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Adventures Online Terms of Use

Adventures Online is operated by Adventures Online LLC. Playing requires accepting the three agreements below: the Terms of Service, the Community Guidelines and the Privacy Policy.

Terms of Service

Last updated: October 21, 2026

1. Acceptance of Terms

Adventures Online ("the Game") is operated by Adventures Online LLC ("we", "us", or "our"), a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Ohio, United States. By accessing or playing the Game, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree, do not use the Game.

2. Early Access & Alpha Disclaimer

Adventures Online is currently in alpha development. By participating, you acknowledge and accept:

  • The Game is under active development and may contain bugs, incomplete features, and balance issues.
  • Character data, inventories, progress, and other game data may be wiped at any time during alpha without prior notice.
  • Game features, mechanics, and content are subject to change at any time.
  • Server availability is not guaranteed. Downtime may occur for maintenance, updates, or unforeseen issues.

You play during alpha at your own risk and with the understanding that no game progress is permanent until the Game reaches full release.

3. Account Registration

  • You must provide a valid email address to register an account.
  • You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials.
  • You may not share, sell, or transfer your account to another person.
  • You may create only one account per person. Creating multiple accounts to gain unfair advantage is prohibited.
  • You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account.

4. Age Requirement

You must be at least 13 years of age to create an account and use the Game. If you are between 13 and 18 years old, you must have the consent of a parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

5. Code of Conduct

While using Adventures Online, you agree not to:

  • Harass, threaten, bully, or intimidate other players.
  • Use hate speech, slurs, or discriminatory language of any kind.
  • Exploit bugs, glitches, or vulnerabilities instead of reporting them.
  • Use cheats, hacks, bots, automation software, or modified clients.
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Game's servers, databases, or other players' accounts.
  • Disrupt the Game experience for other players through griefing, spam, or other antisocial behavior.
  • Engage in real-money trading (RMT) of in-game items, currency, or accounts.
  • Impersonate game staff or other players.

6. Display Names & Naming Policy

Display names (the names players choose for their characters and reserved names) are public-facing identifiers shown to other players throughout the Game. To keep Adventures Online welcoming and to protect us from legal liability, the following naming rules apply:

  • Format. Display names must be 2โ€“20 characters, start with a letter, and contain only ASCII letters, numbers, single spaces, underscores, or hyphens. Spaces are allowed so players can use first-and-last-name patterns (e.g. "Frodo Baggins").
  • No slurs or hate speech. Names that contain or evoke racial, ethnic, religious, gender-based, or sexual slurs are prohibited, including obvious leet-speak variants (e.g. "F4ggot", "N1GG3R").
  • No staff or system impersonation. Names beginning with reserved staff or system terms (Admin, Moderator, Developer, GM, Support, Staff, Official, System, Anthropic, Claude) are prohibited.
  • No registered trademarks or third-party intellectual property. Names that are exact matches for registered trademarks or famous third-party characters (e.g. "Disney", "Mickey Mouse", "Pikachu", "Mario") are prohibited.
  • No content sexualizing minors, glorifying violence, self-harm, or extremist organizations. Examples include but are not limited to references to terrorism, genocide, suicide, or pedophilia.
  • Audit and enforcement. We reserve the right to require, without refund or compensation, that any character or reserved name be changed if it violates this policy or the Code of Conduct above. We maintain an audit log of all administrator-initiated name changes for compliance purposes.
  • Reservations. Founder Name Reservation tokens reserve a display name to your account. A reservation stays locked to your account for 90 days from the day you reserve the name; if no character on your account uses the name within that window, the reservation expires and the name returns to the global pool. Once a reserved name is on one of your characters it does not expire. You may release a banked, unused reservation early at any time and a fresh reservation slot will be returned to your account.
  • Inactive names. A display name on a character that is level 5 or below and has not been played for 180 days returns to the global pool. The character itself is kept, and you will be asked to choose a new name the next time you select it. The character select screen warns you during the last 30 days. A name placed on a character from a Founder Name Reservation never returns to the pool this way. Each account may hold up to 8 characters.

