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July 25, 2026
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We collect as little as possible.

EliteCuts is a portfolio project, not a storefront. There's no advertising network, no data broker, and nothing to sell — so what we hold is the minimum an account needs to work. This page is written in plain English rather than legalese, and it says what actually happens, including the parts that are less tidy than we'd like.

  • No data is ever sold
  • No advertising network
  • No tracking cookies

On this page

  • 01What we collect
  • 02How it’s used
  • 03What we don’t do
  • 04Third parties
  • 05Cookies and local storage
  • 06Your choices
01

What we collect

The minimum to run an account — and browsing signed out stays anonymous.

If you never sign in, we never build a record of you. Once you do have an account, this is the whole list — and the list of things we deliberately never ask for.

What we store

  • Your name and email address
  • A hashed password — never the original
  • Phone number and pickup address, if you add them
  • Cuts you save, orders you place, and what’s in your cart
  • Your rewards balance and the points history behind it
  • Reviews and messages you write, under your name
  • Saved cards — the brand, last four digits and expiry only
  • An id linking your account to Stripe, created the first time you check out through it
  • When you were last active, and any note shop staff add to your account

What we never ask for

  • Your full card number — Stripe handles that end
  • Your date of birth
  • A log of your IP address or your location
  • Anything about other sites you visit
  • Advertising or social identifiers
  • Anything we don’t actively need

One honest footnote on that last card: your IP address is read for a moment on the handful of actions worth throttling — signing in, registering, changing a password, checking out, applying a promo code, and posting a review or message — so the site can slow down repeated attempts. It's counted in memory and never written down. But it isn't invisible to us either, and as with any site, your requests reach our host's logs.

And if you're exploring through the demo, one thing to know: those accounts are shared by everyone trying the site. Anything you type into one — a delivery address at checkout, a note on an order — is visible to the next visitor until the nightly reset clears it. Use made-up details there.

02

How it’s used

Two purposes. There isn’t a third.

  • —To run your account — signing you in, showing your saved cuts and past orders, and keeping your rewards balance straight.
  • —To run the counter — staff see your order so they can prepare it, and your messages so they can answer them.

The site doesn't send email. There's no mailing list, no newsletter, and nothing automated — no mail service is connected to it at all, so your order updates live in your order history rather than your inbox. Staff can still write to you by hand from their own mail account: a reply if you message the shop, or a copy of your receipt if you ask for one.

03

What we don’t do

No selling, no sharing, no profile of you anywhere.

We don't sell your data, hand it to advertisers, or use it to build a picture of you across other sites. There is no third-party advertising network anywhere on EliteCuts, and no plan to add one.

We also don't measure you. The site carries no analytics script — nothing counts your page views, times how long you stay, or records which features you use. The sales figures on the shop's own dashboard are built from orders, not from watching you browse.

04

Third parties

Four services power the site. Each one sees only what it needs.

ServiceWhat it seesRole
  • StripeTest-mode payment flows only — no real card is ever charged.Role: Payments
  • MongoDB AtlasYour account record, orders, reviews and messages.Role: Database
  • CloudinaryProduct photography. No customer data.Role: Images
  • VercelRequests to the site, which means your IP address reaches their logs the way it would with any host.Role: Hosting
05

Cookies and local storage

Sign-in needs cookies. Your cart never did.

Signing in sets cookies that keep you signed in and protect the sign-in form itself. Those are the only cookies this site sets. We set no tracking, advertising, or analytics cookies — which is why you have never seen a cookie banner here.

Your cart isn't a cookie. Before you sign in it sits in your own browser's local storage and never leaves your device; once you sign in it moves to your account so it follows you between devices. A couple of small preferences live in that same browser storage — how long your cart has been open, and which table columns an admin has hidden.

Clearing your browser data clears all of it.

06

Your choices

Edit or close your account yourself — and here’s exactly what closing it leaves behind.

Edit anything

Your name, email, phone, pickup addresses and saved cards are all yours to change, and any saved cut can be unsaved.

Profile page

Close your account

Hidden from the site straight away, then erased 30 days later. No exit survey, no retention offer.

Profile → Delete

Change your mind

Sign back in during those 30 days and the deletion is cancelled — your account comes back untouched.

Any sign-in

Deleting an account isn't a clean wipe, and it's worth being straight about why. Past orders stay on the shop's books with the name, email and phone that were on them, because a sales record belongs to the shop as much as to you. Reviews and messages you wrote stay published under your name, detached from any account. And one line recording that the deletion happened — with your email on it — is kept so the action can be audited afterwards.

Everything else goes: the account itself, your cart, your saved cards, your saved cuts, your rewards balance and points history, your notifications, and the record of which reviews you marked helpful.

One thing you don't have to do anything to trigger: if you don't sign in for 18 months, the account is flagged as dormant. If it's still untouched 30 days after that, it enters the same deletion process described above, and is erased 30 days later. Signing in — or placing an order — at any point along the way clears the flag and stops the clock.

Privacy questions?

Ask and you'll get a real answer — or email hello@elitecuts.com. The Terms cover the rest of the ground rules.

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