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Privacy Policy
What this website collects, why, how long it is kept and the choices you have.
This is a draft, not a binding document.
It has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. It describes how this website works today and what we intend, but it should not be relied on as final legal terms. 4 highlighted items are still to be confirmed.
This policy covers the Gibly Studios website. It describes what the site actually does today. Gibly's platform has not launched; when it does, this policy will be extended to cover it and you will be told before anything changes for you.
Who is responsible
Gibly Studios ("Gibly", "we", "us") operates this website at gibly.ca.
To confirm before publication: the legal name and registered address of the operator, and a contact for privacy requests.
What we collect
We collect only what you choose to send us through the forms on this site.
Founding Circle applications. Your name, email address, product or company name, product URL (if you give one), product stage and category, your description of the product, the kinds of collaboration you are interested in, and any comments you add.
Contact messages. Your name, email address, the topic you chose and your message.
A record of your consent. The date and time you acknowledged this policy, which version of it applied, whether you opted in to updates, and the exact wording of the opt-in you were shown.
An abuse-prevention fingerprint. To limit spam we store a keyed, one-way hash derived from your IP address alongside your submission. We do not store the IP address itself, and the hash cannot be reversed to recover it. Separate rate-limiting records are deleted automatically after 24 hours.
We do not ask for and do not want sensitive personal information. Please do not include any in free-text fields.
What we do not collect
This site sets no advertising or tracking cookies and does not use third-party advertising services.
To confirm before publication: whether privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics are enabled, and if so with which provider. The site ships with analytics switched off.
Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs (such as request times and IP addresses) for security and reliability, under its own retention policy.
Why we use it
- To review your Founding Circle application and reply to you about it.
- To answer the message you sent us.
- To send occasional updates about Gibly, but only if you ticked the separate box asking for them.
- To protect the forms from spam and abuse.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not use it for advertising.
Who we share it with
We use service providers to run the site: a hosting provider, a database provider and, if enabled, an email delivery provider that notifies us when a form is submitted. They process your information on our behalf and only to provide those services.
To confirm before publication: the named providers and the countries where they process data.
We will not share your application with other creators or third parties without asking you first.
How long we keep it
Proposed retention periods, to confirm before publication.
- Founding Circle applications: for as long as the Founding Circle is active, and no longer than 24 months after our last contact with you.
- Contact messages: up to 12 months after the conversation ends.
- Rate-limiting records: 24 hours.
These periods are applied automatically. A scheduled job runs every day and permanently deletes anything past its period; there is no archive and no backup copy kept beyond it.
You can ask us to delete your information sooner.
Your choices
You can ask us to:
- tell you what information we hold about you and give you a copy;
- correct anything that is wrong;
- delete your information;
- stop sending you updates, which you can also do from any update email.
Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under local privacy law, including the right to complain to your data-protection authority.
To make a request, use the contact form and choose "Privacy or my data". We will reply to the email address the request comes from.
Children
This site is intended for adults building software products. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy we will update the version and date shown at the top of this page. If a change affects information you have already given us, we will contact you where we reasonably can.