WHAT WE COLLECT, AND WHY

In short

99 Worlds is a free-to-read work of original fiction, supported by advertising. You do not need an account to read anything, and nothing on this site is for sale. We only handle what you type when you choose to ask a Lorekeeper a question. Advertising is provided by Google and may use cookies. Each of these is explained below.

When you read

Reading a world does not require you to give us anything. Like every website, our hosting provider (Google Cloud, Singapore region) keeps basic request logs, such as IP address, browser type and time of access, for security and to keep the site running. We do not use those logs to profile you and we do not sell them.

Your browser stores your language choice (English or Chinese) locally so the site remembers it next time. That setting stays on your device and is not sent to us.

When you ask a Lorekeeper

Each world has a Lorekeeper who answers questions about it. When you ask one, your question is sent together with that world's public dossier to our AI provider (currently OpenAI, with Google as a fallback if OpenAI is unavailable), solely to produce that answer. We do not keep the text of your questions or of the answers.

To bound compute costs and prevent abuse, free questions have a daily allowance. We count it in two ways: a counter keyed to your IP address and the date, and, if you have given us an email address, a counter keyed to that email and the date. These counters store a number, not what you asked.

If you give us your email

Giving us an email address is optional. If you do, it is stored in Google Cloud Firestore, used for the question allowance above, and, if you choose to join the list, used to send you updates. The list is shared across DAOx LTD's own products, so you are not asked separately by each tool. It is never sold and never shared outside DAOx LTD. Every email has an unsubscribe link, unsubscribing takes effect immediately, and it removes you from every one of those lists.

Advertising and cookies

This site uses Google AdSense to show advertising, which pays for running the site and keeps everything on it free to read.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.
• How Google uses this information is explained on Google's own page, How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Apart from Google's advertising, this site uses no analytics or tracking cookies of its own.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has given us an email address, write to us and we will delete it.

Your rights

You can ask at any time for a copy of the information we hold about you, or for it to be corrected or deleted. We comply with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020, and if you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom you also have the rights your local data-protection law gives you. Write to hello@daox.studio and tell us which email address the request concerns.

Who runs this site

99 Worlds is published and operated by DAOx LTD, a company registered in Auckland, New Zealand. If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page will change with it. See also our terms and contact page.