Warden Privacy Policy

What this is

Warden is a browser extension and web service for analytics and planning in the Hero Wars Alliance game. The extension reads the game's API responses and push messages in tabs on hero-wars-alliance.com and forwards the relevant ones to the Warden backend (api.hw-warden.com). The extension does not send requests to the game on the player's behalf.

Warden is an independent project. It is not affiliated with the Hero Wars Alliance developers (Nexters).

What data is collected

• Player profile and progress — profile, guild and role, inventory and stocks, heroes and titans, Realm buildings, research, troops and infirmary, quests and events, Tower, Airship, chest timers, energy.
• In-game actions — starting, finishing, speeding up and cancelling construction, research, training and healing; collecting quest rewards. Needed for timers and notifications.
• Battles and events — guild wars and championships, clashes, target marks and orders, fort wars and garrisons, arena and Realm battles, server ratings, attacks and scouting on the player's mines and city.
• Other players' data visible in the game — names, guilds, servers, team rosters and power of guildmates and opponents, coordinates of guildmates' cities, guild announcements (texts the guild leadership publishes to the whole guild).
• Identifiers — the in-game player and account IDs (used to bind data to your Warden account) and the device identifier the game sends in a service request (deviceId).
• Warden session token — stored in the hw_session cookie on the .hw-warden.com domain for signing in to the site (and on the legacy .pankov.dev domain during the migration).
• Linked accounts and subscription — your Telegram ID if you linked Telegram; your Discord ID if your guild entered it; subscription details sent by Tribute (Telegram ID, amount, term).

The extension does not intercept passwords, game access tokens, payment card data, private messages, regular guild chat or server chat, and does not forward any other game calls.

What it is used for

For the site's sections (war and guild progress analytics, calculator, event planners, test battles, ratings, Realm) and for guild and personal notifications in Telegram and Discord.

Where and how long it is stored

• Backend: PostgreSQL on a server under our control.
• Raw calls (the har_rpc_call table) are deleted automatically 14 days after their last update.
• Derived data (war history, team rosters, ratings) is kept for as long as the service needs it or until deleted on request.

Who can see it

We do not sell the data, use it for advertising or transfer it to third parties for their own purposes. The data may be seen by:

• Guild members — analytics of their own guild, with permissions depending on their role.
• All site visitors — server ratings are public: name, portrait, guild, server, place and score of top players.
• Telegram and Discord — they carry the text of notifications enabled by the guild or the player.
• Tribute — processes subscription payments; Warden does not receive payment card data.

How to delete your data

Message me on Telegram @HWWarden with your in-game ID — all related records will be removed within 7 days.

Policy changes

Any material change updates this page and bumps the date at the top.

Contacts

Reach the author on Telegram @HWWarden.