Privacy Policy

SPG is a community-run, unofficial ARK: Survival Evolved / ARK: Survival Ascended game server cluster ("SPG", "we"). The SPG admin team operates this website and the game servers. Contact us by opening a ticket in our Discord server (opens in a new tab).

If you just browse

Our server stores nothing about you. To protect the site from abuse, it keeps your IP address in memory until about two minutes after your last request, to rate-limit requests; it never writes it to disk or to a log. Every request reaches us through Cloudflare (see Third-party services), which processes standard technical data such as your IP address and browser type to deliver the pages and block attacks, and gives us traffic totals plus the details of any request it blocks.

If you log in with Discord (optional)

• What Discord shares with us: your basic Discord profile (the identify permission — never your email, server list or messages). We keep only your user ID, username and avatar and discard the rest. We ask Discord to revoke the one-time access token as soon as login finishes.
• Where it is kept: in a signed cookie on your device (see the Cookie Policy). We do not store it in a database, and we do not keep your Discord access token.
• What we look up with it: to build your My Stats panel we read — but do not copy or store — your linked SteamID (the Discord↔Steam link you create with our Discord bot; used on our server only, never sent to your browser), your in-game kills, deaths, rank and tribe, your shop point balance and points spent, and your server ranks. Only you see this panel.
• How long: until you log out or for 7 days, whichever comes first.

Playing on SPG servers produces game data that this website displays to everyone: in-game character names, tribe names and member counts, PvP kills and deaths, tribe raid scores, and who slew each Alpha Hunt boss and on which map. A solo tribe is named after its survivor ("Tribe of <name>"), so that name can appear on the tribe board too. The website does not show who is online right now.

If you want your name corrected or hidden from the website, open a ticket. We add your account and in-game name to our hide list: you are left off the player board, your Alpha Hunt kills are not listed, and a solo tribe named after you is left off the tribe board. A tribe with its own name shows no member names, so it stays unless you ask us to hide it as well. If you change your in-game name, tell us so the list stays right.

• No advertising, analytics scripts, tracking pixels, fingerprinting or session recording.
• No selling, renting or sharing of personal data.
• No card or bank details — checkout happens entirely on MEE6 (see below).

• Cloudflare — delivers and protects this website. Every visit, logged in or not, passes through Cloudflare's network, which processes your IP address and standard request data (such as browser type and the page requested) to deliver pages and block attacks. Cloudflare may set strictly necessary security cookies if it has to check that a visitor is not a bot (see the Cookie Policy). If a page fails to load, your browser may also send Cloudflare a short error report (the page address, the type of error and its timing) for up to 7 days after a visit. Cloudflare's privacy policy (opens in a new tab).
• Discord — handles login. When you are logged in, your browser loads your avatar image from Discord's image server, which may set its own security cookie. Our server also asks Discord for the public online-member count of our Discord. Discord's privacy policy (opens in a new tab).
• MEE6 — sells and bills Exclusive ranks. Anything you enter at checkout goes to MEE6 and its payment processor, never to us. We do see which Discord account holds which rank (it arrives as a Discord role, which our game servers read to apply your perks) and the membership records MEE6 shows a server owner, which we use to handle refunds. MEE6's privacy policy (opens in a new tab).
• Steam — "Join" buttons and mod links open Steam. Nothing is sent to Steam until you click.

All fonts and images on this site are served from our own server, delivered through Cloudflare; no other third-party content loads when you browse without logging in.

This website is not directed at children under 13, and you must meet Discord's minimum age to log in. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you believe a child has logged in, open a ticket and we will remove the data.

• Log out at any time to delete the login cookie, or clear your browser cookies.
• Revoke the website's access in Discord under User Settings → Authorized Apps. This does not log you out of this website, so use Log out as well.
• Ask us to access, correct or delete data about you, or to stop showing your name, by opening a ticket. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under local privacy law; we will honour them.

The website itself stores nothing about you. Game statistics (names, kills, deaths, raid scores) are kept in our cluster database for as long as the cluster runs, unless you ask us to remove them. Records of who is in game are kept only for recent sessions and purged after 30 days. Your Discord↔Steam link is kept until you ask us to remove it or you leave our Discord; after that we keep only your Discord ID and whether the one-time link bonus was already paid, so the bonus cannot be claimed twice. If you ask to be hidden, the hide list keeps your Steam ID, in-game name and ticket reference (and your tribe's ID, if you asked us to hide it) for as long as you want to stay hidden.

Our server is in the United States. Cloudflare answers each request from its data centre nearest to you, so request data may also be processed outside the United States. We show game statistics and leaderboards because running a competitive PvP community is our legitimate interest. We use your Discord login only because you ask us to show your own stats, and IP addresses only briefly to protect the site from abuse.

We do not track you across websites and use no analytics scripts, so there is nothing to switch off. Browser Do-Not-Track and Global Privacy Control signals do not change how the site behaves.

If we change what the website collects, we will update this page and its date, and announce material changes in Discord.