PRIVACY POLICY

The free tools

Signal Check, the EQ Trainer, and the Compression Trainer all run entirely in your browser. When you drop a track in, it's analyzed on your own machine using the Web Audio API. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server, and I never see or hear your audio. Closing the tab clears it.

Email signup

If you join the Stuck List (the free download offer on the homepage) or sign up anywhere else on this site, your email is sent to beehiiv, the email platform this site uses, by this site's own server. Their code does not run in your browser. I see your email address and can send you the newsletter and related updates. I don't sell or share it with anyone outside of running that list. Every email has an unsubscribe link that actually works.

Analytics, cookies and local storage

This site runs two analytics tools. Neither uses cookies. Neither collects anything personal.

Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views. Cloudflare already hosts this site, so every request passes through them either way. This adds no new company to the picture.

Umami records seven events. Here is the whole list:

• analysis-complete. An analysis finished, plus which button you had selected: rough mix, mixed, mastered, or reference.
• reference-loaded. A reference track was loaded.
• carousel-export. A carousel was exported, plus how many cards were in it.
• pdf-export. A report was opened. (The name is the old one, kept so the counter stays continuous.)
• email-captured. A newsletter signup was confirmed.
• release-clip-click. The release-clip button was clicked. The clip maker is not built yet; this counts interest in it.
• release-clip-signup. An email was submitted on the release-clip early-access form. The address itself is never in the event.

That is the entire list. Seven counters and two numbers. Neither tool can identify you, follow you to other sites, or build a profile on you, and there are no ad trackers here.

None of this touches your audio. No file name, no audio, no measurements from your track, no email address. The events record that something happened, never what was in the file. That promise in the first section is unchanged.

The only thing this site itself stores in your browser is your light/dark mode and motion-level preference, saved locally so the site remembers your choice on your next visit. That preference never leaves your device.

One third-party service loads on this site: the analytics beacon described above, from Umami. That is the whole list. Until August 2026 there were three. The homepage signup form was a beehiiv embed that also pulled in Google Tag Manager and a bot-detection script and set their own cookies; it is now a plain form on this site, and your email reaches beehiiv through this site's own server, so nothing of theirs runs in your browser. The fonts used to be requested from Google Fonts, which showed Google your IP address on every page; they are now served from this site.

Third-party links

Links to YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Bandcamp, Gumroad, and similar platforms take you to their sites, where their own privacy policies apply, not this one. Purchases (cheat sheets, templates, Genre Blueprints, merch) are handled entirely by Gumroad or Bandcamp; this site never sees your payment information.

Your rights

Want your email removed from the list, or have a question about any of this? Unsubscribe directly from any email, or reach out at [email protected].

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page will change with it. Nothing here is legal advice, it's a plain description of how this specific site actually works.