Privacy Policy

2. Information we collect

Information you give us

• Waitlist sign-up: your email address, name, company or project, role, and a short description of what you're building.
• Contact and scheduling: if you use our contact form, book a meeting through Calendly, or email us, the details you choose to send, such as your name, email address, and message.

Information collected automatically

• Technical data: your IP address, your browser's user agent, and the date and time of your sign-up and other requests to the Site.
• Referral data: if you join through someone's referral link, we record which link you used. Your sign-up counts toward their referrals once you confirm your email address.
• Cookies and similar technologies, described in section 5.

Information from service providers

Google reCAPTCHA returns a risk score for your sign-up, and we check the domain of your email address against lists of disposable email providers.

3. How we use your information

• To run the waitlist: create your spot, send your confirmation email, show you your referral link and referral counts, and decide the order in which we offer access.
• To email you about the waitlist: confirmation and sign-in links, updates when people join through your referral link, and messages about your access to Spacebar. You can turn off referral updates with the unsubscribe link in those emails.
• To prevent abuse: we use reCAPTCHA, IP-based rate limits, disposable-email checks, and self-referral checks to keep the waitlist fair. Sign-ups that break these rules may be flagged and lose referral credit.
• To respond to you when you contact us.
• To operate, secure, and improve the Site, and to comply with our legal obligations.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

4. What other people can see

Your referral link contains a random code, not your name or email address. Someone who referred you sees only a count of the people who joined through their link, never who those people are. We do not publish waitlist positions or the size of the waitlist.

5. Cookies and similar technologies

• wl_session is a strictly necessary cookie set when you join or sign in to the waitlist. It keeps you signed in to your waitlist status in that browser for up to one year. It is limited to the waitlist pages and can't be read by scripts on the page.
• wl_ref is stored in your browser's local storage and remembers the referral link you arrived from until you sign up.
• Google reCAPTCHA sets cookies and collects device and interaction data to tell people from bots. Its use is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
• Third-party content: the Site loads Google Tag Manager, Google Fonts, and embedded content from YouTube and Calendly. These providers may receive your IP address and set their own cookies under their own privacy policies. If we enable analytics through Google Tag Manager, we will update this policy.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block the wl_session cookie, use the sign-in link we email you to see your waitlist status.

6. Who we share information with

We share personal information only with service providers that process it on our behalf:

• Google Cloud: hosting and database, in the United States.
• Google reCAPTCHA: bot protection.
• Twilio SendGrid: email delivery.
• Webflow and its content delivery provider Cloudflare: website hosting and our contact form.
• UserCheck: disposable-email detection. We send only the domain of your email address, never the full address.
• Google Workspace: receiving your emails and replies.
• Calendly: meeting scheduling, if you book a meeting with us.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, to protect the rights and safety of Spacebar, our users, or others, or as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. In that case this policy will continue to apply to your information.

7. How long we keep information

We keep waitlist information while the waitlist is active and for as long as we need it to offer you access to Spacebar, or until you ask us to delete it. Our email provider keeps delivery logs for a limited period under its own retention policy. We may keep information longer where the law requires it.

8. Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your personal information, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw your consent. To make a request, email waitlist@spacebar.ai from the address you signed up with. We will respond within the time the law requires, and we won't treat you differently for exercising your rights.

If you are in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland

We process your information to take steps you ask for, such as adding you to the waitlist; for our legitimate interests in running a fair waitlist, preventing abuse, and operating the Site; and with your consent where the law requires it. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

If you are a California resident

In the last 12 months we have collected identifiers (such as your name, email address, and IP address), professional information (your company and role), and internet activity information (such as referral and interaction data), for the purposes described in section 3. We do not sell or share personal information, and we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information.

9. International transfers

We are based in the United States and store waitlist data in the United States. If you are outside the US, your information will be transferred to and processed in the US, where data protection laws may differ from those in your country.

10. Security

We protect your information with measures such as encryption in transit, restricted access to our database, and signed session cookies. No system is perfectly secure, so we can't guarantee the security of your information.

11. Children

The Site is not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top of this page, and if the changes are material we will tell you by email where appropriate.

13. Contact us

For questions or requests about your personal information, email waitlist@spacebar.ai.

Pencil Learning Technologies, Inc.