🛡️ Our Privacy Stance

At Uncrowned Empire, privacy is not just a checkbox. It is part of how we want our communities to operate.

Across our network — including Uncrowned Empire, Uncrowned Gaming, Uncrowned Addiction, Uncrowned Armory, and any future Uncrowned Empire sites — we believe users deserve clear, honest explanations about how their information is used, what tools we rely on, and where third-party services may be involved.

This page is not a replacement for our full Privacy Policy. It is a plain-language summary of our goals, values, and approach.

[View Our Full Privacy Policy Here]

🔒 What We Stand For

We believe privacy should be practical, transparent, and user-first.

That means:

• We do not sell user data.

• We do not rent or trade user data to data brokers.

• We do not provide private user data to AI tools for training, profiling, or analysis.

• We do not give AI tools access to our websites, servers, backend systems, private messages, user accounts, emails, IP addresses, or private forum areas.

• We do not use user data to build advertising profiles of our own.

• We aim to collect only what is reasonably needed to operate our sites, protect accounts, prevent abuse, and provide community features.

Some third-party tools may still process limited technical data when they are used, especially for security, email delivery, analytics, ads, affiliate links, embedded content, or external services. When that happens, we try to explain it clearly in our policies.

🤖 AI and User Data

Uncrowned Empire may use AI tools to assist with staff workflows, including drafting, editing, formatting, coding, summaries, social media, audio narration, and content organization.

However, AI tools are not installed directly on our websites or servers, and they are not given access to private user data.

Staff are not allowed to provide AI tools with:

• Private messages

• Account details

• Email addresses

• IP addresses

• Payment information

• Non-public forum content

• Private user records

• Backend data

AI-assisted content is created from staff-provided material, public sources, official announcements, press releases, drafts, or other non-private content-development materials.

Publicly visible content may still be accessible to search engines, crawlers, archives, or external platforms. We do not consent to unauthorized scraping or data harvesting, and we do not have agreements permitting the use of our private user data for AI training.

📢 Where Monetization Affects Privacy

Uncrowned Empire uses limited monetization to help support our sites. This may include advertising, affiliate links, sponsorships, supporter memberships, and platform-native social media monetization.

We try to keep monetization transparent and separate from private user data.

Advertising

Some Uncrowned Empire sites may display ads to guests and unregistered visitors through services such as Google AdSense or direct advertising placements.

Third-party ad networks may use cookies, device identifiers, browsing signals, or similar technologies according to their own policies.

Where configured, logged-in registered users receive a cleaner experience and are not served our standard third-party display ads.

Affiliate Links

Some links across our sites may be affiliate links. This means Uncrowned Empire may earn a commission if you click a qualifying link and complete a qualifying purchase or action. This does not change the price you pay.

We may use services such as Sovrn Commerce to automatically convert eligible outbound retail links into affiliate links for guests and unregistered visitors.

Where configured, logged-in registered users are not served our standard automatic affiliate-link conversion system.

Some older links may still use legacy affiliate services such as Geniuslink.

Sponsorships

We may use community sponsor banners or direct sponsorship placements to support our sites.

Sponsors do not receive access to private user data, and sponsorships do not give outside parties control over official editorial coverage, moderation decisions, reviews, recommendations, or community enforcement.

📊 Data Handling: Transparent and Minimal

We follow a data-minimization approach. We collect and keep information only when it is reasonably needed to operate our sites, protect the community, provide account features, respond to users, or meet legal/security obligations.

Information We May Store

Depending on how you use our sites, we may store information such as:

• Username

• Email address

• Encrypted password

• Account preferences

• Profile information you choose to provide

• Forum posts, comments, blogs, uploads, and other content you submit

• Contact messages, support requests, or correction reports

• Moderation, security, and abuse-prevention records where needed

We do not directly collect full payment card details or full financial account credentials through our websites.

Information We May Collect Automatically

Like most websites, our systems and service providers may process technical information such as:

• IP address

• Browser type

• Device information

• Operating system

• Referring pages

• Pages viewed

• Login/session information

• Cookie and preference data

• Approximate location based on technical data

• Security, spam-prevention, and abuse-prevention signals

This information helps us operate the sites, protect accounts, prevent abuse, understand public traffic trends, and maintain site functionality.

📈 Analytics

Uncrowned Empire may use Metricool for analytics and reporting across parts of our network.

Metricool helps us understand public site activity, visitor trends, traffic sources, page views, and general content performance.

Our standard Metricool tracking is configured through guest-only placements. This means logged-in registered users are not served our standard third-party analytics scripts through those guest-only placements where that member experience is configured.

Analytics are used to understand overall site performance and public visitor trends. We do not sell user data.

📧 Email Use: Limited and Controlled

We may use your email address for account-related and site-related communication, including:

• Password resets

• Account notifications

• Security notices

• Private message or content notifications

• Followed-content alerts

• Newsletter or content subscriptions, if enabled

• Administrative or policy updates

We use SendGrid to send transactional emails. SendGrid processes email addresses and message-related data only as needed to deliver those emails.

We do not sell email addresses.

Users can manage many notification preferences through their account settings, and optional emails may be unsubscribed from where available.

🍪 Cookies and Third-Party Tools

Uncrowned Empire uses cookies and similar technologies for essential site functions, security, preferences, analytics, advertising, affiliate links, and embedded content.

Some cookies are required for the sites to work properly, such as login sessions, security checks, and account preferences. Others may be related to third-party tools and may depend on your location, browser settings, user status, and consent choices.

Third-party services may include tools such as:

• Invision Community

• Cloudflare Turnstile

• Google reCAPTCHA

• Google AdSense

• Metricool

• Sovrn Commerce

• Geniuslink

• SendGrid

• Embedded video, social media, or external content providers

For more detail, please review our Cookie Notice.

⚖️ Legal Compliance and Safety

We protect user privacy, but we also comply with valid legal obligations.

We may preserve, disclose, or provide information when required by law or when necessary to respond to valid legal requests, protect our users, investigate abuse, prevent fraud, enforce our policies, or maintain the security of our sites.

We also want to be clear: Uncrowned Empire is not a haven for illegal activity, scams, harassment, exploitation, malware, doxxing, threats, or abuse.

Violations of our Terms of Service or Community Guidelines may result in content removal, account restrictions, suspension, bans, or reports to appropriate authorities when required or appropriate.

✅ In Summary

Our privacy stance is simple:

• We do not sell user data.

• We do not give private user data to AI tools.

• We do not use AI tools that access our site backend or private user information.

• We use third-party tools only where needed for site operations, security, email, analytics, ads, affiliate links, or embedded content.

• We try to limit guest tracking where practical and give registered users a cleaner experience where configured.

• We explain our practices publicly through plain-language policies.

• We aim to collect only what is reasonably needed to operate, protect, and improve our communities.

Have questions or concerns? We are always open to discussion.

Contact: [email protected]