Privacy Policy

Last updated 13 October 2026.

1The short version

• Boethius itself collects nothing. Not the plugin, not the browser version. No analytics, no telemetry, no licence check, no phoning home.
• This website counts page views, using privacy-friendly analytics provided by the company that hosts it, and we keep daily totals so we can see whether we are growing. No advertising pixels, no cross-site tracking, and no cookies for measurement. Section 8 says exactly what is recorded.
• Our web server keeps ordinary request logs, the same as almost every website on the internet.
• You only have an account if you made one, and you can delete it.
• We never sell your data. There is no arrangement under which we would.

This summary is for convenience. Where it is less specific than the sections below, the sections below are the accurate statement.

2Who this covers

Reverential Studios LLC, a Pennsylvania limited liability company, publishes the website at reverential.com and the software Boethius. This policy describes the website — what it records when you visit, and what it stores if you create an account.

It also states, in Section 3, what the software does not do, because the two are easy to confuse and the distinction matters.

Using the Site is also subject to our terms of use, and the software to its own licence agreement.

3The software collects nothing

Boethius contains no analytics, telemetry, usage reporting, licence check, or “phone home” functionality. It does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data, and it makes no network requests of its own. This is true of the desktop plugin and standalone application, and equally true of the WebAssembly module that powers the demo on this site.

This is not merely our practice — it is a term of the licence agreement, at Section 10.1. Changing it would mean changing the licence.

4Server request logs

The website is hosted by Vercel. Like essentially every web server, it records a log entry for each request. Those entries can include your IP address, the date and time, the page or file requested, the HTTP status, the referring page, and your browser’s user-agent string.

We use these logs to deliver the site, to keep it available and secure, and to diagnose faults. We do not use them to build profiles of visitors, and we do not combine them with any other source to identify you. Where the law requires a legal basis, ours is our legitimate interest in operating and securing the site.

When we offer installer files for Boethius, those files are served from Cloudflare R2 rather than from the website host. R2 records ordinary request logs of the same kind (IP address, date and time, the file requested, HTTP status, and user-agent). We use them the same way: to deliver the file, keep the download available and secure, and diagnose faults — not to build profiles.

5The browser demo

Playing the synth on this site is a normal page visit. Your browser downloads the engine, the front panel, the parameter table and a short MIDI clip from our server — and those downloads appear in the request logs described in Section 4, exactly as an image or a stylesheet would. After that, the synth runs entirely on your own machine. It sends nothing back.

The page that carries the synth is counted as a page view, exactly like any other page on the site, and Section 8 describes that count. The count is a page view and nothing more: we do not measure whether you pressed play, what you played, which presets or parameters you touched, or how long you stayed.

If you connect a MIDI keyboard, your browser will ask your permission first. That permission is granted to your browser, not to us. The notes you play are handled inside the page and passed straight to the audio engine on your machine. They are never transmitted, recorded, or stored — not by the page and not by us. We never request microphone access.

No account is needed to use the demo, and using it creates no account.

6Accounts

Accounts are optional. Authentication is handled for us by Clerk, which stores the account data on our behalf. If you create one, we hold:

• Your email address — your sign-in identifier, and how we would contact you about your account.
• Your password — stored and verified by Clerk in hashed form. We never see it and cannot recover it.
• Your first and last name, as you enter them.
• A handle and a display name — the handle is unique across the site; the display name is free text and is what other people would see.
• An early-adopter flag and the date it was granted — a record of an entitlement, held privately on the server.
• Whether you asked to receive product email, and the date that answer last changed — held privately on the server, so that we have a record of what you agreed to and when.

That is the whole list. We hold no other personal data about you, we keep no separate database of it, and we build no profile of you. Separately from all of this we keep a daily row of totals — how busy the site and the downloads were, and our own subscriber and view counts on the account Section 8 names. Those are figures against a date, and there is nothing in them about you or about any other individual.

We only email you about the product if you ask us to. The sign-up form has a tick box for it. It is unticked by default, it is not required to create an account, and you can change your mind at any time from your account page or by using the unsubscribe link in any such email. If you asked for it, expect something occasional — new versions and new products, not a newsletter.

