Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Useful Research Inc.("we," "us," or "our") handles information when you use GameScope—our competitive intelligence and market analysis platform for game developers, publishers, and strategists. GameScope includes marketing pages, the public Greenlight Score experience (including limited use before you create an account), and the workspace product.

We aim to be transparent about what we collect, why we collect it, and how your concepts and projects stay under your control. This policy complements our Terms of Service.

When you sign up or verify an email, we collect your email address, authentication identifiers from your sign-in provider (for example Google), and basic profile details that provider shares with us. We use Supabase Auth and related infrastructure to manage sessions and restrict access to your account.

We may record when you accept our Terms and Privacy Policy (including the version accepted) so we can show the correct documents and meet product requirements at sign-in or Greenlight verification.

Before you verify an email, you may use a limited Greenlight flow. In that case we may store an anonymous session associated with a browser cookie (plg_session_id), including concept drafts you enter (such as title, concept pitch, and genre), score and neighborhood snapshots, and related technical data. We use this information to show results, enforce abuse limits, and let you resume or merge the session after you verify.

After you verify, we may link that anonymous session to your account and save concepts in your user-owned Greenlight library. Verified concepts and attached reports remain associated with your account until you delete them or we delete the account as described under Data Retention.

We may also store first-touch marketing attribution in a cookie (gs_attribution), such as UTM parameters, advertising click identifiers when present, landing hero variant, and light/dark theme assignment, typically for about 30 days. A separate sticky cookie (gs_theme_exp) records the first-touch theme experiment for about 90 days; your Light/Dark control only changes the on-screen preference and does not overwrite that experiment assignment. We use attribution to understand how people find GameScope and to measure conversion—not to sell your concepts.

To run GameScope reliably and securely, we collect operational information such as:

• Features you use and actions you take across marketing, Greenlight, projects, libraries, and reports
• First-party funnel events (for example landing views, wizard steps, verification, activation, checkout, and report completion) stored for product analytics
• Report generation activity, background job status, and credit or unlock usage
• Free-tier usage counters (for example monthly score allowances) and rate-limit or abuse signals
• Technical logs (IP address, browser type, device signals, timestamps)
• Diagnostics used to fix errors, measure performance, and prevent fraud or abuse
• Aggregated or de-identified usage statistics that cannot reasonably be used to identify you or your unreleased concepts

We use this data to authenticate users, operate the product, understand aggregate usage and funnel performance, fulfill purchases, and protect the service—not to sell your creative work.

Your ideas matter. Game concepts, project notes, report settings, titles, and other materials you enter remain yours. GameScope does not claim ownership, and we do not sell your concepts or project content.

We process your content only to provide, maintain, and secure the service for you, and to improve reliability, security, performance, and product functionality for your account—such as storing libraries, running analyses you request, delivering Greenlight scores and reports, and keeping your workspace available. We do not use your private concepts or project materials to train general-purpose AI models for unrelated products.

Authorized personnel may review account, project, input, generated analysis, usage, billing, credit, and diagnostic information when necessary to provide support, investigate errors, maintain security, improve service reliability and quality, administer credits or billing, prevent abuse, or comply with legal obligations.

Projects and concepts are private to your account by default. Other GameScope users cannot view your workspace unless you intentionally share or export materials outside the product.

We process your concepts and project content as described in this policy and our Terms of Service.

Analyses, reports, and project workspaces stay within your account unless you choose to share them. We do not expose your private projects or concepts to other customers or use them as content we license to others.

Access to your data is limited to what is needed to operate GameScope for your account, including infrastructure providers that process data on our behalf under contractual confidentiality obligations.

We do not disclose one customer's private report content to other customers, and we do not use customer confidential report content to train unrelated foundation models.

You decide what to download, copy, or send to teammates and partners. After content leaves GameScope, you control how it is distributed. We use access controls and standard security practices, but no online service can guarantee perfect confidentiality—please use sound judgment for unreleased titles and sensitive strategy.

