RowGuidePrivacy policy
This policy covers the RowGuide website and its waitlist. The app is in development and not released; when it is, it will get its own policy. The short version: the site keeps your email and your optional answers so the developer can tell you when the app is out, and counts visits so the developer can see which posts bring people here. Nothing is sold or shared for marketing.
1. Who is responsible
An independent developer living in Canada (the "operator"). Contact: [email protected]. Name and mailing address are given on request.
2. What is collected
| Information | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address | When you join the waitlist | To email you when the app is released, and at most once or twice before that to ask what you need |
| Your answers to "What would you pay?", "How much land do you work?" and "What do you use now?", and the app you name if you choose "a phone app" | If you tap an answer or type an app name (all are optional) | To decide the price, who the app is for and what it has to do better. Stored with your email if you join, otherwise only as a count. The app name is only stored if you join |
| Where you came from (the link you used, for example "tiktok", or the referring site), a random per-visit id, and which steps you took on the page (viewed, answered, joined) | Every visit | To count how many people each post or link brings, and how many of them join. The per-visit id is kept in your browser's session storage and is gone when you close the tab |
| Your country, as guessed by Cloudflare from your IP address, and your browser type (user agent) | Every visit, and when you join | To check that visitors are mostly in the US and Canada, and to spot bots. The IP address itself is not stored by the site |
There are no advertising trackers, no analytics scripts from other companies, and no cookies set by the site. Fonts load from Google Fonts, which sees your IP address when it serves the font file (Google's note on this).
3. Where it is stored
On Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc., United States), which hosts the site and its database. Cloudflare processes the data on the operator's behalf under its privacy policy. Launch emails are sent from an ordinary email account. Your data may therefore be stored and processed in the United States and in Canada.
4. Who sees it
Only the operator, and the hosting and email providers above as needed to run the service. Your email is never sold, rented or given to anyone for their own marketing. If the operator ever handed the waitlist to a successor who takes over the project, you would be told first and could ask to be removed.
5. How long
Your email and answers are kept until the app has been released and the launch email sent, or until you ask for removal, or for two years from the date you joined, whichever comes first. If the project is cancelled, the waitlist is deleted. Visit counts are kept without any email attached.
6. Your choices
- Unsubscribe or delete: reply to any email or write to [email protected] and your email and answers are deleted within 30 days.
- See or correct: ask at the same address and you get a copy of what is stored about your email.
- Complain: if you are not satisfied with the answer, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, or your own state or provincial privacy regulator.
Canadian law (PIPEDA) and, where it applies, US state privacy law give you these rights. Children under 18 should not join the waitlist, and any such email is deleted on notice.
7. Changes
If the way data is handled changes, this page changes and the date at the top is updated. If you are on the waitlist and the change matters to you (for example a new provider), you get an email about it.