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Privacy Policy

Last updated 3 August 2026

Who this is

HyperPipes is made and published by CrashBamBoom, an independent one-person developer. "We" and "us" below mean exactly that.

What the game stores on your computer

These files live in your own user folder. They are never uploaded, and we have no way to read them:

• Settings — volume, resolution, language, colour-blind mode and your keybindings.
• Save games — career progress, money, unlocked ships and upgrades, best times and ghost data.
• Custom tracks — anything you build in the Race Lab.
• Screenshots — saved to your Pictures folder when you press the screenshot key. They stay there until you do something with them.

Deleting the game's user folder erases all of it permanently. Nothing is kept anywhere else.

What goes to Steam

The game uses Steamworks for two features. Both are handled by Valve's systems, not ours:

• Leaderboards. When you set a time on a leaderboard track, the time is uploaded to Steam and shown next to your Steam profile name and avatar — the same way it works in any Steam game with leaderboards. If you don't want to appear, don't post a time, or set your Steam profile to private.
• Online multiplayer. Matches are made through Steam's own lobby and networking service, and run peer-to-peer between players. We operate no game servers, so no match traffic passes through us and none of it is recorded. Other players in a lobby can see your Steam profile name and avatar, as they can in any Steam multiplayer game.

Valve also collects its own data about your use of Steam — purchases, playtime, achievements — under its own policy, which we have no part in and no access to beyond the aggregate sales figures every Steam developer sees. See the Steam Privacy Policy.

What the game does not do

• No analytics or telemetry SDK of any kind.
• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No third-party trackers.
• No account to create, and no email address collected.
• No data sold, rented or shared with anyone. There is no data to sell.

Outside of Steam's own features described above, the game makes no network connections at all.

Children

HyperPipes is not directed at children under 13, and we knowingly collect nothing from anyone of any age. Access to Steam itself is governed by Valve's own age requirements.

If you report a bug

Bug reports are entirely voluntary and go through our public issue tracker on GitHub. Anything you write there is public and tied to your GitHub account, and is covered by GitHub's privacy statement. Please don't put anything private in a bug report. If you attach a save file or a log, we use it only to reproduce the problem.

This website

This site is static — no cookies, no analytics, no tracking scripts, and nothing for you to log into. It is hosted on GitHub Pages and served through Cloudflare, both of which keep their own standard server logs (including visitor IP addresses) for security and abuse prevention, under their own policies. We don't add anything to that and we don't read those logs.

Your rights

Depending on where you live — the UK and EU under GDPR, California under the CCPA, and elsewhere — you have rights to access, correct or delete personal data held about you.

In practice we hold nothing to give you, so the honest answer is that those requests belong with the parties that do hold it: Valve, via your Steam account for anything Steam-side, and GitHub for anything in the bug tracker. If you want a leaderboard entry of yours removed, write to us and we'll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If this ever changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it and the change is noted in the game's patch notes. There is no mailing list to notify, by design.

Contact

Privacy questions, or a leaderboard removal request: privacy@hyperpipesgame.com