CH 07
About Gray Tempo
Gray Tempo is a single published course: five steps and six checklists for readers in Australia who are new to online games on a desktop or laptop computer. It is not a shop, a news outlet, a game publisher or a support service, and it has nothing to sign up for.
LOG 07-1 // 00:35
Who publishes it
Gray Tempo is published by DUNAS COMPANY s.r.o., Střížkovská 630/114, Střížkov, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic, company registration 02960141. Correspondence reaches us at info@graytempo.online.
Everything on the site is written by the DUNAS COMPANY s.r.o. editorial team. There is no individual byline, and there is no author biography, because nothing here is a personal account, an experience or an opinion about how a particular game felt to play. A course of this kind should stand on whether its instructions are correct, not on who signed them.
LOG 07-2 // 00:50
How the course was structured
The five steps were arrived at by working backwards from the questions a newcomer actually meets, in the order they meet them. The first is definitional — what is this thing — because the vocabulary blocks everything else. The second is the hardware question, because it is the only one that can make the rest of the course irrelevant. The third is registration, because it is where an abstract interest becomes an account with a company. The fourth is suitability and money, because those decisions are easiest before installation and hardest after. The fifth is what actually happens at the keyboard and in the months afterwards.
Each step ends in a checklist for a practical reason: a reader who has only read something tends to forget it, and a reader who has done six concrete things tends not to. The checklists are static printed lists. They store nothing, tick nothing, and submit nothing.
LOG 07-3 // 01:08
What each step relies on
Where a step makes a general statement about Australian rules, rights or services, it links to the Australian body that publishes them rather than paraphrasing a rule into something that might be wrong.
- Step 1 — the category and its business models
- General description of how software and accounts work, with security and scam guidance drawn from the Australian Cyber Security Centre and Scamwatch, and privacy context from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
- Step 2 — hardware and requirements
- Instructions described in general terms that apply to Windows, macOS and Linux, with purchasing rights from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. No requirements figures for any specific game are published here; those belong to the vendor.
- Step 3 — accounts and email confirmation
- Password and multi-factor guidance from the Australian Cyber Security Centre; impersonation patterns from Scamwatch; escalation routes from the eSafety Commissioner.
- Step 4 — classification and spending
- Classification from the Australian Classification Board, which is the only authority on what a particular title is classified; consumer guarantees from the ACCC; household guidance from the eSafety Commissioner.
- Step 5 — sessions, settings and after
- General description of settings and connection behaviour that applies across the category, with reporting and complaint routes from the eSafety Commissioner and Scamwatch.
Facts about any individual game come from what the vendor or the affiliate network states. Where we have not been given something — a price, a requirements list, a classification — the course says so rather than estimating. That is why you will not find a system requirements table or a price anywhere on this site.
LOG 07-4 // 01:28
How often it is reviewed
The whole site is reviewed at least every six months, and sooner if something changes that affects it: a change in how an Australian body describes its own role, a correction sent in by a reader, or a change in the commercial arrangement described below. The date of the most recent review appears in the footer of every page, and the effective date on each legal page is updated whenever that page changes.
A review means re-reading each step, re-checking that every outbound link still points where it claims to, and removing anything that has stopped being accurate. It does not mean adding a new date to an unchanged page.
LOG 07-5 // 01:42
The commercial relationship, stated plainly
This is the part that is easy to leave vague, so it is set out directly. Gray Tempo earns money through affiliate commission. One game, Enlisted, is linked on this site with a paid affiliate link, and DUNAS COMPANY s.r.o. is paid a commission by the affiliate network that operates that link when a reader registers and confirms their email address after following it.
So yes: the product named most often in this course is a product we have a commercial relationship with. We would rather say that in the second sentence than bury it. What the commission does not do is decide what the course teaches, what the checklists contain, or what we say about any category of product. The course is written so that it remains useful if you ignore every link on it, and the checklists deliberately send you to the vendor's own site and to Australian regulators rather than back to us.
There are no other paid placements, no sponsored sections, and no advertising on the site. The full explanation, including where in the course the links appear, is on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
LOG 07-6 // 01:58
What this site does not do
It does not collect anything about you. There are no forms, no accounts, no newsletter, no analytics, no cookies and no third-party scripts, and the pages request nothing from any other server. The details are in the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy, and both describe the site as it actually is.
It also does not provide technical support, diagnose problems with your computer, or offer professional advice. If you have found a mistake in the course, the Contact page explains how to tell us, and corrections are welcome.