Welcome to Studio Alderia! We are a small, lightweight and lighthearted software development, hardware development, and digital art studio. Currently unfunded, running (slowly) on good will, spare time, and volunteers, and haven't quite built a public product yet.

I, Noah James, the founder, have always wanted a software development company. A real one with products and employees and... dare I say it: income. However, as is often the case, the rule "it takes money to make money" has been an annoying, nagging, unyielding truth. Tired of bashing my head against this rule, fighting tooth and nail to raise funds the old-old-fashioned way (wages and savings), and after a roller-coaster ride of running a computer store and having to close it, I decided to Just Start, but not stress about it.

So here we are.

Privacy and Security are a major concern in today's digital world. We at StudioAlderia are committed to doing our best to protect the information that we receive.

The short, plain English version of our privacy policy is this:

• We don't want your private information. (No, really. It is too much paperwork.)
• We will strive to collect as little as necessary.
• We will only keep private information as long as necessary.
• We will not sell or distribute private information outside of our organization.
• Any communication using any given contact method will always be opt-in. (You won't be automatically on any email lists, etc.)
• Updates and Special Offers are OPT-IN (that aren't in in-game appropriate places). If you want to get them without connecting to a game, you have to ask for them. (This is mostly a repeat, but we felt it deserved repeating.)
• Communication opt-out will always be as simple as we can accomodate, and as fast as feasible. (No stupid "7 buisness days to be removed" policy, it'll be as automatic as possible.)
• Social Media Account data ("friends", "followers", etc.) will only ever be used in conjunction with your activities and choices. (We won't "cold call" all your friends, but you can use our system to send them messages or requests if you want.)
• Some small amount of information to prevent account abuse may be temporarily retained in some systems, only because cheaters and abusers make things less fun for everyone else.

We intend to have a more legalese version of the above points put together and posted below here, but that is the main idea.

TL;DR: Anything you give us will ONLY be used to have more fun with you and your friends. (...and spam isn't fun.)