Privacy Policy

📦 What Gets Collected

This site may collect the following:

• Email address, only if you choose to sign up for the dispatch list (devlog posts, game updates, release news). Entirely optional. No email, no problem.
• Basic server/access logs, if you visit the site, the web server may record standard technical data like your IP address, browser type, and which pages were requested. This is typical of any web server and isn't linked to your identity.

This site does not use tracking pixels, behavioural advertising, or third-party analytics scripts that follow you around the web. We don't run ads.

🎮 The Games Themselves

Everything above is about this website. The games are a different story, and a shorter one: Gobs & Gears collects nothing about you.

There are no accounts, no logins, no analytics, no ads, no tracking, and no third-party SDKs bolted onto the game. We don't know who you are, what you built, how long you played, or whether your factory exploded. (It probably exploded.)

Your save files, settings and logs are written to your own device, in the standard application-data folder your operating system provides, and they stay there. We never receive them. Deleting the game deletes them. There is no cloud save and nothing is uploaded anywhere.

• Mac App Store and iOS versions: these use Apple's Game Center for achievements. If you're signed in to Game Center, the game reports achievement progress to Apple so it shows up on your Game Center profile. That exchange is between you and Apple, handled under Apple's own privacy policy, and we never see it. We don't receive your name, your email, your Apple Account, or any identifier for you. If you're not signed in to Game Center, progress is simply tracked locally on your device. Apart from Game Center, these builds send nothing anywhere.
• Steam and direct-download versions: these include an optional in-game bug reporter. It does nothing unless you choose to file a report. If you do, it sends what the dialog tells you it's sending, a screenshot, your save file, and the game's log files, to our own relay server so we can reproduce the problem. That's it. It never fires on its own, never runs in the background, and sends nothing if you never touch it. Bug reports are used to fix bugs and nothing else.

No part of any game version is directed at collecting information from children, because no part of it collects information from anyone.

⚙ Why It's Collected

• Email address: To send you the updates you asked for, devlog dispatches, new game announcements, release milestones.
• Server logs: For basic security monitoring and debugging. These are not used for marketing.

You won't receive anything you didn't sign up for. Signing up for the dispatch list means you've given explicit consent to receive those updates, consistent with Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL).

📬 How It's Used

Your email is used only to send you GOBLINTEK updates. It won't be sold, rented, traded, or shared with third parties for their own marketing purposes. Ever.

Emails are sent directly from our own server (goblintek.dev) using our own mail infrastructure. We do not use third-party email marketing services. Your email address is stored only on our own systems and is never shared with external providers.

🚪 Unsubscribing

Every email sent through the dispatch list includes an unsubscribe link at the bottom. Click it and you're off the list immediately, no hoops, no "are you sure?" guilt trip.

You can also send an unsubscribe request directly to support@goblintek.dev and it'll be handled promptly.

🔧 Your Rights (Canada / General)

If you're in Canada, you have rights under PIPEDA and CASL including the right to access the personal information held about you and to request its correction or deletion. Since the only data collected is your email address, this is straightforward: just send a message and it'll be sorted out.

If you're elsewhere in the world (EU, UK, etc.), similar principles apply, this site tries to handle data responsibly regardless of jurisdiction.

📡 Questions & Contact

If you have questions about this policy, want to know what information is held about you, or want it deleted, reach out directly:

Email: support@goblintek.dev
Studio: GOBLINTEK (Canada)

📅 Updates to This Policy

This policy may be updated from time to time, for example, when an email service is added or changed, or if new features are introduced to the site. Changes will be reflected here with an updated effective date. Nothing sneaky.

If you have questions about any changes, you know where to find us.