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Privacy Policy
How ARK Charts and the ARK Charts Wipe Bot handle your data. Last updated 23 August 2026.
Summary
ARK Charts is a free, independent service. The site can be browsed in full without an account and without providing any personal information. Where you do create an account or subscribe to wipe alerts, we collect only what is required to provide them. We do not sell personal data, operate ad networks, or use third-party tracking cookies. Visit counts are recorded against a hash of your IP address that is re-salted every day. The address itself is never written to disk.
Who this covers
This policy applies to arkcharts.com (and ark-serverlist.com, which redirects to it) and to the ARK Charts Wipe Bot Discord application.
It does not cover the ARK servers listed on the site, Discord itself, or any individual server owner's Discord community. Those are run by other people under their own rules. ARK Charts is not affiliated with Studio Wildcard, Snail Games, or Discord.
What we collect
If you only browse the site, we do not ask for anything and you are not identified. We record:
- A daily visit count: the date plus a shortened SHA-256 hash of your IP address, salted with that day's date. Because the salt changes every day, the hashes cannot be linked from one day to the next, and the raw address is never stored.
- Interaction counts: which part of the interface was used (that a cluster was opened, for example), with an optional short label such as a cluster name, recorded against that same daily hash.
- If enabled, Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless and aggregate and collected by Cloudflare rather than by us.
If you create an account, we store your email address, your username (which is shown publicly on comments), your account creation date, and either a bcrypt hash of your password or nothing at all if you use the emailed sign-in code. If you sign in with Discord we receive and store your Discord user ID and username, using only the `identify` and `email` scopes. Sign-in codes are stored hashed and expire within minutes.
If you subscribe to wipe alerts, we store the delivery email address, which clusters and platforms you subscribed to, how far ahead you want reminding, and a record that a given reminder was sent so you do not receive it twice. Email is the only way we send alerts. We do not send SMS and do not ask for a phone number.
If you like or comment, we store the like against your account, or against a random identifier generated in your browser if you are signed out. Comments store their text, your username, and a timestamp, and are shown publicly.
What we store in your browser
| Name | What it is | Why | How long |
|---|
| ark_token | Your sign-in token | Keeps you signed in | 365 days, or until you log out |
| ark_anon_id | A random identifier containing no personal data | Remembers which things you liked when signed out | Until you clear site data |
| oauth_state | A random value (the only cookie we set) | Prevents forged sign-in requests during Discord login | A few minutes |
We set no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
The ARK Charts Wipe Bot
The bot reads wipe-announcement channels in ARK server owners' Discord communities so their upcoming wipes can appear as countdowns on the site. It is read-only.
- It joins a Discord server only when someone with Manage Server permission invites it.
- It reads only the specific channels an ARK Charts admin has selected for that server. Every other channel is ignored.
- It requests two permissions: View Channels and Read Message History. It cannot post, send DMs, moderate, or read anyone's direct messages.
- From a watched channel it stores the message ID, a link to the message, the author's display name, the message text, and timestamps.
- That message text is sent to Anthropic's Claude API to extract wipe dates. Anthropic does not train its models on data submitted through its commercial API.
- Extracted times are reviewed by a human ARK Charts admin before any countdown appears on the site.
If you post in a channel that a server's staff have connected to ARK Charts, your message text and display name may be stored and processed as described above. That connection is made by that server's own staff, not by you and not by us.
A server owner can remove the bot at any time from their Discord server settings, which stops all reading immediately. To also have the stored messages deleted, email [email protected] from an address that can be associated with that server, or contact us in that Discord community.
Who else sees your data
| Service | What it receives | Why |
|---|
| Discord | Sign-in requests; the bot's reads of watched channels | Discord login and the wipe bot |
| Anthropic (Claude API) | The text of messages in watched channels | Extracting wipe dates from announcements |
| Google (email delivery) | Your email address and the message | Sending alerts and sign-in codes |
| Cloudflare | Your IP address, as any CDN or host sees it | Serving the site, DDoS protection, aggregate analytics |
We do not sell or rent personal data, and we do not share it for advertising.
What we never collect
- Phone numbers: alerts are email only.
- Payment details: nothing on the site costs money.
- Precise location.
- Your ARK game account, in-game activity, or anything from inside the game.
- Direct messages, on Discord or anywhere else.
How long we keep it
- Account details and alert settings: until you delete them or ask us to.
- Likes and comments: until they are deleted.
- Visit and interaction counts: kept indefinitely in the pseudonymous daily-hash form described above.
- Sign-in and verification codes: minutes.
- Announcements collected by the bot: kept as a review and audit trail, and deleted on request from the server's owner.
- Server population history: retained while it remains useful, then pruned automatically. This is game data about servers, not about people.
Your choices
- Every alert email carries a one-click unsubscribe link that works without signing in.
- You can remove individual alert subscriptions, likes, and comments from the site at any time.
- For account deletion, or a copy of the data we hold about you, email [email protected]. Self-service deletion is not yet available in the interface; requests sent to that address are processed manually.
- Depending on where you live you may have rights to access, correct, delete, port, or object to the processing of your data. Contact us and we will honour it, without requiring you to complete unnecessary formalities.
Children
Discord requires its users to be at least 13, and older in some countries. ARK Charts is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, contact us and we will remove it.
Changes
If this policy changes we will update the date at the top of the page, and any material change will also be announced on the site.
Contact
Questions, deletion requests, and other privacy enquiries: [email protected].
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