Privacy

Last updated 4 October 2026

Nightdrive is run by James Strickland, an individual in the United Kingdom, who is responsible for your data. Contact: [email protected].

What is collected

• Guests: nothing that identifies you. Settings stay in your browser.
• Google sign-in: your email address, name and profile picture from Google, to create and recognise your account. Nightdrive creates a wallet for you and keeps its key encrypted.
• Wallet sign-in: your public wallet address.
• Discord (optional): if you link Discord, your Discord user ID, username, display name and avatar, and whether you are in the Nightdrive server. Linking adds you to the server. Nightdrive shows your verified distance, garage level and joining date on your Discord profile (Linked Roles); to keep them current it stores an encrypted Discord token, which unlinking revokes. The Nightdrive bot can send you Discord messages about your own account (campaigns, invites, deposits and withdrawals); switch them off on the Profile tab. Nightdrive never reads your messages. Unlink at any time from the Profile tab.
• Play: distance driven, coins collected, stories read and links visited, and your car's position while you are on the shared highway, to run the game, pay rewards and detect automation.
• Profile and campaigns: the name, picture, images and text you choose to publish.
• Technical: IP address and browser details in server logs, kept for security for up to 30 days.

What is public

Your driver name, picture and distance are shown to other players. Deposits, withdrawals and purchases are recorded on the Base blockchain, which is public and permanent. Images you upload may be stored on IPFS, which is public.

Who else is involved

Google (sign-in and Google Analytics for visit statistics), Discord (if you link it), Hetzner (hosting), Cloudflare (in front of the site), the Base network and its providers, IPFS, Nightride FM (the radio stream, loaded from their servers when you play music) and the news publishers whose stories appear in the reader. No advertising trackers or analytics services are used.

Cookies and storage

Your browser stores your session, settings and car choices. Google Analytics counts visits (pages, country, device and browser) with a cookie; it does not store your IP address. Nothing else is used to track you across other sites.

Keeping and deleting

Account data is kept while your account exists. Email [email protected] to see, correct or delete it. Records on the blockchain cannot be deleted by anyone. Ledger records of tokens may be kept as long as the law requires.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask for a copy of your data, correction, deletion or restriction, and you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.