Privacy Policy

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 runs no trackers. No analytics scripts, no advertising, no third-party pixels.
• 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.

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.

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 and exist so that we can offer downloads and, later, a community. 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.

That is the whole list. We keep no separate database of our own beyond this. We do not send marketing email, and there is no mailing list to be added to.

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

If you sign in, Clerk sets a session cookie so that you stay signed in between pages. It is strictly necessary for the feature to work, and it is the only cookie the site relies on.

There are no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies, and no third-party tracking cookies. Browsing the site signed out sets nothing that follows you anywhere.

8What we do not do

As of the date at the top of this page, this website runs no analytics or tracking scripts of any kind — no Google Analytics, no Plausible, no PostHog, no advertising pixels, no session recording, no fingerprinting, no cross-site tracking.

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.

If we ever add analytics to this website, we will say so here and date the change. It would measure the website only. It would not be added to the plugin or to the WebAssembly module, because Section 3 is a licence term rather than a preference.

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.
• Clerk — authentication and storage of the account data in Section 6.
• Cloudflare — DNS for the domain, and email forwarding for the address in Section 13. Traffic to the website is not routed through Cloudflare.

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.

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.

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

Reverential Studios LLC · Pennsylvania, USA