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Privacy, in plain language.

We collect as little as possible, we never sell your data, and we will tell you exactly what we do with what we have. That is the whole policy. The rest is details.

Last updated: October 10, 2026

1. What we collect

We collect three kinds of information, and only when there is a reason:

Visit analytics. When you browse our sites, we see aggregate numbers: which pages get visited, roughly where visitors are, what device they use. This comes through standard analytics tools. We use it to understand what people like. We do not use it to identify you personally.
Things you give us directly. If you subscribe, contact us, apply for a job, or buy something, you give us things like your name and email address. We use them for exactly the purpose you gave them: to reply, to deliver what you asked for, to process your order.
Purchase details. If you buy from our store, payment is handled by our payment processors (such as Stripe or Lemon Squeezy). We never see or store your full card number.

2. What we never do

We do not sell your personal data. We do not share it with advertisers. We do not buy data about you from brokers. If we ever changed this, we would tell you first and ask.

3. Cookies

We use a small number of cookies, mostly for analytics (understanding aggregate traffic) and for remembering basic preferences. Nothing exotic. Your browser can block or delete cookies; the sites will still work, just a little less smoothly.

4. Third parties

A few trusted services help us run things, and they have their own privacy policies:

Hosting: Vercel (serves our pages).
Analytics: Google Analytics (aggregate visit statistics).
Payments: Stripe and Lemon Squeezy (store checkout).
Email: standard email providers for replies and newsletters.

We do not control their policies, and we encourage you to read them. We choose vendors carefully and give them the minimum access needed to do their job.

5. How long we keep things

Analytics data is kept in aggregate form. Emails and order records are kept as long as reasonably needed to run the business (for example, to handle refunds or answer follow-ups), then deleted or anonymized. If you ask us to delete your data, we will, subject to anything the law requires us to keep (like tax records).

6. Children

Our sites are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact us and we will delete it.

7. Your rights

You can ask us at any time what personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email Dave@Tugboat.io and we will take care of it. If you are in a jurisdiction with specific privacy rights (such as the EU or California), we honor those rights.

8. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy in a meaningful way, we will update the date at the top and, for significant changes, note it somewhere visible. The current version always lives at this URL.

9. Contact

Questions about privacy: Dave@Tugboat.io. Our full terms of service live at thestudio.io/legal/.

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