01 · What I do with itI use what you send to evaluate the fit and to reply. No mailing lists, no resale, no automated decision-making. I don't pass it to anyone, with two honest exceptions: my mail provider carries and stores it the way any provider does, and I would disclose it if the law compelled me or a legal dispute between us required it.
02 · How long I keep itYour email stays in my inbox while the conversation is live or could reasonably pick back up; dead threads get cleared within about a year. Ask at the same address and I'll tell you what I have, correct anything wrong, or delete it — subject to anything the law requires me to keep, and to backup copies that expire on their own schedule.
03 · Your ideas stay yoursWriting to me gives me no rights to your ideas or materials beyond reading them and replying to you. Nothing you send is used for anything else.
04 · Discretion, then an NDAI treat what you send as private correspondence: I won't publish it, pass it around, or name you — the same instinct that keeps client work anonymous on the objects page. What a first email can't carry yet is legal confidentiality; that arrives with an NDA or an engagement agreement. So keep trade secrets back for now — and if the conversation needs them sooner, say so. A mutual NDA first is an easy yes.
05 · No engagement yetSending the form starts a conversation, not a client relationship. Engagements begin with a written agreement covering scope, fees, confidentiality, and IP. Until then there's no engagement — no fees, no obligations, and no hard feelings if either of us says not this time. What this page promises about your information holds regardless, along with any NDA we've signed.
06 · No exclusivityA submission doesn't reserve a market or a problem space — the studio is small and the spaces it works in are busy, so this protects us both from reading coincidence as bad faith. Independent work on a similar problem isn't use of what you sent, and your specifics stay unpublished, unshared, unnamed either way.
07 · This siteNo analytics, no trackers, and the site sets no cookies of its own — it stores nothing about you. Two things happen at the infrastructure level: fonts load from Google Fonts, whose servers see the standard request data, and hosting is Cloudflare Pages, which keeps ordinary server logs.
08 · The lawThese terms are governed by the law of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and any dispute about them belongs to the courts of British Columbia. Questions about any of this: hello@redshiftstudio.ca.