Privacy Policy

When you claim or outbid a billboard, we collect the name, the short line (up to 20 characters), the image, and the optional link you choose to submit — all of them are displayed publicly in the city and around the site. We also collect your email address, which is never displayed publicly; it exists to identify your placement across payments and to email you if your billboard is later outbid.

For technical accuracy: your email is stored as a one-way cryptographic hash in the public-facing billboard record, and only kept in plain form in a private, non-public payment record used for sending you a receipt and for support or audit purposes. We also record the amount, currency, and timestamp of each payment. Your uploaded image is compressed in your browser before it ever leaves your device, then stored in Firebase Storage (Google Cloud) and served publicly as part of the billboard it belongs to.

If you create an account we store your email address, the display name you choose, your quest progress and your in-game coins, artefacts and gear. Signing in with Google shares your name and email with us via Firebase Authentication (Google). Signing in by email sends a one-time 6-digit code to your inbox; we keep only a one-way hash of the code for 10 minutes, never the code itself.

Shop owners also have a Stripe customer record for their monthly rent. If you add a postal address on your profile, we store it and copy it to that Stripe record so it appears on your rent invoices; you can remove it from your profile at any time. Your display name may be shown to other players; your email address and postal address are never shown publicly.

All payments are processed by Stripe. 48rich never receives, stores, or has access to your full card number or other card details — that information goes directly to Stripe. Stripe’s own privacy policy governs their handling of your payment data.

To operate the public city (displaying your name, line, image, and billboard price), to email you a receipt confirming your payment, to email you if your billboard is later outbid, and to respond to support inquiries.

Your name, line, image, and billboard price are publicly visible to anyone who visits the site. Your email address is never publicly displayed.

To show how many people are watching the city and to understand where visitors come from, 48rich runs a simple first-party visit counter, and shows the live online count and total visitors on the site. Each open page creates a random identifier that exists only in that page’s memory — it is not stored on your device. The only thing kept in your browser is a yes/no “already counted” flag in session storage, so reloading the same tab isn’t counted as a new visitor; it is deleted when you close the tab. We keep a record of when that identifier was last active for a few minutes, and we keep daily totals of visits together with a coarse traffic source (for example “reddit” or “google”) worked out from the referring website. The counter does not use cookies and does not store your name, email, or IP address (our hosting provider may keep standard server logs).

Shop owners see how many times their shop was visited and how often its store link was clicked. These are plain counts per shop and per day: walking into a shop counts once per browser tab (again using only a yes/no flag in session storage), and nothing about who visited or clicked is sent or kept.

Firebase / Google Cloud (database and image storage), and a Microsoft 365 mailbox (info@48rich.com) for sending receipt and outbid emails.

A billboard’s name, line, and image persist for as long as it isn’t outbid by someone else, at which point they’re replaced. If you’d like your name, line, or image removed from public display sooner, contact us at info@48rich.com and we will accommodate reasonable requests — we may need to retain underlying payment records for financial recordkeeping regardless.

48rich does not set its own advertising or tracking cookies. Stripe’s checkout flow may set cookies as part of its own secure payment process, governed by Stripe’s policies.

This service is not intended for anyone under 18.

We may update this policy from time to time; changes will be posted on this page.

info@48rich.com