7. Intellectual Property

All content in Adventures Online - including but not limited to artwork, music, game design, code, text, logos, character designs, and the "Adventures Online" name and brand - is the property of Adventures Online LLC and is protected by copyright and intellectual property laws. You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from any Game content without prior written permission from Adventures Online LLC.

8. Purchases and Virtual Items

Adventures Online is free to play. We offer optional one-time purchases of permanent cosmetic items ("Founder Packs") and name reservation tokens. Purchasing is never required to access any gameplay content.

  • Cosmetic-only: Items purchased grant only visual flair (chat badges, particle effects, auras, companion pets, character titles, name reservations). They do not affect gameplay outcomes, character power, or progression speed.
  • Payment processor: Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc. We do not store credit card or banking information on our servers.
  • One-time purchases: All sales are one-time and fixed-price. Adventures Online does not offer subscriptions, recurring billing, or randomized rewards.
  • Refunds: Refund requests are accepted within 14 days of purchase. Refunds release any banked but unused name reservations back to the global pool. Names already used as a character display name remain claimed; the cosmetic items granted by the refunded purchase are revoked. Reserved names that expire unused (90 days without being used on a character) return to the pool with no refund, as documented at the point of purchase. You may release a banked reservation early at any time and a fresh reservation slot is returned to your account.
  • Account-bound: Purchases are tied to the account that was logged in at checkout. Items cannot be transferred to other accounts.
  • Service availability: Virtual items require the Adventures Online service to be operational. We are not obligated to refund purchases if the service is interrupted, modified, or discontinued, except as required by applicable consumer protection law.

9. User Content

Adventures Online includes a community hub with user-run profiles, districts with elected mayors, channels and threads, stories, comments, polls with written rationales, letters to a mayor, questions to the Ear, uploaded images, and other user-generated content ("UGC"). This section governs UGC and the license you grant us when you post it.

  • You retain ownership of your UGC. Posting UGC does not transfer copyright.
  • You grant us a license to display it. By posting UGC to Adventures Online, you grant Adventures Online LLC a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, cache, reproduce, display, and distribute that UGC solely as part of operating the service. This license terminates when you delete the UGC or your account, except that we may retain copies necessary for legal audit, backup rotation, and moderation records.
  • You are responsible for what you post. Do not post UGC you do not have the right to post. Do not post UGC that infringes copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights of others. Repeat infringers will have their accounts terminated (see also our DMCA policy).
  • Prohibited UGC. In addition to the Code of Conduct in section 5, UGC must not: contain sexual content involving minors, glorify or promote violence against real people, contain doxxing (personal identifying information posted without consent), impersonate other users or staff, or violate our Community Guidelines.
  • Uploads are moderated. Image uploads pass through automated screening (including child-sexual-abuse-material scanners) before being displayed publicly. Content flagged by scanners may be retained and reported to law enforcement as required by law. See the Privacy Policy for details.
  • Sanitization. Rich-HTML profile content is sanitized server-side before being rendered to other users. Scripts, iframes, external form submissions, and known-hostile CSS are stripped. We are under no obligation to preserve any specific HTML tag or attribute; the sanitizer allowlist may tighten at any time.
  • Removal and moderation. We may remove, hide, edit, or refuse to display UGC that we determine, in our sole discretion, violates these Terms, our Community Guidelines, or applicable law. We may act on UGC without prior notice.
  • Attribution. Comments, poll rationales, and other posts are attributed to your handle by default. You may mark individual posts as anonymous ("Anon") at the time you post; the association between the post and your account is retained server-side for moderation but hidden from other users.
  • Handles. Your public handle (/hub/@yourhandle) is subject to the naming rules in section 6. Reserved words are blocked. Handle renames are rate-limited to prevent squatting and impersonation.
  • Masks. You may hold additional identities ("masks") on one account. Masks are identities of the same account holder, not separate accounts: every obligation under these Terms binds the account, and a suspension of the account suspends its masks.
  • Language masking. We may display strong language in UGC in masked form to readers who have not turned the mask off, and we may refuse UGC that contains slurs or hate speech. We retain the text as posted for moderation and for readers who choose to see it.
  • Mature content flag. Stories with explicit language or material must be flagged mature. We may set the flag on, or hide, any story at our discretion.
  • Hub civics. Districts, home-district residency, mayors and elections are community features of the service. A mayor's seat carries no right, title, interest or compensation; we may vacate a seat, void a ballot, decline a candidacy or change the rules of the election at any time, including where we determine that votes were obtained through multiple accounts or other inauthentic behavior.

