Privacy policy for Sticky Floors
Your data is not a product. No advertising profiles. No sale of your personal information.
Sticky Floors is developed and published by Super Basic Studio, LLC, an independent American studio that believes privacy isn’t a feature, it’s a right. This policy covers the Sticky Floors game, wherever you bought it, and this website, stickyfloors.bar. It says exactly what the game and the site do with your data, which is very little.
Big tech treats your data as their product. They track every click, every scroll, every pause. They sell access to your attention to advertisers. They bury privacy settings behind seven menus and call it “user choice.” We’re done with that. We build games that treat your data as none of our business. No studio accounts. No studio cloud. No strings attached. If that means we stay small, we stay small.
Short and honest. Like a good bartender.
Skip to the full policyHouse rules
The same rules every Super Basic Studio product lives by, written out for a game that ships on Steam.
No banner ads, no sponsored content, no “upgrade to remove ads” dark patterns. If a game needs ads to survive, it doesn’t deserve to exist. Sticky Floors is funded by the people who buy it, not by selling your attention to the highest bidder.
We don’t sell or rent your data or build advertising profiles. We explain the limited website statistics and information you choose to send below, including which providers process it. Your data is not a product.
Privacy isn’t a premium feature you unlock. The game does not automatically upload gameplay analytics or diagnostic logs to the studio. If we need a report, you choose whether to send it. Steam services and external music artwork are explained below.
Valve handles Steam accounts, purchases, playtime, and enabled achievements and Cloud saves under its own privacy policy. The game accesses Steam identity for display; we do not receive your payment card details or require a separate studio account.
Your saves live on your machine as ordinary files you can copy, back up, export or delete. There is no Super Basic Studio account and no studio cloud. Steam Cloud is optional and you can turn it off in the Steam client.
There is no account of ours to close and nothing of yours held hostage. Unsubscribe from the guest list in one click, ask us to delete a report and we will, and keep your save files forever.
The game
Games sold on Steam work a little differently from our desktop tools, because Steam is involved in selling and running them. Everything below is true of Sticky Floors.
The game does not automatically send gameplay analytics, telemetry or crash reports to Super Basic Studio. Diagnostic logs stay on your machine unless you choose to share them. You can send a report through the website or your email application; the studio receives only what you deliberately send.
When running through Steam, the game accesses your Steam ID, display name and avatar for in-game identity. Achievements and statistics, where enabled in a build, use Valve’s services. Steam itself handles its accounts, store purchases, downloads, wishlists and platform usage.
Valve’s data handling is covered by Valve’s privacy policy. We do not receive your payment card details or connect your Steam identity to website analytics or newsletter subscriptions.
Where Steam Cloud is enabled, saves and associated player-created content sync through Valve’s servers so you can carry on from another machine. They are not automatically uploaded to a studio server. You can turn Steam Cloud off in the game’s properties inside Steam. Your local saves can be copied, backed up or deleted; existing cloud copies must be managed separately. Core local play does not require a studio-operated online service.
On supported systems, the bar radio reads playback metadata supplied by your local music player, such as track title, artist and artwork. Locally supplied or embedded artwork needs no download. If the player supplies an online image address, the game may request that image directly from its host. The host receives normal request information, including your IP address and the image address. The studio does not receive your listening history.
This feature is currently on by default and can be disabled in the game’s external music settings. Disabling it prevents new remote artwork requests. Steam services have their own network activity and settings.
No advertising of any kind. No in-app purchases, no purchasable currency, no loot boxes, no season passes. The game contains in-game money and in-game bar games, and none of it can be bought with or converted to real money.
Sticky Floors does not require a Super Basic Studio account, login or registration. You can choose to identify yourself when you join the guest list or contact us. A Steam copy uses Valve’s own account system.
On your machine, or through Steam
Not now, not ever
This website
The website includes game information, an optional guest list, a feedback form and this policy.
We use Umami, an open-source analytics tool on a studio-managed service, to understand website traffic. It sets no analytics cookies and does not build advertising profiles. It processes page visits, technical request information, approximate location and hashed session identifiers. Cookieless does not mean that no data is processed. See section 2 for the details and a browser opt-out.
If you sign up for game news, we store your email address with our email provider, Resend, tagged to the Sticky Floors list only, and only after you tick the consent box. We use it for game news, playtest invites and launch updates, nothing else. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and you can also email us to be removed entirely.
