Privacy

The data controller is 5bits, reachable at contact@5bits.eu.

Visits. The site measures its own audience, with no third-party tool and no cookie: for each page view, the page, the site you came from, campaign parameters (utm), device type, your browser's language and time zone, the time spent on the page and how far you scrolled. Your IP address is never stored: together with your browser, it is only used to compute a visit identifier that changes every day and can't be linked from one day to the next. The site also records some actions during the visit: sections seen, trailer playback, language switch, clicks to another site, and the checkout steps (opening, closing and at which step, error met, promo code attempt, clicking pay, successful payment). What you type (email, promo code) is never part of it. Finally, it records which version of some pages is shown, to learn which works best.

If you are signed in to your account, your page views are attached to it. If you start a payment, the day's visit identifier is attached to that payment: this tells us which visit a purchase came from, or why a payment didn't go through (bank decline, payment page abandoned). That visit is then linked to the order.

Purchases. The email entered at checkout is used to send you your key, and the payment provider receives it for your receipt. We keep the order (license, amount, email, language, key sent). Card payments are processed by Stripe, crypto payments by NOWPayments: we never see your card details.

Reminders. If you start an order without finishing it, we keep the email you entered, the license chosen and the payment status, and we may email you: to tell you a payment was declined, or to remind you of your order. If you have an account (Discord sign-in), we may also send you reminders and offers, sometimes with a personal discount code. Every email lets you unsubscribe, and the setting is also in your account.

Client panel (optional). If you sign in with Discord, we store your Discord ID, username, avatar and your Discord account's email address; if you link a license, the matching TZ Project account name and your menu config. The key you enter is used for verification; only a fingerprint is kept for the link history. You can unlink your license from the panel.

Reseller space (optional). If you apply, we store your form answers (contact, shop, sales channels, estimated volume, introduction) and the decision. For resellers: their orders, keys, notes, and for each key the TZ Project account that activated it and its dates, read from TZ Project.

Like any web server, hosting may keep technical logs (IP address, date, page requested) for security.

NEXT_LOCALE remembers your language (1 year). If you sign in, 5bits_session keeps you signed in (30 days, deleted on logout), 5bits_user shows your username and avatar in the site bar (same lifetime, it grants no access), and 5bits_oauth only lives ten minutes, during the Discord sign-in.

In tab storage (cleared when the tab closes): 5bits.splash avoids replaying the intro, and the 5bits.ab.* keys remember which page version you were assigned for tests.

These serve the site's operation and its analytics: they're never used to follow you on other sites.

Fonts and images are served from our own servers: nothing is sent to Google Fonts, a CDN or a social network while you browse.

Payments: Stripe (card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay) and NOWPayments (crypto) receive what they need to process the payment, along with the day's visit identifier. Key delivery by email: Resend (servers in Ireland) receives your address and the content of the email. Panel and reseller space: sign-in goes through Discord, your avatar loads from Discord's servers, the 5Bits bot reads your roles on our Discord server, gives or removes the customer role depending on the status of the linked license, and may send you a direct message (application answer); license status is read from TZ Project.

Analytics: 13 months. Panel account, application and reseller data: as long as the account exists, then deleted on request. Orders and payments: as long as accounting obligations require. Hosting technical logs: a few weeks.

Under the GDPR, you can request access to, correction or deletion of your data, and object to its processing, by writing to contact@5bits.eu.

You can also lodge a complaint with the CNIL (cnil.fr).