Tainted Studios Pty Ltd (ACN 687 553 555) (“Tainted Studios”, “we”, “us”) is an independent game studio based in New South Wales, Australia. This policy explains how we collect, use, share and look after personal information through taintedstudios.com, in line with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles. Questions about it are welcome at support@taintedstudios.com.
What we collect
- Game updates: your email address, and when you signed up and confirmed.
- Joining the team: your name, email address, what you do, any portfolio or profile link, and what you tell us about yourself.
- Projects: your name, email address, company, and what you tell us about your project.
- Getting in touch: your name, email address and your message.
- Visiting the site: like any website, our hosting provider automatically receives technical information such as your IP address, your browser and device type, and the pages you request.
If you email us, we’ll have whatever your email contains. We don’t ask for sensitive information, such as health information, so please don’t send it.
How we collect it
Directly from you, when you use a form on this site or email us, and automatically from your browser when you visit. Now and then someone else may pass on your details, such as a referee or a recruiter acting for you.
Cookies
We don’t use cookies, analytics or advertising trackers, and everything the site loads, fonts included, comes from our own host. If you pause the motion, the site remembers that in your browser until you play it again. It also notes that you’ve seen the intro, for the current visit only, so it doesn’t replay. Neither is sent to us.
Why we use it
- To send you the game updates you asked for.
- To reply to your enquiries and messages.
- To assess your application and consider you for roles with us.
- To discuss, quote for and deliver projects you ask us about.
- To run, secure and improve the site, and to guard against spam and misuse.
- To meet our legal obligations.
We use your information only for the purpose you gave it to us, a related purpose you’d reasonably expect, or as the law allows. We don’t sell or rent it, and we don’t use it to make automated decisions about you.
Game updates
We’ll only email you updates if you subscribe and confirm: when you sign up, we email you a link to confirm your address, and if you don’t use it within 7 days, we delete the sign-up. Every update has an unsubscribe link, and we’ll act on your request within five working days.
Who we share it with
Only the service providers who help us run the site and our communications, which today means Google: it hosts the site (Firebase), stores what you send through our forms (Google Cloud, in Sydney) and runs our email (Google Workspace). They may use it only to provide their services to us. If we start using another service, for example to send game updates, we’ll name it here first. We may also share information with our professional advisers, when the law requires or allows it, or as part of a sale or restructure of our business.
Outside Australia
What you send through our forms is stored in Sydney, but it also reaches our email, which Google may store outside Australia, including in the United States. Our providers may also process information in other countries where they or their suppliers operate. We choose providers with strong security and privacy practices, and take reasonable steps to make sure they handle your information in line with the Australian Privacy Principles.
Keeping it safe
We keep personal information in secure, access-controlled services, and only the people who need it can see it. No system is completely secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect your information from misuse, interference and loss, and from unauthorised access, change or disclosure. If a data breach is likely to cause you serious harm, we’ll tell you, and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) where required.
How long we keep it
Your email address stays on our updates list until you unsubscribe, and sign-ups that aren’t confirmed are deleted after 7 days. When you unsubscribe, we delete your address and keep only a scrambled (hashed) form of it, so we don’t add you again by mistake. We keep job applications for up to 12 months, so we can consider you for future roles, unless you ask us to delete yours sooner. We keep enquiries and messages for as long as we need them to reply and to keep reasonable business records, and no longer than two years. After that, we delete the information or remove anything that identifies you.
Seeing and correcting your information
You can ask to see, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you by emailing support@taintedstudios.com. There’s no charge. We’ll reply within 30 days, and may need to confirm who you are first. If we can’t do what you ask, we’ll explain why. If you live outside Australia, you may have further rights under your local privacy law, such as the GDPR; email us and we’ll help.
Staying anonymous
You can browse the site without telling us who you are. To reply to you or consider an application, we need your name and a way to contact you.
Children
This site isn’t directed at children, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you think a child has sent us their details, let us know and we’ll delete them.
Complaints
If you’re concerned about how we’ve handled your personal information, email support@taintedstudios.com. We’ll look into it and reply within 30 days. If you’re not satisfied with our response, you can lodge a complaint with the OAIC at oaic.gov.au, or call them on 1300 363 992 for advice.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The current version is always on this site, with the date it last changed at the top.
Contact us
Tainted Studios Pty Ltd (ACN 687 553 555)
New South Wales, Australia
Email: support@taintedstudios.com
