Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Aceson Ryan Jones, a sole proprietor doing business as ATech Software (“ATech,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), collects, uses, and shares information when you visit atechsoftware.com, create an account, contact us, subscribe to email updates, or use software, APIs, or related services we provide.

ATech Software is a business name used by that sole proprietor, located at 494 Main St, Fyffe, AL 35971. ATech Software is not a limited liability company, corporation, or other limited-liability entity.

Meta Birds, a separate playable prototype at https://meta-birds.com, has its own Privacy Policy at https://meta-birds.com/privacy. If you follow a link from this site to Meta Birds, that policy applies to what you do there.

We send account and service emails, such as sign-up notifications and account or team notices, from hello@atechsoftware.com. You may want to add that address to your contacts or allow-list so those messages are not filtered. Please send questions, support requests, legal notices, privacy requests, DMCA notices, and deletion requests to contact@atechsoftware.com.

1. Information we collect

Information you provide. Depending on how you use the site, this may include:

• Accounts. If you create an account, we collect the information you submit, which may include a display name, email address, and password. When you sign in, we collect the credentials needed to verify it is you. We also keep account information tied to that login, including your current plan if plans are in use. We may send an email to verify your address.
• Projects or API use. If you use an account or API after signing in, we may collect information you create or submit, such as names or identifiers you assign, files or other content you store with us, usage and request logs, and related account activity. Some of these features may be limited or not yet generally available.
• Billing. If you buy a paid plan, billing is processed by our payment processor (Stripe). We and our payment processor may process information needed to take payment and manage your plan, such as your plan selection, seat count, payment status, and billing contact details. We do not ask you to type full card numbers into a form we host ourselves. Our payment processor handles checkout.
• Email updates. If you subscribe to ATech Software updates, we collect your email address and, if you choose to provide it, your first name. We may use an email service provider to store the list and send those messages.
• Contact. If you write to contact@atechsoftware.com or use the contact form at https://atechsoftware.com/contact, we collect what you send. The contact form may ask for first name, last name, email address, studio or company, what you are working with, project stage, which capabilities you are interested in, and a project overview.

Information collected automatically. Like most websites, our servers and service providers may automatically receive technical information such as your browser type, device type, approximate location derived from IP address, referring pages, and IP address when you visit. We use cookies or similar tools as needed to run the site, keep you signed in, and remember preferences. We may also receive security and performance logs from our hosting and content-delivery provider.

We do not collect categories of personal information that you do not provide and that our systems do not create in the course of providing the Services.

2. How we use information

We use the information above to:

• Provide, operate, and secure the website and any accounts, software, or APIs we offer
• Create and maintain your account, verify your email, and sign you in
• Process plan changes and payments through our payment processor, if you buy a paid plan
• Respond to messages you send us
• Send the email updates you asked for, and service messages about your account (for example, a verification, security, or billing email)
• Understand how the site is used and to protect and improve the Services, including preventing abuse
• Comply with law and enforce our Terms of Service

We do not sell your personal information for money. We also do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising on atechsoftware.com unless we display third-party advertising as described below. If that changes, we will update this policy and, where the law requires, offer a way to opt out.

3. How we share information

We share information only as needed to run the Services:

• Service providers who process data for us. That currently includes our payment processor (Stripe); Supabase (account, project, or related backend data, when those features are in use); and Cloudflare (hosting, content delivery, and related security). If we use an email service provider to send messages you requested, that provider will process the email address you gave us. Google may receive technical data when the site loads fonts from Google Fonts.
• Professional advisors or authorities if required by law, to protect rights and safety, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or similar business transfer (including a transfer of this sole proprietorship).
• Other people you ask us to involve, such as if you email us about an Enterprise arrangement.

We do not share your project files or API content publicly. Access to stored files or project data is intended to be limited to the account that owns that data, except as needed for our service providers to host or process it for us, or as required by law.

If you follow links to other sites, including Meta Birds (https://meta-birds.com) or itch.io, those sites have their own policies.

4. Cookies, analytics, and Do Not Track

We use cookies or similar technologies that are needed to operate the site and, if you have an account, to keep you signed in. Your browser may also receive cookies or similar technologies from providers named in this policy, such as Cloudflare or Google Fonts.

We do not currently use a separate named analytics tool on atechsoftware.com, and we do not currently display third-party advertising on this site. If we later add an analytics tool or display ads, we will update this policy.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. If you block some cookies, sign-in or other features may not work.

