Your data

What we do with your data, plainly

What Pulsers keeps, why, who else sees it pass, and how to erase it all, without the jargon. The legal version remains the privacy policy.

Who we are

Not a start-up: Fred and Lucile, two modular synth players. Fred has been building web applications for 25 years and uses AI as a tool, as developers do today. More about us: about.

What we keep

Only what makes the site work. Nothing is sold, nothing is used for advertising.

  • Your account: your email address, your name (at first, the start of your address) and the username you choose for the public pages. Also your settings: language, theme, the emails sent when someone copies your work, and the newsletter, with the date you agreed to it.
  • How you sign in: with a code or a link sent by email, with a password, or with Google or GitHub. The code is kept only as a fingerprint and is valid for 5 minutes. The password is never kept in clear (bcrypt). With Google or GitHub: your account's identifier there and its email address, nothing else.
  • Cookies: a session cookie keeps you signed in. Two preference cookies remember your choices, set only when you make them: the theme, if you choose it without an account, and how the module list is shown. None is used to follow you.
  • What you create: patches, racks, tables and their versions, your comments, reactions and feedback. What is private stays private; what is public can be seen by everyone.
  • Your visits as a member: the days you came signed in (the date only), and the way you first arrived (a forum, a search…). We use it to count active members.
  • What you ask the AI: the request made to the patch generator, the patch it gave, your rating and your opinion; the photo you sent, what was read on it and what it cost.
  • Your payments: the pack bought, its amount, your credits and their history, and the references Stripe gives us to find a payment again. For a donation or a monthly support: the amount, and the name, email and message if you give them.
  • Visits, counted by ourselves: the pages seen, the site people come from, the country, the kind of device and the language, kept 25 months. A visitor is recognised for one day only, by a fingerprint that changes the next day; neither your IP address nor your browser is kept. Searches typed on the site are kept, with no link to who typed them. If your browser asks not to be tracked, you are not counted.

What we do not keep

  • No bank details: no card number, no IBAN. You pay on Stripe's page, not on Pulsers.
  • No password in clear, no sign-in code in clear.
  • No IP address in our statistics.
  • No outside audience tool, no advertising, no social network pixel. The site's fonts are served by Pulsers itself, not by Google.
  • One exception: the video on the About page and a patch's examples to listen to come from YouTube, in its no-cookie mode, or from SoundCloud. Opening those pages therefore contacts YouTube or SoundCloud.

Payment

The site is free. Paying is optional: it only concerns the features that call on AI, such as reading a rack off a photo or generating a patch. They are paid in credits, in packs of €2, €6 or €12, and your first rack analysis is offered. Donations and the monthly support are optional too.

Why pay? Each analysis is a real call to Google's AI, which we pay for. The price of credits is there to cover the cost of the AI and of hosting the site; today it does not cover them yet.

Payment goes through Stripe, on its own secure page: your card never goes through Pulsers.

The photos you send

A photo sent to read a rack or a synth is stored at Scaleway, in Paris, in a private space. Only you and the Pulsers team, to check an analysis, can see it, through links that expire.

To be read, it is sent to Google's AI (Gemini), with the description of the instrument. We use the Gemini API's paid tier: Google does not use these requests to improve its products, and keeps them only for a limited time, to detect abuse.

It is kept until you delete it, from My account, Your photos section, or delete your account. The analysis and what it made stay.

Who else sees your data pass

A few providers, each for one task only:

  • DigitalOcean (Amsterdam): hosts the site and its database.
  • Scaleway (Paris): stores the photos sent and the site's images.
  • Google, Gemini API: reads the photos, answers the patch generator and automatically translates the texts you write (descriptions, comments, donation messages).
  • Stripe: payments, donations and supports.
  • Brevo: sends the site's emails (sign-in codes, notices, newsletter); it receives your email address and the message.
  • Google, GitHub: only if you sign in with them.

Your rights, and erasing everything

You can delete your account yourself, at any time, from My account. What goes: your private patches, racks and tables, your photos, your requests to the AI, your comments, reactions and feedback, your credits and your linked accounts.

What stays, without your name: what you published, which others may have copied or commented on. Your payments stay too, with no link to you, for the accounts. A monthly support carries on at Stripe until you stop it.

For a question, a copy of your data or a correction: write to us, or fred.hasselot@gmail.com.

What you publish yourself

Public names, descriptions and comments are read by everyone, and translated automatically. Do not put personal information in them: address, phone number, email.