Welcome to the Privacy Policy for Dark Lunch Studios ("we", "us", "our"). Dark Lunch Studios is the data controller responsible for your personal data collected through our services. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency about how we handle your data. This policy explains what personal data we collect, how it is used, and your rights across our services, including our website (darklun.ch - the "Website") and our Twitch chat bot, MunchBotDLS ("MunchBotDLS").
Website Data Collection
When you visit our Website, we may automatically collect:
- Log Data: Including your IP address, browser type, operating system, pages visited, referring URLs, access times, and other standard server log information.
- Device Information: Information about the device you use to access the Website, such as device type and browser version.
- Usage Data: Information about how you interact with our Website features.
- Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: Data collected via cookies (see "Cookie Policy" section below).
This data helps us operate the Website, analyze traffic, improve our services, ensure security, and enhance user experience. We may use industry-standard analytics tools to collect and analyze this information, often in an aggregated or anonymized form.
MunchBotDLS Data Collection
When you interact with MunchBotDLS, we collect and store:
- Your Twitch username and unique Twitch user ID.
- Chat messages you send in channels where MunchBotDLS is active and commands directed at MunchBotDLS.
- Interaction history with MunchBotDLS (e.g., commands used, timing).
- Technical metadata associated with your interactions (e.g., timestamps, message IDs).
- Interaction patterns and potential preferences derived from your chat history to enable personalization features.
- Channel-specific interaction data relevant to MunchBotDLS's function in that channel.
This data is primarily stored in our database to enable MunchBotDLS's memory system, providing personalized responses and maintaining conversation context. MunchBotDLS uses this data to:
- Remember recent interactions to maintain conversation flow (short-term memory).
- Store key information or preferences for personalized future interactions (long-term memory elements).
- Generate contextually appropriate responses.
- Understand usage patterns to improve MunchBotDLS.
Data Retention and Pruning
We are committed to data minimization. We implement the following retention policies for data collected by MunchBotDLS:
- Interaction history used for short-term context is automatically pruned after 90 days.
- We retain a limited number of recent interactions (e.g., maximum of 100) per user for immediate context recall.
- Your first interaction may be preserved longer for establishing initial context.
- Data stored for long-term memory (e.g., learned preferences) may be retained longer but is subject to decay or deletion if unused or deemed no longer necessary for MunchBotDLS's core personalization function.
Website log data is typically retained for a limited period for security analysis and troubleshooting purposes before being deleted or anonymized. Data collected via cookies is retained according to the cookie type (see Cookie Policy). Data provided via email is kept as long as needed to address the inquiry.
Your right to request deletion may override these standard retention periods, subject to legal exceptions (see "Your Rights").
Data Processing and Purpose
Your data is processed primarily to provide and improve our services. MunchBotDLS data is processed locally within our system to provide its memory and response generation features, including extracting context, updating conversation states, and personalizing interactions. Website data is processed for website operation, security, analytics, and responding to inquiries. Our legal bases for processing typically include your consent (e.g., for non-essential cookies, interacting with MunchBotDLS) and our legitimate interests (e.g., security logging, essential website function, service improvement).
Data Sharing with xAI
To provide certain AI-powered features, MunchBotDLS interacts with the xAI API. As part of our developer relationship, we share certain data with xAI when you use these features.
- Data Shared: Includes your Twitch username, relevant chat messages, and associated metadata.
- Purpose: This enables the AI functionality and, in return, we may receive developer credits helping to sustain the MunchBotDLS service.
- xAI's Role: xAI processes this data according to their own privacy policy. We do not control their subsequent use of the data.
- Note on Regulations: Under some privacy laws (like the CCPA/CPRA), sharing data in exchange for benefits like service credits might be considered "selling" or "sharing." Please see the "Your Rights" section for information on how to opt-out if applicable.
Cookie Policy
Our Website uses cookies (small text files stored on your device) and similar technologies. These include:
- Essential Cookies: Strictly necessary for the Website to function (e.g., session management). These cannot be disabled.
- Analytics Cookies: Help us understand Website usage patterns (e.g., using analytics tools). These collect aggregated or pseudonymous data.
- Preference Cookies: Used to remember your settings, if applicable.
Your Control: You can manage most cookies through your browser settings (allowing, blocking, deleting). However, blocking essential cookies may affect Website functionality. For analytics cookies like Google Analytics, you can often opt-out directly (e.g., via the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on). We obtain your consent for non-essential cookies via our cookie consent mechanism.
Third-Party Services
Our services may integrate with or rely on third-party platforms:
- Twitch (MunchBotDLS platform)
- xAI (AI processing for MunchBotDLS)
- Analytics providers
- Hosting providers (Website and MunchBotDLS hosting)
- Content Delivery Networks (if used)
These third parties have their own privacy policies governing their data handling. We encourage you to review them.
Data Security
We implement reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Measures include secure storage, access controls, data pruning, and regular system maintenance. However, no system is 100% secure.
Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data
Depending on your location (e.g., EU/EEA, UK, California), you have certain rights concerning your personal data. We aim to honor these rights regardless of location where feasible:
- Right to Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Correction (Rectification): You can request correction of inaccurate personal data.
- Right to Deletion (Erasure): You can request deletion of your personal data, subject to certain exceptions (e.g., legal obligations, data essential for ongoing service function if retention is justified and cannot be fulfilled otherwise).
- Right to Data Portability: Where applicable (e.g., under GDPR), you may request your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Right to Object: You may object to processing based on legitimate interests under certain circumstances (e.g., direct marketing - though we don't currently do this).
- Right to Withdraw Consent: Where processing is based on consent (e.g., non-essential cookies), you can withdraw it at any time (e.g., via browser settings or cookie tool).
- Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing (e.g., CCPA/CPRA): If you are a California resident, you have the right to opt-out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information. Our data sharing with xAI in return for credits may fall under this definition. You can request to opt-out via the contact method below.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.
How to Exercise Your Rights: Please submit your request by contacting us at darklunchstudios@gmail.com. Clearly state the right(s) you wish to exercise. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request (e.g., confirming ownership of the Twitch username associated with MunchBotDLS data). We will respond within the timeframes required by applicable law.
Stopping Future Data Collection: You can stop MunchBotDLS from collecting further data from you by leaving the Twitch channel(s) where it's active or by refraining from interacting directly with MunchBotDLS. This will not delete data previously collected.
International Data Transfer
Our services may be hosted and operated in countries outside of your own, including the United States. This means your data may be transferred to and processed in these countries. We ensure that such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws, using appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by relevant authorities, or relying on your informed consent where applicable, to protect your data. By using our services, you acknowledge these transfers.
Children's Privacy
MunchBotDLS and our Website are intended for general audiences and are not directed to children under the age of 13 (or a higher applicable age threshold in certain jurisdictions). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us immediately so we can delete it.
Your Consent
By using our Website, interacting with MunchBotDLS, or using our other services, you acknowledge you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. Your continued use signifies your agreement with this policy and consent to the data processing described (including essential cookies/log data); consent for non-essential cookies is managed separately as described above. If you do not agree, please refrain from using our services.
Policy Updates
This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically. We will post the updated version here and revise the "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this page regularly. For significant changes, we may provide more prominent notice.
Contact Us
For any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact us:
Email: darklunchstudios@gmail.com
Expected response time for privacy inquiries: 2-3 business days