Golden Data

Privacy

What I do with your data

Golden Data is a one-person operation. The data this site touches is what you type into the contact form — plus, if you use the optional rewrite in the Prose Voice Linter tool, the draft you choose to send, and, if you buy a service, what you enter at Stripe’s checkout. This page covers everything that happens after you hit submit.

What gets collected

  • Contact form. Your name, email, and message. Company and role if you fill them in (both optional). Since 2026-10-07 the same fields, with the page you came from and any campaign tags on the link you arrived by, are also kept in a private leads table of mine (on Supabase, readable only by me), so I can see which page or post led to a conversation and what came of it.
  • Purchases, if you buy a service. Payment is processed by Stripe on its own hosted checkout page; this site never sees your card or bank details. Stripe receives what checkout asks for — your name, email, company, billing address, and the card or bank account you pay with — and shows me your name, email, company, billing address, what you bought and the amount, plus the card brand and last four digits (never the full number). I use that to keep the books and to reach out to schedule. After paying you land on a thank-you page that reads nothing about you.
  • Prose Voice Linter rewrite (optional). The linter’s checks run entirely in your browser. Only if you click “Rewrite in voice” does the draft you pasted get sent to Anthropic’s API for the rewrite. It isn’t stored on my side, and nothing is sent unless you click.
  • Server logs. Vercel hosts this site and keeps standard request logs (IP, user agent, requested URL) for a short window. I don’t use those logs for anything beyond debugging.
  • Anonymous view and download tallies. Every page counts how many times it has been read, and a few count saves too — chart images exported from a dashboard, transparent PNGs from the Background Remover, stitched activities from the Strava Activity Stitcher. The contact form also counts how many visits arrive from each role page. Those are plain integers in a table keyed by the page’s URL, plus the time each row last changed; the live pulse on the Data page reads those times to show which pages were opened most recently. Nothing about you, your files, or your session is stored with them, and the files themselves never leave your browser.
  • Privacy-friendly pageview counts. I use Vercel Web Analytics to see which pages people read. It’s cookieless, doesn’t fingerprint you, and doesn’t follow you to other sites. No tracking pixels, no third-party advertising cookies.
  • What’s kept in your browser. No cookies. A few preferences sit in this browser’s localStorage and are never sent anywhere: your theme (light or dark), the reading width you choose on a page, the GIF & meme maker’s export settings (frame rate, colors, trim, caption size — never your video, photo, or caption text), the last few tools you opened and when, so the Tools page can list them first (its Clear button erases that list), the race finder’s preference toggles (distance bands, radius, recovery weeks), its layout, the races you star or pass on, and the target race you pick there or on the ultra page, and on Four Thousand Weeks, the birthday and kids’ birth or due dates you type in, the separation date and custody schedule if you add them, plus whether you last picked the curves for everyone, men or women, so your grid is there next time (its “Forget my dates” button erases all of it). Two more live in sessionStorage, for this tab only: the list of pages already counted for the tally above, so refreshing a page doesn’t inflate its count, and the campaign tags, landing page and referring site of the first page you opened this visit, kept so the contact form can carry them if you submit it; nothing is sent otherwise. Clearing this site’s data removes all of it.

What I do with it

  • Contact form messages come to my inbox and into my private leads table, where I note what happened next (replied, scoped, won, lost). I read them and usually reply within a couple of days. I don’t add contact-form emails to any mailing list or share them with anyone.
  • Purchase details are used for your receipt, your invoice, and scheduling the work, and nothing else. They don’t go on any list either.
  • I don’t sell, rent, or share any of this with third parties.

Who processes it

Six services touch your data on the way to me, and a seventh, Stripe, only if you buy something:

  • Vercel hosts the site and runs the cookieless pageview analytics.
  • Supabase stores the anonymous per-page view and download tallies described above (counts only, no personal data) and, since 2026-10-07, my private copy of each contact-form submission with its source tags.
  • Formspree processes contact form submissions and forwards them to my email.
  • Anthropic processes a draft only when you use the optional “Rewrite in voice” action in the Prose Voice Linter, and only to generate the rewrite.
  • OpenStreetMap serves the map tiles on the pages with a map (the Home Finder, the race finder and the ultra page’s course view). Your browser requests those tiles directly, so the OpenStreetMap Foundation sees the same request metadata any web server does — nothing about you travels with it.
  • Gmail receives anything sent to thegoldendata@gmail.com.
  • Stripe processes payment if you buy a service: it runs the checkout page, takes the card or bank details, and emails your receipt. Your full card and account numbers stay with Stripe.

How long I keep it

Contact form messages stay in my Gmail, and their copy in my leads table, until I clean them out, usually within a year of the conversation ending. Ask and I’ll delete sooner. Purchase records — receipts and invoices, in Stripe and in my books — are kept as long as tax and accounting rules require; those I can’t delete on request.

Your rights

You can ask me to show you what I have on you, correct it, or delete it. Email thegoldendata@gmail.com with the subject “data request” and I’ll act on it within a week.

Children

Golden Data is written for adults working in B2B software. The site is not directed at children, and I don’t knowingly collect data from anyone under 16.

Changes

If this changes — for example, when newsletter signups move to a proper email service — I’ll update this page and date the change at the bottom.

Last updated: 2026-10-07. Questions: thegoldendata@gmail.com.