Dotkiln privacy policy

Effective date: 15 November 2026

This policy covers the Dotkiln desktop app, the Dotkiln web demo and this website, dotkiln.com. Dotkiln is made by HANALIGHT LIMITED, a company registered in New Zealand.

The short version

Dotkiln does not collect, send or share your information. Your sprites stay on your computer. We only see what you choose to email us.

The desktop app

The desktop app makes no network calls. It has no accounts, no telemetry, no analytics, no advertising and no update checks.

Files you save go to the folder you choose. The autosave copy and your settings are kept in the app's own storage on your PC. None of this is sent to HANALIGHT or anyone else, and we cannot see it.

Diagnostics

Help (F1) has Copy diagnostics and Save diagnostics. They make a short report with the app version, your browser engine's version string, the canvas size and recent error messages. The report has no artwork, and file names and folder paths are removed from it.

The report stays on your computer until you paste it or attach it somewhere yourself. Dotkiln never sends it.

The web demo

The web demo runs in your browser. It cannot save, export or autosave your work, so when you close the page your drawing is gone. The only thing it stores is its settings, such as the theme, in your browser's local storage. You can clear them with your browser's site data settings.

The website that hosts the demo receives the technical information any web server does, such as your IP address and browser type, under its own policy.

This website

dotkiln.com has no accounts, forms, cookies, analytics or advertising, and it loads no fonts, scripts or images from other companies. It is hosted by Cloudflare. To deliver pages and protect the site from abuse, Cloudflare's servers handle technical information such as your IP address and browser type. We do not use this information to identify or track you.

Purchases

Dotkiln will be sold through Steam and itch.io. Buying it there is covered by their own privacy policies.

If you email us

If you write to us, we receive your email address and whatever you include. We do not sell it or pass it on for anyone else to use, and we keep it only as long as we need it for the reason you wrote.

Launch notifications

If you email us with the subject "Dotkiln updates", we keep your email address only to send you one email when Dotkiln launches. After we send it, we delete the list.

Support and feedback

If you ask for help or send feedback, we keep your messages for as long as we need them to answer you and handle any follow-up, such as a fix for a problem you reported. Then we delete them.

How email reaches us

Mail to our address passes through Cloudflare Email Routing, which runs in the United States, and goes on to our email provider. Our email provider may store it outside New Zealand.

You can ask what we hold about you, or ask us to delete it, at any time by writing to [email protected].

Children

Dotkiln is a tool for making game art and is not aimed at children. It collects no information from anyone, of any age.

Your rights

Under the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 you can ask us for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, such as your emails, and ask us to correct or delete it. Email [email protected]. If you are not happy with our response, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

HANALIGHT LIMITED, New Zealand
[email protected]