Privacy
Short version: we collect an email address, an answer about the eating rule you're following if you give one, which ad brought you here, and — if you type a rule into "something else" on the picker, whether or not you ever give an email — that text, with nothing identifying it to you. Nothing else, and we don't sell any of it.
What we collect
- Your email address, when you submit the form, so we can tell you when the beta opens.
- Your answer to the question about your eating rule, if you choose to answer it. It's optional — you can skip it and stay on the list.
- Text you type into "something else" on the rule picker — stored the moment you submit it, before you ever reach the email step, and independent of whether you give an email at all. Stored alongside it: the campaign tags of the link you arrived on (same as the next bullet), so we can tell which ad an entry came from. This one is anonymous by design otherwise: no email, no IP address, no cookie, no identifier connecting it to you, or to any other entry, or to any other data on this page — the campaign tags describe the link you clicked, not you. That also means we cannot find or delete a single anonymous entry on request, because nothing about it says which one was yours; see "Your choices" below.
- Which ad or link brought you here — the campaign tags in the web address you arrived on, such as the name of the ad. If you sign up, they are stored alongside your email; if you type something into "something else" on the rule picker, they are stored alongside that text instead, whether or not you ever sign up. Either way, they describe the link you clicked, not you: no cookies are involved, and we learn nothing about where else you have been.
- Anonymous page analytics — page views, the same campaign tags, and which parts of the rule picker and demo card were used. No cookies, no cross-site tracking, no individual profiles.
What we do with it
The email goes on a waitlist and gets used for one thing: telling you when there's something to try. The rule answers — including anonymous "something else" text — are read in aggregate to decide which rule we build first, and the campaign tags to decide which ad was worth running. We don't sell, rent, or share any of it with third parties for their own purposes.
Who processes it
- Kit (kit.com) stores the waitlist and sends the emails.
- Plausible Analytics provides cookieless, aggregate page analytics.
- Cloudflare serves this page and securely stores your signup, optional answer, signup-consent timestamp, the campaign tags of the link you arrived on, delivery-status records so failed transfers to Kit can be recovered, and — separately, in a table with no connection to the above — anonymous "something else" text and when it was submitted. Diagnostic logs use submission IDs, not your email or answer; the anonymous table has no submission ID linking it to anything else at all.
- Reddit may have shown you the ad that brought you here, under its own privacy policy.
How long we keep it
Your signup and answer: until you unsubscribe, or until we abandon the project — whichever comes first. Anonymous "something else" text has no unsubscribe to tie it to, so it's kept only until we abandon the project, the same point at which every other table on this page is deleted rather than kept around.
Your choices
Every email has a one-click unsubscribe, which stops further emails. You can also email us to ask what we hold about your email address, to correct it, or to have it deleted, and we'll do it. We cannot do the same for anonymous "something else" text, because nothing about a stored entry identifies which one is yours — if you'd rather not have text stored this way, don't use "something else"; picking one of the named rules, or giving no rule at all, stores nothing beyond the page analytics above.
Contact
Reach us at hello@mealrules.com.