What happens to your data

Visiting this site

No cookies. No analytics, no tracking pixels, no third-party scripts — every file the site loads comes from this domain, which is enforced by a content security policy rather than merely intended.

The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which handles the request and keeps short-lived logs (your IP address, the page, the time) for security and abuse prevention. That is Cloudflare's processing as our host, not something this site collects or can read back.

Player avatars on the leaderboard are copied onto this server once a day and served from here, rather than loaded from Steam while you read the page. That is deliberate: hotlinking them would send every visitor's IP address to Valve for a decorative 32-pixel thumbnail.

The leaderboard

Once a day this site reads the top hundred entries of the Descent leaderboard from Steam and republishes them. For each entry that is:

• Your Steam ID
• Your Steam display name, as it stands that day
• Your Steam avatar, if you have one
• A link to your Steam profile — only if your profile is public
• Your score, and the depth and mean level time it decodes to

Nothing else is read and nothing else is stored. No email address, no real name, no friends list, no games owned, no playtime — and if your Steam profile is private, the profile link is dropped while the rest of the row still shows.

All of it is data Steam already publishes about a leaderboard entry, and it is here for the obvious reason: a leaderboard with the names taken off is a list of numbers.

The copy on this site is rebuilt from scratch every day, so a display name you change on Steam changes here within a day, and an entry that leaves the Steam board leaves this one.

Getting off it

Mail support and say which entry. It comes off within a day. You do not have to explain, and it does not affect your score in the game.

The game itself

Your progress and your times are saved on your own machine. Nothing about how you play is sent anywhere except your score to the Steam leaderboard, and your achievements and stats to Steam — both of which are Steam features, covered by Valve's privacy policy.

The Feedback button on the main menu opens a form hosted by Google Forms. It arrives with your build version, operating system, graphics adapter, renderer, screen resolution and locale already filled in. It carries no Steam ID and no display name — that is a deliberate property of the game and it is guarded by a test, not merely a current fact. Anything else on that form is what you typed into it.

Children

The game is not directed at children, and this site collects nothing from anyone. Steam accounts have their own age requirements, which Valve enforces.

Changes

If what this page describes changes, the page changes with it. There is no version history worth keeping: the whole of it is above, and if something is added to what the leaderboard publishes, it gets a line in that list.