What we keep, and what we never see.
The short version: our downloadable tools run on your machine and send us nothing. The only personal data we hold is an email address, if you give us one, plus the records our payment providers keep so a purchase can exist at all.
Last updated 14 July 2026
The party responsible for this data.
TIC Association publishes the works listed on this site and is responsible for the personal data described below. We are a pseudonymous collective: our members are known by what they ship rather than by their legal names, and we do not publish personal identities.
You can reach us about anything on this page, including any request to see or delete your data, at hello@ticassociation.com. We answer to that address.
Our downloadable software sends us nothing.
XDB and IDB are local Windows applications. They run entirely on your computer. Your login for any account you connect stays on your machine, the target lists stay on your machine, and there is no server of ours for that data to travel to. We do not receive it, we cannot read it, and we could not hand it over if we were asked.
This is not a promise about our good behaviour. It is a property of how the software is built. There is no cloud component to trust.
The full list, with nothing left off.
| Data | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Email address | You subscribe to a letter or newsletter, or you contact us | To send the thing you asked for, and to reply to you |
| Purchase record | You buy a work | To give you access to it, honour a refund, and meet tax and accounting duties |
| The problem you describe | You request a free diagnosis from Vibe-Code Rescue | To diagnose the fault and quote the fix |
| Aggregate page analytics | You visit a page | To see which pages are read. Aggregate counts only, not profiles of individuals |
We never see your card details. Payments run through Stripe and Gumroad, who take the card data directly. It does not pass through us and we cannot store it.
We do not sell personal data. We do not share it for advertising. We do not build profiles of visitors, and we run no advertising trackers on this site.
The processors we use, named.
We use these providers to run the works. Each acts as a processor on our behalf, and each has its own privacy terms:
- Vercel: hosting for this site and the product sites, plus aggregate page analytics.
- Stripe: payments and subscriptions for Layer 0 and Vibe-Code Rescue.
- Gumroad: checkout and delivery for XDB and IDB.
- Sender.net: the Layer 0 letter.
- Beehiiv: The Brief, our newsletter.
We keep this list current. If we add a processor that handles personal data, it appears here.
Retention, and how to end it.
We keep an email address for as long as you want the thing it was given for. Unsubscribe and it is removed from that list. Purchase records are kept as long as tax and accounting rules require, which is the one category we cannot delete on request.
If you are in the EU or the UK, you have the right to ask for a copy of your data, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, and to object to how we use it. Write to hello@ticassociation.com and we will act on it. You may also complain to your national data protection authority.
We set none of our own.
This site does not use advertising or tracking cookies, and it does not show a cookie banner because it has nothing to ask you to consent to. Our page analytics count visits in aggregate rather than following individuals.
When you go to a checkout page, Stripe or Gumroad may set cookies of their own on their pages, which are necessary for a payment to work securely. That happens on their domain, under their terms.
When this page changes.
If we change how we handle data, we change this page and move the date at the top. There is no version of this that we do not write down.
See also: Terms.