Privacy and terms

Signing in

Through Steam, the site learns your Steam account's id (SteamID64), and finds your Age of Empires IV profile on AoE4 World by it. Through Xbox, Microsoft asks you to let the site see your Xbox profile; the site uses only your Xbox user id (XUID) and gamertag, and finds your profile on the Age of Empires servers by the gamertag. The site never sees your password, email address or friends.

What the site keeps

For each player who signed in: their AoE4 profile id, the account they signed in with (the Steam id or the XUID), their in-game name or gamertag, when they first and last signed in, and their settings (such as making their games public). For each share link: the game, who made it and its token. The feedback you send from your settings (with the game you sent it from, if any) and the answers to it, which the site's admins read with your profile id and name. Signing in also makes the site prepare replays of your newest games ahead of time.

Games, their players and their recordings come from AoE4 World and the Age of Empires servers, where they are public; the replays, match stats and win chances the site makes from them are kept on its server. Nothing is sold or shared beyond what this page says, and there are no ads or trackers.

You can delete what the site keeps about you in your settings (Delete my account). Another device still signed in can go on looking at pages, but is signed out before anything about you would be kept again.

Cookies

session: who you are signed in as, signed so it can't be forged, for 30 days or until you sign out. share_<game>: a share link you opened, so you can see that game, for 30 days. A short-lived cookie checks that a sign-in through Xbox returning to the site is the one it started (10 minutes). Nothing else is stored in your browser.

Logs

The server logs each request (the page, the time, your IP address and browser) for 30 days at most, to keep the site running. The logs it sends to its monitoring service (Grafana Cloud) carry a one-way hash in place of the IP address.

The site reaches you through Cloudflare, which carries every request between your browser and the server, and the mail sent to the site's address. Like any network in between, it sees your IP address and the pages you ask for, under its own privacy policy. When it checks for bots, it may set a cookie of its own (such as cf_clearance).

Terms of use

AoE4 Minimap is a free, unofficial fan site, offered as it is, without any guarantee: replays are estimates and win chances are a model's guesses, and either may be wrong. It may change, or stop, at any time. Use it fairly: no automated scraping or flooding of the site.