Privacy Policy
What we store, who handles it, and how to ask us to delete it.
Last updated October 17, 2026
1. The short version
We collect as little as we can: your email address, and, if you join Pro, a few billing facts so we know who is a member. Stripe handles your card. Resend sends our emails. We do not sell your data. You can ask us to delete it at any time by emailing hello@benchsmoke.com.
2. What we store
- Newsletter: your email address when you subscribe, and whether you have unsubscribed.
- Pro membership: your email address, your Stripe customer id and subscription id, your plan (monthly or yearly), your status (for example active or canceled), whether it is set to cancel, when the current period ends, and when the record was last updated.
- Messages to us: anything you send to hello@benchsmoke.com.
We do not store your card number, card details, or billing address. We do not ask for your name.
3. Who handles your data
- Stripe processes payments for Pro and keeps its own records of your payments, under its own privacy policy. We never see your card number.
- Resend sends our emails and holds the email addresses of our subscribers and Pro members, so it can deliver them and honor unsubscribes.
- Microsoft Azure hosts this website and the small table of Pro memberships, and keeps standard server logs.
We use these companies only to run BenchSmoke. We do not sell your personal data and we do not share it for advertising.
4. This website
This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics or advertising trackers. When you join Pro, you leave our site for Stripe's hosted checkout, which has its own privacy practices.
5. Email
Every email we send has an unsubscribe link. We use your email address to send the newsletter, and, for Pro members, Pro content and messages about your membership. We do not send you third-party marketing.
6. How long we keep it
We keep newsletter and Pro records while you are a subscriber or member. After you cancel or unsubscribe we keep a minimal record only as long as we need it for billing questions, taxes, security and legal reasons, then delete it. Stripe keeps its own records for as long as the law requires.
7. Your choices, including deletion
You can ask us to see, correct or delete the data we hold about you by emailing hello@benchsmoke.com from the address in question. We will normally reply within 30 days. If you have an active Pro membership, cancel it first in the billing portal so you are not charged again. We can delete our records, but we cannot delete Stripe's records, and we may need to keep a minimal record where the law requires it. You can unsubscribe from any email with its unsubscribe link.
8. Security
We use reasonable measures to protect your data, including keeping payment details out of our systems and verifying payment notifications from Stripe. No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot promise absolute security.
9. Children
BenchSmoke is for builders and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect their data.
10. Who is responsible, changes and contact
GridLogic IT LLC, doing business as BenchSmoke, based in Jacksonville, Florida, operates BenchSmoke and decides how the data described here is used. You can reach us at hello@benchsmoke.com.
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will post it here with a new date. Questions or requests: hello@benchsmoke.com. See also the Terms.