Privacy notice
What the tabuprojects.com website does with your personal data. In short: no cookies, no tracking, and we only see what you send us.
Who we are
This website, tabuprojects.com, is run by Tabu, an independent project run by one person in the United Kingdom. Tabu decides how the personal data described here is used (the "controller").
Contact: tabu@tabuprojects.com
This notice is about the website only. Each TABU app has its own privacy document, listed on the Legal page.
Visiting the website
- No cookies and no tracking: no analytics, no adverts, no social media buttons, nothing loaded from other companies. All pages, pictures, fonts and the video come from our own server.
- We do not keep a log of who visits the pages.
- Like every website, our server has to receive your device's IP address to send you the pages. It is used for that and not kept.
- The capybara's on/off choice is saved in your own browser (local storage) only when you press the button. It never leaves your device; clearing your browser's site data removes it.
When you contact us or ask for a project
When you use the contact form or the order form (or email us), we receive your name, your email address and your message, plus the subject (contact form) or the type of project, timing and budget (order form).
- Why: only to read and answer your message or enquiry. We never use it for marketing and never sell or share it.
- Legal basis: your consent (the tick box on the form), and our legitimate interest in answering messages sent to us.
- How: the form sends it to our server, which checks it and emails it to our inbox. The server does not store messages.
- Technical log: when you send a form, the server's system log records the request with your IP address and the time. To stop abuse, the server also remembers your IP address in its memory for up to one hour (at most 3 messages per hour, both forms together). The log is removed automatically after a limited time.
- How long: we keep your message and our replies in our email inbox only as long as needed to deal with it, and delete them within 12 months after the last reply.
When you donate
If you donate on the Support me page, PayPal or your bank tells us your name, the amount and any message you add (and with PayPal, your email address). We use this only to know who to thank and to keep the records the law requires (for example for tax), for as long as the law requires. PayPal and your bank handle the payment under their own privacy notices.
Who else handles the data
We use a few services to run the website. They only handle your data on our behalf:
- IONOS: the server that runs the website, the domain and our email inbox.
- Google (Gmail): emails sent to our inbox, including contact form messages, are forwarded to a Gmail account that we read them in.
- PayPal and Lloyds Bank: donations.
Some of these companies may handle data outside the UK; they protect it with the safeguards required by UK data protection law.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask us to:
- tell you what personal data we hold about you and give you a copy;
- correct it, or delete it;
- stop or limit using it, and you can withdraw your consent at any time.
Email tabu@tabuprojects.com. We answer within one month.
If you are not happy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO): ico.org.uk. We would be grateful for the chance to sort it out first.
Children
This website is not meant for children. Please do not send us messages if you are under 13.
Changes
If we change how the website handles personal data, we will update this notice and its version and date at the top.