Privacy Policy

Last updated: 25 October 2026

Effective date: 25 October 2026

This Privacy Policy explains what information the SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance Fan Site (“the fan site”, “we”, “us”) collects when you visit or contact it, how that information is used, who it may be shared with, how long it is kept, and what rights you have. It is written to describe how the website actually works. Please read it together with the Cookie Policy, the Terms and the Disclaimer.

1. Who we are

The SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance Fan Site is an independent, fan-created information website about the video game SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by SEGA, Lizardcube, or Google. For the purposes of applicable data protection laws, the fan site is responsible for the personal information described in this policy and can be contacted at:

  • Name: SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance Fan Site
  • Address: 49 Loop St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
  • Phone: +27 10 319 6261
  • Email: [email protected]

2. Scope of this policy

This policy applies to all pages of this website, including the home page, Combat, Ninja Arts, Levels & Exploration, Guides, FAQ, About, Contact and the legal pages. It also applies to messages you send to the fan site by email, phone, post or through the website's forms.

This policy does not apply to the game SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance, to its publisher or developer, to Google Play, or to any other website linked from this one. Those organisations have their own privacy policies, and we encourage you to read them.

3. Summary

  • You can read every page without creating an account or telling us who you are.
  • The website has no accounts, logins, shop, payments, newsletters or comment sections.
  • The forms do not upload data to a database. They open an email draft in your own email app.
  • We only receive personal information if you choose to contact us.
  • We do not sell personal information and do not use it for advertising profiles.
  • The pages do not contain analytics tools, advertising tags or tracking pixels.
  • If you accept the notice, your browser stores one value, “cookie-ok”, to keep it closed.
  • Pages load the Open Sans font from Google Fonts, which involves a request to Google.
  • You can ask us to access, correct or delete messages you have sent at any time.

4. Information we collect

4.1 Information you give us

If you contact the fan site, we receive the information you choose to include. When you use a form, the email draft it prepares contains the fields you filled in: your name, your email address, a subject, an optional guide topic or feedback type, and your message. If you email, phone or write to us directly, we receive your contact details and whatever you include in your message.

Please include only what is needed. Never send passwords, game account details, one-time codes, payment card numbers, bank details, identity documents or health information. We do not ask for them and have no use for them. If you send them anyway, we will delete them as soon as we notice.

4.2 Technical information

When any website is visited, the server that delivers it receives technical information from your browser, such as your IP address, the date and time of the request, the page requested, your browser type and the referring page. Our hosting provider may record this information in server logs for security, troubleshooting and to keep the website available. We do not use these logs to identify individual visitors, to build profiles or for advertising.

4.3 Information stored on your device

If you choose Accept on the notice at the bottom of the page, your browser stores the value “cookie-ok” in local storage. It contains no personal information and is never sent to us. See section 8 and the Cookie Policy.

4.4 Information we do not collect

We do not collect payment information, account credentials, precise location, contact lists, device identifiers for advertising, or any special categories of personal information. We do not use analytics software, session recording or fingerprinting techniques.

5. How we use information

We use the information described above only for the following purposes:

  • To read, answer and follow up on messages you send us.
  • To consider guide suggestions and correct errors on the website.
  • To handle privacy requests and keep a record that they were handled.
  • To keep the website secure and available, using technical server logs.
  • To comply with legal obligations, where they apply.

We do not use your information for automated decision-making or profiling, we do not add you to mailing lists, and we do not send marketing messages.

We process personal information in line with the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) of South Africa and, where it applies to visitors from the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Depending on the situation, we rely on:

  • Your consent, when you choose to send us a message or accept the notice. You can withdraw consent at any time.
  • Our legitimate interests in answering messages, improving the website's content and keeping the website secure, balanced against your rights.
  • Legal obligations, where we are required by law to keep or disclose information.

7. How the contact forms work

The home page and the contact page contain forms. When you press the button, a script in your browser checks that required fields are filled, builds a text summary of what you entered and asks your device to open an email draft addressed to [email protected]. A copy of the summary is also shown on the page so you can review it.

