You can play Fleet without an account, and that still collects nothing that identifies you. An account is optional; if you make one, it stores your email address. This page says exactly what each choice keeps, in both cases.
This policy changed on 12 August 2026, and the change matters. Fleet used to have no accounts at all, and an earlier version of this page said so. Optional accounts now exist, so that statement is no longer true and has been replaced rather than quietly amended. If you signed in before this date, the section below on accounts describes what was stored.
You do not need to sign in to play. When you sit at a table, the server keeps the things it needs to run that one game:
That is the whole list for playing as a guest. No email address, no password, no profile.
An account exists to keep your record and rating across devices. It stores:
Your email address is never used for marketing. There is no newsletter, no announcements list, and no promotional email of any kind. If that ever changes it will be a separate, explicit opt-in that you have to tick — never a consequence of having signed in.
Signing in emails you a single-use link. The link is stored only as a SHA-256 hash, never as the link itself, so the stored row cannot be turned back into a working link. It expires after fifteen minutes, is deleted the moment it is used, and expired rows are swept automatically.
Linking Discord to an account stores your Discord user ID and your Discord username, so games you play there count towards the same record. Nothing else about your Discord account is read or kept.
When a game ends, a result record is kept: which accounts played, the display names shown, who won and how, how many turns it took, when it started and ended, whether it counted as ranked, and — if it was played in Discord — which server and channel it was in.
These records are kept indefinitely, because the leaderboard is computed from them. A game played by guests is recorded with no account attached to it.
Fleet sets one cookie, and only after you sign in:
fleet_session — this is what keeps you signed in. It lasts thirty
days, and it is HttpOnly, Secure and SameSite=Lax,
meaning scripts cannot read it, it only travels over HTTPS, and it is not sent from
other sites. It is a functional cookie: it is not used for advertising, analytics, or
tracking you anywhere, and there is nothing to consent to because the site does not
work signed-in without it.The game also keeps a few things in your browser's own storage, which stay on your device and are not sent anywhere: the game you are part-way through, so a refresh does not lose it; your puzzle progress; your seat identifier; and whether you have already been shown the rules card.
If you play Fleet as a Discord Activity, Discord tells the game which participants are in the voice channel so it can seat you at the right table and put your name on your side of the board. Fleet does not read your messages, your servers, or your friends. If you have linked Discord to a Fleet account, your Discord user ID and username are stored as described above; otherwise nothing about your Discord profile is kept after the game. What Discord itself collects is governed by Discord's privacy policy, not this one.
The game itself is suitable for any age, and you can play it as a guest without providing anything personal. Do not create an account if you are under 13, or under the age of digital consent where you live if that is higher — creating one means giving us an email address. Discord's own terms require you to be at least 13 to use Discord at all. If you believe a child has created an account, write to the address below and it will be deleted.
If you have an account, you have real personal data here and the usual rights over it: to see what is held, to correct it, to have it deleted, and to get a copy. You can change your display name yourself on the account page.
For anything else — including deletion — email the address below and it will be done. There is no self-serve delete button yet; it is handled by hand until there is, and saying so is better than implying otherwise. Deleting an account removes your email address, display name, rating and any linked Discord identity. Past game results are kept but are no longer attached to you.
If you played as a guest, there is nothing held that identifies you, so there is nothing to request.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If a change ever means Fleet starts collecting something it does not collect today, that will be stated plainly at the top of this page, as it is now, rather than buried here.
Questions about privacy: privacy@fleet-tiles.com