Privacy Policy

About this policy

This policy describes how itsMakingThings (“we”, “us”) handles personal data on our website at itsmakingthings.com. It does not cover our apps: each app documents its own data handling on its product page (see Our apps below). 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 apps are not covered by this website policy. Where an app handles data in a way that needs explaining, it has its own privacy policy linked from its product page. AppRig’s is at the AppRig Privacy Policy.

Our Unity Editor extensions are distributed through the Unity Asset Store and are covered by Unity’s privacy policy and the Asset Store’s terms, so they do not have a separate policy here.

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.
• We do not use behavioral tracking, fingerprinting, or session-replay tools.

Children’s privacy

This website is aimed at developers, designers, and power users. It is 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 25, 2026: Narrowed this policy to the website only. App-specific data handling now lives on each tool’s page, starting with the AppRig Privacy Policy.
• May 3, 2026: Initial publication.

Contact

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