Legal & Privacy

Terms of Service

aka: "Don't sue us, bro."

01Acceptance of Death

By using this site, you accept that technology is mortal and that sarcasm is a valid coping mechanism. If you don't agree, close the tab. We won't notice.

02Intellectual Property

We built this with dead tech and a lot of caffeine. All content is original unless otherwise stated. Don't steal it unless you improve it and link back to us.

03Accuracy Disclaimer

This site makes fun of tech dying. Some of it is serious. Some of it is satire. If you take business decisions based on this site, that's on you, my guy.

04User-Generated Content (Project Submissions)

You may submit information about your projects built using the technologies featured on this site ("User-Generated Content" or "UGC"), including project name, URLs, description, self-roast, and screenshots.

By submitting UGC, you grant Is This Tech Dead? a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify (for formatting, moderation, or display purposes), adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such UGC on the site and in promotional materials.

You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the UGC that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify Is This Tech Dead? for all claims resulting from content you supply.

Do not submit any UGC that is illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable. Don't post anything unironically built with XML. We reserve the right (but not the obligation) to review, approve, reject, remove, or edit such content in our sole discretion.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

05Service Availability

We host this thing on Vercel and Supabase. If it crashes, that's either our fault or the fault of a library we made fun of. Either way: not our problem.

06Changes to These Terms

We might update these when we remember. You should check occasionally. Or don't. Whatever.

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Privacy Policy

aka: "We're not creepy."

01What We Collect (and Why)

Analytics: We use Simple Analytics for website traffic analysis. It's privacy-focused – no cookies, no fingerprinting, no IP address storage. We just see general traffic trends, like which pages are popular.

Newsletter: If you subscribe, we collect your email address via Buttondown to send you updates. That's it.

Project Submissions: When you submit a project, we collect the information you provide: project name, URLs, description, self-roast, and optionally, a screenshot. Screenshots are stored securely via Supabase Storage. We use this information solely to display your project on the site after approval.

reCAPTCHA: To prevent spam and abuse on project submissions, we use Google reCAPTCHA v3. This service collects hardware and software information, such as device and application data, and sends it to Google for analysis to determine whether you are human. This is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Server Logs: Like most websites, our hosting provider (Vercel) may automatically log basic information like your IP address, browser type, and access times for security and operational purposes. This data is typically kept for a limited time.

02Your Rights

Want your data removed? Just unsubscribe from the newsletter. You can also email us to be deleted from our extremely tiny, soon-to-be-full 100-person list.

03Data Retention

Newsletter data is kept for as long as you're subscribed. Analytics data is kept by Simple Analytics for 1 month. Because that's free. And we're cheap.

04Third Parties (Who We Share Data With)

We minimize data sharing but rely on a few essential services:

  • Simple Analytics: For website analytics (anonymous data).
  • Buttondown: To manage our newsletter subscriptions (your email).
  • Supabase: Our backend provider for storing project submission data and screenshots.
  • Google reCAPTCHA: For bot detection (hardware/software info).
  • Vercel: Our hosting provider (standard server logs).

We recommend reviewing their respective privacy policies if you have concerns.

This is probably the first terms page you've actually read completely.

Congratulations on being a weirdo.