Privacy

Helmsman is a pre-launch macOS app. Today there is only this website and a waitlist. This page describes what that waitlist does with your data, and nothing more. It covers the site as it exists right now, not features we have not built.

What we collect

Only the email address you type into the waitlist form, plus a timestamp of when you signed up. That is the entire list. We do not ask for your name, and we collect nothing else. The desktop app is not released yet and collects nothing from you.

Why we collect it

To send you a single email on the day Helmsman ships. That one launch message is the only intended use of your address.

Where it is stored and who processes it

Your email is stored in Upstash for Redis, a managed Redis store, which is connected to our hosting provider Vercel, the service that serves this site. Addresses are kept lowercased in a deduplicated set, so signing up twice with the same email does not create a second entry.

The two processors that handle your data are:

• Upstash, which stores the waitlist.
• Vercel, which hosts the site and runs the signup form.

What we do NOT do

• We do not sell or share your address with anyone.
• We run no advertising.
• This site has no third-party analytics and sets no tracking cookies.
• We do not build a profile of you.

Bot protection

To keep spam out of the waitlist, the form uses a hidden honeypot field, a check on how quickly the form was submitted, and a short-lived per-IP rate limit. These exist only to block automated abuse. They do not build a profile of you or track you across the web.

Your choices and removal

You can ask us to remove your email at any time by writing to hello@helmsman.sh. We will delete it from the waitlist.

Changes

If our practices change, we will update this page, for example when the distributed app ships and there is more to describe. Expect this statement to grow a little at launch.

Contact

Questions about any of this? Email hello@helmsman.sh.