Privacy Policy
Version: 2026.07.01
Effective date: 1.07.2026
Scope
This Privacy Policy explains how Andrew Ruiz, doing business as Ember Tables (“Ember Tables,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), collects, uses, stores, and discloses information when you use our website, APIs, legal policy pages, game-creation tools, gameplay features, publishing flows, Founder Lifetime Membership checkout, and related services (collectively, the “Service”).
This policy is part of the Policies incorporated into the Terms of Service.
Information We Collect
Account and identity data: If you create an account, we collect account identifiers such as your user ID and authentication-linked email address.
Gameplay and product data: We store drafts, published game configurations, match or replay-like records, favorites, recently visited games, keybind settings, render settings, cosmetic settings, Founder Number and Founder Membership entitlement state, and other settings needed to operate Service features.
Published-game and public metadata: Published game configurations and associated public or user-visible metadata may be displayed, indexed, recommended, forked, remixed, played, streamed, discussed, and analyzed under platform rules.
Legal acceptance records: When policy acceptance is required, we store policy slug, policy version, content hash or equivalent record identifier, acceptance timestamp, and acceptance context.
Publish-flow confirmations: For publish flows, acceptance context may include confirmations such as age-18-or-older, rights-transfer acknowledgement, irreversibility acknowledgement, and electronic-agreement confirmation.
Founder Membership and payment records: If you buy a Founder Lifetime Membership, Stripe processes payment details through Stripe-hosted Checkout. Ember Tables does not directly store full card numbers. We may store Stripe customer IDs, checkout session IDs, payment intent IDs, webhook event IDs or payloads, order records, Founder Number and slot records, entitlement records, user ID snapshots, email snapshots, refund records, dispute or chargeback records, fraud-review records, and support records needed for fulfillment, accounting, support recovery, fraud prevention, dispute handling, and legal compliance.
Telemetry and diagnostics: We collect event-level service telemetry, logs, errors, session, match, invite, publish, checkout, seat, and lifecycle events to operate, secure, debug, and improve the Service.
Network and device metadata: We may process IP address, user-agent, request, security, and integrity metadata. In some ledgers or logs we may store hashed or otherwise transformed forms of this metadata.
Local browser storage: We store local values such as anonymous identifiers, locale preferences, guest-mode preferences, editor/runtime convenience caches, and product settings in your browser.
Information Not Collected for Features We Do Not Currently Operate
Other than the limited Founder Lifetime Membership checkout, Ember Tables does not currently operate paid cosmetics, recurring paid subscriptions, public creator marketplace sales, creator payouts, prize payments, platform-collected event entry fees, paid event tools, paid API/data products, sponsor-reporting systems, or first-party tournament tooling unless a separate feature or written agreement says otherwise.
Because those features are not currently active, we do not collect creator payout information, prize/tax forms, sponsor-reporting recipient data, paid marketplace transaction records, recurring paid subscription records, or first-party event registration/payment records for those features.
If we later offer those features, we will update this Privacy Policy or provide additional notices as appropriate before or when those data practices begin.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our service providers use cookies, local storage, and similar technologies to operate authentication and session flows, remember preferences, provide security controls, debug issues, measure reliability, maintain product functionality, and support checkout or payment-related security where applicable.
These technologies may include browser storage values and service cookies used by infrastructure providers, authentication providers, hosting providers, database providers, edge/network providers, payment providers, or similar vendors.
You can control some local storage and cookie behavior through your browser settings, but disabling required technologies may prevent parts of the Service from working.
Advertising and Privacy Choices
Ember Tables may include advertising or ad-service integrations only when those features are enabled. Ember Tables does not currently operate a general live paid-ad program unless ad serving is separately enabled.
If ad serving is enabled, advertising providers and their partners may use cookies or similar technologies for ad delivery, measurement, and personalization where permitted by law.
Founder Lifetime Membership includes an account-level ad-free benefit as described in the Founder Lifetime Membership Terms. We may process account entitlement state to decide whether to show third-party display ads to a signed-in Founder account.
You can manage available privacy choices at `/privacy-choices`. If we do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined by applicable law, we may state that instead of offering an opt-out for practices we do not conduct.
How We Use Information
We use information to provide, operate, maintain, secure, debug, and improve the Service, including account functions, gameplay, publishing, policy acceptance, forking/remixing, preferences, personalization, discovery, recommendations, checkout, Founder Membership fulfillment, entitlement integrity, and integrity controls.
We use payment and Founder Membership records to process and fulfill purchases, associate Founder Numbers with accounts, handle refunds, disputes, chargebacks, fraud review, support recovery, accounting, tax, legal compliance, and entitlement-integrity issues.
