Privacy policy

What we collect

Your email address, which you enter when you sign up to download BB Preflight.
A record of your sign-up: when you signed up, when you clicked the confirmation link, when you unsubscribed, the consent text you agreed to, and which of our emails we have sent.
An anti-abuse record: the IP address used to sign up, turned into a one-way hash. We don't keep the IP address itself.
How often the BB Preflight promos and page are seen: how many times the BB Preflight promos on this site's home page and at the end of articles are shown and clicked, and how many times the BB Preflight page is opened, kept only as daily totals by place and language. Nothing that identifies you (IP address, cookie, browser details) is sent or kept. If your browser asks not to be tracked (Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control), nothing is counted. These counts are not linked to email sign-ups.

We don't record whether you open our emails or click their links. Tracking is turned off at our email sending service too.

We don't collect your BB Preflight results. BB Preflight runs only on the Mac it checks, and has no way to send results to FOREST LIFE* or anyone else.

What we use it for

To send you the BB Preflight download and how to use it
To tell you about new versions and security issues worth knowing about
To prevent abuse of the sign-up form

We don't use it for anything else. If we ever add a purpose, we'll tell you first and ask for consent where needed.

Our emails, and how to stop them

After you sign up, we send one confirmation email. Until you click its link, you aren't signed up and we send nothing else.
Once you're signed up, we send the download, then how to read your results on day 3. After that, we only write when there's a new version or something worth knowing.
Every one of these emails ends with an unsubscribe link. Click it and confirm, and we stop.
You can keep using BB Preflight after unsubscribing.

Sharing with others

We never give your information to anyone else without your consent, unless the law requires it.

If the BB Preflight business is ever passed on, for example through a merger or sale, the new owner may take over your information under this policy.

Services we use

These services handle information for us. Both are US companies.

Cloudflare: receives sign-ups and stores the list and the view counts (in the FOREST LIFE* account), and runs the anti-robot check on the form (Turnstile).
Resend: sends our emails, which means handling your email address and a record of what we sent.

For how personal information is protected in the United States, see the survey of foreign data protection systems published by Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission. What each company does to protect data is set out in its privacy policy and data processing terms.

How long we keep it

Sign-ups whose confirmation link is never clicked are deleted after 7 days.
If you unsubscribe, we delete your information one month after both our last email and your unsubscribe. Japan's Act on Regulation of Transmission of Specified Electronic Mail requires us to keep the consent record for one month after the last email.
If you ask us to delete your information, we stop sending at once and delete it after that period.
Anti-abuse records for addresses no longer on the list are deleted after one month.

Your rights

You can ask us to show, correct, stop using, or delete the information we hold about you. Contact us below, and we'll act once we've confirmed it's you.

How we keep it safe

The list is stored where only FOREST LIFE* administrators can get in.
The secrets behind confirmation and unsubscribe links are never stored as-is.
All traffic is encrypted (HTTPS).

Changes to this policy

We'll post any change on this page. For a major change, we'll also email people who signed up.

Who we are

Operator: FOREST LIFE* (maker of BB Preflight)
Address: Ookini Minamisemba Bldg. 205, 3-2-22 Minamisemba, Chuo-ku, Osaka 542-0081, Japan
Contact: info.forestlife.ai@gmail.com