Privacy Policy

What we collect

• Account info — your name, email address, and password (stored as an irreversible hash — we never see or store your plain-text password).
• Product submissions — the product name, URL, type, and notes you provide when you submit something to be tested.
• Test feedback — the content you write when you test someone else's product (what you tried, issues found, your overall impression, and a rating).
• Payment records — if you buy Priority, Manual QA, or Featured, we store the order type, amount, and status. We never see or store your card details — payments are handled entirely by Stripe.

How we use it

Strictly to run the service: matching your submissions with testers, showing your feedback to the people you tested, processing payments, and fulfilling Priority and Manual QA purchases. We don't sell your data, and we don't run ads on this site. If you consent to analytics cookies (see below), we use Google Analytics to understand overall usage — never to advertise to you or track you across other sites.

Who we share it with

• Stripe — processes payments for the paid upgrades. See Stripe's privacy policy.
• Google Analytics — only if you accept analytics cookies. Used to see aggregate traffic and usage, not to identify you individually. See Google's privacy policy.
• Our email provider — used only to deliver transactional email (password resets, purchase confirmations). We don't send marketing email.
• Other users — your product name, URL, and notes are visible to anyone testing your product; your feedback is visible to the founder of whatever you tested. Your email address is never shown to other users.

Cookies

We use a session cookie to keep you logged in and a CSRF token to protect form submissions. Both are strictly necessary and can't be turned off — the site won't work without them.

With your consent, we also set Google Analytics cookies to see how the site is used in aggregate. These stay off until you accept them in the cookie banner, and you can change your mind anytime using the "Cookie settings" link in the footer.

Data retention & deletion

We keep your data for as long as your account exists. You can permanently delete your account at any time from your profile settings — this removes your account along with every product you submitted, every test you wrote, and every order tied to it.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data? Email hello@earlytesters.dev.