Privacy Policy

1. Information we process

We process your email address when you sign in, browser or guest identifiers, uploaded novels, worldline settings, choices and generated events. We also process security and operational logs, payment transaction identifiers, order details, purchased reading or audio entitlements, membership terms, ticket balances and billing-event records. Full payment-card details are handled by CCBill, not stored by Worldline Forge.

2. How information is used

Information is used to provide reading, listening and interactive features, preserve server-side worldlines and account records, keep local reading and listening positions and synchronize eligible account positions, deliver sign-in codes, process entitlements, prevent fraud and abuse, reconcile purchases and understand aggregate acquisition, retention and unit economics.

3. Service providers

We use infrastructure, storage, model, email and payment providers to operate Worldline Forge. Uploaded content is processed to create and run your worldlines. Providers receive information needed for their service, not permission to publicly publish your private novel.

4. Retention and deletion

Private-source retention varies by account and is disclosed at purchase. Eligible sources can be extended by using world tickets. Expired source worlds, related events and scores are periodically removed. Billing records and limited audit events may be retained longer for reconciliation, fraud prevention, security and legal obligations.

You may delete a private world through the service when that control is available. Clearing browser storage removes local identifiers and resume metadata, but does not by itself delete server-side records.

5. Storage and browser data

Worldline Forge uses local browser storage for sign-in tokens, language, advertising preferences and the most recent worldline reference. Public reading positions include a book identifier, chapter and paragraph; listening positions include the chapter, playback time and speed. These positions are separated by the current account or guest identity and storefront territory. The position records do not contain the novel text or payment-card details.

Guest reading and listening positions stay in this browser. When sign-in is available, reading and listening actions on an eligible chapter also save account progress to private server storage, so the same account can continue on another device. Saved account positions include content-version identifiers and revision metadata to check whether a position still applies. Existing guest or older local history is not automatically uploaded. Sync failures retain the local position; conflicting positions require a choice. Clearing browser data removes local resume information but does not delete saved account progress on the server. Logging out separates account progress from guest progress but does not erase every saved browser record. On a shared device, sign out and clear site data when finished.

6. Optional advertising

Optional Google advertising is off until you allow it on this browser. We do not request advertising when Global Privacy Control is enabled. Allowing ads does not override a chapter's publishing rights, territory restrictions or ad-free membership. Google may use cookies even when delivering non-personalized ads. You may keep reading without ads and change your choice at any time through Advertising preferences in the footer. Withdrawing consent may reload the page to stop previously loaded advertising code. This choice controls optional advertising; it is not a guarantee of ad delivery or a substitute for the advertising provider's own privacy settings.

7. Your choices and security

When sign-in is available, use the original account to access its server-side orders, entitlements and eligible worldlines. Guest reading and listening positions remain local to the original browser. Eligible account positions can be synchronized; access to the underlying chapter still depends on current publishing rights, territory and entitlements. Contact support for access or privacy requests. We apply access controls, encrypted source storage and operational safeguards, but no online service can promise absolute security. We do not sell your private novel or sign-in email.