MSF Bench
MSF Bench · Last updated 18 October 2026
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MSF Bench is a roster planning tool for the game MARVEL Strike Force, run by Charlay Consulting Inc. This policy covers the site at msfbench.com and nothing else.
We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Scopely, Marvel, or The Walt Disney Company. Game data comes from Scopely’s public developer API, and MARVEL Strike Force and all character names and imagery are their respective owners’ property.
| What | Why we have it |
|---|---|
| Your email address | To create your account, sign you in, and contact you if something goes wrong with it. We do not send marketing email. |
| Your roster | Which characters you own and their star, gear and Iso-8 levels — either imported by you or, if you connect your account, read from Scopely’s API. This is what the planner works on. |
| Your ratings | Scores you give characters and squads, and any prices or notes you record. Used to build the community averages and to personalise your own rankings. |
| Visit counts | How many people visit, which site sent them, which tabs they open, and whether they pressed Sign in or Connect Scopely. Counted by Vercel Web Analytics without cookies: a visitor is recognised only by a code that resets every day, so no one can be followed across days or across websites. We never send it your roster, your ratings, your goals or anything you type. |
| How you first found us | If you make an account, we keep one note of how your very first visit arrived — the web address that linked you here, the page you landed on, and any tracking tags that were on the link. It is written once and never updated, we do not record anything about later visits, and it is deleted with your account. Nothing about where you went on the site, and no IP address or device fingerprint, is stored with it. This is the same information your browser hands to every website you open; we keep it only to answer “how are people finding this?”, which we currently cannot. |
| Days you used the site | If you are signed in, one entry per day you use the site — the date and nothing else — so we can count how many people come back. It is never shown to anyone and is deleted with your account. |
| Basic technical data | Standard server logs kept briefly for security and debugging — IP address, browser, pages requested. |
The site keeps a copy of your roster in your browser’s local storage so it loads quickly and keeps working if the connection drops. That copy never leaves your device except when it syncs to your account. Clearing your browser data removes it.
Your Scopely password. We never ask for it, we could not use it if you sent it, and there is no field anywhere on this site that would accept it. If you connect your game account you do so through Scopely’s own authorisation, and we only ever receive a token that lets us read your roster. Anyone asking you for your Scopely password while claiming to be us is not us.
We also do not collect payment details. Donations are not set up yet. If they ever are, they will run entirely on a third-party payment provider named here at the time, and we will never see or store your card details.
Only to run the site: to show you your roster, rank your build order, and calculate the community averages. Specifically, we do not:
Several of these are our own choice. Others are required of us by Scopely’s API Terms, which prohibit using their data for marketing or monetisation. Either way they hold.
When you rate a character or squad, that rating becomes part of a public average shown to everyone. Individual ratings are never published, never attributed to you, and never shown to another user. We display the average, the number of ratings behind it, and how much raters disagreed.
Ratings may be weighted by whether you own the character and how far you have developed them, because somebody who has actually built a character tends to know more about them. That weighting uses your roster and is never shown to anyone else.
Nobody buys it and nobody receives it for their own purposes. We use these services to run the site, and they process data only on our instructions:
We will disclose data if the law genuinely requires it, and we will tell you unless we are prohibited from doing so.
Character stats, traits, team memberships and anything else drawn from the game come from Scopely’s developer API. That data is provided to you “as is”, without warranty of any kind, consistent with the disclaimers in Scopely’s API Terms of Use. It can be wrong, it can be out of date, and it can change without notice.
Everything the planner concludes from it — build orders, rankings, readiness — is an opinion derived from that data plus our own scoring, not a statement of fact about the game. Do not treat it as authoritative.
If Scopely asks us to stop using their data, or ends our access, we will delete every copy of it we hold. That may mean parts of this site stop working.
One honest caveat about deletion. Ratings you have already contributed stay in the community averages, because they were never linked to you publicly and removing them would silently change scores other people rely on. When your account is deleted they are given a random identifier that nothing connects to you, so they cannot be traced back. If you would rather they were removed entirely, tick the box when you delete, or say so when you email, and we will do it.
Depending on where you live you may also have rights to object to or restrict processing, or to complain to a data protection authority. Email us and we will help.
Your account data stays until you delete it. The single note of how you first found us goes with it. Server logs are kept for 30 days and then discarded. Visit counts are aggregate figures held by Vercel for up to twelve months; the record of days you used the site goes when your account does. Deletion requests are actioned within 30 days, including from backups.
One exception, for storage and for security. If you have not signed in for twelve months, we may clear your imported roster and your saved Scopely connection. We do this by hand rather than automatically, so it will not happen the moment the year is up.
This is deliberately the least destructive thing we can do. Your account, your goals, your settings and every squad rating you contributed all survive it, and your roster is not lost — it came from Scopely, and one press of Import my roster now brings it back exactly as the game has it. We clear the stored Scopely connection at the same time because an access key belonging to someone who stopped playing a year ago is the most sensitive thing we hold and the least use to anyone.
Signing in resets the clock. We keep a record of every clearance we run, so this is a claim you could ask us to prove.
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is limited to what running the site requires, and your data is readable only by your own account. No system is perfectly secure, and we will not pretend otherwise.
If data is ever accessed or disclosed without authorisation, we will notify Scopely within 24 hours as their terms require, notify affected users promptly, and tell you plainly what happened and what to do about it.
We use a sign-in cookie to keep you logged in, and browser storage to cache your roster. No advertising cookies, no third-party trackers, nothing that follows you elsewhere.
We do count visits, using Vercel Web Analytics, which sets no cookies at all. It tells a new visitor from a returning one only within a single day, using a code derived from the request that is discarded at midnight — so it cannot build a history of you, and it cannot link your visit here to anything you do anywhere else. What it records is which pages and tabs were opened, which site you arrived from, your country, and whether you were on a phone or a computer. We see those only as totals.
This site is not directed at children under 13, or under the higher minimum age that applies where they live, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has given us information, email us and we will delete it.
If this policy changes in a way that affects what we do with your data, we will say so on the site and update the date at the top before the change takes effect. We will not quietly broaden what we collect.
Questions, requests or complaints: msfbench@gmail.com. A person reads it.