Privacy

What we believe

We collect the minimum we need to run this site and to improve what we build. We do not sell data. We do not share it with advertisers. We do not build a profile of you. We do not track you across other sites.

If a business model depends on surveillance, it is not ours.

What we collect

Only the following:

• If you write to us or ask for a demo: the way you gave us to reach you, which can be a website, a phone number or an email address, and anything you wrote in the message.
• If you pay us: Stripe handles the payment. We see that you paid and what for. We never see or store your card number.
• Basic visit data: a session identifier, an approximate location (country and city) derived from your IP address, and a timestamp. We use this to understand where our readers are and whether the site is working.
• Standard server logs, kept briefly for security and debugging.

That is the whole list. No analytics pixels. No advertising cookies. No third-party trackers.

Why we collect it

To reply to you when you write, to keep the site running, and to learn what we build next. Nothing else.

Who sees it

We do. Our hosting provider, to the extent needed to deliver the site. Stripe sees payment data if you pay, under its own terms. We use a public IP lookup service to turn an IP address into a country and city; the IP address is sent to that service for that purpose and is not retained by them on our behalf. That is all.

We do not sell your data. We only hand data to a government if a court in the Netherlands or the EU compels us to.

How long we keep it

Messages and demo requests: until you ask us to delete them, or until we decide we no longer need them. Visit data: kept for a limited time for operational use, then deleted or aggregated. Server logs: days, not months.

Where it lives

On servers in the European Union. Encrypted in transit.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask us what we hold about you, and have it corrected, exported, or deleted. Write to us and we will do it. No forms, no delay.

Should we ever get it wrong, you can also file a complaint with the Dutch supervisory authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).

Cookies

We use a single session cookie so that the site works. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies.

Children

This site is not for anyone under 16. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will update the date above and, where we can, tell the people who wrote to us.

Contact

founders at alive.site. Amsterdam. We read every message.

We are quiet by choice. We read every message.