Nothing is uploaded to a database or stored on our server by the form itself. We receive your message only if you send the email draft from your own email app. Your email provider and ours transmit and store the message under their own terms. If you close the draft without sending it, we receive nothing.

8. Cookies and local storage

The website does not set its own HTTP cookies. It uses one item of browser local storage, “cookie-ok”, only if you choose Accept on the notice, so that the notice does not appear again. You can remove it at any time by clearing site data in your browser. Full details, including how third-party services may use cookies on their own domains, are in the Cookie Policy.

9. Third-party services

9.1 Google Fonts

Each page loads the Open Sans typeface from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com), a service provided by Google. To deliver the font, your browser sends Google ordinary connection data, including your IP address and browser information. Google processes this data under its own privacy policy, available at policies.google.com/privacy. We do not receive any report about these requests. You can block third-party font requests in your browser settings or with a browser extension; the text will still be readable in a fallback font.

9.2 Hosting provider

The website is delivered by a hosting provider that processes technical request data, as described in section 4.2, on our behalf and only to provide the hosting service.

9.3 Email providers

Messages you send us travel through your email provider and are stored by our email provider. These providers act under their own terms and security measures.

10. Advertising

The website does not display advertisements and does not contain advertising tags, conversion tracking, remarketing lists or tracking pixels.

We may promote the website through online advertising services such as Google Ads so that players can find it. If you click one of our advertisements, the advertising service may use its own cookies or identifiers on its own domains, under its own privacy policy, to record the click and measure the advertisement. That processing happens before you reach our pages and is controlled by the advertising service, not by us. You can manage personalised advertising from Google at adssettings.google.com and learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

If we ever add conversion tracking, analytics or any other tag to these pages, we will update this policy and the Cookie Policy before doing so and, where required by law, ask for your consent first.

11. Sharing and disclosure

We do not sell, rent or trade personal information. We do not share it with SEGA, Lizardcube, Google or any other company for their own purposes. We may disclose information only:

  • To service providers, such as our hosting and email providers, who process it on our behalf to run the website and our inbox.
  • When required by law, regulation, court order or a valid request from a public authority.
  • When necessary to protect the safety, rights or security of visitors, the fan site or others, for example to investigate abuse.

12. International transfers

Our service providers, including Google and email or hosting providers, may process information on servers outside South Africa or outside your own country. Where this happens, we rely on those providers' safeguards, such as contractual protections recognised by applicable data protection law, to keep the information protected.

13. Data retention

  • Messages: kept for up to 24 months after our last exchange with you, then deleted, unless you ask us to delete them sooner or a longer period is required by law.
  • Privacy requests: a record that a request was received and handled is kept for up to 24 months so we can show that it was dealt with.
  • Server logs: kept by the hosting provider only for the limited period needed for security and troubleshooting.
  • “cookie-ok”: stays on your device until you clear it.

14. Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect the information we hold, including limiting access to our inbox, using reputable providers and deleting messages that are no longer needed. Because the website itself does not store form submissions, accounts or payments, the amount of personal information we hold is very small. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, so please avoid sending sensitive information by email.

15. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

  • Ask whether we hold personal information about you and request a copy.
  • Ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Ask us to delete your information.
  • Object to, or ask us to restrict, how we use your information.
  • Withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting earlier processing.
  • Receive your information in a portable format, where applicable.
  • Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.

To exercise these rights, email [email protected] with the subject “Privacy request”, or write to the postal address in section 1. We may ask you to confirm that the request comes from the email address concerned. We aim to respond within 30 days. There is no charge for a reasonable request.

In South Africa, you can lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator (inforegulator.org.za). If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you can contact your local data protection authority. We would appreciate the chance to address your concern first.

16. Children's privacy

This website is a general-audience information resource and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are under 18, please ask a parent or guardian before contacting us. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

Some pages link to or mention other websites, such as Google's privacy pages or official game sources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites. Please review their policies before providing them with any information.

18. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when the website or the law changes, for example if a new service is added. The effective date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated. Significant changes will be highlighted on this page before they take effect.

19. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact: