Summary: IronBone Games respects your privacy. We do not use tracking cookies, advertising beacons, or behavioral profiling tools. We use privacy-focused Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand aggregate website performance and visitor activity. When you contact us through our inquiry form or by email, we use the information you provide to respond to your inquiry, communicate about potential work, and maintain necessary business records. Our inquiry form is delivered by Brevo and protected from spam by Cloudflare Turnstile.
1. Who We Are
IronBone Games ("we", "our", or "us") is an independent game development studio providing game development, gameplay engineering, and prototyping services, and building our own 2D and 3D games. Our website is located at https://ironbone.games/.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or your data, you can reach us directly at contact@ironbone.games.
2. Cookieless & Tracker-Free Experience
We believe in a clean, privacy-respecting web experience:
- No Tracking Cookies: We do not use advertising cookies, profiling cookies, or tracking pixels on our website. Cloudflare Web Analytics operates without cookies.
- Privacy-Focused Analytics: We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand website performance and aggregate visitor activity. Cloudflare Web Analytics operates without cookies and, according to Cloudflare, does not collect or use visitors' personal data. We do not use advertising trackers, behavioral profiling tools, or cross-site tracking services
- Local Storage for Theme Preference: The only information
we ourselves store in your browser is a functional setting in your
browser's
localStoragenamedironbone-theme(which stores your preferred theme:lightordark). This preference never leaves your browser, does not track your activity, and contains no personally identifying information. - Spam Protection: Our homepage loads Cloudflare Turnstile to protect the inquiry form. Turnstile is a Cloudflare service, not an advertising or tracking tool, and is governed by Cloudflare's privacy policy and the Turnstile Privacy Addendum. See "Contact Form" below.
3. Information We Collect and How We Use It
Contact Form
When you submit our project inquiry form, we receive the name or company, email address, selected service and budget range, and project details you enter. We use this information for the same purposes as direct email described below.
- Delivery (Brevo): Your submission is sent to our inbox through Brevo, our email delivery provider. Brevo processes the message to deliver it and may keep delivery logs according to its own retention practices. We do not add you to any mailing list.
- Spam Protection (Cloudflare Turnstile): Turnstile evaluates technical signals from your browser to confirm the submission comes from a person. When you submit, your IP address and a one-time verification token are sent to Cloudflare to check the result. This information is used only for spam and abuse prevention. Cloudflare's processing of this data is described in the Cloudflare Turnstile Privacy Addendum.
Direct Email Communications
When you contact us directly via email at contact@ironbone.games, we receive your email address, name, and any information or attachments you choose to provide in your message. We use this information primarily for:
- Responding to your project inquiries, questions, or proposals, and related business communications.
- Conducting communications regarding game development services, prototyping, and technical design.
- Maintaining records of ongoing business relationships and agreements.
We will never sell, rent, or trade your contact information to third parties or marketing brokers.
Hosting & Technical Information
Our website is hosted and delivered through Cloudflare Pages. As part of providing, securing, and operating the website, Cloudflare may automatically process technical and network information associated with requests, which may include your IP address, browser or user-agent information, operating system information, and request timestamps. This technical information may be used for:
- Delivering website content and caching assets efficiently.
- Preventing malicious traffic, security threats, and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
- Monitoring infrastructure reliability and server uptime.
We do not use these technical logs to create advertising profiles or track your activity across unrelated websites. Retention of infrastructure logs is determined by the relevant service providers and their applicable retention practices.
4. External Links & Third-Party Platforms
Our portfolio includes links to external third-party services, such as playable builds on itch.io, social networks, or client or third-party platforms. If you click on an external link, you will be redirected to that third party's site.
Please note that we have no control over the privacy policies or practices of third-party platforms. We encourage you to review their respective policies when visiting external sites.
5. Data Retention & Security
We retain inquiry form submissions and email correspondence only as long as necessary to fulfill the business purposes for which it was received, or as required for legal and accounting purposes. We take reasonable administrative and technical precautions to protect your correspondence against unauthorized access, loss, or disclosure.
6. Your Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction (such as under the European Union's GDPR or the California Consumer Privacy Act / CCPA), you may have specific rights regarding your personal data. These may include:
- Right of Access: The right to request copies of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification: The right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete contact details.
- Right to Erasure: The right to request deletion of personal data we hold about you, subject to applicable legal, contractual, and recordkeeping requirements.
- Other Rights: Depending on your jurisdiction and circumstances, you may also have additional rights, such as the right to restrict or object to certain processing, or the right to data portability.
To exercise applicable rights, contact us at contact@ironbone.games. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.
7. Changes to This Policy
We may periodically update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our studio operations or applicable legal requirements. Any updates will be posted to this page with an updated revision date.
8. Contact Information
For any privacy inquiries or data requests, please contact:
- Studio: IronBone Games
- Email: contact@ironbone.games
- Website: https://ironbone.games/