PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: July 18, 2026

This privacy notice for Shady Headstash (“we,” “us,” or “our”), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services”), such as when you:

• Visit our website at headsta.sh, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
• Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events

Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at privacy@headsta.sh.

SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS

This summary provides key points from our privacy notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following each key point or by using our table of contents below to find the section you are looking for.

1. What personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. Learn more about personal information you disclose to us.

2. Do we process any sensitive personal information? We do not process sensitive personal information.

3. Do we receive any information from third parties? We receive limited information from our payment processor, Stripe (such as the email address you provide at checkout and payment confirmation details), so we can fulfill your order and deliver license keys. We do not purchase or receive personal information from data brokers or social media platforms.

4. How do we process your information? We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. Learn more about how we process your information.

5. In what situations and with which parties do we share personal information? We may share information in specific situations and with specific third parties. Learn more about when and with whom we share your personal information.

6. How do we keep your information safe? We have organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Learn more about how we keep your information safe.

7. What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information. Learn more about your privacy rights.

8. How do you exercise your rights? You can update certain account information by visiting https://www.headsta.sh/account. For access, correction, or deletion requests, contact us at privacy@headsta.sh. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

9. Want to learn more about what we do with any information we collect? Review the privacy notice in full.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
6. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?
7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
8. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
9. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
10. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
11. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
12. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
13. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
14. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Personal information you disclose to us

• In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us. The personal information we collect includes:

• Email address (used to create your account and sign in)
• Display name
• Order and license information (products purchased, license keys issued to you)
• Content you submit to the Services, such as comments, posts, shader code, and votes or likes — see “User-Contributed Content” below
• Communications you send us

Sensitive Information: We do not process sensitive information.

Payment Data: Purchases are processed by Stripe through its hosted checkout. Your card number and security code are provided directly to Stripe and never pass through our servers. From Stripe, we receive and store the email address you provide at checkout, the items and total of your order, and Stripe’s identifiers for the transaction, so we can deliver your license keys and provide support. You may find Stripe’s privacy notice here.

User-Contributed Content: Content you post to the Services — such as comments, posts, shader code, and likes — is stored with your account and may be publicly visible to other users along with your display name. Submitted content may be reviewed by automated (AI-assisted) moderation systems; see “WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?” below.

Plugin License and Device Data: When you activate or use a purchased plugin, the plugin contacts our servers to validate your license. As part of this, we collect your license key, plugin version, a device fingerprint, and technical characteristics of your system, such as GPU model, vendor, and driver/GL versions, CPU core count, amount of RAM, host application name and version (e.g., Resolume), operating system/platform, and one-way hashed (irreversibly encoded) values derived from your computer’s username and hostname. We use this information to enforce license activation limits and prevent fraud and piracy.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

Information automatically collected

• In Short: Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Services.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. On its own, most of this information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information), but it may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, country, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. If you are signed in, our server logs and error reports may associate this information with your account. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.

The information we collect includes:

• Log and Usage Data: Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type, and settings and information about your activity in the Services (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches, and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called “crash dumps”), and hardware settings).
• Device Data: We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other device you use to access the Services. Depending on the device used, this device data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model, Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system, and system configuration information.
• Location Data: We do not collect precise (GPS) location data. Approximate location (such as your country or region) may be derived from your IP address by us or by the analytics services described below.
• Analytics and Advertising Data: Our website uses Google Analytics and the Meta (Facebook) Pixel. These services set cookies and collect information about your visit — such as pages viewed, referring URLs, device and browser characteristics, and approximate location — and share that information with Google and Meta, who may combine it with other data they hold about you. We also use a self-hosted monitoring tool (Grafana Faro) that collects error reports, performance measurements, and page-load information from your browser; this data is sent only to our own infrastructure.

2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

• In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

• To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log in to your account (we sign you in via a one-time link sent to your email address), as well as keep your account in working order.
• To fulfill orders and deliver purchases. We process your email address and order information to deliver license keys, provide download access, and offer customer support.
• To validate licenses and prevent fraud and piracy. We process plugin license and device data (see Section 1) to enforce activation limits and detect misuse.
• To moderate content. Content you submit (such as comments, posts, and product descriptions) may be reviewed by automated, AI-assisted moderation systems to detect violations of our terms.
• For security, logging, and diagnostics. We keep server logs (including IP address and browser user agent) and error reports to secure, troubleshoot, and improve the Services.
• For analytics. We use the analytics services described in Section 1 to understand how the Services are used.
• To send service communications, such as sign-in links and license/purchase emails.
• To save or protect an individual’s vital interest. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual’s vital interest, such as to prevent harm.

3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

• In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.

If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:

• Consent: We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
• Legal Obligations: We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
• Vital Interests: We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.

If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you.

We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time.

In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:

• If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way
• For investigations and fraud detection and prevention
• For business transactions provided certain conditions are met
• If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim
• For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin
• If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse
• If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province
• If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records
• If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced
• If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes
• If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations

4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

• In Short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties.

