131892 reveals that the "Galaxy of Fame" utilizes uploads-nf.mods.factorio.com for Authentication and/or Data Uploads.... the DNS records for this endpoint resolve to lb.64ad63107793c53a50ae1a88.northflank.com., which is a Load Balancer at IP Address 34.32.156.188 on Google Computer Platform, run by third-party entity NorthFlank who is not mentioned in the Privacy Policy. Additionally, Google is mentioned as being used "for the purposes of communicating between our team members and for the purposes of data storing"; however the use of GCP for hosting Databases is not mentioned.WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR DATA?
We do not sell your personal data or disclose it in any manner to unauthorised third parties.
We never disclose your personal data (including your e-mail address) to any third parties for the purposes of marketing.
We can only disclose your personal data to third parties when we are obliged to do so pursuant to applicable law or when it is necessary for the provision of our services.
Our contracting partners (service providers) and affiliated entities:
Provision of some of our services would not be possible without cooperation with our contracting partners (processors), affiliated entities or foreign offices. We can disclose your personal data to such persons only to the extent which is necessary for the provision of our services and performance of our legal duties. We never disclose your personal data to any third persons for purposes different to those for which your data are collected in the first place.
We use services of the following data processors:
Google, Dropbox, Trello for the purposes of communicating between our team members and for the purposes of data storing
MongoDB Atlas, Linode, Heroku and Redis for the purposes of running our products and related databases – for example, if you set up a forum account, your data will be stored and maintained by Linode as our third party provider.
Steam, GOG, Humble, Shopify, PayPal for the purposes of selling our products and merch.
The Official Factorio wiki, where you can find useful info and gameplay tips. Wikimedia software does not collect much of your personal data, but your IP address will be recorded if you request an account. It has its own privacy policy here, which only applies if you register a Wiki account.
The Official Factorio forum. It only collects minimal data needed to serve the forum. It has its own privacy policy here, Which only applies if you register a Forum account.
CDN77, Cloudflare and jsDelivr to provide fast access to our websites for users all over the globe.
Our cooperating code developers and external team members and consultants.
External persons providing us with accounting and legal services.
WUBE SOFTWARE Ltd. odštěpný závod, registered with the Company register of the Czech Republic under no. 03594009 – our Czech branch.
It has been a while since I DNS-sniffed the Factorio binaries for external connections (approx version 1.1.70)... I guess I should do this again, since there is new behavior with the 2.0 family.
Thank you for reading.