Reports you send from the feedback page are emailed to the studio inbox through Resend and are not stored on this website. They contain what you typed, plus a screenshot if you attached one. Your name and email are optional; if you leave an email we use it only to reply about your report. We keep reports for as long as they are useful for fixing the game and delete them on request.
The website is served by Vercel. Hosting and security infrastructure process request details, including IP addresses, URLs, timestamps and browser headers, and may retain operational logs for delivery, security and reliability. Those logs are separate from Umami’s analytics records. We do not use them to build advertising profiles.
Limited analytics, plus what you choose to send
Not now, not ever
Our practices at a glance
These are examples of practices used by advertising-funded services, not claims about every other website or game. The full policy below explains our approach.
| What | Advertising approach | Sticky Floors |
|---|---|---|
| Cookies | Multiple trackers | Zero |
| IP address | Stored for profiling | Processed for requests; no raw IP field in Umami records. Hosting logs are separate. |
| Cross-site tracking | Advertising profiles | No cross-site advertising tracking |
| Data sent to | Ad networks | Studio-managed analytics; hosting and email providers for their services |
| Data retention | Long-lived advertising profiles | Purpose-based retention, detailed in section 7 |
| Advertising IDs | Collected | Never |
| Form data | Auto-captured | Only what you send |
| Visitor identifiers | Persistent advertising identity | Site-specific hashed analytics sessions; no advertising ID |
| In-game telemetry | Automatic gameplay uploads | No automatic studio uploads |
| Analytics source code | Proprietary | Open source |
The paperwork
Everything above is the policy in plain language. This part exists for stores, regulators and anyone who wants the formal version. Effective September 8, 2026.
Super Basic Studio, LLC (United States), a Washington State limited liability company, is the developer and publisher of Sticky Floors and the operator of stickyfloors.bar. For everything in this policy, we are the data controller. Contact us at hello@superbasic.studio.
This policy applies to the Sticky Floors game on every platform we sell it, including Steam, and to the stickyfloors.bar website. It does not cover Valve, Steam, Reddit, your music service, your operating system or any other third party, each of which has its own policy. Our desktop tools and the studio website are covered by the Super Basic Studio privacy policy.
We use self-hosted Umami at analytics.superbasic.studio to understand which pages people visit, how they find the game, and which browsers and devices we should support. Statistics go to this studio-managed analytics service, not Google Analytics or an advertising network. Umami is used on this website, not inside the game.
Your IP address reaches the analytics infrastructure when your browser makes a request. Umami uses request information, including the IP address and browser user-agent, to derive approximate location and hashed identifiers. The raw IP address is not stored as a field in Umami’s analytics records. Separate hosting, proxy or security logs may contain IP addresses.
Umami keeps visit and session records from which reports are calculated; it does not store only aggregate totals. Its request-derived session grouping is different from a name or account, but we do not describe cookieless analytics as zero data collection or guarantee that every record is legally anonymous.
We do not send newsletter addresses, names, feedback text, screenshots, pasted logs or other form contents to Umami. Signup outcome events can be grouped with the same analytics visit, but we do not attach an email address or Resend contact ID or join them to subscriber records. We do not connect visits to your support messages, Steam identity, game saves or music history. We do not enable identified-user tracking, session recordings, heatmaps or keystroke capture. There are no analytics cookies, advertising IDs, or canvas, audio or font-probing scripts used to build a device fingerprint.
Limited website analytics run automatically unless you opt out or your browser blocks them. This is separate from the explicit consent required for the newsletter. Collection is restricted to the live stickyfloors.bar and www.stickyfloors.bar domains. We configure Umami to respect Do Not Track. You can also block analytics.superbasic.studio using a content blocker.
The control below stores an opt-out flag locally in this browser. Umami checks it before each analytics send. The flag is not sent to the studio, is not an identity profile, and remains until you remove it or clear site storage.
Checking this browser’s analytics preference…
The opt-out stops future collection; it does not delete earlier records or unsubscribe you from email. Apply it separately on each browser and device. With JavaScript disabled, Umami does not run. We do not sell or share data for targeted advertising, including when a browser sends Global Privacy Control; use Do Not Track or the control above to disable Umami collection itself.
See Umami’s data and retention FAQ, tracker settings and open-source code for technical background. Our retention practices are in section 7.
