TownScryer Privacy Policy
Effective Date: April 29, 2026
1. Introduction
At Toadstool Labs LLC ("Toadstool Labs", "we", "us", "our"), we provide Town Scryer, including AI-assisted story tools, memberships, token purchases, support, marketing pages, and physical mailed products. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and when we share it.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
- Account and Contact Information: Information such as your name, email address, account settings, marketing email preference, support messages, and other contact details you provide.
- Order and Fulfillment Information: Information needed to process purchases and deliver physical mailed goods, including product selections, transaction records, shipping details, billing details, and related checkout metadata.
- Game and Generated Content: Content you create, submit, or receive through Town Scryer, including prompts, story actions, characters, campaign settings, generated text, generated images, play-by-mail investigator names, traits, portraits, locations, theories, classifications, letters, and other game materials.
- Usage and Device Information: Information about your interactions with our services, including log data, referrer, pages visited, feature usage, approximate location derived from network information, IP address, browser, device, and user agent information.
- Marketing and Analytics Information: Information about visits, checkout starts, purchases, ad or campaign attribution, and similar events used to understand and improve our business.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide, maintain, personalize, and improve Town Scryer.
- Generate, classify, summarize, and deliver story and play-by-mail content.
- Process transactions, manage subscriptions and tokens, fulfill physical mailed goods, and send related information.
- Communicate with you, including service-related updates, support responses, and promotional materials where permitted.
- Analyze usage trends and enhance user experience.
- Protect against spam, abuse, fraud, security incidents, and violations of our Terms of Service.
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our rights.
4. AI Providers
Town Scryer uses AI model providers to operate core features. User-submitted and generated game content may be sent to providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and other model providers to generate, classify, summarize, or improve the in-app experience. We use these providers to provide the service; their processing is also subject to their applicable terms and policies.
5. Sharing of Information
We share information only as needed to operate, secure, improve, market, and comply with legal obligations for Town Scryer. This may include sharing information with:
- Payment Processors: Stripe and related payment services for checkout, billing, taxes, fraud prevention, and payment records.
- Shipping and Fulfillment Providers: Postal, shipping, printing, and fulfillment partners for physical mailed goods.
- AI Providers: Model providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers used to generate or process game content.
- Email and Support Providers: Services used to send account, support, transactional, internal notification, and marketing email.
- Analytics and Advertising Providers: Services including Meta and other platforms used for measurement, attribution, and advertising. These services may receive event data such as checkout starts, purchases, and related browser or device information.
- Security, Hosting, and Infrastructure Providers: Services used for hosting, logging, monitoring, spam prevention, anti-abuse checks, and security, including services such as Cloudflare Turnstile.
- Legal and Compliance Recipients: Authorities, advisors, or other parties where required by law, to protect rights, or to complete a business transaction involving Toadstool Labs.
We do not sell personal information for money. Some privacy laws may define certain advertising or analytics disclosures as a "sale," "share," or use for targeted advertising. You may contact us to ask about available choices.
6. Data Retention
We retain information as long as reasonably necessary to provide the services, fulfill purchases, maintain records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, comply with law, and improve Town Scryer. Generated story content, campaign settings, play-by-mail sessions, investigator setup, weekly theories, classifications, generated letters, purchases, reservations, and event records may be retained while needed for gameplay, fulfillment, support, analytics, and business records. Payment, billing, and shipping information held by Stripe or fulfillment providers is retained under their own policies.
7. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure.
8. Children
Town Scryer is intended for users who are at least 18 years old. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
9. Your Rights and Choices
You may ask to access, correct, or delete personal information, or to opt out of marketing emails and certain advertising or analytics uses where applicable. To make a request, contact us at hello@townscryer.com. We may need to verify your request and may retain information where permitted or required by law.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of significant changes by posting the new policy on our website and updating the effective date.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at: hello@townscryer.com.