Privacy

The whole list: the email you paid with, whatever you chose to put on your minute, and a count of the clicks on your links. There is no fourth thing.

What we keep

• The email that owns the minute. It is the deed — the address that pays for one, or the recipient’s once a gift has been claimed, because ownership is the email and not the payment. It is what a receipt goes to, what an edit link goes to, and what proves a minute is yours; nothing else on this site does that job (the rules, 4.8). It is never displayed on your minute, never shown to another visitor, and never sold or handed to anyone outside the services named below.
• Whatever you choose to display. Your name, your one line, up to 3 links, your story, and an occasion with its date if you set one. All of it is public on purpose — that is what owning a minute is. It can also be quoted by this site’s own account on X when a milestone passes, and by nothing else. Anything you would not want on a clock in every time zone should not go there, and you can change or clear any of it in seconds.
• A click count for each link. A number, and only a number. Not who clicked, not where they came from, not what else they looked at.
• Nothing about your card. Payment happens on Stripe’s own pages, not ours. Card numbers never touch this site — we do not see them, and could not store them if we wanted to.

Who else touches it

The complete list, with the one job each of them does.

• Stripepayments, receipts and refunds
• Upstashthe database the ownership records live in
• Vercelhosting
• Resendsending the email
• ntfypurchase events, pushed to the keeper’s phone — the minute and the amount, and nothing about you. It used to carry your email address; it does not any more.

That is everyone. No advertising, ever. No trackers, no advertising pixels, no analytics that follow you anywhere. Nothing is sold and nothing is shared beyond those five. Vercel keeps the ordinary access logs every host keeps, and any page counting we run there is the cookieless kind: a tally, not a profile.

Cookies

One, and only if you open your own edit link: an opaque session id that lasts 30 minutes and then stops existing. It contains nothing about you, and JavaScript cannot read it. Stripe sets its own cookies on its own pages while you are paying. Browse the clock, the map and every minute page, and this site sets nothing at all.

Avatars and icons

If you give an X handle or a link, two public services are asked for pictures: unavatar.io for the face beside your name, and Google’s favicon service for the small icon on a link chip. Both are fetched by the browser that is looking at your minute, the way any image on any page is — so those services see those requests, and we never see, store or host the picture itself. Give neither a handle nor a link and nothing is fetched at all: your minute shows your initials in your own colour.

The one thing counted about a visitor

Asking for an edit link counts the address you asked from, 3 an hour, so that one script cannot email 1,440 owners in an afternoon. The count expires by itself an hour later and is attached to nothing else.

Email

Transactional only: your receipt, the edit links you ask for, and notices about your own minute. There is no marketing list today and nothing at checkout signs you up to one. If that ever changes it will be a box you tick yourself, every such email will carry an unsubscribe that works the first time, and unsubscribing will never stop the emails you need in order to keep control of your minute.

Your choices

• Change or clear your display, any time. Ask for an edit link from your minute’s page and edit it, or empty it entirely. Free, forever, and it moves nothing about who owns the minute.
• Refunds: 14 days, no questions asked, exactly as the rules set out.
• Deletion: write to clock@ownthisminute.com and we will remove your email address and everything your minute displays. One honest exception: the record of a payment is append-only here and at Stripe, and tax law requires us to keep it. That record is a date, an amount and a minute — never anything you displayed.

Contact

clock@ownthisminute.com — a person reads it. If any sentence here turns out not to describe what the site actually does, that is a bug and we want to hear about it.

Effective September 1, 2026. If this policy changes, the date changes with it — it is printed from the same constant the page is written against, so the two cannot drift apart.