Privacy policy

The short version

• There are no accounts, ads, or tracking cookies on beanspace, and I don't sell anyone's information.
• If you share your station, your email stays private and your photos are checked by me before anything is published.
• Email hello@beanspace.co and I'll show you, correct, or delete anything I have about you.

When you browse

You don't need an account, and beanspace doesn't use analytics or tracking cookies. The company that hosts the site, Vercel, processes the basic information every website receives (such as your IP address and browser) to deliver pages and keep the site secure.

"Where to buy" links pass through beanspace so I can count which product and which shop people click. That count doesn't include anything about you. Once you arrive at a shop, its own privacy policy applies, and it may set its own cookies, including to credit a commission to beanspace.

When you subscribe to the newsletter

The newsletter hasn't started yet, and the launch waitlist uses the same list. Until it starts, your email address is stored privately in beanspace's database with the date you signed up and which sign-up box you used. It's used only for the newsletter.

When the newsletter starts, the list will move to Beehiiv, the service that will send it. Like most newsletter services, Beehiiv records whether an issue is opened and which links are clicked, which helps me see what readers find useful. Every issue will have an unsubscribe link, and you can ask me to remove your address at any time before then.

When you share your station

You send photos, a display name, your email, answers to a few questions, and your gear list with a verdict for each item (and, if you choose, why you wouldn't buy something again).

• Photos: location and camera details are removed before they're stored, and they stay private until I review them. If your station is published, its photos, your display name, gear list, and verdicts appear on beanspace and may appear in the newsletter.
• Email: never shown. I use it only if I have a question about your submission. It doesn't sign you up for the newsletter unless you tick that box.
• Your answers: help me write your station page, and may be quoted on it.
• "Wouldn't buy again" reasons: only I see them.
• Identifying your gear: your photos are sent to Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI model, to suggest the gear list you then check. Anthropic doesn't use them to train its models.
• Preventing abuse: to limit how often anyone can check photos or submit, I keep a scrambled, one-way version of your IP address with the time of each attempt. It can't be turned back into the address, and it's deleted after 30 days.

Who helps run beanspace

• Vercel hosts the website.
• Supabase stores the database, photos, and newsletter sign-ups.
• Anthropic identifies gear in submitted photos.
• Beehiiv will send the newsletter, once it starts.

They handle information only to provide these services.

How long things are kept

Published stations stay up until you ask for them to be removed. If I don't publish a station, I delete it, including its photos. Newsletter addresses are kept until you unsubscribe or ask me to remove them.

Your choices

Email hello@beanspace.co to see what I have about you, correct it, take your station down, or delete your information. I'll reply within 30 days.

Children

beanspace isn't meant for children under 13, and I don't knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If this policy changes, I'll update the date at the top. Significant changes will also be mentioned in the newsletter.