Privacy
There is no account here and no password. You give an email address, optionally three short answers, and that is the whole of it.
What I ask for
- Your email address — required to sign on, because the dispatch has to go somewhere. Used for that and nothing else.
- Your first name, nearest town, and what you have got in the yard — all three optional, all three fine to leave blank. They are used to render your plate on screen and to show you on the manifest.
The public manifest
The manifest on the front page is public and is not gated. If you are on it, it shows your first name, the initial of your surname if you gave one, your nearest town, your member number and your rank. It never shows your email address, and it never shows a full surname.
You are on it by default. There is a checkbox at signup to stay off it, and you can change your mind at any time by emailing me — it comes off the same day I read the message. If you would rather appear under something other than your real name, put that in the name field; nothing checks it.
If you order something from the stores
A parcel needs somewhere to go, so ordering asks for a postal address as well as an email address. Both are used to get the order to you and to talk to you about it — nothing else. Ordering a shirt does not add you to the dispatch and does not put you on the manifest.
Stickers are packed and posted by me, so I see your address. Garments and mugs are printed and posted by a print-on-demand company, which means your name and address are passed to them so they can put it on the label. They are given the address and the item, and nothing else — not your payment details, not what else you have ever bought here.
Addresses are erased a year after the parcel is sent. What stays after that is the country it went to and the amount, because tax law requires me to be able to show where I sold things and for how much. That leftover row is not attached to your name.
The dispatch
Signing on adds you to an email list. It goes out when something breaks or something works, which is not daily and is not on a schedule. Every message has a one-click unsubscribe, and unsubscribing does not remove your member number or take you off the manifest — those are separate, and you can ask for either independently.
Starting a rank adds you to the same list, because the dispatch is one of the things a rank buys. Throwing one-off fuel at it does not add you to anything — you get a single email with your number and your pass into the hold, and then nothing.
What Stripe collects
Card details are entered on Stripe's own page, never on mine. I never see or store a card number. Stripe collects your email so it can send a receipt, plus whatever your bank requires, and holds it as an independent data controller under its own privacy policy at stripe.com/privacy.
Where it is stored
- Your answers, member number and manifest preference: a Supabase database in the EU.
- Your email address: the same database, and the email provider that sends the dispatch.
- Payment records: Stripe.
- Hosting and server logs: Vercel.
- Visit counts, if you allowed the cookie: Google, outside the EU.
Analytics
Two things count visits here. Vercel Analytics counts page views without cookies and without any cross-site identifier, and cannot be turned off because there is nothing stored on your machine to turn off. Google Analytics 4 is the second, and it wants to leave a cookie so it can tell a returning visitor from a new one.
That cookie is not set unless you press Aye, share on the bar at the bottom of the page. Until you answer, and if you answer no, Google is told explicitly to store nothing: the visit is still counted, but it is not joined up to any other visit you make. Your answer is kept in a cookie of my own called pe_consent for six months, which is the only way to stop asking. Changed your mind, either way? .
The four short links — /y, /t, /i and /f — record which platform a click came from, and nothing about who clicked. There is no advertising pixel and no Meta tracking on this page, and the advertising features of Google Analytics are switched off.
What I never do
- Sell, rent or share your details with anyone.
- Publish your email address, your full surname, or your exact address.
- Pass your details to a sponsor, an advertiser or another creator.
How long it is kept
Payment records are kept as long as tax law requires. Your answers are kept while the plate exists, because the plate is the point. Ask and I will blank them.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of what I hold, ask me to correct it, ask to come off the manifest, ask to come off the list, or ask me to delete the lot. Email the address on the contact page. If you are in the EU or UK you can also complain to your national data protection authority.
Who is responsible
Rauno Märtsoo, trading as PiratesEye, Kadakaranna tn 6-9, Neeme küla, 74226 Jõelähtme vald, Harju maakond, Estonia.