Privacy Policy
Heavy Thought Cloud is published by Heavy Thought Laboratories. This page explains what we collect, why we collect it, and how that data is used when you browse the site, contact us, subscribe for updates, or claim an e-book.
What We Collect
Depending on how you use the site, we may collect:
- basic usage analytics for site performance and content measurement
- contact form submissions, including your name, email, subject, and message
- email addresses submitted for major content updates
- email addresses used to claim e-books and access download links
- limited request metadata such as hashed IP address, user agent, and referrer
How We Use It
- operate, secure, and improve the site
- respond to direct messages and advisory inquiries
- deliver e-book downloads through signed short-lived links
- maintain a lightweight subscriber list for major new content and publication updates
- detect abuse, spam, and automated submission traffic
Analytics
The site uses Umami analytics to understand page activity, referrers, and broad content performance. The goal is operational visibility, not behavioral creep. Analytics data is used to understand what is being read and how discovery is working so the publication can be improved without turning the site into a surveillance hobby.
Contact, Subscription, and E-Book Requests
If you use the contact form, we retain your submission so we can respond and maintain basic correspondence history. If you subscribe or claim an e-book, your email address is stored in the site database along with limited request metadata used for abuse prevention and delivery operations. E-book claims also create a download record so access links can be issued and managed safely.
Data Sharing
We do not sell personal information. Data may be processed by infrastructure required to run the site and its supporting systems, but it is not shared for ad targeting, brokered onward, or handed to random growth goblins.
Retention and Security
Data is retained for operational, security, and publication-management reasons. We limit the data collected to what the current systems actually need and use hashed IP storage where appropriate instead of retaining raw IP addresses in application records.
Your Options
If you want a contact message or subscriber record removed, use the contact page and make the request directly. If email updates begin, unsubscribe controls will be included in those messages as part of the delivery flow.
Policy Updates
This policy may be updated as Heavy Thought Cloud evolves. When data flows change in a meaningful way, this page should change too. Architecture discipline applies to privacy surfaces as much as it does to software.