Essential cookies. Required for sign-in, session management, security, preferences (such as theme), Greenlight anonymous sessions (plg_session_id), first-touch attribution (gs_attribution), and theme experiment assignment (gs_theme_exp). GameScope may not work correctly without them.

Analytics. We use analytics tools (for example Vercel Analytics) to understand aggregate usage—page views, feature usage, and performance. Analytics data is generally collected in a form that does not identify you by name in our dashboards, though providers may receive technical identifiers (such as IP address or device data) subject to their own policies. We use analytics to operate and improve the product, not to sell your concepts or project content.

You can limit non-essential cookies through your browser settings; some features may not work without essential cookies. We do not currently show a separate cookie consent banner.

We use collected information to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve GameScope
• Authenticate users and enforce account-level and product access controls
• Generate, store, and display scores, analyses, and reports you request
• Process payments, unlocks, and credit transactions
• Measure funnel performance and marketing attribution
• Respond to support and access requests
• Detect fraud, abuse, and security incidents
• Comply with law and enforce our agreements

We use the following categories of providers to operate GameScope. They process data on our behalf under contractual obligations to protect it and use it only to deliver services for us:

• Authentication and database — Supabase (account sign-in, session storage, and application data with row-level access controls)
• Hosting and analytics — Vercel (application hosting and aggregate usage analytics)
• Email delivery — Resend (transactional and authentication email, such as one-time verification codes)
• Payments — Stripe (when you purchase unlocks, Starter access, credits, or other paid features)
• Report generation — our hosted retrieval and analysis service to run scores and analyses you request
• Concept assistance (if enabled) — language model providers may process text you submit through optional concept-related features, only as needed to provide those features

We may update this list as our stack changes. Enterprise customers may request additional detail under a separate agreement.

GameScope is operated from the United States. Your information may be processed in the U.S. and in other countries where our service providers maintain facilities. Those providers may process data outside your home country under their own terms and applicable law. If you access GameScope from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States.

We disclose information to the service providers listed above, when required by law, to comply with valid legal process, or to protect users and the service. We may also share information in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.

We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not sell your concepts or project content.

Verified account content. We keep account data, verified Greenlight concepts, workspace projects, and related reports while your account is active and as needed to operate the service, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. You may delete concepts in the product where that control is available, or request account or data deletion as described below.

Anonymous Greenlight sessions. Pre-account session data exists so you can resume a score and complete verification. If a session is never linked to a verified account, we may delete abandoned anonymous records after a period of inactivity (for example, on the order of 90 days), subject to operational needs and abuse-prevention logs.

Events and logs. Funnel events, technical logs, and similar operational records are retained as needed for analytics, security, and service operations, then deleted or aggregated when no longer required.

When you request deletion, we will honor the request subject to operational and legal requirements (for example, retaining records needed for fraud prevention, accounting, or legal claims).

We apply administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards—including access controls and encryption in transit where appropriate. No system is perfectly secure; we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access will never occur.

If we become aware of a security incident involving your personal information that we believe requires notice under applicable law, we will notify you as required. We may also notify you when we reasonably believe notification is appropriate to protect your account.

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or export personal information, or to object to certain processing. Contact us below to submit a request; we may verify your identity before responding. You may also delete Greenlight concepts in the product where that feature is available, and you may stop using GameScope at any time.

If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including the right to know, delete, and correct personal information, and to opt out of “sale” or “sharing” as those terms are defined by law. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising as described above. To exercise rights, contact us using the details below. We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights.

GameScope is not intended for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us data, please contact us so we can delete it where appropriate.

We may update this policy from time to time. The revised version will be posted with an updated effective date. Significant changes may be communicated in the product or by email where appropriate. Where the product tracks an accepted terms version that includes this policy, we may require acceptance of the updated documents before you continue.

Privacy questions or requests: legal@gamescope.ai or our contact page.

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