THE FINE PRINT

Privacy Policy

Last updated October 26, 2026

belpire.com is the website of the Belpire Carnival, a community for multiplayer horror and party games that lives on Discord. This policy explains what happens to your information when you visit the site. The short version: you can browse without signing in, we don't track you, and we don't sell or share data. The only thing that needs a sign-in is our Discord invite.

What we collect

Browsing needs nothing from you. The site has no accounts, sign-up forms, comments or newsletters, and uses no analytics or advertising tools.

"Verify with Discord" for the invite. To keep bots out, our Discord invite is shown on the box office page only after you sign in with Discord. When you do:

• Discord asks you to share your username and email. We ask for the email permission only because that's how Discord tells us whether your account is verified. We read the "verified" flag and never store or log your email address.
• We never see your Discord password, and we give up the access Discord granted us right after the check.
• If your account is verified, we set one cookie (__Host-belpire_session) so you don't have to sign in again for 30 days. It's encrypted and holds only your Discord user ID, display name and the times it was issued and expires. It isn't used for tracking or shared with anyone.
• During sign-in a second short-lived cookie (__Host-belpire_oauth, up to 10 minutes) protects the login from forgery.
• Sign out on the box office page deletes the cookie. You can also remove the Belpire app any time in Discord under User Settings › Authorized Apps.

We keep no list of who signed in. The cookie lives only in your browser.

Game-night polls in The Big Tent. If you vote in a poll on the Big Tent page:

• Our Discord bot checks whether you're a member of the Belpire server and which roles you hold, so we know you can vote (and whether you can run polls). We don't store that answer beyond a couple of minutes.
• We store your Discord user ID and your ranked picks for that poll in our database (Cloudflare D1), so you can change your vote and so each member votes once. Ballots are deleted automatically 90 days after the poll opened.
• Results posted to the site and to our Discord server show totals only, never who voted for what. The name of the person who opened or scheduled a poll is shown with it.

Technical data needed to run a website. When your browser requests a page, the services below necessarily receive standard request information such as your IP address, browser type, the page requested and the time. We don't combine this with anything else or use it to identify you.

Services that handle requests

• Cloudflare hosts the site and protects it from attacks. It processes request data to deliver pages and keep the site secure. Our server code keeps short-lived error and activity logs through Cloudflare, retained only for Cloudflare's standard short period, so we can fix problems. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
• Google Fonts serves the site's typefaces, so your browser requests them from Google. See Google's privacy policy.
• Steam (Valve) serves the game artwork shown on the homepage, so your browser loads those images from Steam's servers. See Valve's privacy policy.
• Discord handles "Verify with Discord" if you choose to use it: you sign in on Discord's own site, and Discord shares the details above with us. Our bot also reads server membership and roles for polls, and posts poll results and game-night events to our server. See Discord's privacy policy.
• GitHub hosts the site's source code, which is public. Visiting belpire.com doesn't send anything to GitHub.

Game news, Star Citizen server status and tool versions are fetched by our server from Steam, Roberts Space Industries and GitHub. Those requests come from the site, not from your browser, and contain no information about you.

Links to other sites

The site links to Discord, Steam, Roberts Space Industries and community tools. Once you follow a link, that site's own privacy policy applies. Signing in with Discord and joining our Discord server are also covered by Discord's privacy policy and our server rules.

Children

The site isn't directed to children under 13 and doesn't knowingly collect information from anyone. Our Discord community follows Discord's own minimum age requirements.

Your choices and rights

The sign-in cookie lives only in your browser; signing out or clearing cookies deletes it. The only personal information we keep is poll ballots (your Discord user ID and picks), for up to 90 days. Ask us and we'll delete yours sooner. If you think we hold something about you, or you have a question about privacy, contact us and we'll help. Depending on where you live, you may have rights under laws such as the GDPR or US state privacy laws; we'll honor them.

Changes

If the site starts collecting anything new, we'll update this page before that feature goes live and change the date at the top.

Contact

Email ringmaster@belpire.com, or message a Ringleader in the Belpire Discord.