Website Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

billthedevstudio.com is the website of Bill The Dev, a one-man game studio in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In this policy "we" and "us" mean Bill The Dev.

2. What this policy covers

This policy covers the website billthedevstudio.com and its pages (games, news, press, contact). Each of our games has its own privacy policy, linked from the privacy index.

3. Information collected automatically

Like any website, the server that hosts these pages (GitHub Pages) receives your IP address, browser type and the page you asked for, so it can deliver the page. We do not use this to identify you.

4. Advertising and cookies (Google AdSense)

We use Google AdSense to show ads on this website.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info.
• Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
• Where the law requires consent (for example in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland), a consent message from Google is shown before personalized ads are used.

5. Ask Lucy (chat assistant)

Ask Lucy answers questions about the studio. When you send a message, the text you type, the page language and a random session ID (stored in your browser's local storage) are sent to our server at api.billthedevstudio.com to produce the answer. Please don't type sensitive personal information into the chat.

If you use the form to leave a message for Bill, the name, contact details and message you enter are sent to us so we can reply. We use them only to answer you and do not sell or share them.

6. Local storage

The site stores a few small values in your browser (for example the Lucy session ID and whether you have already seen Lucy's greeting). You can clear them at any time in your browser settings.

7. Links to other sites

Pages link to Google Play, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn and other services. Their own privacy policies apply when you visit them.

8. Children

This website is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

9. Your choices and rights

You can block or delete cookies in your browser, opt out of personalized ads as described above, and ask us to delete any message or contact details you sent through Ask Lucy by emailing us.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The updated version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.

11. Contact

Bill The Dev
Email: support@billthedevstudio.com