Privacy Policy

Last updated: 10 October 2026

Who we are

Rift Crashers is made by Tethered Rifts Studio, LLC. This policy covers the Rift Crashers game on Steam, riftcrashers.com, and the game's leaderboard. Our studio site, tetheredrifts.com, has its own privacy policy, which covers our mobile games and social channels.

Signing in

Rift Crashers has no separate account of its own. You sign in with your Steam account. Valve's handling of your data is covered by Valve's privacy policy: https://store.steampowered.com/privacy_agreement/.

Multiplayer

Games run peer to peer over Steam. Other players in your lobby can see your Steam display name and Steam ID, as with any Steam multiplayer game.

Leaderboard

The leaderboard is on by default. You can turn it off with the leaderboard setting in the game's settings. Runs flagged as modified are never submitted.

At the end of a run, the host's game sends us, for each player: Steam ID, Steam display name, character, kills, level, damage dealt, and the items, weapons, upgrades and codex entries taken. For the run itself, it sends a run ID, the map, the length of the run, whether it was completed, the map seed, and a trace of the run: player and boss positions and health over time, the levels visited, and which chests, vendors, totems, vault doors and other objects were found and used. The submission carries a Steam session ticket, which we check with Steam to confirm who sent it. We also post scores to the game's Steam leaderboards.

What is public

The leaderboard and run pages on riftcrashers.com, and the in-game leaderboard, show your Steam display name, Steam ID, profile picture (loaded from your public Steam profile), and your run stats.

Diagnostics

Diagnostics are on by default. When a run ends (a win, a wipe, leaving the run, or the host disconnecting), and after a crash on your next launch, the game sends us that session's log. Every player in the run sends their own, so we can read the host's and a client's side of the same run together.

A log can include your Steam ID and display name, the names and Steam IDs of the other players in your lobby, the lobby and run identifiers that pair the logs of one run, the game version, your role (host or client), game events (such as upgrades offered and chosen, deaths and boss fights), performance figures, and error messages.

We use diagnostics only to fix bugs and to improve the game. We never sell them, and we never use them for marketing or advertising. They are kept for 30 days and then deleted.

You can turn this off at any time in the game under Settings → Online → Send Diagnostic Logs. With it off, nothing is sent and the logs stay on your computer. The game tells you once, on the first launch after this was introduced, that it is on.

What we do not do

We do not run ads. The game contains no analytics or tracking SDKs. We do not sell personal data.

Our server receives your IP address with each request. We use it only in memory to rate-limit requests; it is not stored in our database. The site is served through Cloudflare, which processes IP addresses to deliver and protect it, and which also collects aggregate page-view analytics for riftcrashers.com (Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies): https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/.

On your device

Your settings and local logs are saved on your own computer.

Keeping and deleting your data

Leaderboard entries are kept while the leaderboard runs. Diagnostics logs are kept for 30 days. To remove your leaderboard entries or diagnostics logs sooner, email [email protected] with your Steam ID or profile link. We will confirm and delete them.

Children

Rift Crashers is not directed at children under 13.

Changes

We may update this policy as the game changes. Check back here for the latest version.

Contact

Tethered Rifts Studio, LLC
[email protected]
tetheredrifts.com