Privacy Policy

Mistfall Studios is a small, family-run studio in Oregon, United States. This page covers this website, our newsletter, and our Second Brain app. Our browser games live at veryimportantmeeting.com and have their own privacy policy.

Last updated October 15, 2026.

The short version

We collect very little. This website has no accounts, no ads and no tracking cookies. If you join the newsletter, we keep your email address (and your first name if you give it) so we can write to you. Second Brain keeps your saved items on your own computer. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for advertising.

This website

mistfallstudios.com is a plain website. It does not use analytics, advertising, or tracking cookies, and you do not need an account to read it.

The site is hosted by Netlify. Like any web host, Netlify receives the technical details your browser sends with each request (such as your IP address, browser type and the page you asked for) and may keep them in short-lived logs to run and protect the service. The fonts and images are served from our own site, not from outside font or image services.

If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you write, and we use it only to reply.

Newsletter

When you sign up for the newsletter in the footer, we receive your email address, your first name if you type it, and the fact that you agreed to these terms. The form is processed and stored by Netlify Forms. We use the list only to send occasional notes about new games and big updates.

To leave the list, reply to any newsletter or email us at mistfallstudiossupport@gmail.com, and we will delete your details. We do not sell or rent the list or share it with anyone else.

Second Brain

Second Brain is our app for keeping saved recipes and ideas in one place. It is in private testing with our own household and is not yet offered to the public.

Second Brain runs on the user's own computer. Everything it keeps (saved items, notes, ratings, lists and settings) is stored in a library file on that computer. Mistfall Studios does not run a server for it and does not receive a copy of anyone's library.

What Second Brain stores

• Items you save: the title, description, link, picture link, board or collection name, and the date you saved it.
• Recipe details read from a web page you saved: ingredients, steps, times and servings.
• What you add yourself: notes, ratings, "made it" counts, and whether you kept, planned or archived an item.
• The keys you enter, such as a Pinterest connection or an Anthropic API key, kept in a separate file on the same computer and never shown back in the app.

Links you add

When you add a link, Second Brain visits that page from your computer to read its title, picture and recipe card. The site you link to sees that visit like any other.

Written answers (optional)

If you add your own Anthropic API key, the Ask feature sends your question and the text of up to eight matching saves to Anthropic to write a short answer. Nothing else from your library is sent. Anthropic handles that request under its own terms and privacy policy. Without a key, nothing leaves your computer for answers.

How Second Brain uses Pinterest data

If you choose to connect your Pinterest account, Second Brain asks Pinterest for read-only access to your account's boards and Pins (the boards:read, pins:read and user_accounts:read permissions). Pinterest shows you this request, and nothing happens unless you approve it.

• What it reads: your username, your board names, and for each Pin its title, description, link, picture link, board and date.
• What it is used for: showing your Pins in your own library so you can search them, sort them and plan meals from them. Nothing else.
• Where it is kept: only in the library file on your computer. It is not sent to Mistfall Studios, not sold, not shared, and not used for advertising.
• Pictures: Second Brain shows Pin pictures straight from Pinterest. It does not copy or store them.
• Kept in sync: Second Brain checks Pinterest every few hours while it is running. If you delete a Pin on Pinterest, it is removed from your library at the next check.
• Read-only: Second Brain does not post, change or delete anything on your Pinterest account.
• Disconnecting: the Disconnect button deletes the Pinterest connection and every Pin from your library. You can also remove the app's access at any time in your Pinterest settings.

The Pinterest connection token is stored on your computer only, in a separate file the app never displays.

Your choices

Second Brain has a Download a copy button that exports your library, and a Delete everything button that removes every save, the Pinterest connection and the keys entered in the app. For anything we hold, such as a newsletter sign-up or an email you sent us, you can ask us to show you, correct or delete it by writing to mistfallstudiossupport@gmail.com. Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under your local privacy law, and we will honor them.

Children

This website and Second Brain are written for a general audience and are not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you think a child has signed up for the newsletter, email us and we will delete it.

If Second Brain goes online

Today Second Brain keeps everything on your own computer. If we later offer an online version that stores libraries on our servers, we will update this policy first and say clearly what is stored, where, and for how long.

Changes to this policy

We may update this page. The date at the top shows when it last changed.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or a request about your information: mistfallstudiossupport@gmail.com.