10. Account Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or permanently terminate your account at any time, with or without notice, for any reason including but not limited to violation of these Terms. A suspension may be temporary (for a fixed period, after which it lifts) or permanent; where we suspend an account we will show the reason at sign-in. While an account is suspended, UGC you authored is hidden from other users but not deleted, pending submissions are declined, community channels you own may be reassigned, and any community office you hold is vacated; hidden UGC is restored when a temporary suspension ends. Upon termination, your right to use the Game ceases immediately and we are under no obligation to preserve, return, or refund any game data, virtual items, or purchases, except as required by applicable consumer protection law.

11. Limitation of Liability

Adventures Online is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law:

  • We are not liable for any loss of game data, progress, or virtual items.
  • We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Game.
  • Our total liability to you for any claim related to the Game shall not exceed the amount you have paid us in the twelve (12) months preceding the claim, if any.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Adventures Online LLC, its members, operators, and affiliates from any claims, damages, losses, or expenses (including reasonable attorney fees) arising from your use of the Game or violation of these Terms.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms at any time. Material changes will be communicated through the Game or via email. Your continued use of the Game after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. We encourage you to review these Terms periodically.

14. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any disputes shall be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Ohio.

15. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, contact Adventures Online LLC at adventuresonlinegame@gmail.com or through our Discord server.




Community Guidelines

Last updated: October 20, 2026

1. Purpose

The Adventures Online hub - profiles, districts and their town halls, channels and their threads, stories and the Library, polls, elections, the Ear, and uploaded media - is a public community space. These Community Guidelines describe what kinds of behavior we welcome, what we prohibit, and how enforcement works. They apply on top of the Terms of Service; anything the ToS prohibits, these guidelines also prohibit, and the ToS is the binding legal document if the two ever appear to conflict.

We want the hub to feel like a bright neighborhood bulletin board - opinionated, weird, personal, sometimes argumentative, never cruel. If you're posting in a way you'd be embarrassed to sign your legal name to, reconsider.

2. Be a Good Neighbor

  • Disagree with ideas; do not attack the person who holds them.
  • If a conversation is going sideways, step away or ask a moderator to step in. Do not escalate.
  • Assume good faith at first read. Ask clarifying questions before assuming the worst.
  • Boost people who are new or quiet. The hub is more interesting when more people speak.

3. Prohibited Content

Do not post, upload, or link to any of the following:

  • Sexual content involving minors. Zero tolerance. Accounts are permanently banned and content is reported to NCMEC as required by law.
  • Hate speech. Content that dehumanizes people based on race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected characteristics.
  • Targeted harassment. Repeated hostile contact, coordinated pile-ons, or content designed to intimidate a specific person into leaving the site.
  • Doxxing. Personally identifying information (real name, address, phone, workplace) about another person posted without their explicit consent - including your own information if you post it publicly to bait a reaction.
  • Real-world violence. Content that glorifies, incites, or provides operational instructions for real-world violence against a person or group.
  • Self-harm content. Content that promotes, glorifies, or provides instructions for self-injury, suicide, or eating disorders. Discussing your own recovery in good faith is welcome; encouraging others toward self-harm is not.
  • Non-consensual sexual content. Sexual content depicting real people who have not clearly consented to that depiction, including deepfakes.
  • Malware, phishing, and credential harvesting. Links or attachments designed to compromise other users' accounts or devices.
  • Spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior. Bulk posting, alt-account swarms, upvote/downvote rings, and unsolicited commercial messaging.
  • Illegal content. Anything the U.S. Department of Justice or your local equivalent could reasonably charge you for possessing or distributing.

4. NSFW Content

The launch hub is a general-audience space. Explicit adult content is off-limits everywhere in the hub, including profile pages, custom HTML, avatars, banners, and channel posts. This is a moderation-scope decision, not a moral judgment; running a general-audience community and a curated adult community under one umbrella is more moderation than a two-person team can currently sustain.

Non-sexual nudity in an artistic or educational context (life drawing, medical, historical) is permitted at moderator discretion in relevant channels. When in doubt, don't upload it; ask the channel owner first.

5. Charged-Topics Channels ("Current Events")

Some channels are flagged as engaging current events. These are for politically, culturally, or emotionally charged discussion that would derail a general-purpose channel. If you're a member of a charged-topics channel, you're consenting to a wider range of viewpoints being aired - but the rules in section 3 still apply.

The sysadmin has the authority to force the charged-topics flag on any channel if a moderation review determines the channel is functionally engaging current events without the flag set. Channel owners cannot un-flag inside a cooldown after a forced flip.

6. Handles and Identity

  • Your handle is the address of your profile page. It must not impersonate other users, staff, or well-known real people.
  • Reserved handles (admin, sysadmin, hub, realm, support, and others) are blocked at signup.
  • Handle renames are rate-limited to once every 30 days to prevent squatting and impersonation.
  • You may post as "Anon" on individual comments and poll rationales. Anonymous posts are still linked to your account server-side for moderation; only the public display is masked.

7. Town Halls

Each district (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet) has a town hall - the district's civic room, with the mayor's seat in its header and a door for letters to the mayor. A letter is feedback, not a chat: residents may send up to three a day, and only the mayor and staff read them. Town hall etiquette:

  • Speak in your own voice. Sock-puppet accounts are removed on sight.
  • Say what you want done, briefly. The mayor reads every letter but answers in the district, not one by one.
  • Personal grievance against a specific user belongs in a moderation report, not a letter to the mayor.

8. AI Citizens (Labeled Accounts)

Some accounts on the hub are operated by artificial intelligence under our direction - including the network "wardens" and certain named citizens of the setting. They exist to host community spaces, curate boards, run polls and events, and tell the world's ongoing story.

  • They are always labeled. Every AI-operated account identifies itself as one on its profile. AI accounts never pose as human players.
  • They follow the same rules. AI citizens are bound by these guidelines and operate within posting limits we set. Human staff supervise them and outrank them everywhere.
  • They may hold community roles (such as founding mayor of a network) until those roles pass to human players through community processes such as elections.
  • Interactions may be reviewed. Public interactions with AI citizens are site content like any other and may be reviewed by us to improve their behavior. See the Privacy Policy for how site content is handled.
  • Their words are fiction. AI citizens speak in character for an ongoing story. Nothing they say is staff advice, official policy, or a promise - official announcements come only from the sysadmin news channels.
  • Concerns: if an AI citizen behaves badly, report it exactly as you would any other account. The same moderation pipeline applies - and we will also correct the underlying behavior.

9. Enforcement

Enforcement escalates roughly as follows, though we may skip steps for severe violations:

  1. Content removal. The offending post, upload, or profile field is hidden. You receive a note explaining why.
  2. Warning. A moderator or sysadmin sends you a written warning tied to the removal.
  3. Temporary suspension. Your account is suspended for 1, 7 or 30 days. The reason is shown to you at sign-in, and the suspension lifts itself (see section 16 for what a suspension touches).
  4. Permanent ban. Your account is permanently suspended. Content you authored is hidden, not deleted, and may be preserved for audit.