Do Not Track. Some browsers offer a Do Not Track (DNT) signal. There is no consistent industry standard for how websites should respond to DNT. We do not currently respond to DNT signals. You can use the cookie, advertising, and account choices described in this policy instead.

5. Advertising and Google AdSense

We do not currently display third-party advertising on atechsoftware.com. If we later display ads, including ads served by Google AdSense or other advertising partners, the following will apply, and we will update this policy if other ad networks are added.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com. Users may also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting https://www.aboutads.info.

Learn how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

If other advertising vendors serve ads on this site, we will identify them here or link to their sites, and you may visit those sites to opt out of personalized advertising if they offer that choice. You can also use https://www.aboutads.info to opt out of some third-party vendors’ cookie-based personalized advertising.

If we show ads to visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we will use a consent method that meets applicable requirements, including Google’s EU User Consent Policy where it applies, before advertising cookies are used for those visitors.

Some state privacy laws treat the use of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as “sharing.” If we display personalized ads, that activity may be “sharing” under those laws even though we are not paid a cash price for the data. Where those laws apply and require an opt-out, you may email contact@atechsoftware.com to request it.

Advertising on Meta Birds is covered by the Meta Birds Privacy Policy, not this one.

6. Retention

We keep account, project, and billing records for as long as your account is active and as long as we need them to provide the Services, resolve disputes, and meet legal, tax, or accounting duties.

If you ask us to delete your account, we will delete or de-identify personal information associated with it within a reasonable time (typically within 30 days), except records we must keep for law, tax, billing, security, or dispute-resolution purposes. We keep those retained records only as long as needed for those purposes, then delete or de-identify them.

Contact-form messages and support emails are kept as long as needed to respond and for a reasonable business period afterward. If you unsubscribe from optional email updates, we will stop sending them and keep only what we need to honor the unsubscribe request.

Removed or deleted information may remain temporarily in backups, then drop off as those backups cycle.

7. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect the information we hold. That includes requiring a password to sign in and, when we use it, verifying email before some account actions. Our service providers also apply their own security measures. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. We do not claim any particular security certification.

8. Your choices and rights

• Email updates. You can unsubscribe from marketing or update emails by using the unsubscribe link in those messages, or by emailing contact@atechsoftware.com. You may still receive transactional messages about an account you have (for example, security or billing notices).
• Account information. If you have an account, you may be able to review and update some details by signing in. You may also email contact@atechsoftware.com to ask us to correct information.
• Account deletion. You may request that we delete your account and the personal information associated with it by emailing contact@atechsoftware.com from the address on the account. If a self-service delete control is available in your account settings, you may use that as well.
• Cookies. You can control cookies through your browser settings, as described above.

U.S. state privacy rights, including California. Some state laws give residents rights to request access to the personal information we hold about them, request deletion or correction, request a copy in a portable form, and opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information. Those laws often apply only if a business meets size or activity thresholds. A small sole proprietorship like ATech Software may not meet those thresholds today. Even so, you may email contact@atechsoftware.com to request access, correction, deletion, or a portable copy, or to opt out of any sale or sharing. We will not discriminate against you for making a good-faith request. We may need to verify your identity. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request by having the agent email us with proof that you authorized them.

International visitors. We are based in the United States. If you visit from another country, information may be processed in the United States and in other countries where our service providers operate, including Stripe, Supabase, Cloudflare, and Google. Those places may have different data-protection laws than your home country. If a data-protection law such as the GDPR or UK GDPR applies to you, we process personal information to provide the services you request, to operate and secure our business, with your consent where we ask for it (for example, optional email updates), and to meet legal obligations. You may have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the use of your information, to object to certain processing, to withdraw consent, and to data portability, and you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country. To make a request, email contact@atechsoftware.com.

9. Children’s privacy

atechsoftware.com and our developer-facing Services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. You must be at least 13 years old to use the Services.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete it. Parents or guardians who believe we may have collected personal information from a child under 13 should contact us at contact@atechsoftware.com and include enough information for us to find the data.

This section applies to atechsoftware.com. Meta Birds is a separate site with its own privacy policy and children’s-privacy statement.

10. Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated policy on this page and change the effective date. If a change is material, we will also try to notify account holders by email if we have an email address for the account.

11. Contact

Questions about this policy or our privacy practices, including access, deletion, or children’s-privacy requests: