4 TO WAR — PRIVACY POLICY & TERMS OF USE

Last updated: September 20, 2026

PRIVACY POLICY

What we keep. The player name you type, your game progress (wins, batteries, items, lap times), a record of any battery packs you buy, and a one-way scrambled fingerprint of your phone number if you choose to sign in. The number itself is never stored, never sent, and cannot be recovered from the fingerprint.

Where it lives. On your phone, and on our game server (hosted by Supabase) so your score and battery balance can follow you to another phone and appear on the leaderboard. Your score is sent up when you sign in or play online; your battery balance is kept in step whenever you have a connection.

What we don't do. No advertising trackers, no analytics SDKs, no selling or sharing of your data, no contacts, location or camera access. The microphone is used only while you have voice chat switched on, and never in the background.

Voice. If you turn the microphone on, your voice goes peer-to-peer to your friends in the same place as you and never through our server (only the connection handshake does). It is off until you tap it, one tap mutes it, another turns it off, and muting a player also silences their voice.

Friends and chat. You can only chat with people who have accepted you as a friend (by ID or from the online list), and only while you are both online. Messages travel over the live connection and are not stored by us. Messages and names are filtered, any friend can be muted or removed, and REPORT A PLAYER in Settings reaches us directly.

Batteries. Batteries are play money. You earn them by playing, and in the iPhone app you can also buy them through Apple’s In-App Purchase. They cannot be sold, cashed out, refunded by us, or exchanged for anything of real-world value, inside or outside the game. Your balance is held on our server and tied to your public ID and a random key made on your phone, so the same balance follows you and cannot be edited from outside the game; if you are offline you keep playing and it catches up when you reconnect.

Purchases. Battery packs are sold only through Apple’s In-App Purchase in the iPhone app. We never see or handle your card — Apple takes the payment and tells the app that it cleared. When a pack is delivered we record which pack it was, Apple’s transaction reference, how many batteries it carried and the date, against your public ID. That record exists so a purchase that fails to arrive can be traced and put right, and so the same pack is never delivered twice. It is not used for advertising and it is not shared with anyone.

Trading with other players. In the worlds you can offer another player batteries and items and take theirs in return. Both sides have to press ACCEPT, changing an offer clears both accepts, and nothing moves unless the swap completes. Trades happen directly between the two phones; we do not review or reverse them, so only trade with players you trust. Trade requests can be switched off entirely in Settings, and blocking a player also stops their requests.

What other players can see. Your player name, your public ID and your battery total — the bounty board and the comms tower in each world show who is there and who is carrying the most. Nothing else about you is shared, and your phone number never is.

Children. 4 TO WAR is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Delete. Tap DELETE MY ACCOUNT & DATA on the main menu at any time. It erases your progress from this phone and asks the server to erase your account, score and items. If you no longer have the game installed, request the same deletion at 4towar.com/play/delete-account.html and we will do it within 30 days.

TERMS OF USE

Play fair. Pick a name that would not embarrass you in front of a stranger — names are shown to other players and we may change or remove any we consider offensive. Batteries, items and chassis are virtual, have no cash value and may be adjusted for balance. Trades between players are final and made at your own risk; selling batteries, items or accounts for real money is not allowed and those accounts may be reset. Some modes take a battery entry fee and pay the winner from the entries — this is a skill contest, not gambling: batteries are play money, nothing paid out has any cash value, and batteries can never be cashed out, sold, or exchanged for money or anything of real-world value. Harassing other players through chat, voice or repeated trade requests is not allowed — block them and use REPORT A PLAYER. The game is provided as-is; we do our best to keep it running but make no guarantees.

CONTACT

Questions, a data request, or a player name to report: play@4towar.com