Privacy & Terms

HamboneGames.com is a personal gaming hub — a games library, an ESO DPS calculator, Warzone loadout tracker, and an AI chatbot called Hambone. It's built and run by one person for personal use and for other players who find it useful. There's no company behind it, no ads, no paid tier, and no data is sold to anyone. This page describes what that means in practice.

What we collect

• Account info from Google sign-in.When you sign in, Google gives us your email address, name, and profile picture URL. That's it — we don't see your Google password or anything else.
• Content you create. Ratings, notes, ESO characters, builds, Warzone loadouts, and chat messages — all tied to your email.
• Operational logs. Request logs for auth, rate limiting, and errors. Used only for debugging and abuse prevention. Includes IP address and timestamp.

Where it's stored

• MongoDB Atlas (your content, profile, logs).
• Vercel (hosts the site, serverless logs).
• Upstash Redis (rate-limit counters, keyed by email).
• Anthropic (chat messages are sent to Claude to generate responses — see the AI section below).
• Google (OAuth identity provider for sign-in).

What we don't do

• We don't sell or share your data with advertisers.
• We don't run third-party tracking or ad pixels.
• We don't use your content to train any AI model. (Anthropic has its own policy, linked below.)

Your rights

You can delete your account and all associated content by emailing the address in the Contact section. You can clear your chat history at any time from the chat dock (Clear button). Browser cookies used are strictly necessary for sign-in sessions — no analytics or advertising cookies.

The chat assistant is powered by Anthropic's Claude API. When you send a message:

• Your message and relevant context from the site's knowledge base are sent to Anthropic over HTTPS to generate a response.
• Chat history is stored in MongoDB so you can pick up where you left off. You can clear it anytime.
• Rate limits apply (per-user burst + daily caps) to keep costs sane. If you hit one, the bot will tell you when to try again.
• Hambone is not a professional advisor. Build recommendations, meta takes, and game-mechanic explanations can be wrong — verify anything important against in-game testing or cited sources.
• Anthropic's handling of API data is governed by their policies: anthropic.com/legal/privacy.

By using HamboneGames.com you agree to the following. This is plain English, not lawyer English — if something's unclear, ask.

• Use it in good faith.Don't try to abuse the AI, scrape the site, bypass rate limits, or use it to attack others.
• You own your content. Ratings, notes, builds, loadouts — yours. By storing them here you grant us the minimum license needed to display them back to you.
• No warranty.This site is provided as-is. It may go down, lose data, or break in surprising ways. Don't use it as your single source of truth for anything that matters.
• Game trademarks belong to their owners. HamboneGames is not affiliated with ZeniMax, Bethesda, Activision, or any other game publisher. Game names, logos, and item names are used for identification only.
• Termination.Your access can be revoked for abuse or at the site owner's discretion. You can stop using the site at any time.
• Changes.These terms can change. The “last updated” date at the top reflects the current version.

Questions, data-deletion requests, or concerns: reach out via the GitHub repo linked from the About page, or email the address listed there. Response times are best-effort — this is a side project.