Privacy policy

Version of 4 November 2026

This is a draft. It hasn't been reviewed by a lawyer or anyone else yet, and it was written with an AI's help. It may change before it's final. The blanks marked in yellow are still to be filled in.

This page is about the run reports in LOE Studio's games, for now only Ion Tide. A run report is one small record of a finished run, which helps the studio balance the game. Reports are off until you say yes.

"The studio" means [LLC's legal name: to be filled in], of [country: to be filled in].

The short version

The game asks you once. Nothing is sent unless you say yes, and you can change your answer in Settings at any time.
A report holds ids and numbers about your run. It has no name, no Steam ID, no details of your computer, and nothing you typed.
It carries one random number, which isn't made from anything about you. Turning reports off deletes that number and asks the server to delete its reports.
Reports are used to balance the game. They aren't sold or used for advertising.
Cloudflare hosts the server, and so it does see your internet (IP) address when your game connects. See what Cloudflare handles.

When a report is sent

After you say yes, each finished run leaves one report on your computer. The game sends it later, from the title screen. Debug and test versions of the game, and the demo, send nothing.

What a report contains

This is everything in a report. The numbers are in game seconds unless it says otherwise.

About the report

Field	What it is
`format`	The version of this layout (1)
`game`	Which game (`ion_tide`)
`version`	The game's version, such as 0.29.0
`install`	The random number described below
`report`	A random number for this one report, so it isn't counted twice
`result`	Won, died, or gave up (left from the pause menu after the first game minute). Leaving during the first minute sends nothing.

The run's setup (`run`)

Field	What it is
`run`, `mode`, `difficulty`	Which kind of run, its mode, and its difficulty
`ship`	Your ship
`hangar_state`, `hangar`	How much of the hangar you've upgraded, and the rank of each upgrade
`curses`	The curses you chose
`final_boss`	Whether this run has a final boss
`run_duration`, `clock_speed`	The run's length and the speed of its clock
`max_health`	Your ship's maximum health

How it ended (`end`)

Field	What it is
`clock`	How far the run's clock got
`real`	How long the run took in real seconds. This is a length of time, not the time of day.
`level`, `kills`, `minerals`	Your level, kills and minerals at the end
`damage_taken`, `hurt_by`	The damage you took in all, and from which kinds of enemy or attack
`weapons`, `modules`, `evolutions`	Your weapons and modules with their levels, and how many evolutions you had
`weapon_stats`	How much damage each weapon did
`rerolls`, `banishes`, `skips`, `ability_uses`	How many times you used each of these
`medal`	The medal you earned

During the run

Field	What it is
`picks`	Each level-up choice: when (`clock`, `level`), what kind (`kind`), which one (`id`), and the level it reached (`to`)
`points`	One snapshot a game minute: `clock`, `level`, `kills`, `minerals`, `damage_taken`
`bosses`	Each boss: which one (`id`), when it arrived (`arrived`), and how long it lasted (`seconds`, left out if it was still alive at the end)

Every piece of text in a report is a short id or number, and the server refuses anything else. So a report can't carry a message or a name.

What the game never sends

Your name, your Steam ID or account, details of your computer or operating system, the time of day, your save file, or anything you typed.

When it connects, the game names itself and its version (for example IonTide/0.29.0), and nothing about your system. Connecting to any server also shows it your IP address, as with any internet connection. See what the server stores and what Cloudflare handles.

What the server stores

For each report: a running number, the day it arrived (in UTC, a date with no time), the game, the version, your random number, the report's random number, and the report itself.

The studio's server program doesn't store or log your IP address, your connection's headers, or the exact time. Its logging is turned off. It also limits each random number to 200 reports a day, by counting the reports it has stored.

The random number

Your computer makes it after you say yes. It's made by chance, not from anything about you or your computer.
It's new with each game version. Reports from different versions can't be linked by the number alone.
Earlier versions' numbers stay on your computer, used only so that turning reports off can reach those reports too.
Turning reports off deletes the numbers from your computer, removes any reports still waiting there, and asks the server to delete every report of those numbers. The game sends that request from the title screen, and tries again another day if you're offline.

What it's for, and who can read it

Reports are used to balance the game: to see which ships, weapons and difficulties work too well or not well enough. Nothing in a report changes the game by itself. Reports aren't sold, aren't used for advertising, and aren't used to identify you.

Reading them takes a secret key that only the studio's developer holds. The developer downloads them to a private computer to make balance reports. Those balance reports show counted numbers and ids, not individual reports. Cloudflare keeps the data on the studio's behalf, as described below.

How long it's kept

On the server: 400 days. A job runs every day and deletes older reports.
In Cloudflare's restore history: up to 7 days more. The database service keeps a history for recovering from mistakes, which can't be turned off. So a deleted report can remain there for up to 7 days after it's deleted, and the studio could technically restore it during that time.
Copies the developer has downloaded: a report downloaded before it was deleted from the server can remain in the developer's private files. Deleting from the server doesn't reach those copies. [How long these are kept, and how they get deleted: to be decided]

What Cloudflare handles

The server and these pages run on Cloudflare, in the United States and wherever else its network operates. The database is in its Eastern North America region. As the host, Cloudflare handles every connection, whatever the studio's program does:

It sees your IP address and the details of each request (such as the address asked for, the game's name and version, and the time), because it has to in order to deliver them.
It keeps some of this as logs and network data, including statistics and threat scores for IP addresses, used to run and protect its network. Its privacy policy gives no fixed period for these. It says it keeps them as long as its purposes and legal duties require, and then deletes them.
What the studio can see of this: totals such as the number of requests and the top countries, not a list of players. If Cloudflare's firewall ever blocks a request, its security log can show the studio that request's IP address and details, for about 31 days. The studio doesn't use this to identify players.
It holds the stored reports on the studio's behalf, and its data processing terms don't allow it to use them for advertising.
Its role: Cloudflare says it acts as a processor for the content and logs of its customers' traffic, and as a controller of its own for some other data.
Moving data between countries: Cloudflare's terms rely on the EU's standard contractual clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework for data leaving the EU, the UK and Switzerland.

Visiting this website goes through Cloudflare in the same way. These pages set no cookies of the studio's and use no analytics. Cloudflare also adds a standard instruction asking web browsers to report connection failures to it.

Read Cloudflare's privacy policy for the details.

Your choices

Turn reports off at any time in the game's Settings. That is all it takes, and it deletes your reports as described above.
If you can't do that (say, you've already uninstalled the game): the studio can't find your reports by your name or your email address, because the reports don't hold them. They're deleted after 400 days. If you still have the file run_reports/install.cfg in the folder with your save, you can send the studio the number in it, and the studio will delete those reports.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to see, correct or delete data about you, to withdraw your consent, and to complain to your data protection authority. To use them, write to the address below. Reports are sent because you said yes, and saying no later doesn't affect the game at all.

Contact

Write to privacy@loestudio.org.

The studio's email is hosted by Proton Mail, which holds messages sent to this address. Your email address and message are used only to answer you. See Proton's privacy policy.

Changes to this policy

If this page changes, the date at the top changes too. If reports were ever to include anything new, the contents listed here would change first.