Privacy notice

This website is operated by Shortstone ("Shortstone", "we", "us"), an independent software and product engineering studio. This notice explains what personal information we collect through this website, why we collect it and what we do with it.

• Enquiries. When you send a project enquiry we collect your name, business email address, company, and whatever you tell us about your project, budget and timing.
• Usage information. We use privacy-friendly analytics that record aggregate page views and a small number of interactions, such as a button being pressed. They do not use cookies and do not identify you.
• Technical logs. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs, which can include IP address, browser type and the pages requested, to keep the site secure and working.

We do not ask for sensitive personal information, and we ask you not to include any in an enquiry.

• To reply to your enquiry and discuss a possible engagement with you.
• To keep a record of our dealings with prospective and current clients.
• To understand how the website is used so that we can improve it.
• To protect the website against spam, abuse and security threats.

We rely on our legitimate interest in running and promoting our business, and on taking steps at your request before entering into a contract. We do not sell personal information, and we do not use your enquiry for marketing unless you ask us to keep in touch.

We share personal information only with service providers that help us run this website and our business, such as our website hosting, analytics and email delivery providers. They process it on our instructions and only for those purposes. We may also disclose information where the law requires it.

Some of these providers are based in other countries, so your information may be processed outside the country you are in. Where that happens we rely on the safeguards those providers put in place.

We keep enquiries for as long as we need them to respond and to maintain a record of our business dealings, and then delete them. If you become a client, the information we hold about you is governed by our agreement with you.

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information. No website can be guaranteed completely secure, so please do not send confidential material through the enquiry form.

You can ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it. Depending on where you live you may have further rights under local data protection law, including the right to complain to your data protection authority.

To make a request, use the form on our contact page.

We may update this notice from time to time. The date at the top of the page shows when it was last changed.