Effective Date: October 19, 2026
PewPew Cards ("PewPew Cards," "we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have regarding your information.
Information You Provide
When you create an account or use the Service, you may provide information such as:
We also keep a record of when you accepted our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, and which version you accepted.
Information Collected Automatically
We may automatically collect information including:
This information helps us operate, secure, and improve the Service.
Authentication Information
If you sign in using Google or another authentication provider, we receive information that the provider shares with us, which may include:
We do not receive your password.
Sketch Card Images and Artist Identification
When you upload a sketch card back, we automatically detect and crop the artist's signature and store that cropped image with your sketch. We use these signature crops only to help identify artists.
When anyone uses the artist identification tool, the image they submit is analyzed by an AI service to read the signature. If the signature is hard to read, it is compared against signature crops from sketch card backs already on the Service, including sketches marked private. Signature crops from private sketches are never shown to other users; a lookup only returns suggested artist names and card backs from public sketches.
Images submitted to the artist identification tool are processed to return results and are not saved to your collection or the sketch gallery.
We remove embedded photo metadata, such as camera location, from images you upload.
We use your information to:
We do not sell your personal information.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another region whose laws require a legal basis for processing personal information, we rely on the following:
We may share information only in the following circumstances:
Public Information
The following information may be visible to other users:
If your profile is set to private, other users cannot view your profile or collection.
Service Providers
We use trusted third-party providers to operate the Service, including:
These providers process data on our behalf only as needed to provide their services.
Affiliate Links
Links to eBay on the Service are affiliate links through the eBay Partner Network. When you follow one, eBay receives the search terms and a tracking code identifying PewPew Cards, and we may earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. We do not send eBay your name, email address, or account details. eBay's use of information is governed by its own privacy policy.
Legal Requirements
We may disclose information if required by law or if we believe disclosure is necessary to:
PewPew Cards may integrate with services such as:
These services have their own privacy policies and terms of service. Use of Google reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
We encourage you to review those policies before linking your accounts.
We use cookies or similar technologies to:
We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. Third parties such as Google reCAPTCHA and eBay may set their own cookies when you use their features or follow their links.
You can control cookies through your browser settings, although disabling them may affect the functionality of the Service.
We retain your account information, collection, lists, and sketches for as long as your account remains active or as necessary to provide the Service.
Server, error, and security logs and performance traces, which can include your account identifier, IP address, pages visited, and eBay search terms, are kept for about 30 days and then deleted automatically.
Signature crops are kept for as long as the associated sketch remains on the Service. To prevent abuse, we keep short-lived usage counters for the artist identification tool, tied to your account or to a one-way hash of your IP address; these are deleted automatically within about a day.
We may retain certain information for a reasonable period after account deletion to:
Sketch Cards
Sketch cards you upload become part of the community sketch gallery. If you upload a sketch without marking it as yours, it is shown without your username, but we keep a record that your account uploaded it. If you remove a sketch you own from your collection, it is removed from the gallery; the image files may remain in our storage for a period afterward.
Linked Accounts
When you unlink your Discord account, we delete the Discord user ID, username, display name, and avatar we stored for it.
Account Deletion
You may request deletion of your account by contacting us.
When your account is deleted:
We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect your information.
However, no method of transmitting or storing data is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
PewPew Cards is not intended for children under the age of 13 (or the minimum age required in your jurisdiction).
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children below that age.
If we learn that we have collected such information, we will take reasonable steps to remove it.
PewPew Cards is operated from the United States, and our service providers store and process data in the United States and other countries.
If you access the Service from another country, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, which may not have the same data protection laws as your country. Where the law requires it, we rely on safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, which our cloud provider (Google) has adopted for data it processes on our behalf.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:
To exercise these rights, contact us using the information below. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. We will respond within the time required by applicable law.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. We would appreciate the chance to address your concern first, so please contact us.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
When significant changes are made, we will update the Effective Date and may notify users through the Service.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your privacy rights, contact us at:
Email: jvlcards@gmail.com