Privacy policy

The short version

The only things this website collects are what you type into the waitlist form, and a count of visits if you agree to it. There is no advertising and nothing is tracked across other sites.

One thing is saved in your browser, on your device: whether you chose light or dark. It never leaves your computer.

What the site does not do

• It sets no cookies.
• It does not log what you type. The waitlist form passes your details straight to the mailing list, and the website keeps no copy of them.
• It runs no analytics and no tracking of any kind.
• It loads nothing from anyone else. The fonts are served from this site rather than from a font service, so no third party sees that you visited.
• It has no advertising and no advertising identifiers.

What is stored on your device

One entry, called balay-appearance, holding the word "light" or "dark". It remembers the appearance toggle in the navigation bar so the page does not flash the wrong colours next time.

It stays in your browser and is never sent anywhere. Clearing your browser data removes it. The cookie policy explains how.

The waitlist

The waitlist form asks for your first name, last name and email address, and for you to tick a box saying we may email you. All four are needed before it will send. The same form is at the end of the games we run at events, and goes to the same list; sign-ups there are marked with the event, so we know where we met you.

What we do with them. Your name and address go onto a mailing list held by Squarespace, who run our email for us. We use your name to say hello properly, and the address to tell you when BALAY is on Android and to send occasional news about it. That is the whole of it: we do not use the list for anything else.

Why we are allowed to. Your consent, which is the box you ticked. You can take it back at any time and we have to stop.

How to get off it. Every email we send has an unsubscribe link. You can also email us and ask, and we will delete you rather than just stop sending.

How long we keep it. Until you unsubscribe, ask us to delete you, or we stop sending news about BALAY, whichever comes first.

We do not sell the list, share it, or pass it to anyone besides Squarespace, who only hold it so that we can send the email. Ticking the box signs you up to hearing about BALAY, and nothing else.

If the form ever fails, nothing you typed is kept: the page tells you it failed and offers you our address instead.

Counting visits

If you agree to it, Google Analytics counts visits so we can see which pages are read and whether anything is broken. It records the page, roughly where in the world the request came from, and what kind of device it was.

Nothing loads until you agree. Say no and the script is never fetched, so Google is never told you were here at all. You can change your mind on the cookie page.

Advertising features are turned off, your address is shortened before it is stored, and none of it is used to build a profile of you or followed across other websites.

Hosting

The site is served by our hosting provider, who keeps standard server logs for security and reliability. Those logs include the address of the device making a request and which page it asked for.

We do not use those logs to build a picture of individual visitors. The sub-processors page lists who is involved.

Email

If you email us, we hold that message and your address so we can reply. We keep it while it is useful and then delete it.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, and ask us to delete it. For this website that is usually a short conversation, because the only thing we are likely to hold is an email you sent us.

Email hello@balay.tech and we'll deal with it. If you are not happy with how we handle it, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

The app is different

BALAY the app holds what you put into it: your check-ins, tasks, habits and conversations with Sumi. That is covered by the app's own privacy policy, not this one.