Privacy notice

Who we are

This site is run by Hyperion Games Studio, which is the controller of the personal data described here. You can reach us at hello@hyperiongames.studio for anything about privacy.

What we collect, and why

When you send an enquiry

The enquiry form asks for your name and email address, and optionally your company, phone number, and details about your project such as the kind of game, platform, number of players, budget and timeframe, plus a free-text description. We also record which page you sent it from, any campaign tags in the link you used (for example utm_source), a one-way hash of your IP address, and your browser's user-agent text. The hash and user-agent help us spot spam and abuse; we cannot turn the hash back into your IP address.

We use this information to reply to you, to discuss and scope your project, and to keep a record of the conversation. We email you an acknowledgement when you submit, and the reply you get from us is sent from our hello@ address. Our legal basis is taking steps at your request before a contract (and, for spam protection and record keeping, our legitimate interest in running the business securely). We do not use enquiries for marketing mailings.

When you email us

Messages sent to our hello@ address are received and stored in our own admin inbox so we can read and answer them. That includes your email address, name, the message and any attachments.

Visitor statistics

We measure how the site is used with our own first-party analytics. It does not use cookies and does not store your IP address. For each page view or click on something like a Play button, we record the page, the site you came from, any campaign tags, the game involved, a rough device type (phone, tablet or desktop), and an anonymous visitor code. That code is a hash of your IP address and browser details mixed with a salt that changes every day, so it cannot follow you from one day to the next or be reversed. Known bots are filtered out. If your browser sends a Do Not Track signal, we do not record anything. Because this is cookieless and anonymous, we do not ask for consent for it.

We do not currently use Google Analytics or any third-party tracking on this site. If that changes, it will load only if you accept a cookie notice, and we will update this page first.

Who else handles your data

We use Mailgun, an email delivery service, as a processor to send our emails (such as the acknowledgement of your enquiry and our replies) and to receive email sent to our hello@ address. Mailgun handles the content and addresses of those emails on our instructions, using its EU service. Our website and database are hosted on a server we control. We do not sell personal data and we do not share it with advertisers.

The games we have built, such as 8Baller and Redline Riviera, are separate websites with their own accounts, privacy notices and cookies. This notice covers only hyperiongames.studio.

How long we keep it

Enquiries and emails are kept while we are talking to you and for a reasonable period afterwards so we can follow up and answer questions about the work. If an enquiry goes nowhere, we delete it after a reasonable time, and we delete spam as we find it. Visitor statistics are anonymous and are kept for as long as they help us understand how the site is used. You can ask us to delete your enquiry or emails at any time.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, object to us using it, or ask us to restrict how we use it. Email hello@hyperiongames.studio and we will respond. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Cookies

See our cookies page for the short list of what this site stores in your browser.

Changes

If we change how we handle personal data, we will update this page and its date.