Short version: we collect the minimum we need to run the product. We do not sell your data. We do not run ad trackers. If you want your data gone, send an email and we will delete it.
Bitsbeacon is built by a small team of passionate business and technical experts. The site lives at bitsbeacon.com. The server is a virtual machine hosted by OVH in Singapore. You can reach a human at alex@bitsbeacon.com.
The onboarding form asks for your name, your work email, your company name, and your company website. We use these to build the brief and email it back to you. We keep them so you can come back and view your brief later.
Every time someone opens a brief, we log the time, the path, the referring page, the browser user agent, and the network address of the request. We also set one cookie, bb_visitor, that contains a random identifier (no name, no email). The cookie lasts one year. We use it to group views by the same browser, so we can see which sections of a brief get read and which get ignored. That is the only cookie we set.
If you hover a card for more than a moment, vote on a card, or leave a comment, we save that event next to your random cookie identifier. This tells us which findings landed and which did not. It is not joined to any name or email unless you also signed in or asked for a brief from the same browser.
The sign in form sends us the email you typed, plus the time and network address of the request. The contact form sends us the fields you filled in plus a reCAPTCHA score from Google. Both go to the same database the briefs live in.
Outbound mail goes through Fastmail. Transactional events such as delivery, opens, and link clicks come back to us through Resend webhooks and are stored against your record. If you do not want open tracking, tell us and we will turn it off for your address.
We do not run Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any other advertising or behavioural tracker. We do not sell your data. We do not share your brief, your comments, or your engagement data with anyone outside the team. We do not enrich your email against third party profile databases.
To run the product we send small slices of data to a short list of providers. Each one only sees what it needs:
/contact page.Briefs, prospects, and engagement events stay for as long as the account is open. If you ask us to delete, we delete the record and the cookie identifier within seven days. Backups roll off after thirty days.
Email alex@bitsbeacon.com if you want to:
We reply within a few working days. There is no form to fill in and no ticket queue.
If this page changes in a way that affects what we collect or who sees it, we will email everyone with an active account before the change takes effect.
Email alex@bitsbeacon.com. A person reads every message.