Privacy Policy

Last updated · June 2026 · Pre-release draft

1. The short version

We collect as little as possible, sell none of it, and use it only to build and run Aethel Online. If a sentence below ever conflicts with this one, this one wins.

2. What we collect

• Newsletter signup: your email address, used to send the monthly dev letter and your alpha invitation. Nothing else.
• This website: standard server logs (IP address, pages requested) kept briefly for security and capacity planning. No advertising trackers, no third-party analytics, no cookies beyond what the site strictly needs to function.
• The game (once live): account details, characters and progression, and technical logs needed to run a persistent world and investigate cheating.

3. What we never do

• Sell or rent your personal data. To anyone. Ever.
• Send marketing for anything other than Aethel Online.
• Keep data longer than the purpose it was collected for.

4. Who else touches the data

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, which processes requests to serve these pages, and fonts are loaded from Google Fonts. Both receive standard request data (such as your IP address) as part of delivering content. The newsletter, once wired up, will use a reputable email provider under a data-processing agreement.

5. Your rights

You can ask for a copy of the data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it — including unsubscribing from the alpha list at any time via the link in every letter. Send a raven and a human will handle it.

6. Children

The site and game are not directed at children under 13 (or the digital-consent age in your country), and we do not knowingly collect their data. If that has happened, contact us and we will delete it.

7. Changes to this policy

Updates will be announced in the dev letter and on this page before they take effect. The "last updated" line above always tells you the current version.