Privacy

This page is an addition, not a replacement

Ask is part of Lakeside Games. The Lakeside privacy policy covers your account, your login, and your supporter status, and it still applies here.

This page covers the part that is specific to Ask: it sends the text you type to AI providers run by other companies. The studio policy does not describe that, so it is described here.

What Ask sends to an AI provider

Every time you ask a question, Ask sends:

• your question, as you typed it
• the earlier turns of that same conversation, so follow-ups make sense
• excerpts of the game's code and documentation that Ask pulled in to answer you

If you ask about your own character, Ask can look up your own game records, such as your character, your balance sheet, or your wealth history, and the results of that lookup are sent to the provider as part of answering. Ask only ever looks up your own records this way. It cannot do it for another player.

Ask does not send your username, your email address, your Lakeside account ID, or your Discord ID to any AI provider. The request carries the question and its context, not who is asking.

Which providers

Ask chooses a model automatically, based on which service is healthy and what the question needs. Depending on that choice, your question goes to one of:

• Nous Portal (inference-api.nousresearch.com), a model gateway that passes the request to the selected provider
• DeepSeek (api.deepseek.com), operated from China
• Google Gemini (generativelanguage.googleapis.com)
• OpenRouter (openrouter.ai), a router that passes the request on to further model providers
• Ollama Cloud (ollama.com), hosts open models such as DeepSeek on Ollama's servers
• OpenCode Zen (opencode.ai)
• CommandCode (api.commandcode.ai)
• Free Router (a Lakeside-run relay), picks whichever free hosted model is available and passes the request to that model's provider
• Meta Model API (api.meta.ai), on its contributor tier, Meta may use the question text and the answer to train its models
• Muse bridge (Lakeside) (mcp.lakesidegames.net), Lakeside's own server, which passes the question to Muse Spark on Meta's contributor tier, where Meta may use the question text and the answer to train its models

Each of these is a separate company with its own terms and its own data handling, which we do not control. If you would rather a question never left our servers, do not ask it here.

What Ask stores

• your questions and the answers Ask gave
• your conversations and their titles
• a profile record, used to apply your daily budget and supporter status
• a cache of answers, so a question someone already asked is cheaper to answer again
• any feedback, correction, or report you submit

We keep conversations until you delete them. There is no automatic expiry.

Optional analytics

If you accept optional analytics, Ask sends model name, token counts, estimated US dollar cost, latency, and helpful or unhelpful ratings to PostHog under your game account ID. It also checks the ask-upsell-placement feature flag after consent. Ask does not send your question, answer, feedback text, email address, or IP address to PostHog.

You can reject analytics or change your choice through Analytics choice in the signed-in sidebar. Rejecting stops future analytics events and feature flag checks.

Sharing a conversation

Conversations are private to you unless you share one. Sharing creates a long, unguessable link, and anyone who has that link can read that one conversation without signing in. You can revoke the link at any time, which stops it working.

Deleting your data

You can delete any conversation from the sidebar, which removes its questions and answers. To have everything removed, including your profile record, email [email protected].