Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

When you sign up for the Ephemera beta, we collect:

• Your email address — required to send you beta access invitations
• An optional comment — if you choose to leave one on the signup form
• The environmental conditions at the moment you sign up — time of day, season, weather, and moon phase. Ephemera is a condition-based music tool, so we capture these as a creative keepsake of your signup moment. They are not used for analytics, advertising, or profiling

We do not use analytics services, advertising trackers, or fingerprinting on this website. We do not collect device identifiers. We use Vercel Speed Insights for anonymous performance monitoring only — it does not track users or set cookies.

Local Browser Storage

This website stores small amounts of data in your browser's local storage to improve your experience. This data never leaves your device and is not sent to our servers:

• Visit history — a list of dates you visited, used to skip the loading screen for returning visitors (last 30 days, stored locally)
• Interactive experience progress — which parts of the interactive demo you have explored, so your progress is saved between visits
• UI preferences — layout calibration settings for the interactive experience
• Animation deduplication — flags to avoid repeating visual effects within a single session (cleared when you close the tab)
• Device capability detection — your browser's graphics capabilities are checked locally to choose the right visual quality for your device. This information never leaves your browser and is not sent to any server

You can clear this data at any time through your browser's settings. The website will continue to work normally without it.

How We Use Your Information

Your email address is used to send you beta access invitations, product updates, and important announcements about Ephemera. Your signup moment (conditions at the time you signed up) is included in your confirmation email as a personal touch. We will never sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.

Cookies

This website does not use cookies for tracking or advertising. Any cookies present are strictly necessary for the functioning of the site (e.g., bot protection during signup).

Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services to operate Ephemera:

• Supabase — stores beta signup data securely
• Resend — delivers transactional emails
• Cloudflare Turnstile — bot protection during signup (no tracking cookies)
• Upstash — rate limiting to prevent abuse
• Vercel Speed Insights — collects anonymous, aggregated performance metrics (page load times, responsiveness) to help us keep the site fast. It does not set cookies, identify individual users, or track browsing behavior

These services process data on our behalf and are bound by their own privacy policies. No personal data is shared with these services beyond what is necessary for their function.

Data Retention

We retain your signup data for as long as you remain on the beta waitlist or as an active user. You may request deletion of your data at any time by contacting us.

Your Rights

You have the right to access, correct, or delete any personal information we hold about you. You may also unsubscribe from communications at any time using the link provided in our emails.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy or your data, contact us at hello@ephemera.fm.