Last updated 8 June 2026

Privacy

Pixelpond is a small Australian studio. pixelpond.au doesn’t run ads, doesn’t build profiles of visitors, and doesn’t sell personal information to anyone. Whatever does get collected, and there isn’t much, is laid out below.

What gets collected on this site

If you grab the free icon-pack starter and enter your email, that address is stored in our database (hosted by Supabase) to log the download. The ZIP is free and public on GitHub, so an email is never required to get it. If you also tick the optional box, we email you the download link plus a one-click confirmation to join the occasional new-pack & offer list — and your address is added to that list only after you click the confirmation. Every marketing email carries an unsubscribe link, so you can leave any time. You can ask to have a captured address deleted whenever you like, and addresses that never confirm get cleared out periodically.

If you write to support@pixelpond.au, the message and your email address land in the Pixelpond inbox. They sit there until they’re replied to, archived, or cleaned out the way ordinary inboxes get cleaned out.

Cloudflare Web Analytics runs on the site. It counts page views, referrer URLs, and rough country, without setting cookies and without assigning any identifier to individual visitors. The numbers are aggregate — Pixelpond can see that a blog post got read fifty times, not which fifty people read it.

The Pixelpond Engine

The browser-based pixel art editor at pixelpond.au/editor runs entirely on your machine. The art you open, edit, and export stays in your browser; nothing about your canvas is uploaded, scanned, or stored on the Pixelpond side.

The editor has an optional donation button. Choosing to donate takes you to Stripe Checkout, which is hosted by Stripe and handles every part of the payment. Pixelpond never sees your card details. Stripe sends back a confirmation of the donation amount and that’s the extent of what gets stored on the Pixelpond side.

Paid icon packs work a little differently, because they’re an order rather than a gift. Checkout still runs entirely on Stripe and Pixelpond never sees your card. Once a payment clears, an order record is stored in our database (Supabase): the email you checked out with, the Stripe customer and session IDs, which pack and tier you bought, the amount, and a count of how many times the download link has been used. The pack you receive is generated for your order — a LICENSE-ORDER.txt file inside the ZIP names the email it was licensed to, so a leaked or resold copy is traceable back to the purchase. Order records are kept while the download link stays valid; you can ask to have yours removed once you no longer need to re-download.

Cookies

Pixelpond doesn’t set its own tracking cookies. Cloudflare Analytics is configured to operate without cookies. Stripe will set whatever cookies it needs to run a checkout, but only on the Stripe-hosted pages it serves, not on pixelpond.au itself.

Who else has access

A few third parties are involved in running the site:

Vercel hosts pixelpond.au and sees the standard server logs they keep for every site they host — IP addresses, request paths, timestamps. Cloudflare sits in front of the DNS and runs the analytics endpoint. Stripe handles donations through the editor and payments for paid icon packs. Supabase stores free-pack signup emails and paid order records. Resend sends our transactional and opt-in emails and holds the confirmed new-pack mailing list. The Pixelpond inbox runs on standard email infrastructure.

Children

The site isn’t directed at children under 13 and has no account system, profile, or other mechanism that would single out a child visitor from any other visitor. If you’d rather your child didn’t see the site, the cleanest answer is not to send them there.

Your data, your rights

Email Pixelpond if you want to:

• find out what’s on file about you;
• have your email address removed from the new-pack mailing list (every marketing email also carries an unsubscribe link) or deleted from our signup records;
• have a Stripe donation record removed, to the extent Pixelpond can do that without breaking accounting records;
• ask about anything else covered here.

Replies usually go out within a week. There’s no formal identity-verification process for routine requests, because there’s almost nothing to ask about.

Changes to this page

When something here actually changes — a real newsletter going live, a new third-party service showing up, a contact form being added — this page gets edited and the date at the top moves with it. There’s no separate email notice.

Contact

For privacy questions, removal requests, or anything else on this page: support@pixelpond.au.