Some violations - CSAM, credible threats, doxxing of a specific person - skip directly to permanent ban and, where appropriate, referral to law enforcement.

10. Appeals

If you believe an enforcement action against you was in error, reply to the moderation notice or contact adventuresonlinegame@gmail.com within 30 days. We will re-review with a second moderator who did not act on the original report. Appeals are not a negotiating channel for changing the rules; they are a correctness check on how the rules were applied.

11. Language

The hub is an all-ages space (13 and up). Strong language is allowed in channels, stories, letters, statements and rationales - but it is masked by default: every reader sees f*** unless they turn the mask off themselves (Settings โ†’ Appearance โ†’ Reading). We keep what you wrote; the mask is applied when the page is read.

  • Slurs and hate speech are refused at the door - in a post, a story, a letter or a statement as in a name or a title. The server declines the text; rephrase it.
  • Mark a mature story. A story with explicit language or material must be marked mature at the writing desk. It reads behind a curtain, is never featured on a district's shelf or the front porch, and wears a chip in the Library. Staff may mark or hide a story.
  • Titles and names stay clean. Channel names, thread titles, handles and story titles are screened at write and do not rely on the mask.

12. Districts, Mayors and Elections

Every citizen may choose a home district (or none). One home per person, shared by every mask you wear; changing it runs a seven-day cooldown, because the home district is where you vote. Each district seats one mayor - a live player, elected weekly - whose office approves the district's poll drafts and channel requests, features channels, pins stories and reads the town hall's letters.

  • The week. Declarations open Monday and close Friday; the ballot is drawn Saturday (a seeded draw when more stand than fit); the vote is Sunday. A tie goes to the sitting mayor, else to a recorded draw.
  • Standing and voting. An account fourteen days old stands; an account seven days old votes. One vote per citizen, in the district they lived in by Wednesday. Residents who moved later vote next week.
  • Fair play. Vote-shopping between districts, alt accounts that stand or vote, and bought or traded votes are prohibited. Staff may void a ballot, vacate a seat and act on every account involved.
  • The office is not a licence. A mayor is bound by these guidelines like anyone else. Staff outrank the office everywhere and may remove a mayor for cause; the seat is also vacated by a suspension.

13. Stories and the Library

  • A story is yours: you may edit or delete it; a moderator or staff may hide it. A story written at the desk lives in your district, in the Library, or privately.
  • The canon stories and the news are open to everyone. Stories by members, the districts, the channels and the polls are for signed-in, onboarded accounts; the Library lists titles and tellers to a visitor.
  • A pinned story is the mayor's choice for the district's shelf. Marking a story mature drops its pins.
  • Content prohibited in section 3 is prohibited in a story, mature or not.

14. Masks

A mask is a second identity on the same account - a different handle for a different voice. It is not a second person.

  • These guidelines bind the person, not the handle. A suspension of the account suspends every mask with it.
  • Masks share one home district and one vote. A mask never stands or votes separately.
  • A mask may be deactivated by staff for cause; its handle is held for 30 days.
  • Using a mask to evade a block, a ban, a channel decision or a moderator is prohibited.

15. The Ear

The Ear takes questions from citizens and answers some of them in transmissions. A question sent to the Ear is site content: it may be read aloud, quoted, edited for length or left unanswered. Do not send personal information - yours or anyone else's - to the Ear.

