At Locus, we take your privacy seriously. We only require the bare minimum amount of information necessary to serve you content and process orders, and we discard information once it’s no longer used. However, you can often provide additional information to improve your experience even more. Regardless of why you provided us the information, we only share it with third-parties when you give us permission or absolutely necessary.
Information We Collect
Base Functionality, Analytics, and Logging
In order to view our website, our servers need to be able to communicate back and forth with your device (phone, laptop, etc). Your computer will provide some information, such as your current IP address or browser version, which we use to send you the data you request. We also log some of this information to fix bugs in our software and block devices that seem to be participating in abusive behavior (e.g., a denial of service attack).
We use Google Analytics for tracking pageviews, revenue, etc. However, all personally-identifiable information is scrubbed before sending to Analytics and your IP address is anonymized before storage. We also use aggregate and anonymized data for reporting purposes, such as tracking revenue for a service over time.
Profile Data
Your account’s unique “User ID”, name, and any other information you choose to provide is included in this category. Additionally, your order history and related items (e.g., print subscriptions) is included in this.
By default, this information is stored on our website’s servers (owned by Corespace) and accessible only to our staff for customer support and you.
All financial services are processed and recorded by either PayPal or Stripe, and no personal credit card or bank data is recorded or kept in our databases.
For your convenience, this information is also used to automatically fill in forms throughout our website. Some of these forms (e.g., our newsletter subscription form) may submit information to third parties (e.g., Mail Poet processes our newsletter subscriptions). However, you will have the chance to change this information before submitting and, where applicable, not opt in to sending information to the third parties.
Email Notifications
Email notifications are processed by Mail Poet.
reCAPTCHA by Google is used to prevent spam and abuse by other computers, or “bots.”