Privacy

Who runs this site

shadertown is operated from the Netherlands and reachable at [email protected]. That address is the one to use for anything on this page.

What we collect

• Your account. Signing in uses Google. Google tells us your name, your email address, your profile picture and your Google account id. We never see your Google password.
• Your session. A cookie that keeps you signed in. It holds a session identifier and nothing else.
• Your licence. If you buy the Professional plan we store a customer id from our payment processor and the date your access runs until. We never see or store your card details.
• Visitor counts. Page views, measured by a self-hosted Rybbit instance, along with three counts of what happened: a sign-in finished, a shader was downloaded, a plan was bought. None of the three carries who did it. It sets no cookies, follows no person between sites and builds no profile.
• Advertising measurement. We run ads on X and on Reddit. To know whether an ad led to a sale, each network's pixel runs on this site: it sets its own cookies and is told when a purchase completes and what it was worth. Reddit's pixel is also told which page you are on. Each network is also sent the same purchase a second time from our servers, so that a sale is not missed when a pixel is blocked; both reports carry one shared reference, so the sale is counted once. Those server reports go out only with an identifier the network itself created: for X, the click id it put on the link you arrived by; for Reddit, the id its own pixel wrote into a cookie here. Where there is no such identifier we send nothing. We never send X or Reddit your email address, your phone number, your name, your account or your IP address, and neither is told which plan you bought. These pixels are the only things on the site that follow a person between sites, and each network uses its own under its own privacy policy.
• Server logs. Ordinary request logs, kept briefly, to keep the site running and to find abuse.

The parameters you move on a shader are held in the page URL. They are not stored on our servers and are not tied to your account.

Why we collect it

To sign you in, to know which plan you are on, to answer the command line and the registry with the right files, and to keep the service available. We do not sell your data and we do not share it with anyone except the processors named below. We do advertise, on X and on Reddit, and we measure whether those ads lead to sales (see "Advertising measurement" above).

Who else sees it

• Google: sign-in only, under Google's own privacy policy.
• Polar: payments and invoicing. Polar is the merchant of record and handles card data on its own systems.
• X: advertising measurement only, on every page. It learns that a purchase happened, what it was worth, and the id of the ad click that led to it if there was one. Never who made it.
• Reddit: advertising measurement only, on every page. It learns which pages were looked at, that a purchase happened, what it was worth, and the id its own pixel gave the browser it happened in. Never who made it.
• Our hosting provider: the servers that run this site and its database.

How long we keep it

Account data stays until you ask us to delete it. Billing records are kept as long as tax law requires. Server logs are short-lived. Visitor counts are aggregate figures with no person in them.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, or object to what we do with it. Write to [email protected] and we will answer within one month. You may also complain to your national data protection authority.

Cookies

We set one cookie of our own, only after you sign in, to keep you signed in. The X and Reddit advertising pixels each set cookies of their own on every page, to tie a sale back to the ad that led to it. Nothing here reads what you do on other sites in order to decide what to show you on this one.

Changes

If this page changes we update the date at the top. See also our Terms.