Privacy Policy

Effective November 9, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains what information is collected, how it is used, and the choices you have when you use the following games (together, the "Services"):

• Neverending Contrivance — a choose-your-own-adventure game at app.neverending-contrivance.com.
• Deep Space — a multiplayer space strategy game at deep-space.neverending-contrivance.com, played in a web browser or as a Discord Activity.

It also covers this website, neverending-contrivance.com.

The Services are operated by Brent Bergwall, an individual ("we", "us"). You can contact us at [email protected].

Summary

• We collect only what is needed to sign you in and run the games: mainly your email address or sign-in provider ID, a display name, and your game data.
• We do not sell your information, and we do not use advertising or analytics trackers.
• We use a small number of service providers (listed below) to host the games, send sign-in emails, process payments and generate game content.
• You can ask us to delete your account and data at any time by emailing us.

Information we collect

Account and sign-in information (both games)

• Email address — if you sign in with an email link, we store your email address and send sign-in links to it.
• Google account information (Deep Space only) — if you choose "Sign in with Google", see Google user data below.
• Discord account information (Deep Space only) — if you sign in with Discord or play as a Discord Activity, we request only Discord's identify scope, which provides your Discord user ID and username. We store your Discord user ID to recognize you, and may use your Discord name as your display name. We do not access your messages, servers or friends list.
• Account record — an internal account ID, the date your account was created, your display name, and whichever of the identifiers above you used to sign in.

Neverending Contrivance game data

• Worlds you create and their settings, including the email addresses of anyone you invite to read or add to them.
• Your adventures through worlds: your current location, health and points, and recent events.
• Text you type into the game, such as world settings and new directions to explore.
• Locations generated from your input. These become a permanent part of the shared world and can be seen by other players of that world.
• Your credit balance and account role.

Deep Space game data

• Your ship, your current run, your run history (number of ticks per run and whether it was completed), and your scores.
• If you place in a week's top scores, your display name, ship and score are shown publicly to other players on that week's leaderboard.

Payment information (Neverending Contrivance)

Credits are purchased through PayPal. You pay on PayPal's own site, and we never see or store your card, bank or PayPal login details. We receive an order ID from PayPal and temporarily store it with your account ID and the number of credits purchased, so we can add the credits to your account once payment completes. PayPal's handling of your information is governed by the PayPal Privacy Statement.

Technical information

Like most websites, our hosting providers may log basic request information such as IP address, browser type and the pages requested, for security and troubleshooting. We do not use these logs to build profiles of you.

Google user data

Deep Space offers "Sign in with Google" as an optional way to sign in. When you use it:

• What we access: we request only the openid, email and profile scopes. From these we receive your Google account ID, your email address, whether Google has verified that email address, and your name. We do not request access to your Gmail, Google Drive, Contacts, Calendar or any other Google service.
• How we use it: your Google account ID is used to recognize you each time you sign in. Your email address is used to identify your account and, where Google confirms you own it, to link your Google sign-in to an existing Deep Space account with the same email address. Your name is used to set your initial in-game display name, which other players can see (for example, on the weekly leaderboard).
• How we store it: your Google account ID, email address and display name are stored in your Deep Space account record in our database (Upstash), which is encrypted in transit. We do not store your Google password or any Google access or refresh tokens after sign-in completes.
• Sharing: we do not sell, rent or share your Google user data with anyone, except with the infrastructure providers that host the game on our behalf (listed below), or if required by law. We do not use Google user data for advertising, and we do not use it to develop, improve or train artificial intelligence or machine learning models.
• Deletion: you can ask us to delete your account, including all Google user data, by emailing [email protected]. You can also remove Deep Space's access to your Google account at any time at myaccount.google.com/connections.

Deep Space's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

How we use information

• To sign you in and keep you signed in.
• To run the games: saving your progress, worlds, runs and scores, and showing leaderboards.
• To generate new game content in Neverending Contrivance (see "AI-generated content" below).
• To process credit purchases and keep track of your credit balance.
• To send sign-in emails. We do not send marketing email.
• To keep the Services secure, prevent abuse, and fix problems.

AI-generated content

Neverending Contrivance uses Anthropic's Claude API to write new locations. When you create a new location, the world's settings, nearby location descriptions, and the direction you typed are sent to Anthropic to generate the result. Your email address and account details are not included. Anthropic processes this data under its Commercial Terms and Privacy Policy, and does not use API inputs or outputs to train its models by default. Please don't type personal information into the game.

Deep Space does not send your information to any AI service.

Service providers

We share information only with the providers that help us run the Services, and only as needed for them to do so:

• Fly.io — hosts the game servers.
• Upstash — database that stores accounts and game data.
• Cloudflare — hosts this website and provides DNS.
• Resend — sends sign-in emails.
• PayPal — processes credit purchases (Neverending Contrivance).
• Anthropic — generates game content (Neverending Contrivance).
• Google and Discord — provide sign-in, if you choose to use them (Deep Space).

We may also disclose information if required by law, or to protect the rights, safety or property of our users or ourselves. We do not sell or rent personal information, and we do not share it for advertising.

Cookies

We use only cookies that are needed for sign-in:

• A session cookie that keeps you signed in. It expires after 90 days without use, or when you sign out.
• A short-lived sign-in cookie (Neverending Contrivance) that links an email sign-in request to the browser that made it. It expires after 24 hours.
• Short-lived cookies or browser storage used to complete a Google or Discord sign-in securely (Deep Space).

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

Data retention

• Account records and game data are kept until you ask us to delete them.
• Sign-in links expire after 24 hours, and pending payment records expire automatically within 24 hours of checkout.
• Deep Space weekly leaderboards are kept for about 11 weeks.
• Locations you created in a shared Neverending Contrivance world may remain part of that world after your account is deleted, because other players' adventures depend on them. They are not linked to your identity once your account is deleted.

Your choices and rights

• Access, correction and deletion: email [email protected] from the address on your account (or tell us how you sign in) to request a copy of your data, a correction, or deletion of your account. We will respond within 30 days.
• Sign-in providers: you can revoke the games' access to your Google or Discord account at any time from that provider's account settings.
• Depending on where you live (for example, the EU, UK or California), you may have additional rights under local law, such as the right to object to processing or to complain to a data protection authority. We will honor these rights as required.

Security

All traffic to the Services is encrypted with HTTPS, and our database is accessed only over encrypted connections. Sign-in links are single-use and expire. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable measures to protect your information.

Children

The Services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has given us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

International users

The Services are operated from the United States, and information is processed and stored in the United States and other countries where our providers operate.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top of this page. If a change materially affects how we use your information, we will make reasonable efforts to let you know before it takes effect.

Contact

Brent Bergwall
[email protected]