What This Policy Covers
- This policy explains how steups.io collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you use the site.
- It applies to the public website, signed-in experiences, leaderboards, submissions, feedback, and related analytics.
Information We Collect
- Account data such as your email address, account identifier, username, and profile customization when you sign in.
- Usage data such as pages visited, interactions, device/browser metadata, and feature events used to understand how the product performs.
- Content you submit voluntarily, including polls, battle prompts, feedback, generated inputs, or other text you choose to send through the app.
How We Use Information
- To operate the app, personalize signed-in features, maintain streaks, XP, leaderboard entries, and saved activity.
- To moderate abuse, investigate product issues, enforce rate limits, and protect the service from spam or misuse.
- To measure product health, understand what people actually use, and decide what to improve or remove.
Cookies and Similar Storage
- steups.io uses cookies or similar browser storage for authentication, session continuity, streaks, app state, and abuse controls.
- We may also use analytics-related storage to understand aggregate traffic and feature usage.
- If you block essential cookies, some signed-in or personalized features may stop working correctly.
Analytics
- steups.io uses product analytics to understand visits, performance, and feature interaction patterns.
- Analytics data is used for product improvement, launch monitoring, and abuse detection rather than ad targeting.
- Analytics is used to operate, measure, and improve the service.
AI and Third-Party Providers
- steups.io relies on third-party providers for hosting, authentication, database infrastructure, analytics, and AI-backed feature delivery.
- If you use a feature powered by an AI provider, the prompt and related context may be processed to generate a response.
- Where third-party services are involved, their own terms and privacy policies also apply.
User Content and Shared Links
- If you create or submit content, that content may be stored, displayed, moderated, or shared according to the feature you use.
- Share links and public challenge pages should be treated as potentially visible to anyone with the URL.
- Do not submit sensitive personal, medical, financial, or confidential information unless absolutely necessary.
Retention and Security
- We keep information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the service, prevent abuse, comply with legal obligations, or resolve disputes.
- We use technical and operational safeguards designed to reduce unauthorized access, misuse, or accidental exposure.
- No internet service can promise absolute security, so you should use the platform with appropriate caution.
Your Choices
- You can stop using the service at any time.
- You can limit what information you submit through public or shareable features.
- For account or privacy questions, use the public contact route on steups.io.
Policy Updates
- We may update this policy as the product evolves.
- When changes are material, we will update the effective date on this page.
For the rules that apply to use of the service, submissions, AI-generated features, and public share links, read the Terms of Use. For privacy or account questions, use the contact page.