What we collect, why, and who sees it.
We audit other people's operations for a living, so we hold ourselves to the standard we grade against. Plain words, no legal fog.
Effective July 27, 2026. If this page changes, the date changes with it.
What we collect
The fit call form. Your name, your email, and whatever you type in the note field. That is all the form asks for because that is all a first conversation needs.
The Role Check. Your answers stay in your browser while you take it and clear when you close the tab. We never see them unless you press the send button, and then we receive your email address and a summary of your answers and results. If you never press send, nothing reaches us.
Workbench Sessions and audit work. Whatever you choose to send to hi@cooperage.works or show us on a call, such as documents, examples, and screenshots. You share it because you hired us to work with it.
We do not use analytics trackers, advertising pixels, or cookies. The Role Check uses your browser's own short-term storage so your answers survive a refresh; that storage lives on your device and erases itself when the tab closes.
Why we collect it
To reply to you, to prepare for a call, and to do the work you asked for. Nothing else. No newsletter unless you ask for one. No selling or renting your information to anyone, ever. No ads.
Who sees it
Two people: Darrell Allen and Daniel, the partners who do the work. No junior staff, no subcontractors, no offshore processing.
Two services carry the data on the way to us. Form and Role Check submissions are delivered by Formspree, a form delivery service, and our email and file storage run on Google Workspace. Both act only as the pipes; neither uses your information for its own purposes on our behalf. Client materials are filed in a private folder in our Workspace and nowhere else.
How long we keep it
Inquiries and Role Check reports are kept while the conversation is live and cleaned out when it is not. Client engagement materials are kept for the engagement and a reasonable record-keeping period after, then deleted.
Your choices
Email hi@cooperage.works and ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. We will do it and confirm, usually within a few days. If you are in a place whose privacy law gives you additional rights, such as the EU or California, those rights apply and the same email is how you use them.
One more thing
If we ever add a tool that changes any of the above, such as analytics, this page gets updated before the tool goes live, not after.