Privacy Policy: 7 data rights and safer controls

This policy applies to HydeWorkshop.com and the website features that link to it. Hyde Workshop is the website operator and is responsible for the personal information it controls. Third-party websites, AI tools, social platforms, video services, and other external destinations have their own privacy practices.

This policy does not replace the privacy notice of a third party you choose to visit. Review that provider's current terms and privacy documentation before creating an account, uploading files, connecting a service, or submitting confidential information.

The information collected depends on how you use the site. Hyde Workshop seeks to collect only what is reasonably necessary for the purpose shown.

The Project Brief Builder on the Contact page runs in your browser. Its draft fields are not submitted to Hyde Workshop unless you copy the brief into WPForms, open and send the generated email, or otherwise transmit it.

Where a law requires a legal basis, Hyde Workshop generally relies on: consent for optional analytics; legitimate interests for site security, necessary operation, and service improvement where those interests do not override your rights; steps taken at your request for project inquiries; and legal obligations when processing is required by law.

Hyde Workshop does not use personal information to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about visitors.

Hyde Workshop uses cookies, local storage, tags, and similar technologies for necessary operation, privacy preferences, and consent-aware measurement. Necessary storage supports security, page operation, and remembering privacy choices. Optional analytics can be changed at any time using an "Open cookie settings" control on the site.

Necessary

Security, page delivery, fraud prevention, accessibility, and consent-preference storage.

Analytics

Google Analytics and Tag Manager measurement used to understand visits, performance, traffic sources, and content usefulness when permitted.

Advertising status

Google AdSense delivery is paused. Advertising storage, advertising user-data consent, and advertising personalization remain denied in the current site implementation.

Embedded media

YouTube or another media provider may receive device, network, and interaction data when you activate embedded content. Hyde Workshop uses click-to-load video where implemented to reduce pre-click requests.

Consent record

The current consent choice is stored in the browser for up to 180 days unless you reset it, clear site data, use a private session, or the consent version changes.

Hyde Workshop uses Google Consent Mode with optional analytics storage denied by default on a first visit. The saved analytics choice is restored before Google Tag Manager loads. Advertising-related consent signals remain denied while AdSense is paused. Google tags may still send limited consent-state, cookieless, or redacted requests while analytics storage is denied.

Hyde Workshop is not currently serving Google AdSense advertisements. Before advertising is re-enabled, Hyde Workshop should update this policy, re-test the Google-certified European regulations message, prevent competing consent interfaces, and verify advertising consent signals.

Learn more about how Google processes information from partner sites in Google's partner-sites notice (opens in a new tab) .

Hyde Workshop may disclose information to vendors that help operate the website, subject to their roles, configurations, and applicable terms. Current public site technology includes the following categories.

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with law or valid legal process; investigate abuse or security incidents; protect visitors, Hyde Workshop, or others; enforce site terms; complete a merger, financing, reorganization, or transfer of website assets; or follow your direction or consent.

Hyde Workshop does not sell personal information for money and is not currently serving targeted advertising through Google AdSense. Optional Google Analytics can be accepted or rejected through the site's cookie settings.

Some privacy laws use broad definitions of "sale," "sharing," or targeted advertising. Before advertising technology is re-enabled, Hyde Workshop should reassess those disclosures and consent controls. You may send a privacy or opt-out request to contact@hydeworkshop.com.

Hyde Workshop does not knowingly use or disclose personal information of visitors under 16 for sale, sharing, or targeted advertising.

Hyde Workshop keeps personal information only as long as reasonably needed for the purpose collected, site security, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or a continuing business relationship. The following criteria guide retention.

Aggregated or deidentified information that can no longer reasonably identify a person may be kept for analysis, security, and reporting.

Hyde Workshop uses reasonable administrative and technical safeguards suited to the nature of the website and information processed. Measures may include encrypted HTTPS connections, access controls, updates, backups, spam and abuse prevention, logging, and service-provider security features.

No website, email system, transmission, or storage method is completely secure. Do not send secrets or highly sensitive information through ordinary contact forms or email. If you believe information submitted to Hyde Workshop is at risk, contact Hyde Workshop promptly.

Depending on where you live and which law applies, you may have some or all of the following rights. Legal exceptions may apply.

To exercise a right, email contact@hydeworkshop.com with "Privacy Rights Request" in the subject line or use the Contact page. Describe the request and the email or interaction involved. Hyde Workshop may ask for enough information to verify identity and protect records, but do not send a government ID unless specifically requested through a suitable method.

An authorized agent may submit a request where permitted by law. Hyde Workshop may ask for proof of authority and direct identity verification. Hyde Workshop will not discriminate against a visitor for exercising an applicable privacy right.

Browser "Do Not Track" signals do not have one universally accepted technical standard. Use the site's "Cookie settings" control or send a privacy request for a clearer choice.

United States state privacy laws

Where an applicable state law covers Hyde Workshop's processing, the categories described in Section 2 also serve as a notice of the personal information collected. In the preceding 12 months, Hyde Workshop may have collected identifiers, internet or network activity, approximate location derived from IP, communications, and inferences related to site use. Those categories may have been disclosed to the provider categories in Section 5 for business, security, and consent-aware analytics purposes.

Hyde Workshop does not knowingly collect sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about visitors. Do not submit sensitive information through basic site forms.

EEA, United Kingdom, and similar jurisdictions

Where applicable, visitors may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict, object, receive portable information, withdraw consent, and lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.

Hyde Workshop is a general-audience technology website and is not directed to children under 13. Hyde Workshop does not knowingly collect personal information online from a child under 13 without any notice and consent required by law. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, email Hyde Workshop so the information can be reviewed and deleted where appropriate.

Hyde Workshop operates from the United States. Site providers may process information in the United States and other countries where they operate. Those countries may have privacy laws different from the laws where you live. Where required, Hyde Workshop and its providers rely on applicable contracts, consent, adequacy decisions, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.

Hyde Workshop may update this Privacy Policy when site features, providers, data practices, or legal requirements change. The revised version will be posted at this URL with a new effective date and version number. Material changes may also be highlighted through a site notice or consent prompt when appropriate.