Meso Story Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 15, 2026

This policy explains what the Meso Story website (mesostory.app), the Meso Story Discord server and the Meso Story Discord bots collect, why, and what you can do about it.

The short version

• You sign in with Discord. We keep what's needed to run your account and the things you post.
• We don't sell your data, show ads, or use tracking cookies.
• Shop scans stay in your browser. Only the items and prices you confirm are posted.
• New listings, services, forum threads and boss alerts are also posted to our Discord server.
• You can delete your account yourself at any time.

1. Who's responsible

Meso Story is run by Mahantra, 1300 Studios and Heaven's Backdoor, who are responsible for your data under this policy. Contact: info@1300studios.com.

Meso Story is an unofficial MapleStory fan community and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NEXON.

2. What we collect

When you sign in with Discord

Discord shares your Discord user ID, username, display name, profile picture link and the email address on your Discord account. Our sign-in provider stores these. We show your display name next to what you post. We never show your email address, and we don't use it for marketing.

From your Discord user ID we also work out when your Discord account was created. That date stays private. We use it to put limits on brand-new accounts, which helps stop scams.

What you add or post

• Profile: your display name and, if you add it, your in-game character name. If you ask us to verify your character, we also keep that request.
• Market: listings (item, category, quantity, price, channel, Free Market room, character name, notes), auctions and bids, completed trades, and fame you give or receive.
• Services: service and job listings (title, category, price, timing, character name, notes).
• Community: chat messages, forum threads and replies, blog posts, votes, reports you make, and boss kills you report.
• Discord /list command: your Discord user ID, which we use to find your linked Meso Story account, plus the listing details you enter.

Shop scans

When you share your game window to scan a shop, the video and snapshot stay in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Only the items and prices you confirm are posted. The snapshot is thrown away when you post, discard it or leave the page.

Technical information

• Hosting and security: our providers (below) process your IP address and basic request details to deliver the site and protect it from abuse.
• Analytics: we use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page visits. It doesn't use cookies.
• Fonts: your browser loads fonts from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address.
• Browser storage: the site stores your settings (such as theme) and your sign-in session in your browser's local storage. We don't use advertising or tracking cookies.

3. How we use it

• To run your account and show what you post.
• To run auctions, trades, fame, chat, forums, boss timers and the Discord features.
• To keep Meso Story safe: limits on new accounts, a chat filter that blocks real-money trading, reports, moderation and bans.
• To fix problems and keep the service working.

Where privacy laws such as the GDPR apply, our legal bases are: running the service you asked for (contract), keeping it safe and working (legitimate interests), and following the law.

4. What's public

Anyone can see:

• your display name, any character name you add and whether it's verified, whether you're a moderator, and when you joined;
• your fame score;
• your listings, services, chat messages (shown for 30 days), forum threads and replies, and blog posts.

Bidder names in auction histories are partly masked.

Kept private: your bids, your trades (only you and the other player can see them), your votes, the fame you've given, and your reports (only moderators see those). Your email address and your Discord account's creation date are never shown.

5. Discord

New listings, services, forum threads and boss alerts are posted automatically to the Meso Story Discord server, with your display name. Once something is on Discord, Discord's own privacy policy also applies to it.

Deleting your Meso Story account doesn't remove posts already copied to Discord. Ask a Moderator if you want them removed.

6. Who we share it with

We don't sell or rent your personal information. We share it only with the service providers that run Meso Story for us:

We may also share information if the law requires it, or to protect players from fraud or abuse.

These providers may process data outside your country, including in the United States.

7. How long we keep it

• Listings are marked expired after 7 days or when the auction ends. Past listings stay viewable until you remove them or delete your account.
• Services stop showing after 14 days.
• Chat messages are shown for 30 days and kept until you delete your account.
• Boss kill reports are deleted after one day.
• Everything else is kept until you delete it or delete your account.

8. Deleting your account

Go to your account settings and choose Delete my account. This permanently removes your sign-in, profile, listings, bids, fame, services, chat messages, forum threads and replies, votes, reports and verification requests.

Some records stay without your name: completed trade records (item, quantity, price), blog posts, the masked bidder names already in auction histories, and boss reports (which are deleted within a day anyway). Posts already on Discord stay until a Moderator removes them.

9. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example, Canada under PIPEDA, the EU, the UK or California), you may have the right to access, correct, delete or get a copy of your personal information, or to object to how we use it. You can delete your account yourself; for anything else, contact info@1300studios.com. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

10. Children

Meso Story isn't meant for anyone under 13, or under Discord's minimum age where you live. If we learn that a child's account is on Meso Story, we'll delete it.

11. Security

Database rules limit who can read and change each record. Connections are encrypted. No system is perfectly secure, so please don't post anything you'd regret sharing, and never post passwords.

12. Changes

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows the latest version. We'll announce important changes on the website and in the Discord server's #announcements channel.

13. Contact

Questions or requests: info@1300studios.com, or message a Moderator on Discord.