Email about your account is separate and is not something you can opt out of while the account exists: address verification, password resets, security notices, and notices telling you that something has happened to your account — including that we have changed or reclaimed your handle or display name, which the terms of use permit us to do. There would be no way to run an account safely without them. Most are sent by Clerk on our behalf. We may also send one ourselves, through Resend, named in Section 9, which receives your email address and the message in order to deliver it.

We are still not sending product email. A sending provider now exists, but it is used only for the account email described above. Ticking the box continues to record your preference and nothing more. When product email does start, the change will be dated here.

You can change any of it from your account page, and you can delete your account. Deleting it removes the record from Clerk; log entries under Section 4 are not linked to your account and age out on their own schedule.

7Cookies

The site uses cookies and similar storage in order to run. Clerk, which handles accounts, may set cookies so that sign-in works and so that you stay signed in between pages. Those cookies exist to operate the site. They may be present whether or not you have signed in.

We do not use cookies for advertising, analytics, or cross-site tracking, and we do not use them to build a profile of you.

8Analytics, and what we do not do

Since 12 September 2026, this website uses Vercel Web Analytics to count page views. It is provided by the company that already hosts the site rather than by an advertising company, and it measures the website only.

What that means in practice:

• It does not identify you with cookies. Vercel derives a short-lived identifier by hashing the incoming request, and discards it after 24 hours. It cannot connect your visits from one day to the next, and it cannot follow you to another website.
• Page views are not tied to your IP address, and they are not attached to your account if you have one.
• Each page view records the time, the page, the route pattern behind it, the referring page, filtered query parameters, your approximate location (country, region and city), your device type, and your browser and operating system with their versions.

We would rather describe that identifier than claim we do no fingerprinting at all, because it is derived from your request. What we can honestly say about it is that it carries no IP address, that it lasts a day, and that it never leaves this one website.

Beyond that counting, we run no advertising or marketing trackers — no Google Analytics, no Plausible, no PostHog, no advertising pixels, no session recording, no cross-site tracking, and no profile of you.

We keep our own daily totals. Our providers throw the detail behind these numbers away quickly — Cloudflare, which serves the installer files, keeps about a week of it — so once a day we write down a single row and keep that.

Each row is a reading taken on one date, and it holds two kinds of number. Some are counts of what happened that day: how many page views and visits the site had, how many bytes of installer were downloaded, an estimate of how many copies that represents, and how many distinct clients asked for one that day. The rest are snapshots — figures we read off on the day and write down as they stood: the size of the macOS installer we were serving, which the copy estimate uses, and our own YouTube subscriber and channel view counts.

That row is the entire record. It holds no addresses, no identifiers, no referrers, no countries, no per-visit or per-request entries, and no copy of any log, and nothing in it can be connected to you, to your account, or to any individual.

Those rows record activity, not people, and they cannot be turned into a count of people. Because the identifier described above is discarded every 24 hours, someone who visits on three days adds one to each of three different rows. Adding up the daily counts tells us how busy a week or a month was; the snapshots are not that kind of number and are not added up. Neither can tell us how many separate people that was, for visits or for downloads, and we have no way to work it out. Our own view counts elsewhere work the same way: they count the times something was shown, not the people who saw it.

We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information, and we do not share it for advertising. We do not make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

This is on the website only. It is not in the plugin and not in the WebAssembly module, because Section 3 is a licence term rather than a preference. If we change what the website measures, we will say so here and date the change.

9Who else handles this data

We use a small number of service providers, each processing data only to provide their service to us:

• Vercel — hosting and delivery of the website; holds the request logs in Section 4 for pages on reverential.com, and provides the page-view analytics described in Section 8.
• Clerk — authentication and storage of the account data in Section 6, and the cookies described in Section 7.
• Resend — delivery of the account email described in Section 6. It receives your email address and the contents of the message in order to send it, and keeps its own record of what it sent. It is not used for product email.
• Cloudflare — DNS for the domain and, when we offer installer files, R2 object storage for those files, which holds the download logs in Section 4. Pages on reverential.com are not routed through Cloudflare. Download requests for installer files are.
• Zoho — our mailbox. Email you send to any of our addresses at reverential.com, including the one in Section 13, is delivered to and kept by Zoho Mail, and our replies to you are sent from it. It receives your email address and whatever your message contains.

