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Privacy Policy


Last updated: August 23, 2026

RAZ Studio, operated by InfoChic, places great importance on the protection of your personal information.

This policy explains what information we collect when you use the razstudio.ca website, the pages dedicated to Ascension of the Fifth Era (A5E), your user account, and the financial support services for the project, as well as how we use, retain, and protect this information.

We aim to limit collection to the information necessary for the purposes described in this policy.

Table of contents

  • Information we collect
  • How we use your information
  • Public contributors list
  • PayPal
  • Cookies
  • External services
  • Retention
  • Security
  • Your rights
  • Questions and complaints

1. Privacy Officer

Name
Réjean Chicoine
Title
Privacy Officer
Email
[email protected]

You may contact this person with any question about your personal information, to exercise your rights, or to file a complaint.

2. Information We Collect

Depending on the features you use, we may collect the following information.

Account creation and management

  • first name and last name
  • email address
  • password, stored only as a secure hash and never in plain text
  • preferred language
  • account creation date
  • email verification date
  • last login date
  • technical information related to account security, including failed login attempts and temporary lockout periods

User profile

  • uploaded avatar
  • Discord nickname, in-game name, or other public name
  • choice to appear or not in the public contributors list
  • public name used in that list

Your real name and email address are not displayed publicly in the contributors list, unless the user chooses to use their real name as their public name.

A5E communications

When you register or in your profile, you may choose to receive news about A5E.

This option is optional and is not enabled by default. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

Financial support and payments

When you support A5E, we retain in particular:

  • your name
  • your email address
  • the support level chosen
  • the amount and currency
  • the type of contribution, one-time or recurring
  • the status of the transaction or subscription
  • certain dates related to the payment
  • transaction or customer identifiers provided by PayPal

RAZ Studio does not receive or retain your credit card numbers or other full payment data. Financial processing is handled by PayPal.

3. Why We Use This Information

We use your information in particular to:

  • create and administer your account
  • verify your email address
  • authenticate you and secure your account
  • allow password recovery
  • store your preferences
  • manage your profile and avatar
  • display your profile in the public contributors list when you have expressly chosen this option
  • manage your contributions and support history
  • manage recurring contributions
  • process refunds or cancellations where applicable
  • send you the communications you have chosen to subscribe to
  • prevent abuse, automated login attempts, and other security incidents
  • comply with our accounting, tax, and legal obligations

We do not use your personal information for other incompatible purposes without obtaining the required consent.

4. Public Contributors List

A5E may offer a public page presenting the people who support the project.

Your presence in this list is optional.

You must explicitly choose the option to display your public profile.

When you choose to appear, the information that may be displayed includes in particular:

  • your avatar or, in the absence of a custom avatar, an emblem associated with your support level
  • your public name or pseudonym
  • your type of support
  • certain public information related to your participation in the project

Your email address is never published.

Your true identity is published only if you voluntarily choose to use your real name as your public name.

Presence in this public list is separate from any possible presence in the game credits, which depends on the benefits associated with the chosen support level.

You can change your public display choice in your profile.

5. PayPal

Payments and subscriptions are processed through PayPal.

When you initiate a contribution, certain information necessary to process the transaction may be shared with PayPal, including your identity, your email address, the transaction amount, and identifiers linking the payment to your RAZ Studio account.

PayPal may also directly collect certain technical information, including your IP address and your browser characteristics, in accordance with its own privacy practices.

The site's PayPal module is loaded when a user shows an intention to make a payment.

Information processed directly by PayPal is subject to PayPal's privacy policies and terms.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

RAZ Studio uses a limited number of cookies.

RAZSESSID

Maintains your session and protects certain actions against fraudulent requests. It is necessary for the secure operation of the account.

raz_remember

Used only when you choose the option to stay signed in. It may be retained for approximately 30 days.

raz_lang

Remembers the language chosen for the site. It may be retained for approximately one year.

We currently do not use Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar, Microsoft Clarity, or other advertising or behavioural tracking tools.

We currently do not use localStorage or sessionStorage for tracking.

A separate cookie policy provides further details about these technologies.

7. External Services and Providers

Certain information may be processed or hosted by providers necessary to the operation of the site, including:

  • PayPal, for the processing of payments and subscriptions
  • our web hosting provider and its infrastructure
  • the technical services necessary for the delivery of our emails

Links to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Discord are simple external links. We currently do not integrate any advertising pixel or tracking tool from these platforms into the site.

The fonts used by the site are hosted locally and do not require a connection to an external font provider.

When personal information must be transferred outside of Quebec, RAZ Studio takes into account the applicable data protection obligations.

8. Retention of Information

We retain personal information only for the period necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or to comply with our legal obligations.

In general:

  • information related to your account is retained while your account remains active
  • certain temporary security tokens expire automatically after a short period
  • data allowing you to stay signed in may be retained for approximately 30 days
  • financial information and transaction records may have to be retained longer to comply with applicable accounting, tax, or legal obligations

When information is no longer necessary, it is destroyed, anonymized, or de-identified according to the circumstances and applicable obligations.

9. Account Deletion

You can request the deletion of your account through the features provided for that purpose or by contacting us.

Upon deletion:

  • your profile data is deleted or anonymized
  • your avatar is deleted
  • your public name and optional information are removed
  • your email address and identity are anonymized in the account
  • financial information that must be retained for legal obligations may be retained in a limited or anonymized form

Some information therefore may not necessarily be deleted immediately when a legal obligation requires its retention.

10. Security

We apply various measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, or destruction.

These measures include in particular:

  • passwords stored as secure hashes
  • HTTPS connections
  • secure session cookies
  • CSRF protection mechanisms
  • email address verification
  • login attempt limits
  • recovery and authentication tokens stored in hashed form
  • validation of communications from PayPal
  • restricted access to private files and data

However, no method of electronic transmission or storage can guarantee absolute security.

11. Technical Logs

RAZ Studio currently does not directly store users' IP addresses in its application database.

Our web host may nevertheless automatically retain certain technical logs, including:

  • IP address
  • browser type
  • user agent
  • date and time of requests
  • resources accessed

These logs may be used to ensure security, stability, technical diagnostics, and infrastructure protection.

12. Your Rights

Depending on your place of residence and applicable laws, you may in particular request:

  • access to the personal information we hold about you
  • correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
  • deletion of certain information
  • withdrawal of consent where processing is based on it
  • cessation of certain communications
  • further information about the use or disclosure of your data

Users to whom the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies may also have additional rights depending on the circumstances, including in matters of objection, restriction of processing, and portability.

To exercise your rights, contact:

Name
Réjean Chicoine
Title
Privacy Officer
Email
[email protected]

13. Consent and Choices

Where your consent is required, we aim to request it clearly and distinctly.

For example:

  • subscribing to A5E news is optional
  • appearing in the public contributors list is optional
  • the 'stay signed in' option is optional
  • a payment is initiated only when you choose to support the project

You can change some of these choices from your profile.

14. Minors

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 14 without the required consent.

Where the law requires it, the consent of a parent or guardian may be required.

15. Changes to This Policy

We may change this policy as our services, practices, or applicable requirements evolve.

The date of the most recent update is shown at the beginning of the policy.

When significant changes are made, we may also inform users through the site or by other appropriate means.

16. Questions and Complaints

For any question, request, or complaint regarding your personal information:

Name
Réjean Chicoine
Title
Privacy Officer
Organization
RAZ Studio, operated by InfoChic
Email
[email protected]
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