Privacy Policy

What this website collects

Nothing. This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics.

There is no tracking script, no advertising pixel, no embedded video player and no third-party font request. The typefaces are served from this domain rather than fetched from Google as you browse. Nothing is written to your device: no cookies, no local storage, no session storage. There are no accounts and no forms to fill in.

That is also why you were not asked to dismiss a cookie banner. There is nothing to consent to.

Hosting and server logs

A hosting provider serves these pages and keeps short-lived technical request logs. These typically record the requesting IP address, the page requested, a timestamp and a browser user-agent string. The logs help serve the site and diagnose faults. They are not used to build a profile of you or combined with anything from the application.

Links to other services

This site links to Steam, Discord, YouTube, X, Instagram, Facebook and Google Drive. Each is an independent service with its own privacy policy. Once you follow a link, that service handles your visit. Because nothing here is embedded from those services, none of them learn anything about you until you choose to click.

Nothing is collected unless you switch it on

Both data-sharing options ship switched off. Leave them off and the application sends us nothing at all.

On first run VR StrideS asks whether you want to share movement data and whether you want to send crash reports. Both are separate, both are opt-in, and both start off. Your choice is stored locally in your VR StrideS configuration folder and can be changed at any time from Privacy & Data inside the application.

Recording is gated at the point of writing, not at the point of sending. If consent is off, or you withdraw it, no session file is created on your disk in the first place.

What is collected if you opt in

Movement data, and only while you are actually playing:

• Head and controller poses and velocities: position, rotation, linear and angular velocity for the headset and both controllers, sampled around 90 times a second.
• The movement output produced from them, and the Effort setting in force at the time.
• A simplified headset model label, such as “Valve Index” or “Pico 4”. Never a serial number, hardware ID or anything that identifies your specific device.
• Application version, build channel, and the start time of the session.
• A pseudonymous install ID: a random identifier generated on your machine the first time the application runs.

If you enable crash reports, each report also includes a minidump and the last few lines of the application log.

What is never collected

• Audio, video, screenshots or anything about what is on your screen.
• Your Steam ID, account name, real name, email address or friends list.
• File paths, the names of games you play, or anything else about your PC.
• Hardware identifiers of any kind.
• Payment information. Purchases happen entirely on Steam and we never see them.

Your IP address is not stored alongside your data. As with any request over the internet, it is necessarily visible to our hosting provider in transit. We would rather say that plainly than claim an impossibility.

What it is used for

We use this data for one purpose: to improve how VR StrideS detects movement. Seeing the range of real bodies, strides and hardware it has to work with helps us improve motion detection. The data is analysed in aggregate across users and used for nothing else.

It is never sold, never shared with advertisers or data brokers, never used to build a profile of you, and never used to make automated decisions about you.

Why we call this pseudonymous, not anonymous

Before anything leaves your PC, each session is given a random origin offset and a random yaw rotation, and absolute room height is dropped. A recording therefore cannot be tied back to the position, orientation or dimensions of the room you played in.

We still describe the result as pseudonymous rather than anonymous, deliberately. It carries no name and no Steam account, but it is linked to a persistent install ID, and the way a person moves is distinctive. Calling it fully anonymous would overstate what we can guarantee. Treating it as personal data instead means it keeps the full protection of the GDPR, which is the outcome we want for you.

Where it is stored, and for how long

Uploaded data is held in object storage operated by Cloudflare on our behalf, in a bucket pinned to EU jurisdiction. Your data is processed and stored in the European Union.

Movement data is retained for a maximum of 24 months and then deleted. Crash reports are kept only as long as needed to diagnose the fault, and no longer than 24 months.

Your rights, and how to use them

The lawful basis for this processing is your consent (UK and EU GDPR, Article 6(1)(a)). You can withdraw it at any time, and withdrawing is as easy as giving it. There is one toggle in Privacy & Data. Withdrawing stops all future collection immediately; it does not by itself delete what was already sent, which is what the erasure control is for.

Privacy & Data contains a Right to erasure control. It sends a deletion request keyed to your install ID and permanently erases all data tied to that install from our servers. It cannot be undone. The control lives in the application, which stays available in your Steam library even after you uninstall, so reinstalling restores your route to it.

You also have the right to request access to your data, its correction, restriction of processing, portability, and to object to processing. To exercise any of these, or if something here is unclear, email us and quote your install ID if you still have it, since without it we have no way to find data that is deliberately not linked to your identity.

If you believe we have handled your data improperly, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. In Poland that is the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych).

Steam and the playtest

VR StrideS is distributed through Steam. Your purchase, your Steam account, your playtest access and any Steam reviews or forum posts are handled by Valve under Valve’s own privacy policy, and Valve is an independent controller for them. We can confirm through Steam whether a licence exists so the application can activate; we do not receive your Steam ID for telemetry, and we never join the two together.

Children

VR StrideS is not directed at children. Consent to this processing should only be given by someone aged 16 or over, in line with Polish implementation of the GDPR. If you believe a child has enabled data sharing, contact us and we will erase the data.