What we know about you.
This is short because there is not much to say. We collect what the product needs to work, and most of what you might expect us to hold, we deliberately do not.
If you set up a tag
We store what the tag is on, an optional nickname and note, an optional name to show a finder, the phone number you chose to show (or nothing, if you kept it private), your email address, and the language you set it up in. That is the whole record.
There is no field for your school, a grade, a date of birth, a home address, or a photo. Not hidden, not optional: absent from the database. A name is the one thing you can choose to add, it is off by default, and it is never printed on the tag — only somebody holding the item and scanning it can read it.
If you found something and left a message
Your name, the contact you typed, and your message go straight to the owner by email. We do not keep a copy in Found Things; the email service that delivers it, Resend, holds sent mail briefly as part of delivering it. What we keep is that a tag was looked at and when: the tag number, a timestamp, and which button was tapped. Nothing else. We do not add your IP address, your location, or your device details to that record. You are a bystander doing someone a favor, not someone we get to profile. After your message has sent, we offer you a separate box to ask us about Found Things. That is the only reason we would ever have your email, it never reaches the owner of the tag, and every email we send has a one-click way out.
If you buy something
Payment is handled by Stripe, and your card details never touch our systems. We keep the order itself: what you bought, your name, your email, and the address it is going to. We need it to pack the box, to find your order if you write to us, and to keep the records a business has to keep.
Who else touches it
Cloudflare hosts the site and the database, and like any host it processes network details such as IP addresses to deliver pages and fend off attacks. Cloudflare also counts our visitors, which has its own section below. Resend delivers the email. Stripe handles payment. Those are the companies involved in a visit, and if that ever changes this page changes with it. The type on these pages is served from this domain too, so reading a page here does not hand your visit to anybody beyond them. We do not sell your information, we do not share it for advertising, and there are no advertising trackers on this site.
How we count visitors
We do use analytics, and here is exactly what that means. Cloudflare Web Analytics tells us how many people opened a page, which page, roughly where in the world they were, and how fast the page loaded. It runs a small script, and that script sets no cookie and stores nothing in your browser at all: no cookies, no local storage, no fingerprint. It cannot follow you to another website, because it has nothing to follow you with. Cloudflare's own documentation says the script “does not store any data in the browser or access any storage data”, and that your IP address is discarded at the nearest Cloudflare data center rather than kept.
Why we keep it: it is the only way to know whether a page is doing its job, and it is the version of that answer that costs you the least. There is no advertising network here, nothing is sold, and nobody is building a profile of you.
Cookies
A few, and none of them follows you anywhere. They do small jobs for the site itself: remembering your language, the tag you just set up and which tags are yours, giving a school credit when you arrive through its link, and keeping our own tools signed in. None is for advertising and none is shared. The visitor counting described above sets no cookie at all. Your cart is not a cookie either: it sits in your browser's own storage until you buy or it goes stale, and nothing reads it but the cart page.
Do Not Track
We do not track you across websites. The visitor counting above cannot do it: with no cookie and nothing stored in your browser, there is nothing that could recognize you on the next site. So a Do Not Track signal has nothing here to switch off, and we honour it by never having built the thing it disables.
Changing or deleting what we hold
Tap your tag and choose “update my details”. We email a link to the address already saved on the tag, never to one typed into the form, which is what stops a stranger redirecting it to themselves. From there you can change anything, or switch the tag off, which deletes your details and points any future finder at a lost and found instead.
Who sets up a tag
The tag owner sets it up and manages it. We never ask for an age or an address. A name is optional, supplied by the adult who set the tag up, and never printed on the tag. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent and think we have, write to us and we will delete it.
How long we keep it
Your tag details for as long as the tag is switched on, and no longer. Which tag numbers were in which order, so we can help if a parcel goes missing and so we can tell how many tags actually get set up. The scan log is kept for 90 days and then deleted: just the tag number, a timestamp, and which contact button was chosen, because it is the only way to know whether the product is being used at all.
Email from us
The address on your tag is used to reach you about that tag: a finder's message, or a link to change your details. Anything else only if you have separately said yes, and you can stop that at any time without it affecting your tag.
Contact
Write to hello@mightaswellco.com and a person reads it. By mail: Might As Well Co. LLC, 834-F S Perry Street #1217, Castle Rock, CO 80104.
If this changes
The date at the top changes with it, and anything new we collect will be described here.