Privacy Policy

This policy covers tastytech.com, operated by AK Internet Consulting, Inc. (“we,” “us”), Clarksville, MD. We use the information you share to provide purchases and tools. We do not sell your personal information.

What we collect

Email address. If you subscribe to the weekly menu, we store the email address you give us and the time you gave it. That’s the entire record. We use it to send you the menu and nothing else.

Purchase information. If you buy a Stack, payment is handled entirely by Stripe. We never see or store your card number. Stripe shares with us your email address and the fact of your purchase so we can provide what you bought. Stripe’s own privacy policy is at stripe.com/privacy.

Accounts and saved setups. When accounts are available, Clerk handles sign-in and email verification, and we record which Stacks your account can access. If you choose to save a setup, we store its equipment, quotes, goals and planning notes in our dedicated database so you can return to them across devices. You can remove a saved setup from your account. Guest access alone does not save a setup to an account.

Purchase confirmations. We use Resend for transactional email. When purchase confirmations are enabled, we temporarily queue your checkout email and the confirmation message. Completed or held queue records clear that message and address; a minimal receipt remains to prevent duplicate confirmations. The email provider keeps its own delivery records. Buying a Stack does not subscribe you to the weekly menu.

Private space photos. Photo saving is currently being prepared. When available, selecting and cropping a photo previews it on your device. Saving sends the selected file to our server; we keep only the cropped, resized JPEG, with embedded metadata removed, in private storage and associate it with your account setup. The saved copy stays until you remove it or its setup. Removed photos are hidden immediately; storage deletion may need a retry. Minimal private deletion records remain for cleanup. AI placement is currently disabled. Contact us for account-wide removal.

AI space previews. When available, Generate requires your explicit agreement to send the selected cropped photo and a supported product reference to OpenAI for that edit. Selecting, cropping or moving the placement does not request generation. Results stay private to your account. Unsaved results expire thirty days after the request; saved results stay until you remove them, their original or the setup. Generated bytes may be stored temporarily in our private database to recover a failed image save. Minimal request, allowance and deletion records remain for reliability and cleanup. Deleting an image here does not guarantee immediate deletion from the provider's safety records or backups. We do not use your space photos for public examples, marketing or unrelated training.

Server logs. Like every website, our hosting infrastructure keeps standard technical logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested) for security and debugging. These rotate out on a routine schedule.

Optional visit measurement

When optional analytics is available, it starts only after you allow it. Google Analytics then measures visits and selected actions, such as opening a sample, starting checkout and qualifying purchases. We use fixed page labels and controlled campaign fields. Your email, equipment, notes, photos and payment or sign-in links are excluded. Declining analytics does not stop purchases, downloads or tools.

When purchase measurement is enabled, we can connect a qualifying purchase or refund to a consented visit. At checkout, we store the tag’s browser and session identifiers and eligible campaign evidence in encrypted server storage. Stripe receives an opaque reference rather than those identifiers. The stored context expires within 30 days, or sooner if its original consent or campaign touch expires. Expired identifiers become ineligible immediately and are cleared by the separately configured retention cleanup.

Privacy preferences in the footer lets you change your choice in this browser. We remember the choice for up to 180 days. Allowing analytics may store Google browser identifiers in cookies with a 30-day expiry that renews with analytics activity. Recognized first and latest campaign touches remain eligible for up to 30 days. Withdrawing unloads measurement and clears this site’s known analytics identifiers and campaign storage in this browser. Random privacy receipts contain no Google identifiers and stay in browser storage for up to 30 days so withdrawal can reach previously registered server contexts. Server removal retries after reload or reconnection until acknowledged or the receipt expires; preferences shows when confirmation is pending. A withdrawn reference cannot reopen. Withdrawal does not automatically erase previously processed Google records or change another device’s choice. Contact us for a deletion request. Advertising features stay off.

What we don’t do

We don’t run advertising pixels or remarketing. Optional analytics requires your permission. We don’t sell, rent, or trade your email address to anyone, for any price, ever.

Affiliate links

Order links on the free weekly menu and inside the paid Stacks may go to Amazon and carry our Amazon Associates tag, so Amazon knows the visit came from us and pays us a small commission on qualifying purchases. The tag doesn’t change what you pay. Amazon reports what was ordered, never who ordered it — we don’t receive your name, address, or anything else about you. Once you’re on Amazon, Amazon’s own privacy policy applies. Every pick also links to the maker’s own page, tag-free, if you’d rather order direct.

Saved planning tools

When account saving is available and you are signed in with a Desk purchase, the equipment lists, budgets, notes and plan progress you enter are saved automatically a moment after each change, and a new plan is created automatically when you add its first item. They are stored in a dedicated database under your verified account ID, and are shown only to you when you are signed in. You can delete any saved plan from My setups. Entries made while signed out, or while saving is unavailable, stay in your browser tab only.

When account saving is available, deleting your account removes your saved plans and hides any private files attached to them. We keep a one-way hashed marker of the removed account ID, with the removal time, so that the same ID cannot recreate content. Deleting an account does not refund a purchase, revoke a guide link or cookie you already hold, or remove payment records we must keep, and it ends Desk access that is tied to that account. Database backups can keep deleted data until they expire under our database provider’s restore window. To ask us to delete your account, write to the address below and we’ll handle it within 30 days.

Your choices

Weekly-menu emails include an unsubscribe link. Purchase and account confirmations are separate transactional messages. If you’d like your email address deleted from our records entirely — subscriber list, purchase records where the law allows — write to hello@tastytech.com and we’ll take care of it within 30 days.

Children

Tasty Tech is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we’ll say so plainly in the weekly email and update the date at the top of this page. We won’t bury it.

Contact

AK Internet Consulting, Inc., Clarksville, MD · hello@tastytech.com