We may also disclose information where the law requires it, or where it is necessary to establish or defend a legal claim. If the business is ever sold or merged, account data may transfer with it, and this policy would continue to apply until you are told otherwise.

10How long we keep things

Account data is kept for as long as you have an account, and is deleted when you delete it. Server logs are short-lived operational records retained by our host on its own schedule, and are not archived by us for analysis. Records of account email sent to you are kept by Resend on its own schedule; we do not archive them either, and they are not linked to anything beyond the address the message went to.

If you write to us, we keep your message and our reply in our mailbox at Zoho as a record of the correspondence. Ask us to delete it and we will, unless we need to keep it to meet a legal obligation or to establish or defend a legal claim.

The page-view counts in Section 8 are kept by Vercel as statistics about the site. The short-lived visitor identifier behind them is discarded after 24 hours, so what remains is a record of traffic rather than a record of anyone.

The daily rows in Section 8 we keep indefinitely. Seeing a trend over years is the whole reason they exist, and they are safe to keep for that long precisely because there is nothing in them about anyone. If that ever stopped being true, this policy would change before the data did.

11Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access a copy of the personal data we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, to receive it in a portable form, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw consent where processing relies on it. Residents of California and other US states with similar laws have comparable rights, including the right not to be discriminated against for exercising them.

Most of these you can exercise yourself from your account page. For anything else, write to us at the address in Section 13 and we will respond within the time the applicable law allows. If you are in the UK, EU or EEA and are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to your local data protection authority.

12Children, and where data is processed

This website is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has created an account, tell us and we will remove it.

Reverential Studios LLC is based in the United States, and our service providers process data in the United States and elsewhere. If you are outside the US, using the site involves transferring your information there.

13Changes, and how to reach us

If this policy changes we will update the date at the top of the page. Material changes will be described rather than slipped in.

What has changed

• 13 October 2026 — Section 9 names Zoho, which now holds our mailbox: email to our addresses at reverential.com is delivered to and kept by Zoho Mail, and our replies are sent from it. Cloudflare no longer forwards our email. Section 10 says how long we keep correspondence, and Section 6 now names Resend where it said “the provider named in Section 9”. Before this date, Cloudflare forwarded mail for our addresses to a Gmail mailbox, and correspondence from that time is kept there. Nothing about the website changed, and nothing changed in the software: Section 3 still holds, and it is a licence term.
• 8 October 2026 — Clarifications; nothing new is collected or kept. Section 8 now describes the daily row as a reading with two kinds of figure — counts of that day’s activity, and snapshots such as our own YouTube subscriber and view counts — and says the snapshots are not added up. It names the macOS installer as the size the copy estimate uses, now that a Windows installer is offered too, and says our own view counts count times something was shown, not people. Sections 1 and 6 follow from it. Section 9 says Cloudflare forwards email for our addresses, not only the one below. Nothing changed in the software: Section 3 still holds, and it is a licence term.
• 20 September 2026 — Section 9 names Resend, a fourth service provider, which now delivers email about your account; Section 10 says how long its records of that last. Section 6 describes the notices it covers, and now says plainly that one of them may tell you we have changed or reclaimed your handle or display name — the terms of use began permitting that on 19 September 2026. Before this date all account email was sent by Clerk. Product email is still not being sent: the tick box still records a preference and nothing more, and Resend is not used for it. Nothing changed in the software: Section 3 still holds, and it is a licence term.
• 12 September 2026 — Section 8 rewritten. This website now counts page views, using Vercel Web Analytics, and we keep a daily row of totals — what is in that row, and what is deliberately not, is set out in Section 8. Sections 1, 5, 6, 9 and 10 follow from it. Before this date the site ran no analytics of any kind. Nothing changed in the software: Section 3 still holds, and it is a licence term.
• 26 August 2026 — first published.

For anything about this policy, your data, or licensing, write to admin@reverential.com.

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