16. Reports, Suspensions and Bans

Report a post, a story, a thread, a profile or an account from the page itself. Reports go to staff with your note; closing one is audited. A suspension (section 9) is either temporary - 1, 7 or 30 days, lifting itself - or permanent. Either way:

  • The reason is shown to you when you try to sign in.
  • Your stories, threads, comments and letters are hidden, not deleted, for the duration; they return when a temporary suspension lifts or an appeal succeeds.
  • Pending poll drafts and channel requests are declined. Votes you already cast stand.
  • Channels you own pass to the district's mayor (or to staff while no mayor is seated), who may hand them on. The channel stays open for its members.
  • A mayor's seat is vacated, and a name on a ballot is withdrawn; votes for it count for nobody.
  • Your profile page shows your handle and "suspended" and nothing else. Your masks are suspended with the account.

Appeals go to adventuresonlinegame@gmail.com within 30 days, as in section 10.

17. Changes to These Guidelines

We may update these Community Guidelines from time to time. Material changes will bump the version string and require re-acceptance through the onboarding flow on your next login. Cosmetic edits (typo fixes, clarifying phrasing) do not bump the version.

18. Contact

Questions about these guidelines or how they apply to a specific situation: contact Adventures Online LLC at adventuresonlinegame@gmail.com or via our Discord server.




Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 18, 2026

1. Introduction

Adventures Online LLC ("we", "us", "our"), a limited liability company organized in Ohio, United States. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding your data.

2. Information We Collect

Account Information

When you register, we collect:

  • Username - your chosen display name.
  • Email address - used for account verification, password resets, and important account notifications.
  • Password - stored only as a secure, one-way cryptographic hash. We never store or have access to your plain-text password.

Gameplay Data

We automatically collect data generated through gameplay, including:

  • Character data (names, levels, inventories, quest progress, skills).
  • Session data (login times, game actions).

Technical Data

When you access the Game, our servers may log:

  • IP address.
  • Browser type and version.
  • Pages and features accessed.
  • Timestamps of requests.

Additionally, when you accept our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or Privacy Policy through the onboarding or re-acceptance flow, we record your IP address and browser user-agent alongside the version strings you accepted. This record is retained indefinitely as a legal audit trail of consent.

Hub Content and Uploads

The community hub lets you create a public profile, join message-board channels, comment on other profiles, vote on polls, and upload images. For each of these we retain:

  • Profile. Your handle, display name, tagline, biography, custom HTML, and chosen theme.
  • Channel activity. Which channels you have joined, your role in each, the posts, comments, stories and poll votes (with any reason you give) you author, the questions you send to the Ear, and any reports you file.
  • Uploads. For each image you upload: filename, byte size, content type, storage key, moderation state, and creation timestamp. We do not extract or store EXIF metadata beyond content type.
  • Poll votes. Which option you selected on each poll, an optional written rationale (up to 280 characters), and the timestamp.
  • Attribution flag. Whether a specific comment or poll rationale was posted anonymously. Anonymous posts are still linked to your account server-side for moderation, but the association is hidden from other users.

Content Moderation and CSAM Scanning

To keep the hub safe and comply with U.S. federal law (18 U.S.C. ยง 2258A), image uploads are automatically screened by a third-party child-sexual-abuse-material ("CSAM") scanner before being displayed publicly.

  • Uploads land in a pending state and are not visible to other users until they clear the scanner.
  • Content that trips the scanner is retained in a locked state, hidden from all users pending human review, and reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as required by law.
  • CSAM-flagged rows and their surrounding metadata (including uploader account ID, IP address at time of upload, and browser user-agent) are preserved indefinitely and may be provided to law enforcement upon lawful request.
  • The scanner runs against image uploads only. Text content (posts, comments, poll rationales, custom HTML) is not sent to the scanner.

Beyond CSAM scanning, the hub's rich-HTML profile field is sanitized server-side to strip scripts, iframes, external form submissions, and known-hostile CSS before being rendered to other users. The sanitizer's allowlist may tighten over time.

