Privacy
Privacy Policy
Effective Date: June 23, 2026. Last Updated: June 23, 2026.
Stonehowl Interactive respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect information when you visit our website, contact us, sign up for game updates, or interact with our games and related pages.
This Privacy Policy applies to stonehowlinteractive.com, Stonehowl Interactive portfolio pages, contact forms, newsletter signup forms, game announcement forms, waitlists, update lists, and links from our platform pages when they point to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy does not replace the privacy policies of third-party platforms such as Steam, itch.io, YouTube, Google, Instagram, Facebook, Apple, or Google Play.
1. Who We Are
Stonehowl Interactive is an independent game studio created by Jairo Chavez.
For privacy questions, contact us at contact@stonehowlinteractive.com.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information you provide directly, information submitted through forms, website and technical information, and game-related information if our games are released through third-party platforms or if Stonehowl Interactive directly collects related reports in the future.
Name and email address
Message content and reason for contacting us
Game update or newsletter preferences
Feedback, questions, or support requests
Browser, device, page visit, referral, cookie, and similar technical information
3. How We Use Information
Respond to messages, questions, and support requests
Send game updates and announcements if you sign up for them
Manage newsletter or waitlist subscriptions
Improve our website, games, trailers, and services
Detect spam, abuse, security issues, or technical problems
Comply with legal obligations and protect our rights
4. Email Updates and Marketing
If you sign up for game updates, newsletters, or announcements, we may send emails about new games, updates, trailers, screenshots, playtests, demo releases, store pages, launch announcements, development news, and studio updates.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting contact@stonehowlinteractive.com. We will not sell your email address.
5. Contact Forms
If you contact us through a form on the website, we use your information to read, respond to, and manage your message. We may keep contact messages for recordkeeping, security, support, and business purposes. Do not send sensitive personal information through the contact form.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies or similar technologies to make the website work properly, remember basic settings, understand traffic, improve performance, reduce spam or abuse, and help with analytics or security. You can control cookies through your browser settings.
7. Analytics
We may use analytics tools to understand how visitors use our website. Analytics may include pages visited, device type, browser type, approximate location, and referral sources.
8. Third-Party Services
We may use third-party services to run our website, forms, email updates, game pages, analytics, videos, payments, or storefronts. These services may process information on our behalf or according to their own privacy policies.
Framer for website hosting and forms
Domain, email, and newsletter providers
Google services such as YouTube, Search Console, or analytics tools
Steam, itch.io, Epic Games Store, Apple App Store, Google Play, or other game platforms
Social platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, or Discord
9. How We Share Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share information only when necessary with service providers, game platforms or storefronts, to respond to your request, to comply with law, to protect rights and safety, or in connection with a future business transfer.
10. Data Retention
We keep personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Newsletter email addresses may be kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them. Contact messages may be kept for a reasonable period for support, recordkeeping, and security.
11. Your Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, opt out, withdraw consent, object to or restrict certain processing, or request a copy of your information. To make a privacy request, contact contact@stonehowlinteractive.com.
12. California and Other U.S. State Privacy Notice
Some U.S. states give residents additional privacy rights. We do not sell personal information. If you are a resident of a state with applicable privacy rights, you may contact us to request access, correction, deletion, or information about how your data is used.
13. International Visitors
Our website may be accessed from outside the United States. If you use our website or sign up for updates, your information may be processed in the United States or in other countries where our service providers operate.
14. Children’s Privacy
Our website and email list are not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
15. Security
We use reasonable measures to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or disclosure. However, no website, email system, form, or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
16. Links to Other Websites
Our website may link to third-party websites, platforms, stores, trailers, social media pages, or game pages. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of those external websites.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we update it, we will revise the Last Updated date at the top. If changes are significant, we may provide additional notice through the website or email.
18. Contact Us
For questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, contact Stonehowl Interactive at contact@stonehowlinteractive.com or visit stonehowlinteractive.com.