Privacy

In this version, people browsing Lampstand do not create viewer accounts and are not asked to sign in. We do not currently collect account profiles, passwords, or registration details from the public site.

Like most websites, Lampstand may process limited technical information that a browser or hosting provider typically logs, such as pages visited, device or browser details, and approximate location derived from an IP address. Admin access is intended for the Lampstand team only and is not part of the public browsing experience.

Technical information may be used to operate, secure, and understand the site — for example, to keep pages working, diagnose errors, and see which public pages are being used. We do not use this V1 site to build viewer accounts or personalized advertising profiles.

Lampstand uses Vercel Web Analytics, a service from our hosting provider, Vercel, to understand how the public site is used: for example, which pages are visited, how people find them, and which kinds of device they use. This helps us decide what to improve.

When you open a public page, including the Kids, Teens and Adults pages, your browser sends Vercel a page view. Vercel may store the following with it: the time, the page address, the address you came from, your approximate location (country, region and city), your device type and operating system, and your browser and its version. We remove anything after the page address itself, such as search words, before the page view is sent. We don't send page views from sign-in or admin pages, and we don't send custom analytics events, so analytics doesn't record what you search for, what you type into a form, or whether you press Play on a video.

Vercel states that Web Analytics works without third-party cookies, and that it recognizes a visit using a hash created from the incoming request, which is discarded after 24 hours. Vercel also states that this data is used for aggregated statistics and is not used to track people across other websites or applications. Lampstand sees aggregated reports, not a record of any one visitor. You can read more inVercel's Web Analytics privacy documentationand theVercel Privacy Policy.

Content displayed through Lampstand may be hosted or delivered by third-party content providers. Those providers may collect information according to their own privacy practices when you watch or interact with their content.

Lampstand does not control those third-party practices. If you follow a provider-hosted experience, you should review that provider's own notices.

Lampstand uses YouTube API Services to find and show YouTube videos, and plays them with YouTube's own embedded video player. The videos are hosted by YouTube, not by Lampstand.

A video page first shows only its picture. The YouTube player is not loaded until you press Play. When you do, the player is delivered directly by YouTube, in the privacy-enhanced mode that YouTube provides (from youtube-nocookie.com), together with YouTube's player script (from youtube.com), which lets Lampstand tell you if a video can't be played. That script comes from youtube.com itself, so your browser may send it cookies YouTube has already set (for example, if you are signed in to YouTube). From then on, YouTube receives information from your browser, such as your IP address, details of your device and browser, and the address of the Lampstand page you are on, and it may store or read information on your device, such as cookies. YouTube may also show advertising in its player. YouTube states that views in privacy-enhanced mode are not used to personalize your YouTube experience or the ads you see, but this mode does not stop YouTube from collecting information.

YouTube's use of that information is governed by theGoogle Privacy Policy. Lampstand does not receive what YouTube collects through its player, and does not add its own tracking to video playback.

Some videos are not played on Lampstand: videos their creators have marked as made for kids, and videos whose audience setting Lampstand has not yet confirmed. For those, and whenever you choose “Watch on YouTube”, the video opens on YouTube's own website, where YouTube's terms and privacy practices apply.

Lampstand does not ask you to sign in to YouTube or connect a YouTube or Google account, and it does not access your YouTube account data.

The site and its hosting tools may use cookies or similar technologies that help pages load or remember basic preferences. Lampstand does not add analytics cookies of its own, and the section on website analytics explains what Vercel states about cookies. YouTube's use of cookies is described in the section on videos. You can usually control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how the site works.

If you write to us through the contact form, we receive the name, email address, subject and message you enter. We use them to read your message and to reply to you by email. You don't need an account to use the form.

Your message is sent to Lampstand's inbox by email through our email service provider; Lampstand's website database does not keep a copy. To limit abuse, we keep a short-lived counter of recent messages for each email address. It holds a one-way (hashed) code, not the address itself, and is used only to slow down repeated messages.

Any technical logs kept by hosting or related services are retained only as long as needed to operate and protect the site, or as those providers require. Analytics reports are kept by Vercel for a period that depends on our plan and Vercel's own practices. Because this V1 does not include public accounts, there are no viewer profiles for us to retain.

Lampstand is an early product. This notice may change as the platform develops. When it does, we will update the date on this page.

Questions about this notice can be sent through our contact form.