This Privacy Policy explains how IndieWait ('we', 'our', or 'us') collects, uses, stores, and protects your personal information when you use our service.
By using our website or app, you consent to this policy.
What rights you have over your data
You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data by contacting us via e-mail found on the contact page. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
What data we collect
We collect information from you when you subscribe to our newsletter, submit waitlist, or fill out any other form placed on our website. Anonymous data is also collected for usage analytics.
Waitlist data
All data you provide us to list your waitlist via submission form. This includes your email address, names, urls, images, and any other information you provide.
Cookies
We use cookies to ensure our website functions properly and to enhance your experience. These include:
- 1. Essential Cookies: Required for core website functionality and security (e.g., DDoS protection) and storing user sessions.
- 2. Analytics Cookies: Third-party services like Google Analytics collect anonymized data (e.g., IP address, pages visited, time spent) to analyze usage and improve our website.
You can manage cookie preferences via your browser settings. Disabling cookies may impact website functionality. For more details, see our third-party providers’ privacy policies (e.g., Google Analytics Privacy Policy).
Log data
We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website. This log data may include information such as your computer's internet protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
These log files are only accessible to the website operator. They primarily used to identify potential issues, for example, errors occurring on the page, inaccessible pages or dead URLs.
Embedded content from other websites
Our site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) from other websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
E-mail subscription
If you subscribe to our newsletter or waiting list, we will collect your email address and any other information you provide to us. This information will be used to send you updates, newsletters, and other communications related to our services.
Account creation and login data
When you create an account, we collect your email address, name, and password (stored securely using encryption). We may also collect additional information you provide during the registration or login processes.
For login purposes, we store authentication tokens and may log IP addresses, login times, and device information to protect your account security and detect suspicious activities.
If you use social login or registration (e.g., Google, Facebook), we may collect your name, email address, profile picture and other information from the respective provider to provide a seamless login experience.
Data used
Your data is used to:
- Display waitlists and related information on our website and app.
- Send you updates, newsletters, and any other communications if you have subscribed to our newsletter, submitted a form on website, or purchased a subscription.
- For account management, configuration, and other related purposes, if you have signed up for an account.
- Process payments and accounting.
- Improve website performance (e.g., analyzing usage patterns and finding bugs or misbehaviors).
Data sharing
We do not share your data with third parties, except when used for website inner workings (e.g. remote calls to third party API-s) or when required by law.
Our website may use third-party services like AI completions API-s to assist in data processing. Additionally, we may use e-mail sending service providers and newsletter services.
When using paid features, we need to share your data (when needed) with payment processors and accounting software.
How long we retain your data
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Data submitted to the website is stored until it's deleted or we discontinue the website.
Waitlist data is stored until you request to delete it, we discontinue the website, if waitlist is abandoned for a long time, product promoted via waitlist is closed, deleted or launched, or if you violate our terms of service.
Links to other (third-party) websites
Our website or app may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by IndieWait. We are not responsible for their privacy practices and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies
Children’s Privacy
Our services are not directed to children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 16, we will take steps to delete such information.
Changes to policy
We may update this Privacy policy. Changes will be posted here, and continued use of the app constitutes acceptance.
Contact
For questions about privacy, contact us. Find contact e-mail at https://indiewait.com/contact.
Version and effective date
This privacy policy is effective as of 2025-09-18 (version 1.0.1).