Same State: Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 20, 2026 Who I am: Levi Eck, an individual in California who sells the guide under his own name (Licensor: Levi Eck). Contact: samestateguide@outlook.com.

This policy covers the Same State store, license, privacy and thank-you pages, and the guide (the Same State Guide). It also explains what the free Same State code does with your data.

1. Link (Stripe) runs checkout

Link (Sold through Link, LLC, a Stripe affiliate) is the merchant of record. It runs checkout, takes your payment, calculates and remits sales tax and VAT, sends your receipt, and handles payment support, refunds and chargebacks. Stripe uses the information it collects as an independent business, under its own privacy policy: https://stripe.com/privacy. I never see your full card number.

2. What I get, and why

After you buy, Link shares order information with me. This can include:

• your name and email address (and phone number, if you give one)
• your billing address and country
• your tax ID, if you enter one
• limited payment details, such as card brand and last four digits
• order details: product, price, tax, date, order number, and any refund or dispute status

I use this to deliver the guide, answer support emails, fix files that don't work, handle refunds, and keep the business and tax records the law requires. I don't sell or rent your information, and I don't "share" it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

If you email me, I keep your email and my reply so I can help you.

If you ask Link or Stripe to delete your data, Stripe also deletes it from my Stripe account and tells me. I'll delete any copies I keep elsewhere, except records the law requires me to keep.

3. Email

I don't send marketing email or newsletters. I only email you about your order, or in reply when you contact me. Buying the guide doesn't sign you up for anything.

4. Hosting, cookies and analytics

I don't run analytics, ads or tracking on my pages.

The store, license, privacy and thank-you pages are hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub may log your IP address and other technical data when you visit them, for security purposes, under GitHub's privacy statement: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-general-privacy-statement.

The download link on the thank-you page is served by a small download service I run on Modal, a cloud hosting provider. It checks your order with Stripe and counts downloads for that order. Modal may keep technical logs, such as IP addresses, under its own privacy policy: https://modal.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Link's checkout page may use cookies under Stripe's Cookie Policy.

5. How long I keep it

• Order records: as long as tax and accounting law requires. US federal tax rules generally require at least 3 years, and some situations require longer.
• Support emails: up to 1 year after the last message.

6. Your choices and requests

Email samestateguide@outlook.com (Licensor: Levi Eck) to ask what I have about you, to correct it, or to delete it (except records I must keep by law). I'll reply within 30 days and may need to confirm the request came from you. For checkout and payment data, you can also contact Link support (https://support.link.com) or Stripe's Privacy Center. California residents may use these rights under California law, and I won't treat you differently for using them. CalOPPA "Do Not Track": I don't track you across other sites, so I don't respond differently to Do Not Track signals.

7. The free code runs on your machine

The Same State code is software you run yourself. It isn't a service I run.

• It sends nothing to me. I don't receive your notes, questions, drafts or writing samples.
• By default it runs on your own computer, and nothing leaves that machine.
• Your data goes somewhere else only if you turn that on yourself. Examples include a cloud GPU account, a cloud drive you connect with your own app registration, a hosted AI service, or a server on another computer, including another computer on your own home network. Each of these needs the kit's off-machine opt-in setting, and some also need a second setting.
• One case the kit can't detect: if you point the local model setting at an Ollama "cloud" model, Ollama itself sends your prompts to its servers under its own terms. Use a local model if you want everything to stay on your computer. The kit's only automatic network call is a local check to Ollama on your own computer, and it carries no notes.
• Once you send data to a provider, that provider handles it under its own terms, not this policy.

See the repo's PRIVACY.md for the exact settings.

8. Children

The guide isn't for children under 13. I don't knowingly collect their information.

9. Changes

If I change this policy, I'll update the effective date above. If a change is significant, I'll note it on the store page. Changes apply going forward.