Code Reality Labs privacy notice

Version: 1 (2026-10-27)

This notice covers the Code Reality Labs newsletter, which you can join on any of our websites, and the website coderealitylabs.com. Each product (TheAuditor, Warden, Arbiter and Curator) has its own privacy notice for the product, its license and its telemetry.

Who we are

Code Reality Labs (coderealitylabs.com, “we”) makes TheAuditor, Warden, Arbiter, Curator and BenchProctor. Questions and requests about your data: support@coderealitylabs.com.

Newsletter

What we collect when you sign up:

• Your email address.
• When you signed up, and when you confirmed.
• Which of our websites the form was on, which your browser tells Buttondown when you send the form.
• Buttondown sees your IP address when you send the form, as any website does, and may use it to stop automated signups.

Why: to send you the newsletter you asked for. Buttondown first emails you a link to confirm, so no one can sign up an address that is not theirs. You can withdraw at any time by unsubscribing.

What we send: news about launches and major releases of our products, only when something real ships. We do not track whether you open our emails or which links you click.

Unsubscribing: every email has an unsubscribe link. After you unsubscribe, we keep your address marked as unsubscribed only so that we never email it again, unless you ask us to delete it completely.

Replies: if you reply to a newsletter email, your reply reaches our inbox and we keep it as long as we need it to answer you.

This website

We set no cookies on coderealitylabs.com and use no analytics or advertising.

• Hostinger, our web host, keeps standard server logs of requests: the IP address, the page asked for, and the time.
• The page asks our status server (api.coderealitylabs.com) whether our services are running. That server logs the IP address and the time of the request.
• The Sponsor button in the footer is loaded from GitHub, so GitHub sees your IP address and browser details when the page loads, under GitHub’s own privacy statement.

Why we may use it

• The newsletter: your consent, given when you sign up and confirm.
• Server logs: our legitimate interest in keeping our websites and servers running and safe from abuse.

Who else handles it

• Buttondown (buttondown.com) keeps the newsletter list and sends the emails.
• Google (google.com) hosts our email inbox.
• Hostinger (hostinger.com) hosts our websites.
• GitHub (github.com) serves the Sponsor button.
• Our status server runs on a virtual private server rented from a hosting provider.

These providers may process data outside your country, including in the United States and the European Union. We do not sell your data and do not use it for advertising.

How long we keep it

• Newsletter: until you unsubscribe; after that, only the unsubscribed mark, until you ask us to delete it.
• Replies to the newsletter: as long as we need them to answer you.
• Our status server’s logs with IP addresses: at most 30 days.
• Hostinger’s server logs: as long as Hostinger keeps them.

Children

The newsletter and our websites are not meant for anyone under 16. Do not sign up a child’s address.

Security

We protect what we hold with reasonable measures, but no system is perfectly secure.

Your rights

You can unsubscribe at any time. You can also ask us for a copy of the data we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it, by writing to support@coderealitylabs.com from the address concerned. Where the data protection law of your country gives you more rights, or lets you complain to an authority, you have those too.

Changes

If this notice changes, the new version is published here with a new version line.