Privacy Policy

This website is operated by Ariston LLC, a limited liability company registered in Wyoming, USA (registered address: 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA), trading as Ariston Studios, a digital production studio. For any privacy-related question, you can reach us at [email protected].

Information you give us directly, through:

• The contact form — your name, email address, company, the service you're enquiring about, and your project brief.
• The free website audit tool — your name, email address, and the website URL you submit for analysis.

Website analytics. With your permission we use Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager, to see how visitors use this site (pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser). With the same permission we use Microsoft Clarity (Microsoft), which records anonymised sessions and heatmaps — clicks, scrolling and mouse movement, with form fields masked — to show us where visitors get stuck; it sets cookies and shares this data with Microsoft as our processor. On the European site nothing is stored in your browser until you click “Accept” in the cookie banner; on the US site you can opt out the same way. You can change your choice at any time via “Cookie settings” in the footer or on the Cookies page. We also count visits with Plausible Analytics, which uses no cookies, stores nothing on your device and collects no personal data: visits are counted anonymously (page, referring site, country, device type), so it runs without asking. If the site hits a technical error, Sentry receives an error report (the page, the error, your browser and operating system) so we can fix it — without your IP address, cookies or anything you typed. Apart from this, we only receive what your browser sends with a normal page request (for security and hosting).

• To respond to enquiries submitted through the contact form.
• To generate and email you the website audit report you requested, and to follow up about it.
• To keep a record of prospective client conversations for our own reference.

When you submit a form, the information is sent by email to our studio inbox using Resend, our email delivery provider, and — where you've requested an audit — an automated summary may be generated using Anthropic's Claude based on publicly available performance data for the URL you submitted. Your contact details, your message, the page and source you came from, and any call you book are also recorded in HubSpot, the customer-relationship platform we use for follow-ups (EU data centre). We keep this record for as long as we need it to follow up and maintain the relationship, and delete it on request.

We don't sell, rent, or trade your personal information to anyone, for any reason.

We retain enquiry and audit-request emails for as long as is reasonably necessary to respond to you and maintain a record of the relationship — typically no longer than is needed for that purpose, or as required by law (for example, tax and accounting obligations for any resulting business relationship).

If you're in the EU/EEA or UK, you have rights under the GDPR / UK GDPR, including the right to:

• Ask what personal data we hold about you.
• Ask us to correct or delete it.
• Object to or restrict how we use it.
• Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

To exercise any of these, just email [email protected] — we'll respond within a reasonable timeframe.

We use a small number of trusted service providers to run this website and respond to enquiries — currently Resend (email delivery), HubSpot (customer-relationship management, EU data centre), Anthropic (AI-generated audit summaries), Plausible (cookieless visit statistics, EU-hosted), Sentry (error monitoring) and Google (Google Analytics and Tag Manager) and Microsoft (Clarity), both only with your consent. If you choose to book a discovery call, the scheduling calendar is provided by Cal.com; it is only loaded after you click "Pick a time", and Cal.com then receives the details you enter and may set cookies under its own privacy policy. Each processes data only to the extent necessary to provide their service to us, under their own privacy and security commitments.

We may update this policy occasionally to reflect changes in how the site works or in applicable law. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised.