Privacy Policy

Version: 2026.06.27

Effective date: 6/27/2026

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, game-creation tools, gameplay features, publishing flows, legal policy pages, and related services.

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 and session records, gameplay state, replay-like records, favorites, recently visited games, keybind settings, render settings, cosmetic settings, 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.

Telemetry and diagnostics: We collect event-level service telemetry, logs, errors, session, match, invite, publish, 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 MVP Launch Features

At MVP launch, Ember Tables does not operate paid cosmetics, paid subscriptions, Stripe checkout, 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.

Because those features are not active at MVP launch, we do not collect payment-card data, creator payout information, prize/tax forms, sponsor-reporting recipient data, paid marketplace transaction records, 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, and maintain product functionality.

These technologies may include browser storage values and service cookies used by infrastructure providers, authentication providers, hosting providers, database providers, edge/network 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. Product verification for MVP indicates that ad serving is gated or off by default rather than a general live paid-ad program.

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.

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, and integrity controls.

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, and support providers.

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.

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, 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.

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, or compliance purposes.

Some datasets are append-only or durable by design, such as policy acceptance ledgers and published-game 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.

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.

No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Children

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.

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.

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.

For MVP launch, Ember Tables does not treat paid marketplace, subscription, payout, prize, sponsor-reporting, or paid API/data practices as active business practices because those product surfaces are not live.

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 may process information in jurisdictions outside your state, province, or country. By using the Service, 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.