Privacy Policy — Coldmarch

01Who we are

In short: one small studio, one person, easy to reach.

Odd Little Games (sole trader) runs Coldmarch and the site at coldmarch.com. For anything about your information, we are the “data controller,” and you can reach us any time at [email protected].

02What we collect

In short: what you choose to send us, plus basic, mostly-anonymous visit data.

Things you give us

If you email us, join a mailing list, post in our community, or support us, we get whatever you send: your email address, a username or handle, and the content of your messages. You only share these if you choose to.

Things collected automatically

When you visit, our host and analytics may record standard technical data such as your rough location (from your IP address), browser and device type, and which pages you viewed. This helps us keep the site up and understand what people play.

Things from other services

If you reach us through Patreon, Discord, Bluesky, or YouTube, those platforms may pass on limited profile details you’ve made available to them (for example, your handle and support tier). We don’t receive your payment card details — those stay with the platform.

03Cookies & analytics

In short: no ad tracking; light, privacy-friendly analytics at most.

Coldmarch is small and mostly runs in your browser, so we keep tracking minimal. We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are popular. We don’t run advertising cookies and we don’t build profiles of you across other sites.

If your browser stores anything from us, it’s used to remember basic preferences or to make the site work — not to follow you around the web. You can clear or block cookies in your browser settings at any time.

04How we use it

In short: to run the site, reply to you, and improve the game.

We use your information to run and secure the site and game, to reply when you get in touch, to send updates you’ve asked for, to understand how Coldmarch is used so we can make it better, and to meet our legal obligations.

Under UK and EU data-protection law we rely on: your consent (for things like a mailing list, which you can withdraw any time); our legitimate interests in running a small studio and keeping it secure; and legal obligation where a law requires us to keep certain records.

05Who we share it with

In short: a handful of trusted service providers, and no one who’d sell it.

We don’t sell your information. We share it only with the services that help us operate, and only as far as needed:

Hosting — our static host serves the site and processes standard request logs.
Analytics — Google Analytics, to count and understand visits.
Community & support — Patreon and Discord, when you choose to use them, under their own privacy policies.
Email — a mailing or inbox provider if you write to us or subscribe.

We may also share information if the law requires it, or to protect the studio’s or others’ rights and safety.

06How long we keep it

In short: only as long as it’s useful, then we delete it.

We keep information only for as long as we need it for the purpose we collected it, or as long as the law requires. Analytics data is kept in aggregate; emails and messages are kept while our conversation is live and for a reasonable period after. Ask us to delete your data and we will, unless we’re legally required to keep it.

07Your rights

In short: you can see, correct, or delete what we hold, and complain if we get it wrong.

If you’re in the UK or EU, you have the right to access the information we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict or object to how we use it, to move it elsewhere, and to withdraw consent at any time. To use any of these, email [email protected] and we’ll respond within the time the law allows.

If you think we’ve handled your data poorly, you can complain to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk (or your local data-protection authority).

08Children

In short: the site isn’t aimed at young children, and we don’t knowingly collect their data.

Coldmarch and its sign-up features are intended for people aged 13 and over. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under that age. If you’re a parent or guardian and believe a child has sent us their information, email [email protected] and we’ll delete it.

09International transfers

In short: some providers are abroad; we expect appropriate safeguards.

Some of the services we use may store data outside the UK or your country. Where that happens, we rely on those providers using recognised safeguards (such as standard contractual clauses) to protect your information to a comparable standard.

10Security

In short: we take sensible care, but no site is perfectly secure.

We take reasonable steps to protect the limited information we hold, including serving the site over HTTPS and limiting who can access it. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, so we can’t guarantee absolute security.

11Changes to this policy

In short: if it changes, we update the date at the top.

We’ll update this page when our practices change and revise the effective date. For significant changes we’ll try to give a clearer heads-up through the site or our channels.

12Contact

In short: one email reaches us for anything on this page.

Questions, requests, or corrections: [email protected].