Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how LCB Games (“we,” “us,” “our”) handles information in connection with this website, games.lcb.dev (the “Site”). LCB Games is an independent, currently unincorporated game studio based in Quebec, Canada, developing TBHG (The Better Hockey Game).

This policy covers the Site only. It does not cover Discord, Ko-fi, X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, or any other third-party platform we link to or use — each of those has its own privacy policy, and we encourage you to read it before using them.

Information We Collect

We do not require an account to use the Site, and the Site does not include any purchases. The only personal information we collect directly is what you choose to give us through the beta-tester sign-up form, described below.

Beta-tester list. If you sign up for the TBHG beta list, we collect your email address, your preferred language (English or French), and — only if you choose to provide it — the platform you’d play on. We use this to invite you to playtests and to send occasional development updates (about once a month). We record when you gave consent and which consent wording you agreed to, along with the page you signed up from and an approximate country (we do not store your IP address). Every email we send includes a one-click unsubscribe link. We keep your information until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it.

The list is stored in a database run by Cloudflare, the company that hosts this Site, and may be stored or processed outside Quebec, including in the United States, where it may be accessible to authorities under local law. Cloudflare processes it only to run our Site, under its own privacy policy. We do not sell or share the list with anyone else. If we start using an email-sending service to deliver our emails, we’ll name it here.

Analytics. We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how people use the Site — which pages are visited, how long people stay, what device and browser they’re using, and roughly where visitors are located (based on IP address, which Google truncates/anonymizes before it reaches us). This data is aggregated and is not used to identify you personally. Google Analytics sets cookies to enable this; see how Google uses data from our partner sites for details on how Google itself handles that data.

We do not use advertising cookies, and we do not sell or share any data with third parties beyond what’s needed to run Google Analytics.

Cookies

The only cookies set on this Site come from Google Analytics, described above. We don’t set any first-party cookies ourselves. You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings, or use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on — either will stop analytics tracking, and neither will affect your ability to browse the Site.

Your Rights

If you’re in Quebec, the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector gives you the right to access, correct, or request deletion of personal information we hold about you; PIPEDA provides similar rights at the federal level, and comparable rights may apply if you’re located elsewhere (for example, under the GDPR). To exercise any of these rights — or to withdraw your consent to our emails, which you can also do with the unsubscribe link in any email — contact the person in charge of the protection of personal information at LCB Games at privacy@lcb.dev.

Children’s Privacy

The Site is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as the Site or our practices change. The date at the top of this page always reflects the most recent version. Material changes will be noted in the Dev Log.

Contact

Questions about this policy: privacy@lcb.dev