Privacy
Last updated: 14 November 2026
The short version.
- The website sets no cookies and has no ads or trackers. It counts visits without knowing who you are.
- The game plays offline. It sends something only when it checks for an update, when you send feedback with F8, and, if you said yes, anonymous play statistics.
- We never sell or share what you send us, and we use it only to make Fourways better and to answer you.
Who looks after your data
Neptrino Consulting, S.L., the maker of Fourways (details in the legal notice below). For anything about your data, write to privacy@neptrino.com.
On this website
Hosting
The site is served by GitHub Pages. Like any web server, GitHub sees your IP address and browser when you open a page, and keeps it in its logs for security (GitHub's privacy statement). We don't get those logs.
Counting visits
We count visits with Umami, on a server of our own (analytics.neptrino.com). It sets no cookies and stores no IP address or anything else that identifies you. It records which page was opened, the site you came from, your browser, operating system, screen size, language and country (worked out from your IP address, which is then dropped), and clicks on the download, language and "How it plays" buttons. We see these only as totals.
Downloads
To show the latest version and its size, your browser asks GitHub about our newest release, and the download buttons fetch the game from GitHub. GitHub sees your IP address for that too.
Your language
When you pick a language, your browser remembers it (in its own storage, not a cookie) so the site opens in that language next time. It never leaves your browser.
In the game
Fourways keeps your saves, settings and log on your computer. It sends something over the internet only in these three cases.
Checking for updates
The free early build asks GitHub, where its releases are published, whether there is a newer version, and downloads it from there. GitHub sees your IP address. Nothing about you or your games is sent.
Feedback (F8)
When you send feedback, we receive:
- what you wrote, and what it's about (a problem, an idea, something else);
- your email, only if you give it, so we can answer you;
- the game's version and language, and your system: operating system, screen, graphics card, processor cores and memory;
- where your game had got to: its date, map, fleet, first steps, open windows and mods;
- whatever you leave ticked: a screenshot, the game as it was when you pressed F8, and the game's log, with your user name and home folder taken out.
We use it only to fix problems, weigh ideas and answer you. The team reads it; nobody else does.
Play statistics
Only if you say yes when the game asks (switch them off at any time in Settings > Game > Statistics). The game then sends, every few minutes while you play:
- a random number made when you said yes, to tell your games apart from other players' (it isn't linked to your name, email or computer, and switching statistics off forgets it);
- when you start and stop playing, and whether the game closed properly last time;
- how far your games get: year, map size, rivals, goal, first steps and achievements, vehicles, stations, lines and money;
- the game's version and language, and your system: operating system, screen, graphics card, processor cores, memory, interface size and number of mods;
- your country, which our analytics server works out from your IP address and then drops.
No names, no emails and no saved games. We use them to see where players get stuck, what crashes, and which systems to support.
Where it's kept
- Feedback and statistics: Supabase, in its Paris data centre, in the European Union. Our server there doesn't store your IP address; Supabase keeps short-lived request logs for security.
- Visit counts and the statistics' charts: our Umami server, in France, in the European Union.
- The website and the game's downloads: GitHub, in the United States. GitHub takes part in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which lets EU data go there lawfully.
Why we're allowed to
- Feedback and play statistics: your consent, given when you send a message or say yes to statistics. You can take it back at any time (switch statistics off, or ask us to delete a message); that doesn't undo what was done before.
- Counting visits, hosting and update checks: our legitimate interest in running the site and the game safely and knowing how they're used, done without cookies and without identifying you.
How long
- Feedback: 2 years after it arrives, or until you ask us to delete it.
- Play statistics: 2 years.
- Visit counts: kept as totals, with nothing in them that identifies you.
Buying the game
When Fourways is on sale, you'll buy it on Steam or itch.io. They take the payment and look after your account under their own privacy policies; we never see your card details. They tell us only sales figures.
Your rights
You can ask us to show you, correct or delete what we have about you, to stop using it or to limit how we use it, and to give it to you in a common format. Write to privacy@neptrino.com; we answer within a month. If you sent feedback with your email, that's how we find it. Statistics carry no name or email, so we can't tell which are yours: switching them off stops them, and they're deleted when the time above runs out.
If you think we've got it wrong, tell us first if you can; you can also complain to a data protection authority, in Spain the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos.
Children
Fourways is for everyone. If you're under 14, ask a parent before sending us your email with feedback.
Changes
If what we collect changes, we'll update this page and its date, and the game will ask again before sending anything new.
Legal notice
As required by Spain's Law 34/2002 on information society services (LSSI), this website is run by:
- Owner
- Neptrino Consulting, S.L.
- Website
- neptrino.com
- Tax ID (NIF)
- B75990788
- Address
- Calle Joan Maragall, 36, 08820 El Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain
- privacy@neptrino.com
- Registry
- Registro Mercantil de Barcelona, hoja B-632090, tomo/IRUS 1000447682793, folio 1, inscripción 1
Fourways, its name, pictures, videos and the text of this site belong to Neptrino Consulting, S.L. You're welcome to share screenshots and clips of the game and to link to this site. The headline typeface is Big Shoulders, under the SIL Open Font License.
We do our best to keep this site right and working, but can't promise it always will be. Links to other sites are there to help; we aren't responsible for what's on them. Spanish law applies.