Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Akụkọ (a service operated by Xeux Labs). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal data you share with us. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, store, and share your personal information when you register for, access, or use our interactive storytelling platform.

By accessing or using Akụkọ, you consent to the collection, storage, and processing practices described in this policy. If you do not agree with any terms, please do not use our services.

2. Information We Collect

To provide you with high-quality, personalized interactive Choose-Your-Own-Adventure sagas, we collect the following categories of information:

3. How We Use Information

We process your personal information only for the following legitimate business purposes:

• Interactive Saga Generation: Crafting rich, branching chapters reacting directly to your choices.
• Communication: Delivering your story reading and chapter progression reminders directly to your inbox.
• Personalization: Remembering your character vitality, inventory items, and branching tree history.
• Service Security: Guarding against unauthorized access, malicious actions, or spam vectors.

4. Information Sharing

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data. We share your data only with specific sub-processors necessary to run the application:

• AI Service Providers: We send narrative prompts and game state to secure LLM endpoints (e.g., OpenAI) to produce story chapters. Your personal identity details (like your name or email) are never sent to these LLMs, and these providers do not retain your data for model training.
• Email Services: We use transactional email services to route story reminder notifications and adventure updates to your inbox.
• Compliance and Law: We may disclose information if required to comply with a valid legal mandate, subpoena, or government regulation.

5. Security & Data Retention

We implement industry-standard technical and organizational measures to protect your credentials and data:

• Encryption: All network traffic is encrypted in transit using HTTPS / TLS protocols. Sensitive tokens and preferences are encrypted at rest.
• Session Security: We utilize secure HTTP-only cookies and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) to safely maintain session data.
• Retention Scope: We retain your settings and interactive story chronicle history for as long as you maintain an active account. If you choose to delete your account, we delete all profile data, preference settings, and story chronicles from our active systems within 30 days.

6. Your Rights & Choices

Depending on your location, you have strong rights regarding your data under the GDPR, CCPA, and similar consumer protection frameworks:

• Access and Export: You can download or review your stored profile details and story chronicles from your profile page.
• Correction: You can update your reading reminder preferences, email delivery state, and basic details dynamically.
• Deletion (Right to be Forgotten): You can completely terminate your account, which initiates immediate erasure of all your custom preferences, story trees, and historical logs from our database.

7. Google API Disclosure

Akụkọ's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

We do not use your Google credentials or OAuth details for any purpose other than authentication and logging in to your Akụkọ account. We never publish posts, edit documents, or access private files.