Privacy policy.
How we handle information for this website and our private content-publishing integration.
Our publishing tool is private and used only by Merciless Studio. It publishes our own material to our own account. We do not sell account information, profile people, scrape content, or provide access to third parties.
Scope
This policy applies to mercilessstudio.com and the private tool Merciless Studio Limited uses to publish original promotional content for its games. Individual games may provide an additional product-specific policy where their data practices differ.
Information we process
- Authorization credentials. An OAuth access token, and a refresh token when issued, allows the tool to act on the company account. We never request or store the account password.
- Our board information. The tool temporarily reads names and identifiers for boards owned by the authenticated company account so an authorized team member can choose where to publish. This information is fetched when needed and is not retained.
- Publishing content. We process images, titles, descriptions, destination links and alternative text created or selected by Merciless Studio for publication.
- Basic website requests. Our hosting provider may process technical request data such as IP address, browser type, requested page and time of access to deliver and protect this website.
How we use information
We use the information described above only to:
- authenticate the company account securely;
- show the company's available boards at the time of publishing;
- publish content specifically selected by an authorized Merciless Studio team member;
- maintain the security and operation of the website and publishing tool; and
- meet legal, security and platform-policy obligations.
Storage and retention
Authorization credentials are stored privately and kept only while needed for the integration, until they expire, or until access is revoked. Board and Pin information returned by the API is used transiently and is not retained. Our original media, copy and internal publishing records are business content created independently by Merciless Studio and are retained according to our operational needs.
Service providers and sharing
We use a limited number of providers to operate this service:
- Pinterest receives content and authorization requests when we choose to publish. Pinterest handles information under its privacy policy.
- Cloudflare hosts and protects mercilessstudio.com and may process technical request data under its privacy policy.
- Google Fonts supplies the typefaces used by this website and may receive technical request data when a page loads.
We do not sell, rent or share API-derived account information with advertisers, data brokers or unrelated third parties. Providers may process information outside the United Kingdom using safeguards available under applicable data-protection law.
Legal basis
Where UK GDPR or similar law applies, we process information on the basis of authorization and consent given when the company account is connected, and our legitimate interests in operating our website, protecting our systems and publishing our own content. Credentials can be revoked through the connected account or by contacting us.
Your choices and rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or restrict the use of your personal data, object to processing, or request portability. You may also complain to your local data-protection authority. To make a request, contact us using the address below.
Security
We restrict access to credentials, keep secrets out of public source code, use encrypted HTTPS connections, and limit permissions to those required for publishing. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but we use reasonable technical and organizational controls.
Children
The private publishing integration is not offered to children and is not intended to collect information from anyone under 13.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when our services or legal obligations change. The effective date at the top of this page will show when the latest version took effect.
Contact us
Merciless Studio Limited
Registered in England & Wales, company number 17279903
London, United Kingdom
hello@mercilessstudio.com