ScreenOrbit Privacy Policy
A privacy-first notice covering browser-local processing, limited service logs, support messages, cookies, EU GDPR rights, and US state privacy disclosures.
This document uses plain language for readability. Headings are navigation aids; read the relevant section in full before relying on it.
No account is required. Tool settings, generated output, audio, and supported local images are handled in your browser. ScreenOrbit does not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, or include advertising trackers in the theme. Server providers still receive limited request data needed to deliver and secure the site, and we receive information you choose to send through Support.
Scope and controller
This Privacy Policy applies to ScreenOrbit.com and the ScreenOrbit browser tools, guides, and contact form. It does not cover a third-party website reached through a link. ScreenOrbit, the operator of this service, is the controller of personal data handled directly for the purposes described below. For a privacy request, use the Privacy contact form.
“Personal data” and “personal information” mean information linked or reasonably linkable to a person or household. The exact definition and available rights depend on where you live.
Information we handle
| Context | Information | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Browser tools | Theme and tool settings, custom text, generated images or audio, and a supported local image you select | Processed on your device. ScreenOrbit does not receive tool state or the contents of your local file. |
| Site delivery and security | IP address, request time, requested URL, referring URL where supplied, browser/device data, and security signals | Received by the web host and, when active, the content-delivery and security provider to serve, troubleshoot, and protect the site. |
| Support and rights requests | Name, email address, topic, message, optional related-page URL, and normal mail-delivery metadata | Used to verify, investigate, and answer your request. The theme sends the message by email and does not create a custom public profile or marketing list. |
The contact form briefly creates a keyed rate-limit value from a one-way HMAC of the request IP address. It expires after one minute. Do not send passwords, payment card numbers, government identifiers, health records, confidential logs, or another person’s private information.
Permissions and device features
The tools do not request camera, microphone, precise location, contacts, notifications, credentials, or operating-system access. Clipboard, fullscreen, Screen Wake Lock, audio, downloads, and local-file selection run only after an action you take and remain subject to browser controls.
Purposes and legal bases
For visitors in the European Union and European Economic Area, ScreenOrbit relies on the following GDPR legal bases:
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Deliver pages, maintain availability, prevent abuse, diagnose faults, and protect the service | Legitimate interests in operating a secure, reliable service (Article 6(1)(f)). We limit the data and balance that interest against visitor rights. |
| Answer support, correction, rights, and pre-service questions you initiate | Steps at your request (Article 6(1)(b)) where applicable, and legitimate interests in responding and maintaining service records (Article 6(1)(f)). |
| Comply with valid legal duties, preserve claims, or respond to authorities | Legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c)) and, where applicable, legitimate interests in establishing or defending legal claims (Article 6(1)(f)). |
| Run any future optional, non-essential analytics or similar storage | Consent (Article 6(1)(a)) where required. Such a feature must not load before consent and must be added to this notice. |
Providing contact details is voluntary, but we cannot reply without a valid return address and enough information to understand the request. ScreenOrbit does not use personal data for solely automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects and does not create advertising profiles.
Cookies, local storage, and URL fragments
The public theme does not require advertising cookies. It uses local browser storage for the theme preference (wsu-theme) and, when you change a tool setting, a key such as wsu:v1:{tool-id}. This storage provides the preference or tool state you requested; it is not read across unrelated websites and is not used to follow you for advertising.
Share links may place supported settings after the # in the URL. Browsers do not send that fragment in the normal page request, although another person or application can see it if you share or copy the full URL. Avoid private text in shared links.
Local settings remain until you select Reset, clear ScreenOrbit site data, use a browser mode that removes them, or the browser clears storage. A selected local image is decoded for the current page session and is not saved by ScreenOrbit. Generated images are assembled in browser memory and downloaded directly. White-noise audio is synthesized locally and is not a microphone recording.
WordPress, the host, or the security layer may set strictly necessary cookies for security, load balancing, or an administrator login. ScreenOrbit does not ship non-essential analytics in the theme. If non-essential cookies or analytics are added, this notice and the consent controls must be updated before they are enabled for visitors who require consent.
