Adesse is a phone built to leave you alone, so this policy is short on purpose. Right now this website does one thing: it takes an email address for the waitlist. Here is exactly what that involves — and what it doesn't.

This is the policy for the waitlist period, before the phone is on sale. When checkout opens, a fuller policy will replace it at this same address, covering the phone, the service, and everything a purchase involves.

The short version

  • Join the waitlist and we store three things: your email address, which form you used, and when you joined.
  • Write to us through the contact form and we get your email address and your message. We use them to reply, nothing else.
  • Ask us to grade an app and we store the app's name and your email address. We use them to tell you what we decide.
  • The pages set no cookies, run no analytics, and contain no advertising trackers or third-party scripts. The fonts are served from our own domain.
  • We don't sell personal information, and we don't share it for advertising. There's no one to sell it to and no reason to start.
  • Want off the list, or want to know what we have? Email us. A real person deletes it, by hand.

Who we are

Adesse (adessephone.com) is operated from Washington State.

Email: support@adessephone.com
Mail: Adesse, 1402 Lake Tapps Pkwy SE, STE #104, PMB 117, Auburn, WA 98092

What we collect

The waitlist. When you join, we store exactly three things: your email address, a tag for which form it came from, and the date and time you joined. That's the whole record.

Messages you send us. Write to us through the contact page and we store your email address, your message, and when you sent it. We use them to reply to you. The same goes for app requests from the apps page: we store the app's name, your email address, and when you asked, and we use them to tell you what we decide.

Abuse prevention. To keep our forms from being flooded, our server briefly keeps a shortened one-way hash of your IP address rather than the address itself. It's stored separately from your email, is never attached to it, is used only to rate-limit the form, and is deleted automatically within about 26 hours.

Email you send us. If you write to support@adessephone.com, we have that correspondence, and we use it to help you.

And what this site does not collect: no location, no browsing history, no contacts, no analytics or advertising profiles, and no cookies. We can't lose what we never took.

A note about the “getting ready” page

The /start checklist page remembers your checkboxes and the two sentences you can write there — but only in your own browser, using its local storage. None of it is ever transmitted to us. Clear your browser data and it's gone.

How we use it

The waitlist has one purpose: to email you when the phone is ready, plus occasional launch news on the way there. Every email includes an unsubscribe link; unsubscribe and we delete you from the list.

We do not sell personal information. We do not share it for advertising. We do not use cross-context behavioral advertising. Your email address is a promise to tell you about the phone — that's all it is.

Where it lives

This site is hosted, and the waitlist, contact-form messages, and app requests stored, on Google Cloud (Firebase), acting as our service provider. Access is limited to the founder.

Purchases. Checkout isn't open yet. When it opens, payments will be handled by Stripe: your card details will go directly to Stripe and never touch our servers, and we'll receive your name, email, and shipping address to fulfill your order. This policy will be updated at launch, before any of that begins.

How long we keep it

  • Waitlist addresses: at most 24 months from signup, then deleted.
  • Rate-limit hashes: about 26 hours.
  • Support email, contact-form messages, and app requests: as long as we need them to help you.

Ask sooner, and we delete sooner.

Your rights

Email support@adessephone.com to ask what we have about you, to correct it, or to have it deleted. We honor these requests for everyone, regardless of which state you live in — not just where a law requires it. Today these requests are handled by hand, by the founder, within 30 days.

Do Not Track, and state privacy laws

This site contains no third-party tracking, so there is nothing for a “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signal to switch off — the answer is already built in. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined in state privacy laws, including California's and Delaware's. For Nevada residents: we do not sell covered information; questions can be directed to support@adessephone.com.

Children

This site and the Adesse phone are intended for adults 18 and over. The site is not directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information. If you're a parent who believes a child has given us an email address, write to us and we'll delete it.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS, and waitlist data lives on Google Cloud with access limited to the founder. No method of storage or transmission is perfect — which is one more reason we keep what we hold to a minimum.

Legal requests

If a government or litigant wants information about you, we require valid legal process. This site gives us very little to produce — no location, no browsing history, no usage data. If we receive a legal demand for your information, we will tell you, unless the law prohibits us from doing so.

If Adesse changes hands

If Adesse is ever acquired or its assets are sold, the waitlist and any customer data transfer only to a successor who is bound by the same promises made on this page.

Changes to this policy

Changes will be posted at this address with a new effective date. If a change is material, we'll say so plainly at the top of the page rather than hoping you don't notice.

Questions

Write to support@adessephone.com — a real person reads it.