Effective Date: July 15, 2025
At Creepybits (zanno.se), your privacy isn’t just a checkbox; it’s fundamental to the trust we build. As the human behind the digital workbench, I believe in demystifying complex systems, and that includes how your personal information is handled. This policy explains what data we collect, why we collect it, how we use it, and your rights concerning your information.
Who We Are
Creepybits (zanno.se) is run by Zanno, a solo developer, creator, and enthusiast passionate about generative AI, ComfyUI, and building tools that empower fellow digital craftsmen.
Information We Collect
We collect various types of information for different purposes to provide and improve our services to you.
- Information You Voluntarily Provide:
- Newsletter Sign-ups: If you join our newsletter (via MailerLite), we collect your email address.
- Patreon/Shop Purchases: When you support us on Patreon or purchase digital products directly from our shop, we collect necessary transaction details, including your email address. Payment processing is handled by secure third-party services (e.g., Patreon, PayPal, Stripe) and we do not store your full payment card details.
- Contact Forms: If you contact us directly, we collect your name and email address, along with the content of your message, to respond to your inquiry.
- Automatically Collected Information:
- Website Usage Data: We use analytics tools (like Google Analytics, protected by Cloudflare) to understand how our website is used. This includes non-personally identifiable information such as your IP address (anonymized), browser type, operating system, referral source, pages visited, and the time spent on pages. This helps us improve site performance and content.
- Cookies: Our website uses “cookies” to enhance your browsing experience. These are small text files stored on your device.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve Creepybits and its content.
- Respond to your comments, questions, and requests.
- Send you newsletters and updates (if you’ve subscribed).
- Process your Patreon pledges and shop purchases.
- Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services.
- Detect, prevent, and address technical issues or security breaches.
Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties for their marketing purposes. However, we may share information with:
- Service Providers: Trusted third-party companies who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users (e.g., website hosting, MailerLite for email, payment processors, Cloudflare for security and performance, Google Analytics for site traffic). These parties agree to keep this information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- Legal Compliance: When required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order).
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles from YouTube, other social media platforms). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We recommend checking the privacy policies of these third-party websites.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Your Data Rights (GDPR Compliance for EU Visitors)
If you are a resident of the European Union, you have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
- Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data, or would like to exercise any of your rights, please contact us at: