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Privacy Policy
What we collect, why, and how to ask for your data. We keep it to what the games need, and we do not sell it.
Last updated October 27, 2026
Lakeside Games is a small independent studio. This policy explains what data we hold when you use our website, our games (A House Divided, Corporate Warfare, and Grand Century), and Ask, our question-answering assistant, and what we do with it.
What we collect
- Account details. Your email address and username when you make a Lakeside account.
- Linked logins. If you sign in with Discord or Google, we receive a basic profile and email from them so we can connect it to your account. We do not get your password.
- Patreon supporter status. If you support us on Patreon, we match your Patreon email to your account so you get supporter perks. We only use it to confirm your supporter status.
- Payment data. Purchases are processed by Stripe. Stripe handles your card details. We never see or store your card numbers. We keep a record that a purchase happened and what it was for.
- Basic analytics. Standard usage information such as pages visited and general activity, so we can see what is working and fix what is not.
- In-game data. The choices and progress you make while playing, which is how the games work.
How we use it
We use this data to run your account, run the games, process purchases, confirm Patreon supporter status, answer your messages, keep things secure, and understand how the games are used so we can improve them. We do not use it for anything unrelated to running Lakeside Games.
We do not sell your data
We do not sell your data and we do not trade it. We share it only with the services we need to operate: Stripe for payments, login providers like Discord and Google when you choose to link them, and the AI providers listed below when you use Ask. Those services handle your data under their own policies.
Ask and AI providers
Ask answers questions about how our games work. When you ask a question, we send the text you typed, the earlier turns of that conversation, and the game code and documentation Ask pulled in to answer you, to one of these AI providers:
- DeepSeek (api.deepseek.com), operated from China
- Google Gemini (generativelanguage.googleapis.com)
- OpenRouter (openrouter.ai), which passes the request on to further model providers
- OpenCode Zen (opencode.ai)
- CommandCode (api.commandcode.ai)
If you ask Ask about your own character, it can look up your own game records, such as your balance sheet or wealth history, and those results are sent to the provider as part of answering. It only ever does this for your own records, never another player's.
We do not send your username, email address, account ID, or Discord ID to any AI provider. Each provider is a separate company with its own terms, which we do not control. The full detail is in the Ask privacy notice.
How long we keep it
We keep your account data while your account exists. If you ask us to delete your account, we remove your personal data, except for records we are required to keep, such as basic transaction records for accounting.
Your requests
You can ask us what data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account. Email contact@lakesidegames.net and we will handle it.
Changes to this policy
If we change how we handle data, we will update this page and note significant changes on the site. The date at the top of this page is the date of the last material change.
Contact
Privacy questions and requests go to contact@lakesidegames.net. See also our Terms of Service.