CircleZeroEight ("we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows: Identity Data, Contact Data, Technical Data, and Usage Data.

2. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

3. Cookies

We use cookies and similar storage technologies (such as localStorage) to make the site work, understand how it's used, and tell you about new issues. You can change your choices at any time using the Cookie preferences link in the footer.

3.1 Strictly necessary

These are required for the site to function and cannot be switched off. They include your shopping cart, theme preference (light/dark mode), the cookie choice itself, and short-lived security tokens. We do not need consent for these under the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).

3.2 Analytics

With your consent, we use:

• Vercel Analytics — first-party, cookie-less page-view tracking provided by our hosting platform. Stored for up to 12 months.
• Vercel Speed Insights — real-user performance metrics (load times, interactions). Stored for up to 12 months.
• Google Analytics 4 — aggregated audience insights. Sets _ga and _ga_* cookies; data is retained for 14 months by default. IP addresses are anonymised before storage.

We use these purely to understand which features and articles work, and we do not sell or share this data with advertisers.

3.3 Marketing

With your consent, we use OneSignal to deliver web push notifications about new issues and features. OneSignal sets a subscription identifier (no name or email) and registers a service worker on your device. You can revoke push permission at any time from your browser settings or by withdrawing consent here.

3.4 Changing your mind

Open the Cookie preferences panel to switch any category on or off at any time. Withdrawing consent stops the relevant scripts from loading on your next page view; already-set cookies can be cleared via your browser's settings.

4. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.

5. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us via email at hello@circlezeroeight.com.