Privacy · Warmer Sun

1. Summary

warmersun.com is a static marketing and content site. You do not need an account to browse it. We do not run first-party advertising trackers or analytics cookies on this site as currently published.

Future Forge the game can be run unsigned (progress stays in your browser’s local storage) or self-hosted with no Warmer Sun account.

Warmer Sun Cloud is optional. If you Sign in (Clerk), we store a Cloud account keyed by your Clerk user id in our Postgres (Neon): quest log, Continue snapshot, pins, profile flags, achievements, and — when you hold a catalog quest — a leaderboard row. We do not store every invented picture. Vision stills are kept only for the current top 3 on each quest’s leaderboard. A player-facing summary of the extras is at warmersun.com/cloud.

2. This website (warmersun.com)

When you visit the site, the host that serves the pages (our static hosting provider) may process ordinary technical data such as IP address, user agent, and request path in server logs for security and operations. We do not use that to build marketing profiles of visitors.

Links to third parties (GitHub, Discord, X, fonts from Google Fonts, etc.) are governed by those services’ own policies. Opening those links leaves our site.

We do not require cookies for core browsing. If the browser stores a small preference for UI (if any), it is not used to track you across sites. We do not sell personal information.

3. Future Forge without Sign in (self-host / this browser)

When you run Future Forge unsigned (for example from GitHub or a LAN copy), the app may store data locally in your browser, including:

Solved / completed quests (including learning-module progress for the on-screen segment bar)
Scenario cache and imported quest library items
UI preferences and similar client keys under the future-forge: prefix
Multiplayer room tokens in sessionStorage while a session is active

That data stays on the device and origin of the game instance you are using. It is not uploaded to Warmer Sun Cloud until you Sign in and we import it (see below).

Clearing local progress: use your browser’s site data / local storage controls for the game’s origin, or clear site data for that host.

4. Warmer Sun Cloud (optional Sign in)

Cloud is a set of HTTP APIs (Clerk for identity, Neon Postgres for our tables). The playable game still runs as Future Forge. Signing in is optional. Unsigned play continues.

Identity. Sign in is provided by Clerk. Clerk may process email, Google (or other) sign-in, display name, and a user_… id. We do not store your password. We do not put email on public inventor pages or leaderboards.

What we store after you Sign in (keyed by Clerk user id, not by email):

A user row (and optional profile: chosen username, display name, bio, public/private, hide-email)
Solved quest ids and a quest log of runs you start and finish (place, outcome, year, stars, waits)
A Continue snapshot of the current workshop (hex board JSON, invent panel, co-inventor and tutor chat). Inline Imagine pictures are stripped; we do not keep data: image bytes in that snapshot
Cloud pins (up to three) and achievements
Per-quest leaderboard row for catalog quests you hold: personal-best score, a readable pathway write-up (names of placed invents and how-they-work text), not the full hex document
Vision stills (JPEG from the game’s Imagine feature) only while you are in the current top 3 on that quest’s board. If someone outranks you, we delete your still. We do not keep a gallery of every hold

On first Sign in we may import this browser’s local solved set (and last run, if the account has none) so you do not lose unsigned play.

What is public. Leaderboards show display name (never email), year, stars, waits, the pathway write-up, and stills for the current top 3. A public inventor page exists only if you opt in; default is private.

Where it lives. Cloud APIs run on our host (currently Render). Database is Neon Postgres (including backups on that project). Identity is Clerk. The static site may be served from here.now / warmersun.com. Live co-inventor / Imagine / speech stay on the game process with that operator’s AI key — not on the Cloud API host.

Deletion. Deleting your Clerk user is meant to cascade our Neon rows for that id (quest log, Continue, scores, stills). Ask via the contacts below if something remains. Self-host operators are not Warmer Sun Cloud; we cannot delete data on a copy we do not run.

5. AI features in Future Forge

If the person running the game server configures an AI API key, co-inventor, Imagine, and related features send prompts and context to that AI provider under their deployment and key. For Warmer Sun’s own hosted game, that is our operator key. For a LAN / self-host copy, Warmer Sun is not the controller of that operator’s AI traffic. Check the operator’s notices if someone else runs the server for you.

6. Official quest catalog downloads

The game may download public quest JSON from warmersun.com (or a CDN mirror of the same catalog). Those requests look like normal file downloads; they do not require login and do not send your local progress store by themselves.

7. Children

The site and game are intended for learners and curious people, including younger players with an adult nearby. Cloud stills and write-ups can appear on a public quest leaderboard if a signed-in hold ranks in the top 3 (still) or on the board (write-up). Do not put a child’s email on a public profile. If you are a parent or school, use appropriate device policies. We do not build classroom rosters or gradebooks.

8. Contact

Privacy questions, including Cloud deletion: use contacts on the Future Forge repository or community channels linked from this site.