Your work and your privacy.

First Play Studios is operated by Todd Hartman. Contact todd@firstplaystudio.com about your information, corrections, or deletion.

The public site uses ChatGPT sign-in to receive a site-specific account identifier and your email. Your public username appears on posts and replies; your email does not. We do not receive your ChatGPT conversations or your ChatGPT password.

Your account, private project notebooks, learning progress, forum activity, and moderation records are stored in the hosted database provided through OpenAI Sites and Cloudflare. Project notebooks and learning records belong to your account. Forum topics and replies are public. Owner project-update drafts are private; publishing makes the update, public maker name and publication date visible to visitors. Returning an update to draft removes its public page until it is published again. Playtest build links and feedback are visible to signed-in members.

Member project pages start as private drafts and are separate from your workshop notebooks. Publishing shares the fields and image you saved, your public maker name, and published progress updates. Only you can open an ordinary draft through the site tools. The owner can review published entries, hide them, and feature entries whose makers opt in. Image files are stored in hosted Cloudflare R2; the upload tool prepares a smaller JPEG copy without the original metadata. Returning a page to draft removes its current public page and image access. A project’s forum discussion remains public separately. Workshop lesson progress is saved to your account, or kept separately in your browser while you are a guest. Accepted answers are public forum selections, not a certification of advice. Your signed-in homepage can show private shortcuts to your drafts and learning progress; those shortcuts are loaded after sign-in.

Project follows and notification read receipts are private to your account. The site inbox shows eligible public updates and replies from the last 90 days; it does not send emails. Bug reports, suggestions, your additional notes, and the owner’s responses are private to the submitting member and site owner. Do not include passwords or sensitive personal records. Public search includes guides, visible forum topics, and published project updates; private notes, feedback reports and unpublished drafts are excluded. Search and private community tools are excluded from our analytics.

Applications to help are private to the owner. We retain the answers, email, typed acknowledgment, terms version, and submission time for review, and use Google Workspace to send the requested notification and receipt. Applying is optional. Do not include confidential files, government identifiers, or sensitive personal information.

We keep account data while your account is active and application records until removed following review or a deletion request. Moderation records may be retained to address abuse. Hosting and email providers may keep operational logs or backups under their own policies. Use the export action in your account for your own saved records; email us to request account or application deletion.

Essential sign-in storage enables accounts. Guest learning progress stays in your browser and is separate from account progress. With your permission, Google Analytics uses analytics cookies to measure visits, popular pages, and feature use. We send page categories and selected actions such as downloads and successful forum posts; we do not send your email, username, post text, private project notes, application answers, or URL query strings. Individual forum discussions and project-update pages use generic page categories in analytics; their IDs, titles and text are excluded. Advertising storage, Google signals, and ad personalization are disabled. You can decline or change your choice through Cookie choices in the footer. Your choice is remembered in this browser for up to 180 days. Analytics cookies are also limited to 180 days, and are removed by this site when you decline. Google processes usage information according to how Google uses information from sites that use its services. External links, including ChatGPT and Ko-fi, have their own privacy policies. Optional support is handled through Ko-fi.

Cookie choices appear on your first visit, including the introduction and demo pages. Essential sign-in and functional storage remain available when you choose Essential only. Optional Google Analytics is off until you explicitly accept it. You can change your decision in Cookie choices at any time; withdrawing permission stops site analytics and removes this site’s Google Analytics cookies. We honor Global Privacy Control browser and Sec-GPC request signals by keeping optional analytics off and remembering a denial. Turning that browser signal off does not automatically accept analytics again. Cookie permission is remembered for up to 180 days before a fresh choice is requested. These controls cover this site’s optional analytics; external services have their own notices.

Updated November 14, 2026.