Privacy Policy

Infralapse (“we”) is operated by Good Devs (Pty) Ltd, a South African company. We are the controller of the personal data described here. Contact: privacy@infralapse.com.

Our approach is simple: collect as little as possible. There are no accounts. The calculator runs in your browser, and your free results are not stored on our servers. We only store data when you choose to buy a plan, and only what we need to make and deliver it. We don’t sell your data.

What we collect and why

Data	When	Why	Legal basis
Your calculator answers and free result	Every time you use the calculator	Calculated in your browser to show your result. Not sent to or stored on our servers	—
Score, household size and country (no personal details)	Only if you share your result	These are written into the share link itself (for example /s/14-4-za) so the share page can show them. We don’t store them	—
Plan answers: household make-up, country and region, setting, climate, current reserves, goal, budget and your optional note about special needs	When you save a plan to buy it	Write your personal plan	Contract; explicit consent for any health information you choose to include
Your generated plan and a hashed (scrambled) access token	After you buy a plan	Store your plan and let only people with your private link open it	Contract
Email address and payment ID, received from our payment provider	After you pay	Deliver your plan link, send sign-in links when you ask for them, handle support, keep records	Contract; legal obligation (financial records)
Readiness check-ins: date, estimated days, goal and the answers you update	When you update your readiness on a paid plan	Show your progress over time on any device, and rewrite your plan when you ask	Contract
Payment records for plan rewrites (payment ID, amount, currency, date)	When you buy an extra plan rewrite	Unlock the rewrite, keep records	Contract; legal obligation
One-time sign-in links (email, created and expiry time)	When you ask for a sign-in link	Let you open your plans on another device	Contract
Security logs (IP address, request identifiers)	When you visit the site	Prevent abuse and keep the service secure	Legitimate interest
Advertising identifiers and cookies set by Google	On free pages with ads	Show and measure ads (see Advertising and cookies below)	Consent where required by law; otherwise legitimate interest

We don’t ask for your name, address, phone number or precise location. The city or region field is free text; a town or area name is all we need.

Health and special-needs information

The note about special needs is optional. If you use it, keep it general, for example “one adult uses insulin” or “toddler with a nut allergy”. Please don’t include names, diagnoses beyond what’s needed, or other details that could identify someone. We use the note only to tailor your plan. You can ask us to delete it at any time.

AI processing

Your plan is written by an AI service, Anthropic. When you buy a plan, we send Anthropic your plan answers (listed above) so it can write the plan. We don’t send your email address or payment details. To research current products and prices, the AI also runs a few web searches using only your city or region, your country and a list of stockpile items (never your name, email or note). The search provider sees those search terms, not who you are. Under Anthropic’s commercial terms, it does not use this data to train its models. We automatically check the format of the AI’s output before storing it, but AI-written content can still contain mistakes (see our Disclaimer).

Payments

Payments are handled by Dodo Payments, which acts as the merchant of record. That means Dodo Payments is the seller of record for your purchase. It processes your payment, handles tax and sends your receipt. Dodo Payments collects your payment and billing details under its own privacy policy. We never see your full card details. Dodo Payments sends us your email address, a payment ID and the payment status so we can unlock your plan.

Data stored on your device

Your plan is saved in your browser’s storage on your own device so it works offline and you can find it again. Your progress on the shopping checklist is stored the same way. This data stays on your device. You can remove it at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser settings.

Who we share data with

We use these service providers to run Infralapse. Each processes data only to provide its service to us:

• Cloudflare: hosting, database, content delivery and security.
• Anthropic: the AI that writes your plan. Receives your plan answers, not your email.
• Dodo Payments: merchant of record for purchases (payment, tax and receipts).
• Cloudflare Email Service: sends your plan-ready email and any sign-in links you ask for. Receives your email address and the email content. We only send these transactional emails; we don’t send newsletters or marketing.
• Google AdSense: ads on free pages (see below).
• open.er-api.com: exchange rates for showing prices in your currency. We send it no personal data.

We disclose data if the law requires it. We never sell or rent your data.

Advertising and cookies

Free pages, such as the calculator, results and guides, show ads from Google AdSense. Ads never appear on paid plans.

Google and its partners may use cookies and similar identifiers to show ads, limit how often you see them, measure their performance and, where allowed, personalise them. If you are in the European Economic Area, the UK or Switzerland, you’ll see a consent message from Google’s certified consent tool before personalised ads are shown, and you can change your choice later through the privacy settings link it provides. You can learn more about how Google uses data in Google’s advertising policy and manage ad personalisation in your Google settings.

Apart from advertising and the browser storage described above, we don’t use tracking cookies.

International transfers

Our providers may process data outside your country, including in the United States. Where required, we rely on safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

How long we keep data

• Free results: not stored on our servers.
• Share links: nothing is stored. The score, household size and country are part of the link itself.
• Saved plans that are never paid for: deleted after 30 days.
• Paid plans, plan answers, check-in history, email address and payment records: kept until you ask us to delete them, or deleted 24 months after purchase, whichever comes first.
• Sign-in links: deleted one day after they expire or are used. Links work once and expire after 15 minutes.
• Security logs: kept for up to 30 days.
• Payment and tax records held by Dodo Payments are kept under its own legal obligations.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (including under the GDPR, UK GDPR, POPIA and US state privacy laws), you can:

• access the data we hold about you
• correct it
• ask us to delete it
• object to or restrict certain processing
• withdraw consent at any time, where we rely on it
• complain to your data-protection authority

Because there are no passwords or accounts, please include your plan ID (in your plan link) or the email address you paid with, so we can find your data. To exercise a right, email privacy@infralapse.com. We reply within 30 days.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Plan links use long, unguessable tokens, and we store only a hashed version of the token. Anyone who has your plan link can open your plan, so share it only with people you trust.

Children

Infralapse is not directed at children under 16, and we don’t knowingly collect their data. Plans are bought by adults on behalf of their household. If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact us and we will delete it.

Changes

We’ll update this page and the date above when this policy changes.