Privacy & imprint

This page exists because the site can collect an email address. It says who is collecting it, what happens to it, and how to make it stop.

Who is responsible

Controller
Mark Solar, Tscharnerstrasse 16, 3007 Bern, Switzerland
Contact
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Project
Astral Polity, a video game in development. The project also keeps pages on Discord, YouTube and Patreon; each of those is run by that company under its own terms.

There is no data protection officer. The project is one person and does not meet the threshold that would require one.

What is collected, and what is not

One thing: an email address, and only if you type it in yourself.

What the sign-up stores, once you use it: your address; the time you asked, confirmed and (if ever) unsubscribed; the wording you agreed to; which page you came from; a shortened browser string; and your IP address as a one-way hash — the raw address is never written down. It is kept in a plain file on this site’s own server in Switzerland, not in a third-party system, and the unsubscribe link in every mail removes you in one click. The contact form stores nothing at all: it forwards your message to our mailbox and keeps no copy on the server.

Why, and on what legal basis

If you subscribe, the address is used to send development updates about this game and nothing else. The basis is consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a); FADP Art. 6). You give it by asking to join and you withdraw it whenever you like, without giving a reason: every mail from us carries a one-click unsubscribe link, starting with the very first one, and a line to our contact address does the same by hand.

The address is never sold, rented, shared for anyone else's marketing, or used to build a profile. There is no automated decision-making and no advertising of any kind.

Who else sees it

Your address goes to this site’s own server and stops there. The sign-up posts it to this domain, which is hosted by hosttech AG in Switzerland — our processor, on documented instructions. The list is a plain file on that server, not a third-party system, and no analytics or advertising company is involved at any point.

The confirmation mail, the welcome mail and the unsubscribe link are sent by that same server. Nothing is shared with a newsletter company today. When the development log begins going out as a proper mailing list it will be sent through MailerLite (UAB MailerLite, Lithuania, European Union), acting as a processor with the list held inside the EU — and this page will say so, with the date, before the first issue is sent.

This site links out to Discord, YouTube and Patreon. Those links load nothing here and tell those companies nothing about your visit, but once you follow one, that service’s own terms and privacy notice apply.

How long it is kept

Until you unsubscribe, or until the list is shut down, whichever comes first. Unsubscribing takes one click, needs no reason, and is recorded so that the address cannot be added again by mistake.

If you never confirm, nothing is ever sent to that address and the entry is deleted the next time the list is cleaned. If the project ends, the list is deleted rather than sold, transferred or handed on. A message written to the list address or the contact address stays in that mailbox until it is answered and cleared.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of what is held, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or withdrawal of consent, and none of it costs anything or requires a reason. Write to our contact address and you get an answer within 30 days. If the answer is unsatisfactory you may complain to the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), or to your own national supervisory authority if you are in the EU/EEA.

Children

This site is not directed at children and the list is not knowingly used to collect addresses from them.

Changes

If this notice changes materially, the change is announced in the development log rather than made quietly. The date below is the last revision.

Last revised 21 September 2026 back to the site