Privacy at OwnTheCity
Information we process
When you start a sponsorship, we process the brand name, website, tagline, logo path, and contact email you provide. Stripe processes payment details; OwnTheCity does not store card numbers.
Public sponsorship data
A successful sponsor’s name, normalized domain, website, tagline, logo, property ownership, and sponsorship amount are public. Ownership history remains public so city positions can be independently understood.
First-party analytics
We record daily city visits, object interactions, checkout starts, successful takeovers, and outbound sponsor clicks. Visitor network addresses are HMAC-hashed before storage for rate limiting and daily visit deduplication. We also load Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-13TCG0T0RQ), operated by Google, which records page views and referrers for traffic measurement; Google may process that data outside your country. It is not loaded on local development builds.
Cookies
Essential cookies support secure site functions. Google Analytics sets its own measurement cookies (_ga and _ga_*) to count returning visits; blocking them in your browser or with an extension does not affect the city. We set no advertising cookies.
Retention and security
Financial and ownership history is retained to preserve the public record and for accounting. Service credentials are server-only. Uploaded logos are validated and re-encoded server-side before public display.
Contact
Questions about this page: support@ownthecity.lol.