What we collect

Your account. Your email address, and your name if you give it. You sign in with one-time links or codes we email you; there are no passwords.

What you tell us. Your answers when you join and in Settings: who you represent (for example builder, investor or practitioner), what support you are looking for and any note you add, themes you care about, whether you have read the Sacred Fire, and how you would like to contribute, including any amount you suggest. If you create a builder profile, your handle, location, bio, what you are exploring, your links, and whether to list you in the directory. Whether other members may see your email address.

What you do and post. Votes, follows, comments, product feedback, products, ideas, and the organizations and news you submit, and when you raise your hand in the Builder Hub, the Sacred Fire or on an idea. Some of this is shown to other people, as the page you post it on makes clear.

Email. Whether you subscribe to the digest, which digests and notifications we sent you, and which digest links you click (see below).

How you use the site, counted by us. When you are signed in, we count:

• your visits: when they start and end, and what brought you (the digest, a search engine, social media, another website by its name only, or coming directly);
• which areas of the site you use, such as the directory, news or the Builder Hub, how many pages you view, and how long you spend reading in each area (time the page is on screen while you are scrolling, clicking or typing, not time a tab sits open);
• links you follow to other websites: which of our pages the link was on and what kind of link it was (an organization's website, LinkedIn, a product demo, a job posting or a news source);
• how far you get through forms such as joining or submitting a product: the names of the steps you reach, never what you type;
• digest links you click: the section of the email and whether the link led to spirit.tech.

This counting never stores the addresses of the pages you read or the links you follow, your searches, your IP address or details of your browser. Staff accounts are not counted.

Google Analytics. For every visitor, signed in or not, Google Analytics uses cookies to record visits, pages viewed, how you arrived, your device and browser type, your approximate location (worked out from your IP address), and some actions such as form steps, scrolling and links you follow. Before anything is sent we remove sign-in tokens and email addresses from page addresses, and pages that handle sign-in or unsubscribing send nothing. Google processes this under the Google Privacy Policy.

Error reports. When something breaks, our error-reporting service receives technical details (the page without its query string, your browser type, and what went wrong), not your name or email address.

Messages. Anything you send us by email or through a feedback form, with your name and email address so we can reply.

Cookies and storage in your browser

• Sign-in and security cookies keep you signed in and protect forms. The site does not work without them.
• Google Analytics cookies (named _ga) count visits as described above.
• If you turn counting off, your browser remembers that choice so Google Analytics stays off on later visits.

We do not use advertising cookies.

How we use it

• To run the site and your account, and to show what you post where you posted it.
• To send the emails you asked for: sign-in links, the digest (including the “following” section built from what you follow) and the notifications you turned on.
• To understand what is useful and improve it. Staff see totals for groups of members on an internal dashboard, such as how many members came back in their fourth week or which kinds of links members follow. They do not see one person's activity there, and groups of fewer than five people are not shown.
• To review submissions, keep the site secure, and fix problems.

Who we share it with

We do not sell your information or share it for advertising. We share it only with:

• Service providers that run parts of the site for us and may use the information only to do that: Supabase (database), Openbase (the servers that run our API), Amazon Web Services (website hosting and storage for images you upload), Resend (sending email), Google (Analytics), Sentry (error reports) and, when we offer a feedback button, Userback (feedback you choose to send).
• Other people on the site, for what you choose to make visible, such as a builder profile, a comment or a product.
• Authorities or othersif the law requires it, or to protect people's safety or our rights.

We use AI services to research organizations and draft the digest from public information. Your account details and how you use the site are not part of that.

Your choices

• Stop the counting. In Settings › Notifications, under Privacy, untick the counting box. We stop counting how you use the site, delete what we already counted for you, and turn Google Analytics off in that browser.
• Global Privacy Control. If your browser sends this signal, we do not count your use of the site and Google Analytics does not load.
• Emails. Every digest has an unsubscribe link, and Settings controls the rest.
• Your profile. You can change what you told us in Settings.
• A copy, corrections or deletion. Email hello@spirit.tech and we will respond within 30 days. Deleting your account in Settings closes it and deletes the counts of how you used the site straight away; to have everything else erased, email us.
• Google Analytics everywhere. Google offers a browser add-on that turns it off on every site, and your browser can block or delete cookies.

Depending on where you live, you may have legal rights to access, correct, delete or get a copy of your information, to object to how we use it, or to complain to a data protection authority. Email us to use any of them; we will not treat you differently for doing so.

How long we keep it

• Your account and what you post: while your account is open, or until you ask us to erase it.
• Counts of how you use the site: 13 months, then deleted automatically. Sooner if you turn counting off or delete your account.
• Google Analytics: for the period set in our Analytics account, no more than 14 months.
• Records of emails we sent you: as long as your account is open.

Security

Connections to spirit.tech are encrypted, and access to member information is limited to the people who run the site. No system is perfectly secure, so please tell us at hello@spirit.tech if you think something is wrong.

Children

Spirit.Tech is not meant for anyone under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their information. If you believe a child has given us information, email us and we will delete it.

Where it is stored

We and our service providers are based mainly in the United States, so your information is stored and processed there.

Changes

When we change this policy we will update it here and change the date at the top. If a change affects what we collect from members or how we use it, we will tell members by email or on the site before it takes effect.

Contact

Spirit Tech Collective · hello@spirit.tech