Privacy Policy

Made You a Game is run by Operator details to be added. Operator details to be added decides how your data is used on this site and is responsible for it (the "controller"). Postal address: Address to be added. For anything on this page, write to support@gamecraft.invalid.

When you buy a gift: your email address, so we can send you the gift link and let you come back to the gift.

If you create an account: your name, your email address and a hash of your password (never the password itself). If you sign in with Google, Google tells us your name, email address and profile picture.

What you put in a gift: your name and the recipient's, your messages, the photos and sound recordings you upload, and the choices you make while personalizing it.

If you schedule the gift to be emailed: the recipient's email address and the date you chose.

If you invite others to sign the gift: each signer's name, their line and the photo they add.

When the gift is opened: we note when the recipient first opens it, how many times it is opened, and when they reach the end, and we tell you by email. We do not record who opened it.

Technical information: our server sees each visitor's IP address and browser details with every request. To limit abuse, IP addresses are held only in the server's memory, never in our database: each is forgotten within 70 minutes of the last request from it, and all of them when the server restarts. Our hosting provider, Microsoft Azure, may keep standard server logs.

We use only the cookies the site needs: the sign-in cookies, which keep you signed in and protect the sign-in form, and one that lets a guest buyer return to their gift from the same browser for up to 30 days. We use no advertising or analytics cookies.

Your browser also keeps a few things on your device only: a draft of the gift while you fill it in, whether the recipient has already reached the end (so the link reopens on the keepsake), what a signer wrote, and your colour theme.

One game can listen through the microphone if the player chooses to blow out candles for real. The sound is handled on the device and never sent to us.

We use this information to make your gift, show it at its link, let you change or delete it, send the emails about it, help you when you ask, and keep the service secure. We do not sell your data, and we use your photos and words only for your gift.

When checkout is clearly labeled as demo mode, no real payment is collected. If live payments are enabled later, the payment provider processes card details; Made You a Game does not need to store your full card number.

When a game puts a face on its hero, each face photo you upload is sent through OpenRouter (openrouter.ai) to an image model made by Google, which cuts out the head. The cut-out is stored with the gift, and the original photo is deleted once the cut-out is made.

Only upload a photo of someone you are sure would be happy for you to use it in a gift.

Microsoft Azure hosts the site and stores the database and the uploaded files, in its data centres in France.

OpenRouter and Google receive face photos to make the cut-out described above.

Resend sends our emails, so it receives the address each email goes to and what it says.

Google Fonts: the pages and the games load their fonts from Google's servers, which see the visitor's IP address and browser details.

Google, if you choose to sign in with it.

Some of these companies are based in the United States, so your data may be processed there. Only the people who run Made You a Game can see a gift's details in our admin tools, and only to support you and keep the service working.

Published gifts are designed to be shared by link. Anyone who receives that link may be able to play the game and see the names, messages, and images included in it. Treat the link as shareable content and avoid adding confidential or sensitive information.

A gift you have paid for stays until you delete it, and its link stays online for at least a year from the day it is created.

A gift that is started but never paid for is deleted, with its files and emails, after it has gone unchanged for a day if no checkout was ever started for it, or for 30 days if one was.

Deleting a gift removes it from the site at once: its record, the signers' notes, every photo and processed picture, and our copies of the emails about it, so none still waiting is sent. The link stops working.

Our backups keep a copy for a short time after that, only to recover from a failure: the database's backups for 7 days and the files' for 14 days. Then the copies are erased.

When a photo is uploaded, we remove its hidden details such as GPS location and camera information (GIF animations, which carry none, are kept as sent). Original face photos are deleted once the face has been cut out.

Your account stays until you ask us to delete it.

We use your data to provide the gift you ordered (a contract with you), to keep the service secure, prevent misuse and tell you when your gift has been opened (our legitimate interests), and where the law requires us to keep records (a legal obligation).

The names, messages and photos of other people that you put in a gift are used only to make and show that gift, which is your and our legitimate interest. Please add them only when you are sure the people concerned would be happy with it.

You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, ask us to restrict or stop using it, and ask to receive it in a portable format. You can also change or delete a gift yourself at any time.

To use any of these rights, or to have something removed from a gift you appear in or signed, write to support@gamecraft.invalid with the gift link or the email address you used. We answer within one month.

If you think we have handled your data wrongly, you can complain to the data protection authority where you live or work.