When you submit the feedback form, Resend delivers the report to the studio inbox. The website has no separate report database; copies are held by the email service and studio mailbox. Reports include the category, severity, platform, build version, summary, description, steps and logs you supply, plus an optional screenshot. Name and reply email are optional and never automatically added to the guest list. Logs, images and file metadata may include usernames, file paths, device details, account identifiers or personal information. Review them before sending. Direct emails also include your address, attachments and normal email headers.
During playtests and betas, the game may write extra diagnostic files to your own machine to help you report problems. They stay there unless you choose to send them. Anything you send us, whether through the form, by pressing the game’s report button that opens your own email client, or by writing to us directly, is handled the same way: used to investigate and fix the game, kept only while it is useful for that, and deleted on request. We rely on our legitimate interest in supporting and improving the game as the legal basis. Email the studio for support or to have a report deleted.
The in-game report tool can save a report locally, copy it to your clipboard and open your email application with a prepared message. Preparing or copying a report does not send it to the studio; you decide whether to submit it. Retention and any limits on deletion are explained in section 7.
The game does not automatically send gameplay analytics, diagnostic logs or crash reports to Super Basic Studio. There is no required studio account, login or registration. You choose whether to share information for support.
The game writes saves, backups, settings, player-created content and diagnostic files to your device. Saves contain game progress and choices; diagnostic logs may include game events, errors, timestamps and technical details such as operating system information and file paths. Local files are not automatically uploaded to the studio. Steam Cloud can sync saves and associated content through Valve, and you can voluntarily share reports or files with us. Local and cloud copies must be managed separately; uninstalling the game may leave saves behind.
A Steam copy uses an account provided by Valve. The game accesses Steam ID, display name and avatar for in-game identity. Steam operates store purchases, payment processing, downloads, wishlists, platform usage and Cloud saves. Achievements and statistics use Valve’s services where enabled in a build. Use Steam’s settings to manage Cloud synchronization and profile preferences, and see Valve’s privacy policy for its practices and your rights. We do not receive your payment card information.
When external music integration is enabled on a supported system, the game reads playback metadata supplied by your local media player. Online artwork addresses can cause a direct request to the image host, which receives normal request information including your IP address and the image address. Local or embedded artwork needs no download. The studio does not receive listening history. This integration is currently on by default; switching it off in external music settings prevents new remote artwork requests. Steam’s network services are separate.
We use Resend and our email service for contacts, subscriptions and correspondence, Vercel for website hosting and form endpoints, and studio-managed Umami infrastructure for analytics. Hosting and security systems may process and retain request information, including IP addresses, URLs, timestamps, browser headers and errors. This is separate from the analytics database. Provider retention and backup schedules vary.
We disclose information to providers as needed to operate these services, when you ask us to, or when required by law or necessary to address abuse and protect legal rights. We do not sell or rent personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. Valve, music-artwork hosts and sites opened through external links apply their own privacy policies.
You can contact us about the following requests. Statutory rights and exceptions depend on your location and applicable law:
Where applicable, these include rights under European and UK data-protection law and California or other state privacy laws. Email hello@superbasic.studio to make a request or appeal our response where that right applies. We may ask for enough information to verify the request and will respond within the applicable legal timeframe. We do not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights.
We do not keep a lookup connecting your email or Steam identity to Umami visits, so we may be unable to identify individual analytics records. We will explain any limits rather than collect extra identifying information just to build that link.
Where a legal basis is required, we rely on consent for marketing; providing the requested service or responding to your request for necessary game and support processing; legitimate interests for proportionate website statistics, maintenance and abuse prevention where permitted; and legal obligations where required. If an activity requires consent under applicable law, we must obtain it before that activity. We do not make automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you.
The website, newsletter and support forms are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. Where local law requires a higher age or parental authorization, that requirement applies. If a child has sent us personal information without the required authorization, contact us so we can remove it. Valve sets the requirements for Steam accounts.
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the small amount of personal data we hold, including sending forms only over HTTPS, keeping provider credentials server-side, and never logging report contents or addresses. No transmission over the internet is completely secure, so we cannot promise absolute security. Save files on your machine are ordinary unencrypted files, so protect them the way you protect the rest of your computer.
The studio is based in the United States. Information you send us may be processed in the United States and other countries where our providers operate. Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, those protections must apply; the linked provider policies explain their arrangements. Visiting this page is not a blanket consent to new processing or transfers.
We will update this page and its date when our practices change, including new game features that affect data handling. Material changes will receive an appropriate notice. We will request fresh consent when required; publishing a policy update does not automatically opt you into new collection or marketing.
Effective September 8, 2026.
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