PRIVACY POLICY

The Shocking Truth

In a stunning departure from industry norms, Morally Bankrupt Game Studios has decided not to harvest your personal data for profit. We know, we’re disappointed too. It turns out that building comprehensive surveillance infrastructure is actually quite expensive, and frankly, we’d rather spend that money on executive bonuses.

Analytics

This website uses Rybbit, a privacy-focused analytics service. We chose Rybbit because it lets us see how many people visit our site without us having to find out any unpleasant details about them as individuals. This suits us perfectly, as we like to maintain a healthy separation from the general public.

What Rybbit collects:

• Page views - We can see which pages are popular.
• Referrer - Where you came from, i.e. the link you clicked to get here.
• Browser and device type - Whether you’re on desktop or mobile, or something in-between.
• Country - Derived from your IP address, but the IP itself is immediately discarded.

What Rybbit does NOT collect:

• No cookies - Not even the delicious kind.
• No personal information - We don’t know who you are, and honestly, we prefer it that way.
• No IP addresses stored - They’re just a bunch of boring numbers anyway.
• No cross-site tracking - We cannot stress enough that we really don’t want to know where you go after you leave this site.
• No user profiles - You’re just a number to us. A beautiful, anonymous number.

Because Rybbit doesn’t use cookies, and we don’t use any ourselves, we don’t need one of those annoying consent banners.

Even if we did have cookies we wouldn’t share them with the likes of you.

Mailing List

If your mental faculties lapse so majorly that you choose to subscribe to our mailing list (sorry in advance), we collect some actual personal data through Brevo, our newsletter platform.

What we collect:

• Your email address - Well, duh.
• Your IP address at sign-up - We store this because some countries require us to. It proves that you did, in fact, decide to opt in to our mailing list.

Where your data lives:

Brevo (Sendinblue SAS) hosts and manages the mailing list and sends the emails for us. By submitting the newsletter form, your data is transferred to Brevo for processing under their systems and policies.

Brevo’s privacy policy lives here: https://www.brevo.com/en/legal/privacypolicy/.

Brevo may process data in the UK/EU and, depending on infrastructure, other countries. They handle transfer safeguards under their own legal terms.

Newsletter analytics settings:

We’ve configured Brevo to anonymise newsletter analytics. That means we can see generally how many people read the newsletter, or click links, but we can’t see exactly which specific person viewed or clicked which things. Again, we don’t want to know what you click on.

Your rights:

Under GDPR, you have the right to:

• Unsubscribe at any time (there’s a link in every email, we promise).
• Request access to the data we hold about you.
• Request deletion of your data from our systems.
• Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you think we’ve done something dodgy (an entirely understandable assumption).

To exercise any of these rights, contact us. If we’re sufficiently concerned about the legal consequences of not doing so, we’ll help you out.

CAPTCHA

Our newsletter form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to help separate humans from bot swarms, since apparently computers are desperate to read our fascinating updates.

When Turnstile runs, Cloudflare may process technical/network data (such as IP address, browser/device signals, and challenge results) to make that call.

We use Turnstile for security and spam prevention only, not for ad profiling or behavioural stalking.

Cloudflare’s privacy policy lives here: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/.

Ko-fi Support Payments

The support page links out to Ko-fi for one-off and recurring support. Ko-fi handles the payment process, cancellation tooling, supporter account features, receipts, and any payment details you provide there. MBGS does not process card details on this website.

If you support MBGS through Ko-fi, Ko-fi may provide us with supporter information needed to understand and manage that support, such as your display name, email address, support amount, support status, and messages you choose to send. We use that information for support administration, supporter-only Ko-fi posts where applicable, and basic records of people who voluntarily helped keep this questionable institution alive.

Ko-fi’s privacy policy lives here: https://more.ko-fi.com/privacy.

Contact and Social Links

If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever information you choose to include. This is dangerous because you are trusting us with prose, but administratively unavoidable.

Our website also links to external services such as X, Bluesky, and Ko-fi. These platforms have their own privacy policies, which are almost certainly longer and more impressive than ours.

Questions/Concerns?

If you have questions about this privacy policy, feel free to contact us.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy occasionally. If we ever work up the energy to start actually harvesting your data, we’ll be sure to update this page. Don’t hold your breath.