Privacy Policy

About this policy

This policy describes how itsMakingThings (“we”, “us”) handles personal data when you use our software products and our website at itsmakingthings.com. itsMakingThings is operated as a sole-trader business by Gareth Brown. We can be reached at developer@itsmakingthings.com.

We have written this document to be specific rather than to use generic boilerplate. If something in here is unclear or you believe we have got it wrong, email us at the address above and we will fix it.

Our apps

Our applications — including SideKit, Import Suite, Layer Shifter, OmniGuides, Dynamic Day/Night Cycle, and the Advanced Day–Night–Seasonal-Sky System — are designed to be local-first. Concretely:

• The apps make no network connections to our servers or any third party.
• We do not collect any telemetry, usage statistics, crash reports, or diagnostic data.
• We do not have any user accounts. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to log into.
• All data the apps create — notes, settings, project files, captured clipboard history, and so on — is stored locally on the device you installed the app on.

SideKit specifics

SideKit stores all of your data — notes, lists, sticky-note positions, clipboard history, time-tracking entries, color palettes, and per-sub-tool settings — in a single SQLite database at %APPDATA%\SideKit\notes.db by default.

• The Clipboard sub-tool, when enabled, captures clipboard text and images locally only. It honors the standard Win32 CF_CLIPBOARD_VIEWER_IGNORE flag, so reputable password managers (1Password, Bitwarden, KeePass) opt out of capture automatically.
• If you choose to point SideKit’s database at a folder synced by OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, or another sync provider, your data is also subject to that provider’s terms. SideKit itself does not perform the syncing.
• Crash logs are written to %APPDATA%\SideKit\crash.log and never transmitted off your device.

Updates

Our Windows applications are distributed through the Microsoft Store. The Store handles update delivery; the apps themselves do not check for updates and do not contact our servers for any reason. Our Unity Editor extensions are distributed through the Unity Asset Store with the same model — the Asset Store handles delivery.

While the app itself does not collect data, the Microsoft Store may collect aggregate telemetry related to installation and crashes as governed by the Microsoft Privacy Statement. Similarly, the Unity Asset Store may collect aggregate telemetry related to downloads and installations as governed by Unity’s Privacy Policy.

Our website

The website at itsmakingthings.com is a statically generated catalog of our tools. It uses three third-party services that collect data, described below.

Contact form (Netlify Forms)

When you submit our contact form, the message and any contact details you choose to include are sent to Netlify Forms and stored on Netlify’s infrastructure. We use the data only to reply to your message. We do not share it with third parties or use it for marketing.

Netlify acts as our data processor for this. Their privacy policy is at netlify.com/privacy.

Analytics (Google Analytics 4)

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages people read and how they get to the site. GA4 sets cookies in your browser and sends pageview, session, device-type, and approximate-location data to Google. We do not see your IP address directly — Google anonymizes it before reporting.

We use this data to make decisions about which tools to feature and which pages to improve. We do not combine it with any other data, and we do not use it for advertising. You can opt out by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on or by blocking cookies for this site.

Search Console

We have verified ownership of this domain with Google Search Console so we can see which search queries surface our pages. Search Console reports aggregate, anonymous query data — we cannot identify individual users from it.

Cookies

The cookies set on this site come from Google Analytics (described above). The site itself does not set any first-party cookies. You can clear or block cookies through your browser settings without affecting your ability to read the site.

Data we do not collect

To be explicit:

• We do not sell, rent, or trade personal data.
• We do not share contact-form messages with third parties beyond Netlify (our processor).
• We do not run advertising on the website or in our apps.
• We do not use behavioral tracking, fingerprinting, or session-replay tools.

Children’s privacy

Our products are professional tools aimed at developers, designers, and power users. They are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has submitted personal data through our contact form, email us at developer@itsmakingthings.com and we will delete it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (e.g. the EU/UK under GDPR, or California under CCPA), you have the right to ask us:

• What personal data of yours we hold.
• To correct or update it.
• To delete it.
• To stop processing it.

In practice, the only personal data we ever hold for an individual is whatever you chose to include in a contact-form submission. To exercise any of the rights above, email developer@itsmakingthings.com with the address you submitted from and a brief description of your request. We will respond within 30 days.

Data retention

Contact-form submissions are kept for as long as needed to respond to and follow up on the conversation, then deleted. Google Analytics data is retained according to the default retention period configured in our GA4 property.

International transfers

We are based in the United Kingdom. Our website is served by Netlify (United States). Google Analytics processes data in the United States and other regions. By using the website you accept that your data may be transferred to and processed in these jurisdictions.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle data, we will update this page and update the Last updated date at the top. Material changes will be flagged in the change log below.

Change log

• May 3, 2026 — Initial publication.

Contact

For any privacy-related question or request, email developer@itsmakingthings.com.