Privacy Policy

What I collect

LayerUp Games does not require an account to use. When you submit or request a 3D model, I collect only what you choose to provide: your name or handle and any notes you include. Aside from the anonymized analytics described below, I don't automatically collect personal information.

If you choose to create an account, I collect your email address (from you directly, or from Google or Discord if you sign in with one of them) and use it only for login and account emails such as confirmation and password reset. Your email is never displayed publicly, never shared with other users, and never sold. Optional profile details you add (display name, bio, repository usernames) are shown publicly only if you opt in to a public profile.

Cookies

LayerUp Games uses a session cookie to maintain basic site functionality, plus Microsoft Clarity analytics cookies to understand how the site is used. See Analytics below.

Analytics

LayerUp Games uses Microsoft Clarity to understand how people use the site through anonymized usage metrics, heatmaps, and session replays. Clarity captures data such as pages viewed, clicks, scrolls, and general device and browser information; it masks the text you type, and this data is not sold. As a Microsoft product, your use is subject to Microsoft's privacy practices. See the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Visitors in Europe are asked before Clarity sets its cookies, and the answer is kept for a year in a cookie named lu_clarity. The site also counts how many people press each button each day, and keeps nothing else about the answer.

The site also records, on its own servers, which site linked you here: once per visit it stores the referring address your browser sends, the page you landed on, and the time. That record holds no IP address, no account and no session identifier, so it cannot be traced back to a person or joined to anything else. A cookie named lu_src keeps it to one record per visit and expires when you close your browser.

The site also counts how often each part of it (models, games, the Game Shelf, sleeves and so on) is read each hour. A page counts once it has been on screen for a few seconds. Only the totals are kept: no IP address, no account, no cookie and no record of which pages any one person read.

Print photos

Signed-in players can upload photos of their 3D prints. Uploaded photos are public once published. Before publishing, every photo is re-encoded on the server (which removes hidden metadata such as GPS location) and automatically screened by Azure AI Content Safety; flagged photos are held for human review. Photos are stored on Microsoft Azure. You can delete your own photos at any time from the print's page, which also removes them from storage.

Private messages

Messages you send to another member are stored so you can both see the conversation. On the site, only you and the member you're writing to can read them.

Pledges

If you use PledgeUp, the pledges you add or import are kept on your account: each campaign, its tier and add-ons, what you paid and when, shipping, tax and tariffs, your backer number and tracking link if you have them, and any notes you write. Other members never see your pledges. The Crowdfunding page shows how many members backed or followed a campaign, as a number with no names. Admins and moderators see the same count when they keep the campaign list, and I can see how many pledges each member has, to understand how PledgeUp is used.

An import reads the files or text you give it to build the list you review, and only the pledges you save are kept. PledgeUp never asks for your Kickstarter, Gamefound or BackerKit password. Each night the site reads the campaigns' public updates, which does not involve your account on those sites. Deleting your account deletes your pledges.

Newsletter

If you sign up for the newsletter, your email address is kept for that list and nothing else. Nothing is sent until you click the confirmation link, and every issue has a link to leave the list.

Third party links

LayerUp Games links to external platforms including Printables, MakerWorld, Thingiverse, Cults3D and others. LayerUp Games is not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites.

Store links

Some links to Amazon and Miniature Market are affiliate links. Once you're on Amazon, it may set its own cookies under Amazon's privacy notice. A Miniature Market link passes through LinkConnector, the service that runs its affiliate program, which records the referral before sending you on; Miniature Market and LinkConnector each have their own privacy notices. LayerUp counts how many times each game's store links are pressed each day, and keeps nothing about who pressed them.

Payments

LevelUp, PowerUp and Founder payments are handled by Stripe, which takes your card details under its own privacy policy. LayerUp never sees or stores your card number. The site keeps a record of your membership: the plan, when it started, and Stripe's reference numbers for it.

Founders are shown on the Founders wall by display name, unless they choose to show only their number.

Deleting your account

To delete your account and everything on it, send a request from the Contact page and give the email address on the account. I'll confirm with that address before anything is deleted.

Contact

Questions? Use the Contact page.