Privacy
This page explains, in plain words, what personal data cowboymachines.com processes and why. The site is run by Tuul UG, Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 15, 14482 Potsdam, Germany, which is the controller under Art. 4 (7) GDPR. Questions about your data: hello@cowboymachines.com.
The short version
- No tracking cookies. No analytics. No ads.
- If you leave your email, we use it to tell you about Cowboy Machines: when Trick-E is ready and when new stories come out. Nothing else.
- Write to hello@cowboymachines.com and we'll delete your data.
The sign-up form
When you send the form we store: your email address, the country you chose, whether you're here as a parent or developer (if you said), what you're interested in (if you ticked anything), your browser's language setting, the page you signed up on, and when you signed up and ticked the box agreeing to hear from us, together with the exact wording of that box. We keep this so we can write to you about Cowboy Machines, in your language where we can, and so we can show that you asked us to.
The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6 (1) a GDPR). You can withdraw it any time, with effect for the future, through the unsubscribe link in any email we send or by writing to us. We keep your sign-up until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it.
To stop automated spam, the form also counts how often it is sent from one connection. For that we keep a one-way, salted hash of your IP address that changes every day; it can't be turned back into your address and is deleted after an hour. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in keeping the form working (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR).
To preselect your country, the page asks our server which country your connection comes from. That answer comes from Cloudflare's network, is not stored, and you can change it.
Visiting the site
When you open a page, your browser sends technical data such as your IP address, the page requested, time, and browser type. Our host needs this to deliver the site and keep it secure (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR). We don't build profiles from it.
The site uses no cookies and no third-party trackers. Fonts are served from our own server, not Google's. If you use the comic reader, your browser remembers locally (in its own storage, on your device) the page you stopped at. That data never leaves your device.
Who processes data for us
The site, its server code and the sign-up database run on Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA), which acts as our processor under Art. 28 GDPR. Cloudflare may process data outside the EU; transfers are covered by the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, under which Cloudflare is certified, and by the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. When we write to you, we use an email service that also acts as our processor. We don't sell or rent your data, and we share it with others only where the law requires it.
Your rights
You can ask us what data we hold about you and for a copy of it, and ask us to correct, delete or restrict it. Where processing is based on consent you can withdraw it; where it is based on our legitimate interests you can object to it (Art. 21 GDPR). You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority, for example the one where you live.
Contact
Tuul UGMarlene-Dietrich-Allee 15
14482 Potsdam
Germany
hello@cowboymachines.com
Last updated: 8 October 2026