Methods
This site sets no cookies and counts visits in totals with Cloudflare Web Analytics. Buying runs through a merchant of record; your card never reaches us.
The short version. This site sets no cookies. Visits are counted with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which we see only as totals. Buying is handled by Lemon Squeezy, who take the payment and are the seller of record; your card never reaches this laboratory. What reaches us is your name, your email address, your country and what you bought — and that email is used to deliver the files and answer you, and for nothing else. The LFM Labs mailing list is separate: you are on it only if you sign up for it.
LFM Labs, a polymathic laboratory. Methods is its fixed-price line. Write to privacy@lfmlabs.com about anything on this page, including a request to delete what we hold.
Very little. There is no advertising or tracking cookie, no session recording, no account and no newsletter you are put on without asking. The pages are static files. The typefaces are served from this address rather than from Google, specifically so that opening a page does not announce you to Google.
The site is served by Cloudflare, who keep ordinary web-server records — the address a request came from, when, and which page — to deliver the site and to absorb attacks on it. That is infrastructure logging, and no profile is built from it.
We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which runs on the same network that serves this site. A small script reports, for each page view, the page, the site that sent you here (the referrer), your country, your browser and device type, and how fast the page loaded. Cloudflare states that it does not use cookies or any other storage on your device to do this, does not fingerprint visitors by IP address or browser, and does not collect visitors' personal data. We see the results only as totals, and use them to learn which pages are read and where readers come from. Cloudflare's description: https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/
Payment runs through Lemon Squeezy, who are the merchant of record. That means they sell to you, they collect the money, and they account for the sales tax in your country. Your card details are entered on their checkout and are handled by their payment processor; they are never transmitted to us and we could not see them if we wanted to.
After a sale we receive, and keep, a record of: your name, your email address, your country, what you bought, what you paid, and the order number. We keep it because it is the receipt — it is how a refund gets made, how your free revisions reach you, and what the tax record is built from.
Three things. Sending you the files you paid for. Sending you a revision of a Method you already own. Answering you when you write. Buying does not put you on any list, nothing is sold or rented to anybody, and you will not be added to a sequence.
The sign-up at the foot of each page is the one way onto the LFM Labs mailing list. We keep your email address, the page you signed up on, the sentence beside the button you pressed and when, so we can show what you agreed to. We then send one email asking you to confirm; nothing more comes unless you do. The list is kept by LFM Labs on Cloudflare, and its emails are sent through Resend. There are a few a year, about new Methods and other LFM Labs work, and each one has a link that takes you off the list in one click. Write to us and we delete you from it entirely.
Write to privacy@lfmlabs.com and ask what we hold about you, ask for it corrected, or ask for it deleted. Deletion is limited by one thing only: a completed sale has to keep its record for as long as the tax rules require it. Anything beyond that goes.
They are a separate company with their own notice, and their handling of your payment is governed by it: lemonsqueezy.com/privacy. The privacy notice for the parent site is at lfmlabs.com/privacy.txt; it covers a site that takes no money, which is why this page exists separately.
If this changes the date below changes with it, and the previous wording is in the build history rather than quietly overwritten.