LEGAL
Privacy Policy
Effective: August 28, 2026
Black Keel Games (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This policy explains how information may be collected, used, disclosed, and protected when you visit blackkeelgames.com, contact us, or participate in a Black Keel Games playtest, including Fortune & Gallows.
1. Information We May Collect
Information you provide. If a feature asks you to create an account, sign in, contact us, submit feedback, or participate in a playtest, we may receive information such as your email address, account identifier, messages, feedback, bug reports, and information you intentionally submit.
Game and playtest information. A playtest may store character data, save data, choices, inventory, world state, settings, session state, feedback, and other information needed to operate, test, restore, or improve the game.
Technical information. We may collect limited operational information such as crash reports, error logs, failed requests, performance or generation latency, save/sync failures, device or browser information, and session duration.
Website information. Hosting providers may process ordinary web-request information such as IP address, browser details, request time, and pages requested for security and service operation.
2. How We Use Information
We may use information to provide and maintain our services; authenticate users; preserve game state; respond to inquiries and feedback; investigate bugs, abuse, security problems, or save failures; improve gameplay, reliability, historical accuracy, user experience, and performance; understand operating costs; and comply with legal obligations.
3. AI-Assisted Features
Fortune & Gallows may use artificial-intelligence services to generate or assist with narrative text, game responses, illustrations, or other dynamic content. Information from the current game context may be sent to service providers when reasonably necessary to provide those features. Players should not submit highly sensitive personal information through ordinary gameplay.
4. Service Providers
We may use providers for hosting, databases, authentication, email, diagnostics, AI services, payment processing, and distribution. Current development infrastructure may include providers such as Vercel and Supabase, and providers may change as development continues.
5. Sharing
We do not sell personal information. We may disclose information to service providers that help operate our services; when required by law or valid legal process; to protect rights, safety, security, and service integrity; or as part of a lawful business reorganization or transfer.
6. Playtest Data and Retention
Playtests are development environments. Saves, test accounts, logs, and other test data may be changed, reset, migrated, archived, or deleted as development requires. We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described here, subject to legal, security, backup, and operational needs.
7. Security
We use reasonable safeguards appropriate to an independent development studio. No online system is completely secure. Do not send passwords, financial information, government identifiers, medical information, or other highly sensitive information through gameplay or ordinary email unless specifically requested through an appropriate secure process.
8. Children
Our services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that such information has been collected, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
9. Requests
You may contact us to ask about personal information associated with you or request correction or deletion where appropriate. Some information may need to be retained for legal, security, fraud-prevention, backup, or legitimate operational reasons.
10. Changes
We may update this policy as the studio, games, and services develop. The effective date will be updated when material changes are published.
11. Contact
Black Keel Games
admin@blackkeelgames.com
blackkeelgames.com