Privacy

What we collect

• Your email address, to sign you in (by emailed link, no password), to tell you about your purchase and, if you agreed, to send the emails described below.
• If you sign up for free Module 1: your email address, the date and time you signed up, where you signed up, the exact wording you saw on the form, and the approximate city/region your connection comes from. We don't store your IP address or your name.
• If you arrived from an ad or a tracked link: the campaign details in that link (such as utm_source, utm_campaign and the ad platform's click ID), the page you landed on and the referring website, saved with your Module 1 sign-up or purchase so we know which ads work. Your browser keeps these for the visit, and between visits only if you accept cookies.
• Your display name and anything you post in the Lesson Q&A and community.
• Your course progress: lessons completed and where you stopped in each video, so you can pick up where you left off on any device.
• Your email preference (on or off), with the date, the place you set it and its wording.
• Payment details are collected and held by Stripe (and Link where it's the reseller), not by us. We receive your email, the amount paid and a purchase reference, plus the name and billing city, state or region and country you give at checkout. We keep only the initials of that name, never the full name.
• Recent activity on the sales page: the sales page may show short notes about recent purchases (the buyer's initials and city/region, for example "S.M. in Denver, Colorado got lifetime access") and recent Module 1 sign-ups (approximate city/region only, for example "Someone in Austin, Texas started Module 1"). For sign-ups we store the approximate city/region our hosting provider reports for your connection, never your IP address or your name. The notes never show a full name, email address or what you paid. Ask us and we'll leave yours out.
• Basic technical data our hosting and video providers log (IP address, browser, pages and videos requested) for security and delivery.

Why

To give you access to what you bought or signed up for, remember your progress, run the Lesson Q&A and community, prevent sharing of accounts and paid videos, process refunds, send the emails you agreed to, and meet legal and tax obligations.

Emails we send

• Account and purchase emails (sign-in links, purchase and refund messages) always go out; they're part of the service.
• Free Module 1: the sign-up form says "We'll email you the lessons and a short series about the full course and future courses. Unsubscribe anytime." Signing up with that wording is your consent to those emails. Module 1 is free for as long as you're subscribed: unsubscribing ends free access to it, and resubscribing (which records your consent again, with the time and wording) restores it.
• Buyers: at your first sign-in we show a box, already ticked, that says "Email me about new short courses (unsubscribe anytime)". Untick it if you don't want these emails. You can change it any time on your Account page.
• Every marketing email comes from G. Cleanthous, has a one-click unsubscribe link, and includes our mailing address as the law requires. Unsubscribing takes effect straight away and doesn't affect account or purchase emails.

Who processes it for us

Supabase (accounts and course data, USA), Cloudflare (website hosting), Bunny.net (video streaming), Stripe and Link (payments), Resend (sign-in and account emails), and Google (Tag Manager and Analytics), plus the advertising platforms whose measurement tags we use (such as Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok) where you have allowed cookies. Each processes data only to provide its service.

What we don't do

No selling or renting your data, and no marketing emails without the consent described above.

How long we keep it

For as long as you have an account, then deleted within 90 days of a deletion request, except purchase records we must keep for tax (generally 5 to 7 years) and a record that you unsubscribed, kept so we don't email you again.

Your choices

Ask for a copy of your data, a correction, or deletion of your account at [email protected]. We will delete any of your Lesson Q&A and community posts on request. If you're in the EU/UK or California you have the rights those laws give you, and we'll honor them on request.

Cookies and storage

We store your sign-in session and video positions in your browser's local storage so the site works.

We also use Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics to count visits, sign-ups and purchases, and we may use advertising tags (such as Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok) to measure which ads bring visitors here. These set cookies. If you're in the EU, UK or Switzerland they stay off until you click Accept; everywhere else you can turn them off with Decline. You can change your choice any time with "Cookie settings" at the bottom of every page.

Contact

[email protected]. This policy is governed by the Australian Privacy Principles where they apply.