When an account is registered, PAL records the estimated country associated with the registration request as a two-letter ISO country code, for example HU, DE or AT. This is country-level information only: it is not GPS location data and cannot identify an exact address or location.
The code is supplied server-side by Vercel, PAL's production hosting and content-delivery infrastructure, while the registration request is technically processed. For this country-determination purpose, PAL stores only the resulting country code in Supabase and does not store the user's full IP address in its database. Vercel, security services or technical logs may process IP addresses for their own hosting, delivery or security purposes as described elsewhere in this Policy and in the provider's documentation.
PAL uses the code for service administration; player support and customer assistance; analysis of PAL language use and country-level reach; country-level and, where possible, aggregated evaluation of registration sources and marketing campaigns; and improvement of the Service and the relevance of communications.
The code is a technical estimate and may differ from actual residence or location because of a VPN, proxy, Tor, a mobile or corporate network, inaccuracies in the provider's geolocation database, or a missing or invalid infrastructure header. PAL stores no assumed country when the value is missing, invalid, XX or the Tor value T1; it remains Unknown. PAL does not retrospectively infer a country for older accounts without reliable registration-time evidence.
