What this site stores

This site collects a single item: an email address, and only where one is entered into the waitlist form. What follows states what happens to it, what else is recorded, and how to have it removed. It covers this website. The product's own data handling is set out in the security and threat model.

The waitlist address

Where the waitlist form is submitted, the record consists of the address and the time of submission. That is its entirety. No IP address, browser, country or referrer is stored alongside it, and none is written to any log retained here.

The address is used once, to give notice that Scientist has shipped. It is not sold, shared or added to any other list, and every address is deleted at launch.

No analytics, no third parties

This site carries no analytics script of any kind: no tags, no pixels, no cookies, no fingerprinting. Nothing on these pages loads from anywhere else. The fonts, the stylesheet and the two small scripts are served from this domain, so opening the site issues a request to no other party. The only counting is the host's own, described next.

What the host sees

The site runs on Cloudflare, which serves every request and therefore observes it. Cloudflare retains its own request logs under its own policy, which is outside our control in the way that a postal service sees the envelopes it carries. Nothing is added to those logs from this site. What is read back out of them is Cloudflare's aggregate traffic count: how many requests and visitors a day, which pages, which countries. Those are totals, not visits. No figure in them names a person, an address or a device, and none is joined to the waitlist.

Removing an address

Write to privacy@scienti.st from the address used to sign up, and it will be deleted. No account, no form, no confirmation loop. Every address is deleted at launch in any case.

Changes

Any change to the above is recorded in the build log with its date, as with every other decision on this project.