We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

• Vendors and Service Providers: We share personal information with third-party providers who perform services on our behalf:
  • Stripe — payment processing (you provide your payment details directly to Stripe at checkout)
  • Google — website analytics (Google Analytics) and transactional email delivery (our sign-in and license emails are sent via Gmail)
  • Meta — analytics and advertising measurement via the Meta Pixel on our website
  • Cloudflare — bot protection (Turnstile) on our sign-in form, which receives your IP address
  • OpenAI and Anthropic — AI features and automated content moderation; content you submit to the Services (such as comments and product descriptions) and messages you send to AI chat features may be processed by these providers
  • Cloudinary — image hosting for shader thumbnails
• Other Users: Content you post to the Services (comments, posts, shaders, likes) is visible to other users of the Services together with your display name.
• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

• In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to access or store information:

• Essential cookies: We set a session cookie (named sid) when you sign in. It keeps you logged in (for up to 30 days) and stores your cart. It is required for accounts and purchases to work.
• Analytics and advertising cookies: Google Analytics and the Meta Pixel (see Section 1) set their own cookies (such as _ga and _fbp) and use similar technologies, including a tracking pixel, to measure how you use our website.

If you are visiting from a region whose laws require opt-in consent (such as the EEA, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland), analytics and advertising cookies are only set after you accept them through the cookie banner shown on your first visit. In other regions, these cookies are set by default — except that if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, advertising/marketing cookies (the Meta Pixel and Google advertising signals) stay off unless you explicitly enable them. In either case, you can change your choices at any time via the “Your Privacy Choices” link in the site footer; withdrawing consent removes the associated cookies. Most web browsers also let you remove or reject cookies, but rejecting the essential session cookie will prevent you from signing in or making purchases.

6. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?

• In Short: We do not offer social media logins.

We do not currently offer registration or login through social media accounts. Authentication works by sending a one-time sign-in link (“magic link”) to your email address. If we introduce social logins in the future, we will update this notice to describe what profile information we would receive from the provider.

7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

• In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). In particular, we retain order and license records for as long as needed to support your purchases and meet tax and accounting obligations, and we retain server logs and error reports for security and diagnostic purposes. Sign-in sessions expire automatically, and sign-in link tokens expire within 15 minutes.

If you delete your account (see “Account Information” below), the following applies:

• Your account profile, sign-in data, notifications, and the record of reputation (“karma”) you received are deleted.
• Order records are retained for the legally required accounting period, as permitted by law. They are unlinked from any account.
• Comments and votes you posted remain on the site but are anonymized in place — they are permanently unlinked from you and from each other.
• Your license keys are revoked and the license records (including hashed device identifiers) are retained to prevent fraudulent reuse.
• Your final karma score is retained, keyed only to a one-way cryptographic hash of your email address. This record contains no other personal information and cannot be reversed into your email. If you later create a new account with the same email address, your karma is restored and this record is deleted. This ensures account deletion cannot be used to shed a poor community standing, which is a legitimate interest in preventing abuse.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

8. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

• In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

9. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

• In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at privacy@headsta.sh.

10. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

• In Short: In some regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, and Canada, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.

In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; (vi) if applicable, to data portability; and (vii) not to be subject to automated decision-making. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?” below.

We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your Member State data protection authority or UK data protection authority.

If you are located in Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

• Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?” below or updating your preferences.

However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

• Opting out of marketing and promotional communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send, or by contacting us using the details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?” below. You will then be removed from the marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you — for example, to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.

• Account Information: If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:

  • Log in to your account settings and update your user account.
  • Download a copy of your data (profile, orders, licenses, comments, and karma) from your account settings at any time.
  • Delete your account yourself from your account settings, or request deletion by contacting us. Deletion takes effect immediately and removes your account and personal information from our active databases as described in “HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?” above. We retain some information to prevent fraud, enforce our legal terms, and comply with applicable legal requirements — specifically order records, revoked license records, and an anonymized karma record as described in that section.

• Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Services.

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at privacy@headsta.sh.

11. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized, and we do not respond to the legacy DNT browser signal.

We do honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. If your browser or a browser extension sends a GPC signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising: advertising/marketing cookies and pixels (the Meta Pixel and Google advertising signals) are not loaded unless you later make an explicit choice to enable them via the “Your Privacy Choices” link in the site footer. Because the GPC signal is read per browser, your choice applies to the browser and device sending the signal.

12. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

• In Short: If you are a resident of California or certain other U.S. states with consumer privacy laws, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.

What categories of personal information do we collect?

We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12) months:

Personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, such as:
  • Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data.
  • Personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

Do we “sell” or “share” personal information?

We do not sell personal information for money. However, our use of Google Analytics and the Meta Pixel may be considered “sharing” (or a “sale”) of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising under some state laws. You can opt out of this at any time via the “Your Privacy Choices” link in the site footer (turn off the Marketing and/or Analytics categories), or automatically by using a browser that sends the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, which we honor as described in Section 11. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.

If you are a resident of California, you have the right to request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”).

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please email us at privacy@headsta.sh.

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period.

The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

13. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

• In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

14. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at privacy@headsta.sh.