keeping them: no cookie, nothing that recognises you from one day to the next, and it produces totals only. This measurement applies on the addresses of the map, one per language (suissedepoche.ch, taschenschweiz.ch, svizzeratascabile.ch and pocketswitzerland.com), as on pocketsnowboard.com, the address where Schuss! is played on its own. On the addresses of the map you can refuse it: turn on “Don’t count my visits” on this page. Your browser remembers that choice on this device and for this address (it is not a cookie): Plausible no longer receives anything from you, and the game works just the same; clearing the site data undoes it. When your game moves from suissedepoche.ch to the address of your language, the choice follows it. It does not apply to pocketsnowboard.com, which offers no switch for it.
The site is hosted by Vercel Inc., an American company whose servers are located in the United States among other places; it is certified under the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which the Swiss Federal Council recognises as ensuring an adequate level of protection. Like any web server, Vercel’s and Plausible’s servers record your IP address in technical logs, kept briefly, for the security and the running of the site. It is never used to identify you or to follow you.
The release videos, on “Discover” and on each version’s page, only load if you click them. They then come from YouTube (youtube-nocookie.com), a service of Google LLC in the United States, which receives your IP address and records what YouTube records during playback, under its own privacy policy. Without a click, nothing is sent to Google.
If you write to me, your message and your address are used only to reply to you. You can ask me which data concern you, have them corrected or deleted, and contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC). The game asks for no name, no age, no address: nothing in it identifies a child. In case of doubt between languages, the French version prevails.
The relief is a caricature made for play, exaggerated and simplified: it must not be used for navigation, nor to plan a day in the mountains.