Privacy

Last updated November 8, 2026

Who we are

Optic Surge is a product of Cinegach Studios LLC, a Maryland company. It’s built and run with help from AI, and a person is responsible for it.

What we keep

• Your account: your email (it is your account), the name and country you give at checkout, what you bought and when, and your choice about marketing email, with the exact words you saw.
• Signing in: the devices you’re signed in on (like “Chrome on Mac”) and when they were last used. We store only a scrambled version of your sign-in cookie, never the cookie itself.
• Payments: Stripe handles payment and never shares your full card number with us. We receive your name, email, country and whether the payment went through.
• Lists: the email and the list you joined, like the Pro list.
• How Optic Surge is used: simple events like sign-ins, checkouts started, downloads and list sign-ups, plus usage stats and recordings if you said yes (below). No third-party analytics or ad trackers.
• What you tell us: whether a Pack was useful to you, and your answer to “What should we make next?”, tied to your account so we can follow up and so your rating counts once.
• Your privacy choices: each answer to the banner, with the version of its wording and when you gave it, as a record of what you agreed to.
• Your area: our host tells us the city and state your connection comes from, for US visitors only, so sample prompts can mention your area. We don’t store it.
• Messages you send us.

Cookies

One sign-in cookie, kept for 90 days if you choose to stay signed in, a short-lived checkout cookie that signs in the browser you paid in, and a cookie that remembers your privacy choices for a year. If you say yes to usage stats or recordings, we also keep a random visitor id for a year, so your visits connect. No advertising cookies.

Usage stats and recordings, only if you say yes

The box on your first visit, Improve your experience, asks first, and nothing below runs until you turn it on. Keep it off is one tap, and browsers that send Global Privacy Control count as off. Usage stats count pages, clicks and how far you scroll. Session recordings capture mouse movement, clicks, scrolls and how pages change, so we can replay a visit and fix what’s confusing. Recordings never include what you type, and sign-in, checkout, your library and your account are never recorded. They’re kept in our own database for 30 days, then deleted. Only the person who runs Optic Surge watches them, and no outside company or AI ever sees them. Change your answer anytime from Privacy choices at the bottom of every page, where you can also delete your recordings.

How we use it

To deliver what you buy, run your account, send sign-in codes and purchase emails, send new-Pack emails only if you ticked the box, improve Optic Surge from totals, stop fraud and abuse, and follow the law.

AI

Our AI helpers see totals, like sales by Pack or how many people rated a Pack useful, never your name, your email, your recordings or what you wrote to us. We don’t use your information to train AI models.

Sharing

We don’t sell your personal information or share it for advertising. Companies that run parts of Optic Surge handle it for us: Stripe (payments), Vercel (hosting), Neon (database) and Resend (email). We may share anonymous totals that can’t identify anyone. We share more only when the law requires it, or with a buyer of the business, and we’d tell you first.

How long

While your account is open. Deleting your account signs you out everywhere and removes your email from it; purchase records stay without your email for as long as tax law requires. Sign-in codes expire after 15 minutes.

Your choices

Privacy choices, at the bottom of every page, turns usage stats and recordings on or off and deletes your recordings. In your library you can download everything we keep about you, switch marketing email on or off, and delete your account. Every marketing email has an unsubscribe link.

Security

Encryption in transit, scrambled sign-in tokens and access limited to the people who run Optic Surge. No system is perfectly secure.

Children

Optic Surge is for adults and isn’t directed to anyone under 18.

Changes

We post changes here with a new date. If we ever want to use information we already have in a new way, we’ll ask you first.