Privacy

What Apherios keeps about you, and why. Last changed 13 October 2026.

Who

Apherios is an independent online world, looked after by one person. There is no company behind it, no advertising and no investors. Questions go to apheriosworld@gmail.com.

What is stored

Only what the world needs to remember you: your player name, a password (stored as a hash, never readable), your avatar, your island and what is on it, your position, the guestbook entries and letters you write, who you have blocked, and any report you make.

No email address, real name or payment details are asked for.

The game does not save your IP address. Like most websites, the web server keeps ordinary access logs, used only to block abuse. The server also counts how many people visit each day and month; only the totals are kept, never who.

In your browser

Apherios keeps a few settings and a login token in your browser's local storage so you stay signed in. No advertising, no tracking, and no analytics cookies.

Chat is never stored

What you say in chat, and your conversations with the characters you meet, exist only while they happen. They are not logged or kept. The one exception: when someone reports a player, the chat lines they saw from that player and from themselves in the 30 minutes before go with the report, so it can be looked at. Nothing else is ever read. Guestbook entries and letters are saved, because that is their purpose.

Keeping it kind

Chat and guestbook messages are checked for abuse by software running on the Apherios server itself. They are never sent to an outside AI company.

Everything stays here

The whole game is served from Apherios's own server. It loads nothing from other websites. Only the "Buy me a coffee" link leads elsewhere, to buymeacoffee.com, which has its own terms.

Backups

So the world can be restored if something breaks, it is backed up every hour. Copies are kept on the Apherios server and, encrypted so that nobody else can read them, in a Google Drive that belongs to Apherios. Old copies are deleted automatically; none is kept longer than about a year.

Apherios does not offer "Sign in with Google" and never looks at anyone's Google account. Its only use of Google is storing its own encrypted backups in its own Drive.

Your data, your call

You can ask to see, correct or delete your account and everything linked to it by writing to apheriosworld@gmail.com. A deleted account leaves the world straight away, and the backups as their old copies expire.