Privacy

Byron is run by Youssef Saidi in Rabat, Morocco. This page says what this website collects and what happens to it. Questions go to support@byronotion.com.

What we collect

When you type your email into a "Notify me" or "Join the list" form, we keep that email address and the product or list you asked about. On the coaching page, if you pick who is coming and how long, we keep those picks with it too, so we know which sessions to open first. On the sponsorship page, the placements you tick are kept the same way.

The custom build brief at /services/custom-build is different: it is not sent from the site at all. What you write is kept in your own browser's storage as a draft, on that device only, so you can come back to it. Pressing "Send the brief" opens your own email app with the brief written out to support@byronotion.com, and nothing reaches us until you send that email. "Start over" or clearing your browser data removes the draft. Briefs you email are kept in our inbox to answer you and plan the work.

To see which pages help and which get in the way, the site counts visits with PostHog, as described under Visit counts below. It uses no advertising trackers.

Why we keep it

To send you the email you asked for: one message the day a product you chose opens, and, if you joined the launch list, occasional notes from Byron. Your address is never sold or shared.

The review board

When you leave a review, we collect your display name, email address, product, rating, review text and your permission to publish it. Reviews are checked before appearing on the noticeboard. Your display name, product, rating and review can be shown publicly after approval. Your email stays private and is used only if we need to contact you about the review. Leaving a review does not join the newsletter.

Submissions are kept in private Vercel Blob storage. Rate-limit records contain a keyed hash of your email and network address, rather than the addresses themselves, to limit repeated submissions. You can ask us to correct or remove your review by emailing support@byronotion.com.

Byron accounts and Community widgets

To copy a widget's link, you sign in with a free Byron account, by email code or with Google. Signing in is run by Clerk (clerk.com), which keeps your email address, your name and, if you use Google, your Google profile photo. Clerk sets the cookies that keep you signed in on byronotion.com and widgets.byronotion.com.

With your account we keep a maker card and a desk, in a database run by Neon (neon.tech) through Vercel:

• Your card. Your name, a handle, the avatar you pick, an optional line about you, what you use Notion for and where you found Byron, if you tell us. Your name, handle, avatar, line, rank, points and stickers make up your public profile at byronotion.com/makers/your-handle. Your email and your answers about Notion and Byron are never shown; we use them to understand who Byron is for.
• Maker questions. If you answer the short survey on your desk (what describes you, how you use Notion, which kind of template you would use first, whether you have paid for one and roughly what, and an optional line about what you are organising), your answers are kept with your card. They are never shown; we use them to decide what Byron makes next.
• Your desk. The links of the widgets you saved and when. A widget's own settings stay as described under Widgets.
• What you share. When you share a widget to Community widgets, its name, line and topic are kept. We look at every one before it is listed. Once listed, anyone can see it, use its link and see your name on it. Take it down from your desk at any time.
• Stars and uses. Which widgets you starred and which community widgets you used, so each counts once. Makers see the totals, not who.

Making an account also adds your email to Byron's email list in Kit, with the tag "Makers". The sign-in window says so before you sign up. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing does not touch your account.

To remove your card, survey answers, desk, shares and stars, use "Remove my maker data" on your desk; to close the account itself, write to support@byronotion.com. Widget links you made keep working either way.

Visit counts

Byron uses PostHog (posthog.com, servers in the United States) to see how the site is used: which pages are visited, where visitors came from (the referring site or campaign link), roughly where in the world, on what kind of device and browser, and what they do on the page, such as copying a widget's link, opening sign-in or joining a list. It runs on byronotion.com and on the widget editor and Studio at widgets.byronotion.com, never inside the widgets you put in your Notion pages. Session recording is off.

PostHog gives each browser a random ID in a cookie, so one visit's pages can be read together. Once you sign in, your visits are linked to your Byron account by its ID, so Byron can see, for example, which pages lead people to make an account. Your email is not sent to PostHog.

In the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, nothing is counted until you say yes on the cookie note. Everywhere else visits are counted unless you say no, or your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, which we treat as a no. Change your answer at any time with Cookie choices at the bottom of every page.

Where it is stored

Email addresses for Byron's emails are stored with Kit (kit.com), the service that sends them. Accounts are kept by Clerk, maker cards, survey answers and desks in Neon, and visit counts in PostHog, as described above. The website runs on Vercel, which keeps standard server logs (such as IP address and browser type) to deliver pages and keep them secure.

Kitchen OS and Kroger

Kitchen OS, Byron's cooking app at kitchen-os.byronotion.com, can turn your shopping list into products at a Kroger-family store (Kroger, Ralphs, Fred Meyer, King Soopers, Harris Teeter and the others) and add them to your cart there.

• Your store. The store you pick is kept in your own browser. To find stores near you, the ZIP code you type, or a rough location if you press "Near me", is sent to Kroger and not kept by us.
• Product searches. The items on your list are sent to Kroger to find products and current prices at your store. Prices are shown to you and not stored.
• Connecting your Kroger account. You sign in on Kroger's own page; we never see your password. Kroger then gives Kitchen OS permission to add items to your cart and to read your Kroger profile ID, nothing else: no order history, no payment details, no address. That permission is encrypted and kept in your browser. For up to five minutes while you sign in, an encrypted copy waits on our server (Upstash, through Vercel) so the app can collect it, and is then deleted.
• Your cart. When you press Add to cart, the products you approved are added to your Kroger cart. Checkout, payment and delivery happen on the store's own site, under Kroger's privacy policy.
• Stopping. Press Disconnect in Kitchen OS and the permission is deleted from your browser. Since it was only ever there, nothing of it is left with us.

Widgets

Byron's widgets run on widgets.byronotion.com, also on Vercel. When you make a widget's link, the settings you chose (its theme, title, dates, quotes or topics) are saved in Vercel's storage so the short link can show them. They carry no name or email, and anyone with the link sees the same widget, so leave out anything private. Which account saved which link is kept on that maker's desk (see Byron accounts and Community widgets, above), not in the widget.

Widgets that remember things (what you tick, count, write or log: habits, moods and feelings, focus sessions, money you note down, worries, doodles, letters to your future self and the like) keep it in your own browser's storage, on that device only. It is never sent to us, and clearing your browser data clears it. The widgets themselves set no cookies.

When you copy a widget's link, we count one copy for that widget on that day, so we know which widgets people use. Nothing about you, your browser or your page is recorded with that count. If your visit is counted (see Visit counts), PostHog also notes the copy as part of it.

Cookies

The site sets two cookies of its own. byron_arm remembers which version of the site design you see, for 90 days. byron_consent remembers your answer on the cookie note ("yes" or "no"), for a year, on byronotion.com and widgets.byronotion.com so you are asked once. Neither holds anything about you.

If your visit is counted, PostHog sets a cookie named ph_ followed by Byron's project key, holding the random ID described under Visit counts, for a year, and keeps a copy in your browser's storage. Once you sign in, Clerk's cookies keep you signed in; they are needed for the account to work and are not used for advertising.

Your choices

Every email has an unsubscribe link. Cookie choices, at the bottom of every page, turns visit counts on or off. To see, correct or delete what we hold about you, write to support@byronotion.com and it is done within 30 days.

Purchases

Nothing is on sale yet. When it is, payment happens on the store that sells the product, and Byron never sees your card details.

Changes

When this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.