We use information for fraud, abuse, security, legal, compliance, reliability, incident response, enforcement, and dispute-resolution purposes.
We use aggregated, de-identified, or event-level analytics to understand product usage, service health, feature reliability, and platform integrity.
How We Disclose Information
Service providers: We disclose information to vendors and infrastructure providers that process information on our behalf to operate the Service, such as hosting, database, authentication, edge/network, logging, security, support, and payment providers.
Stripe and payments: For Founder Lifetime Membership checkout, Stripe processes payment details and related transaction information. Ember Tables may receive or store Stripe identifiers, payment status, order, entitlement, refund, dispute, and webhook information needed to fulfill and support the purchase.
Public and user-visible surfaces: Published game configurations and associated public metadata are intended for public discovery, play, forking, remixing, streaming, discussion, analysis, and platform features under applicable policies. Founder Number, badge, profile, or similar recognition features may become public or user-visible when those features are released.
Legal, safety, and enforcement disclosures: We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, legal process, rights requests, policy enforcement, security, abuse prevention, fraud review, payment disputes, chargeback handling, or protection of users, Ember Tables, or others.
Business transfers: We may transfer information as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, change of control, or transfer to a successor operator, subject to applicable law. This may include account, policy-acceptance, published-game, payment, order, entitlement, and Founder Membership records needed to continue the Service.
Future commercial programs: If we later offer paid features, marketplaces, event products, sponsor reporting, API/data products, or similar programs, disclosures tied to those programs will be described in updated terms, privacy notices, or feature-specific disclosures.
Retention
We retain information for as long as needed to provide the Service, satisfy legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, maintain security and integrity, and preserve records needed for policy acceptance, publishing, DMCA, audit, payment, accounting, tax, fraud, support, or compliance purposes.
Some datasets are append-only or durable by design, such as policy acceptance ledgers, published-game records, payment/order/entitlement records, and Founder Membership records. Some operational datasets may be pruned, rotated, aggregated, or retained under operational schedules.
Published game configurations may remain public after account deletion or account closure, subject to the Published Game Configuration Terms and legal, safety, integrity, or operational removal authority.
If you delete your account, we may retain payment, order, refund, dispute, fraud, support, entitlement, and Founder Number records as needed for accounting, tax, fraud prevention, dispute handling, legal compliance, support recovery, and entitlement-integrity purposes. Account deletion does not require Ember Tables to return a Founder Number to available inventory.
Local browser storage remains on your device until you clear it, overwrite it, or remove it through product or browser controls.
Security
We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Founder Lifetime Membership payments use Stripe-hosted Checkout. Ember Tables does not directly store full card numbers, but no system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Children and Minors
The Service is not directed to children under 13, and users under 13 may not use the Service.
If we become aware that we collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate authorization, we will take steps to delete that information as required by law.
Publishing is limited to users who confirm they are at least 18 years old.
Founder Lifetime Membership purchases must be completed by a purchaser who is at least 18 years old and legally authorized to complete the purchase, or by the parent or legal guardian completing the purchase for the Ember Tables account user.
Your Choices and Rights
You may control certain information through account settings and in-product controls, such as preference settings and local browser data controls.
You may control available ad or privacy preferences for the current browser or device at `/privacy-choices` where those choices are offered.
You may request access, correction, deletion, or other privacy rights where provided by applicable law by contacting us at contact@embertables.com.
Some records may be retained after an account-deletion or privacy request where permitted or required for legal compliance, accounting, tax, fraud prevention, security, dispute handling, chargeback handling, support recovery, published-game integrity, policy acceptance, entitlement integrity, or other legitimate purposes.
You can clear local browser storage in your browser settings, which may remove guest-mode preferences and cached state.
California and Regional Notices
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, port, limit, object to, or opt out of certain uses or disclosures of personal information.
The Founder Lifetime Membership checkout is a first-party Ember Tables purchase processed through Stripe. Ember Tables does not currently treat paid marketplace, recurring subscription, payout, prize, sponsor-reporting, or paid API/data practices as active business practices unless those product surfaces are separately launched.
If our practices change in a way that requires additional privacy notices, opt-out links, consent flows, or regional disclosures, we will update this Privacy Policy or provide additional notices as required.
International Processing
We and our service providers, including infrastructure and payment providers, may process information in jurisdictions outside your state, province, or country. By using the Service or completing a purchase, you understand that your information may be transferred to and processed in those locations, subject to applicable law.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice and, where required, request renewed acceptance before continued use of certain features.
The current version and effective date are shown on the legal policy page.
Contact
Questions or requests about this Privacy Policy can be sent to contact@embertables.com.