Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 20, 2024


The privacy of your data is important to us. In this policy, we lay out:

We promise we never sell your data: never have, never will.

What we collect and why

Our guiding principle is to collect only what we need. Here’s what that means in practice:

Identity and access

When you sign up for an Unreal Source product, we ask for identifying information such as your name and email address. That’s so you can personalize your new account, and we can send you newsletters, product updates, and other essential information. We may also send you optional surveys from time to time to help us understand how you use our products and to make improvements. With your consent, we will send you our newsletter and other updates.

We’ll never sell your personal information to third parties, and we won’t use your name or company in marketing statements without your permission either.

Billing information

All payments are processed through Ko-fi, a third-party service. For more information on how they collect and process your billing information, see Ko-fi's privacy policy.

Product interactions

We store on our servers the content that you upload, receive, or maintain in your Unreal Source product accounts. This is so you can use our products as intended. We keep this content as long as your account is active.

General geolocation data

We log the full IP address used to sign up a product account and retain that for use in mitigating future spammy signups. We also log all account access by full IP address for security and fraud prevention purposes, and we keep this login data for as long as your product account is active.

Website interactions

We collect information about your browsing activity for analytics and statistical purposes such as conversion rate testing and experimenting with new product designs. This includes, for example, your browser and operating system versions, your location, your screen resolution, your language, which web pages you visited, and which website referred you to us. These web analytics data are anonymous and are not tied to your IP address or your user account.

Anti-bot assessments

We use Cloudflare across our applications to mitigate malicious traffic and as a means of spam protection. We have a legitimate interest in protecting our applications and the broader Internet community from cyber attacks and spam. When you use our applications, the Cloudflare service evaluates various information to try to detect if the activity is from an automated program instead of a human.

Advertising and cookies

We do not run any ads from third-party platforms or use third-party cookies in our applications. We use persistent first-party cookies to store certain preferences and make it possible for you to use our applications.

A cookie is a piece of text stored by your browser. It may help remember login information and site preferences. It might also collect information such as your browser type, operating system, web pages visited, duration of visit, content viewed, and other click-stream data. You can adjust cookie retention settings and accept or block individual cookies in your browser settings, although our apps won’t work and other aspects of our service may not function properly if you turn cookies off.

Voluntary correspondence

When you email us with a question or to ask for help, we keep that correspondence, including your email address, so that we have a history of past correspondence to reference if you reach out in the future.

We also store information you may volunteer, for example, written responses to surveys. If you agree to a customer interview, we may ask for your permission to record the conversation for future reference or use. We will only do so with your express consent.

When we access or disclose your information

To help you troubleshoot an issue with your account. If at any point we need to access your account to help you with a support case, we will inform you before proceeding.

To investigate, prevent, or take action regarding restricted uses. Accessing a customer’s account when investigating potential abuse is a measure of last resort. We want to protect the privacy and safety of both our customers and the people reporting issues to us, and we do our best to balance those responsibilities throughout the process. If we discover you are using our products for a restricted purpose, we will take action as necessary, including notifying appropriate authorities where warranted.

When required under applicable law. Unreal Source is based in the U.S. and some data infrastructure are located in the U.S.

Your rights with respect to your information

At Unreal Source, we strive to apply the same data rights to all customers, regardless of their location. Some of these rights include:

Many of these rights can be exercised by signing in and updating your account information.

If you have questions about exercising these rights or need assistance, please contact us. If an authorized agent is corresponding on your behalf, we will need written consent with a signature from the account holder before proceeding.

If you are in the EU or UK, you can contact your data protection authority to file a complaint or learn more about local privacy laws.

How we secure your data

All data is encrypted via SSL/TLS when transmitted from our servers to your browser.

Changes and questions

We may update this policy as needed to comply with relevant regulations and reflect any new practices. Whenever we make a significant change to our policies, we will refresh the date at the top of this page and take any other appropriate steps to notify users.

Have any questions, comments, or concerns about this privacy policy, your data, or your rights with respect to your information? Please get in touch by emailing us and we’ll be happy to try to answer them!

Adapted from the Basecamp open-source policies / CC BY 4.0