Service providers and disclosures
ScreenOrbit may disclose the limited information above to providers acting for site hosting, content delivery, security, backups, and email delivery. The production plan identifies Hostinger for WordPress hosting and Cloudflare for DNS, content delivery, and security. Cloudflare Web Analytics is not included in the theme and may be enabled only after a separate privacy review.
Providers may process request data under their own infrastructure and contractual terms. ScreenOrbit may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect users or the service, investigate abuse, or establish and defend legal claims. If the service is reorganized or transferred, relevant records may transfer subject to this notice and applicable law.
No sale or targeted-ad sharing. ScreenOrbit does not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, use it for targeted advertising, or provide financial incentives in exchange for it. We do not knowingly process sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about visitors.
International transfers
Hosting, security, and email providers may process information in countries outside your own. When EU or EEA personal data is transferred to a country without an adequacy decision, ScreenOrbit will use an available safeguard required by law, such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, together with supplementary measures where appropriate. You may request information about the safeguard used for your data.
Retention and security
- Local settings: remain on your device until you reset the tool or clear browser data.
- Contact rate limit: the keyed one-way IP value expires after one minute.
- Support messages: normally retained for up to 12 months after the request is closed, then deleted or anonymized, unless a longer period is needed for security, legal obligations, or a live claim.
- Delivery and security logs: retained for the shortest period reasonably needed, normally no more than 30 days where ScreenOrbit controls the setting. Provider security events and backups may follow a documented longer cycle.
ScreenOrbit uses data minimization, HTTPS in production, access controls, input validation, a honeypot, rate limiting, and provider security controls appropriate to the service. No online service can guarantee absolute security. Please report a suspected issue through the Security contact route without including exploit data that would put others at risk.
European Union and EEA rights
Subject to the GDPR and its conditions, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction, or portability of your personal data; object to processing based on legitimate interests; and withdraw consent at any time where consent is the basis. Withdrawal does not affect earlier lawful processing. You may also lodge a complaint with the data-protection authority where you live, work, or believe an infringement occurred.
Send a request through the Privacy contact form. State the right you wish to exercise and the email address or message needed to locate the record. We may request proportionate verification and will respond within the period required by law, normally one month under the GDPR. Because tool state stays on your device, ScreenOrbit usually cannot access or delete it for you; use Reset or your browser’s site-data controls.
United States state privacy rights
Depending on your state and whether its law applies to ScreenOrbit, you may have the right to confirm or know processing, access specific information, correct inaccuracies, delete information, obtain a portable copy, opt out of sale, targeted advertising, or certain profiling, limit certain sensitive-data uses, use an authorized agent, and appeal a denied request. ScreenOrbit will not discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.
California notice at collection
During the preceding 12 months, ScreenOrbit has collected or may collect these CCPA categories: identifiers (IP address and, if you contact us, name and email); internet or electronic network activity (request, browser, device, and security data); approximate location inferred by a security or delivery provider from an IP address; and correspondence you submit. Sources are you, your browser/device, and service providers. The business purposes, recipients, and retention rules are described above.
ScreenOrbit has not sold these categories, shared them for cross-context behavioral advertising, or used sensitive personal information for an inferring purpose. It has disclosed identifiers, network activity, approximate location, and support correspondence to service providers for the business purposes described above. It does not offer a financial incentive. Because there is no sale, sharing, or targeted advertising, there is currently no separate opt-out link; a recognized opt-out preference signal, including Global Privacy Control, does not change that no-sale/no-sharing practice.
Submit a US privacy request or appeal through the Privacy contact form. We will verify and answer it as required by the law that applies. An authorized agent should identify the resident, provide proof of authority, and be available for verification.
Children
ScreenOrbit is a general-audience service and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from a child under 13. A child under 13 should not submit the contact form. If you believe a child sent personal information, contact us so we can review and delete it as required. Parents and guardians should supervise minors using fullscreen, audio, animation, prank, or simulation tools.
Changes and contact
We will revise this policy when data practices, providers, or legal requirements materially change. The effective date will change, and a prominent notice will be used when required. For a question, request, appeal, or complaint, use the Privacy contact form and include “Privacy request” plus your country or US state. This policy is a transparency notice, not a waiver of any right that applicable law gives you.