Privacy policy

Rainy Tech Lab (rainytech.dev) is run by Rainy. This page explains what the site collects, why, and what you can do about it. Short version: only what’s needed to answer you and run your account. Nothing is sold, and there are no ad trackers.

What is collected

• Contact form: your name, email, the service you picked, budget, timeline and what you wrote. Also your browser’s user-agent and a salted, one-way hash of your IP address (used only to spot spam; the IP itself isn’t stored).
• Account (optional): your name, email and a securely hashed password, or your GitHub / Google sign-in if you use it. Sign-in sessions are kept in a cookie.
• What you post: comments, likes, saved articles, tutorial ideas and votes, messages on your requests, and stories if you’re a guest writer.
• Email conversations: when you answer one of my emails about your request, that reply (and my answer) is copied into your request’s conversation so it’s all in one place.

How it’s used

To reply to your request, run your account, show your comments and ideas, and send the emails you’d expect: a confirmation, replies, email verification and password resets. That’s it.

Gmail

The site sends and receives email through the site owner’s own Gmail account, using Google’s Gmail API. It only reads messages to and from people who have sent a request through this site, and only to add them to that request’s conversation. No other mailbox data is used. Use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Who else sees it

• Google (Gmail) delivers the emails.
• The hosting and database providers store the site and its data.
• YouTube loads only when you press play on a video.

Your data isn’t sold or shared with anyone else, and isn’t used for advertising.

Cookies and storage

A sign-in cookie (only when you sign in) and your light/dark theme choice saved in your browser. No analytics or ad cookies.

Keeping and deleting it

Requests and conversations are kept while they’re useful for our work together. You can delete your account any time on your account page. That removes your profile, comments, likes, votes and saved articles; ideas and requests you sent stay but are no longer linked to you. To have a request, conversation or anything else removed, email hello@rainytech.dev and it will be deleted.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too.