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Privacy Policy

We keep this short and honest, the way we keep everything else. Here’s exactly what we collect, why, who touches it, and how to make us delete it.

Last updated July 16, 2026

Who we are

Deadpan Labs LLC is a studio based in Miami, Florida. This policy covers deadpanlabs.com. We are the data controller for the information described below. For anything privacy-related — a question, a request, a complaint — email contact@deadpanlabs.com.

What we collect and why

We only collect what you hand us. There are no tracking cookies, no ad pixels, no hidden profiling. Four things touch our systems:

SourceDataWhy
Contact formName, email, messageTo read what you sent and reply to you.
Project inquiryName, email, company, services, stage, budget, timeline, project ideaTo understand the work you're describing and scope a response.
NewsletterEmail addressTo send occasional notes about what we're building, only after you confirm.
AnalyticsCookieless page-view events — no IP, no user-agent, no identifierTo see which pages get read, in aggregate. Nothing ties back to a person.

The legal basis, in plain terms

If you’re in the EU or UK, GDPR asks us to name a lawful basis for each thing we do:

  • Contact & project inquiries: legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) — you reached out about working together, so we handle your message to respond.
  • Newsletter: consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) — you opt in, you confirm, and you can pull that consent at any time by unsubscribing.
  • Analytics: legitimate interest in aggregate, cookieless measurement that can’t identify you.

Who else touches your data

We use a small set of trusted service providers to run the site. They process data only to provide their service to us, never for their own purposes:

Supabase
Database that stores form submissions and newsletter emails.
Resend
Delivers the transactional email that reaches our inbox.
Vercel
Hosts the site and provides cookieless, privacy-first analytics.
Google Workspace
Runs the contact@deadpanlabs.com inbox where messages land.
Cloudflare
Turnstile bot protection on our forms — privacy-preserving, no tracking cookies.

We don’t sell your data, and we don’t share it with anyone outside this list.

How long we keep it

We don’t hoard. Each type of data has a fixed lifespan:

Contact & project inquiries (leads)
24 months, then deleted.
Unconfirmed newsletter signups
30 days, then deleted.
Confirmed newsletter subscribers
Until you unsubscribe.
Cookieless analytics events
14 months, then deleted.

Your rights

Whether GDPR or California’s CCPA/CPRA applies to you, you have the same practical rights over your data:

  • Access — get a copy of what we hold about you.
  • Correction — fix anything that's wrong.
  • Deletion — have it erased.
  • Portability — receive it in a portable format.
  • Objection — tell us to stop processing it.

To exercise any of them, email contact@deadpanlabs.com and we’ll take care of it. We don’t sell or share your personal information for advertising, so there’s nothing to opt out of on that front — and we honor Global Privacy Control signals from your browser as a valid opt-out request.

Cookies & analytics

This site is essentially cookieless. Our analytics (Vercel Analytics) measures page views without cookies and without collecting your IP address, user-agent, or any identifier — so there’s no consent banner because there’s nothing to consent to. The bot protection on our forms (Cloudflare Turnstile) is privacy-preserving and doesn’t track you across the web.

How we keep it safe

The public site is capture-only: it can write your form submission into the database, but it can’t read anyone’s data back out. There’s no master key on the front end, and every write goes through a locked-down path that can only append — never browse, export, or delete. For spam prevention we store a salted, one-way hash of your IP address, never the raw address itself. In short: the door only opens one way, and it only opens a crack.

Changes to this policy

If we change what we collect or how we handle it, we’ll update this page and move the date at the top. Material changes get a clear heads-up.

Questions about your data?

A real person reads every message. Ask us anything, or tell us to delete what we have.

Get in touch →