Privacy note
This site is a reference for a video game. It collects nothing at all unless you choose to sign in through Steam, and this page says exactly what changes if you do.
Last updated 20 August 2026
If you never sign in
Nothing is stored and no cookies are set. There is no analytics script, no advertising, no tag manager and no third-party tracker on this site. Pages, item icons and fonts are fetched from Cloudflare, our own asset host and Google Fonts, which — like any web request — means those servers see your IP address in the course of serving the file. We do not receive or keep it.
Because the site sets no cookies until you sign in, and the two it then sets are strictly necessary to provide the sign-in you asked for, there is no cookie banner. Adding one to ask consent for cookies that only exist to do the thing you just requested would be theatre.
If you sign in through Steam
Signing in uses Steam’s own OpenID service. You authenticate on Steam, not here: this site never sees your Steam password and has no way to ask for it.
Steam then tells us your SteamID, and we read the following from Steam’s public Web API and store it:
- Your SteamID64 — the 17-digit public account number
- Your persona (display) name, avatar image URL and profile URL
- Your profile visibility state, and whether your game details are public
- Whether Steam lists WARDOGS on your account, and the playtime it reports
- When you first signed in, when you last signed in, and when we last read the above
- Whether you have opted out of appearing on the standings
Every item on that list except the last is public information that Steam already publishes about your account. We cache it so that showing you a page costs no further calls to Steam, not to learn anything new. If your Steam privacy settings are private, the corresponding fields are simply unreadable and stay empty — signing in here grants us no access to them.
What we cannot see
Steam’s sign-in has no permission scopes: it proves you control the account and grants nothing further. We cannot read your friends list, your messages, your library beyond what your own privacy settings make public, your purchase history or your payment details. We cannot post, change or buy anything on your account.
Cookies
wd_s— your session. Holds your SteamID and an expiry, signed so it cannot be altered or forged.HttpOnly,Secure,SameSite=Lax, thirty days.wd_st— a random value used once, for the ten minutes a sign-in is in progress, so that a sign-in cannot be triggered or replayed by another site. Deleted as soon as you land back here.
Both are functional. Neither is used to profile you, and neither is shared with anyone.
Who sees it
Your persona name and avatar appear on the standings page, which is visible to other signed-in visitors. That is the only place your information is shown to anybody else, and it is opt-out from your service record — untick the listing and your row stays private while your account stays linked.
Nothing is sold, and nothing is passed to an advertiser, data broker or analytics provider. We use no such services.
Where it is stored
In a Cloudflare D1 database whose primary location is Western Europe, operated by Cloudflare, Inc. on our behalf. Cloudflare also serves this site, so requests may be routed through data centres elsewhere in the course of delivery.
How long, and how to remove it
Signing out deletes the cookie immediately. The stored row stays, so that signing back in does not start from nothing. Ask and it is deleted — there is no form to fill in and we will not ask you why. Rows belonging to accounts that have not signed in for two years are deleted without being asked.
You can also ask for a copy of what we hold, or for a correction. Write to [email protected].
The lawful basis is your consent, given by choosing to sign in. Withdrawing it is the same action as asking for deletion, and carries no consequence beyond the obvious one: your figures stop appearing.
Who we are
Wardogs Database is run by Elevate Studio Ltd, registered in England. It is an unofficial fan project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to BULKHEAD or Team17. Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks of Valve Corporation.