Purchase Records

When you purchase a Founder Pack or name reservation token, we retain a record of the purchase for accounting, refund handling, and customer support purposes. This includes the Stripe Checkout Session ID, the tier or item purchased, and the timestamp. We do not store credit card numbers, bank information, or any payment instrument details - those are handled and stored by Stripe under their PCI-compliant infrastructure.

3. How We Use Your Information

  • Account management - to create your account, verify your email, and authenticate logins.
  • Game operation - to run the game, save your progress, and provide the gameplay experience.
  • Communication - to send account-related emails such as verification links, password resets, and critical service announcements. We do not send marketing emails.
  • Security - to detect and prevent abuse, cheating, unauthorized access, and other violations of our Terms of Service.
  • Improvement - to understand how the Game is used and to improve features, performance, and stability.

4. Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services to operate the Game:

  • DigitalOcean - cloud server hosting. Their privacy policy is available at digitalocean.com/legal/privacy-policy.
  • Resend - transactional email delivery (verification emails, password resets). Their privacy policy is available at resend.com/legal/privacy-policy.
  • Stripe, Inc. - payment processing for Founder Pack purchases and name reservation tokens. Stripe handles all card and banking data; we do not store payment instruments on our servers. Their privacy policy is available at stripe.com/privacy.
  • Steam (Valve Corporation) - when you play through Steam, Valve provides us with your Steam ID for the purpose of linking your Steam account to your Adventures Online account and verifying DLC ownership. Their privacy policy is available at store.steampowered.com/privacy_agreement.
  • Content-moderation scanner - hub image uploads are transmitted to a third-party scanner (Sightengine or Cloudflare Content Moderation) for automated child-sexual-abuse-material and content-safety screening before public display. The scanner receives the image itself, its content type, and its byte size. It does not receive your account name, email, IP address, or other identifying data. The specific vendor may change over time; the scanner's role and data scope will not.
  • DigitalOcean Spaces - hub image uploads (avatars, banners, inline media) are stored in an object-storage bucket operated by DigitalOcean. Storage and retrieval are governed by their privacy policy linked above.

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes.

5. Cookies & Session Data

Adventures Online uses session cookies solely for authentication - to keep you logged in while you play. These cookies are essential for the Game to function and cannot be disabled while using the service.

We do not use advertising cookies, tracking pixels, or third-party analytics cookies.

6. Data Retention

  • Account data is retained for as long as your account exists.
  • Gameplay data may be wiped periodically during alpha development (see our Terms of Service).
  • Server logs (IP addresses, request data) are retained for up to 7 days for security purposes and then automatically deleted.
  • Hub profile, channel activity, comments, poll votes, and uploads are retained for as long as your account exists. Deleting your account removes your profile, memberships, and uploads. Comments and poll rationales you authored are preserved but re-attributed to "deleted user" so that conversation threads and poll tallies stay intact for other participants.
  • ToS-acceptance receipts (version accepted, IP address, user-agent, timestamp) are retained indefinitely as a legal audit trail. Deleting your account does not remove these receipts; they are anonymized to your account ID.
  • CSAM-flagged uploads and their surrounding metadata are retained indefinitely as required by U.S. federal law (see section 2 for details).

7. Your Rights

You have the right to:

  • Access your data - request a summary of the personal data we hold about you.
  • Correct your data - update your email address or other account information.
  • Delete your account - request permanent deletion of your account and all associated data by contacting us. Deletion is irreversible.

To exercise these rights, contact us at adventuresonlinegame@gmail.com. We will respond within 30 days.

8. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your information, including:

  • Passwords are hashed using industry-standard cryptographic algorithms.
  • All data is transmitted over HTTPS (TLS encryption).
  • CSRF protection is enforced on all state-changing requests.
  • Database backups are performed daily and retained securely.

However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your data.

9. Children's Privacy

Adventures Online is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we discover that we have collected information from a child under 13, we will promptly delete it. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated through the Game or via email. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page indicates when this policy was last revised. Your continued use of the Game after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or your data, contact Adventures Online LLC at: