Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how PaperBlox collects, uses, stores, and shares information when you visit our website, create an account, download templates, publish community content, use community features, or contact us.

By using PaperBlox, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use PaperBlox.

2. Information We Collect

Information you provide

PaperBlox may collect information you voluntarily provide, including:

• Your email address and account credentials.
• Your username, creator name, and profile information.
• Templates, thumbnails, images, instructions, titles, descriptions, categories, and other content you submit.
• Messages, support requests, reports, applications, feedback, and other communications you send to PaperBlox.

Information collected automatically

When you use PaperBlox, we and our service providers may automatically collect limited technical and usage information, including:

• Browser type, device type, and operating system.
• IP address and approximate geographic location.
• Pages visited, links selected, referring pages, and time spent using the website.
• Downloads, views, account activity, and interactions with platform features.
• Error reports, security events, and other diagnostic information.

3. How We Use Information

PaperBlox may use collected information to:

• Create, authenticate, and maintain user accounts.
• Operate, maintain, and improve the PaperBlox platform.
• Publish and manage creator profiles and approved community submissions.
• Provide downloads, follows, ratings, statistics, and other community features.
• Review submissions and enforce our moderation policies and Terms of Service.
• Respond to questions, reports, support requests, and other messages.
• Send account confirmation, password-reset, security, and service-related emails.
• Understand how visitors use PaperBlox and improve the user experience.
• Detect fraud, abuse, automated activity, security threats, and violations of our policies.
• Comply with legal obligations and protect the rights and safety of PaperBlox, its users, and others.

4. Public Information

Certain information is intended to be publicly visible. This may include your username, creator name, profile information, avatar color, published templates, template descriptions, images, follower counts, ratings, download counts, and other public activity.

Do not include your email address, legal name, home address, school, phone number, precise location, or other sensitive personal information in your username, profile, template description, images, or other publicly submitted content.

Public information may be viewed, copied, shared, or indexed by other users, search engines, and third-party services.

5. Cookies and Local Storage

PaperBlox may use cookies, browser local storage, and similar technologies to keep users signed in, remember preferences, maintain security, measure website activity, and improve platform functionality.

You may be able to remove or block these technologies through your browser settings. However, disabling them may prevent account login or cause certain PaperBlox features to stop working correctly.

6. Analytics

PaperBlox may use analytics services to understand website traffic, popular pages, downloads, user activity, device information, and general usage patterns.

Analytics information helps us understand how PaperBlox is used, diagnose technical problems, improve features, and measure platform growth.

7. Service Providers

PaperBlox uses third-party service providers to operate the platform. These providers may process information only as necessary to provide their services to PaperBlox.

These services may include:

• Supabase for account authentication, databases, and file storage.
• Resend or another email provider for account confirmation, password-reset, security, and service-related emails.
• Website-hosting, content-delivery, security, and analytics providers.
• Social platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Discord, and Roblox when you interact with PaperBlox through those services.

These third-party services operate under their own terms and privacy policies.

8. How We Share Information

PaperBlox may share information:

• With service providers that help us operate, secure, analyze, and maintain the platform.
• When you publish information or content intended to be publicly displayed.
• When reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, abuse, security threats, intellectual property complaints, or policy violations.
• When required by law, legal process, court order, or a valid government request.
• When necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of PaperBlox, its users, or others.
• In connection with a merger, transfer, reorganization, or other change in control of PaperBlox, subject to applicable law.

PaperBlox does not currently sell personal information or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

9. Advertising

PaperBlox does not currently use personal information for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising.

If PaperBlox introduces advertising or materially changes how information is used for advertising, this Privacy Policy will be updated before or when those changes take effect, as required by applicable law.

10. Data Retention

PaperBlox retains information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the platform, maintain accounts, provide requested services, enforce our policies, resolve disputes, protect security, and comply with legal obligations.

Deleted information may remain temporarily in backups, system logs, security records, cached files, or records that we must retain for legal or operational reasons.

11. Your Choices and Requests

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information associated with your PaperBlox account.

You may also be able to update certain account or profile information directly through PaperBlox. To submit another privacy request, contact us using the email address at the end of this policy.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Certain information may be retained when required or permitted by law.

12. Children's Privacy

PaperBlox accounts and community-upload features are intended for users who are at least 13 years old. Children under 13 should not create an account, upload content, or provide personal information through PaperBlox.

PaperBlox does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that an account belongs to a child under 13 or that we collected personal information from a child under 13 without legally sufficient authorization, we may remove the information and close the account.

A parent or guardian who believes a child under 13 has provided personal information may contact us to request review and deletion.

13. Data Security

PaperBlox uses reasonable administrative and technical measures designed to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no online service, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users are responsible for maintaining the security of their account credentials.

14. External Links

PaperBlox may contain links to third-party websites, social platforms, or other external services. These services operate independently and have their own terms and privacy policies.

PaperBlox is not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of third-party services.

15. International Users

PaperBlox may be accessed from countries around the world. By using the platform, your information may be processed or stored in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those locations may differ from the laws where you live.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

PaperBlox may update this Privacy Policy as the platform, technology, or legal requirements change. Updated versions will be posted on this page with a revised "Last updated" date.

Material previous versions may also be made available through our Legal Revision History page.

17. Contact Us

For questions, concerns, or privacy requests, contact: