Privacy Policy
BESS.courses is a small, independent training site. We collect as little as possible, we never sell your data, and this page explains exactly what happens to anything you give us.
What we collect
- Your email address — only when you choose to submit a “Notify me” form to be told when a coming-soon course launches. Alongside it we store which course you asked about and the page you submitted from, so we can send you the right notification.
- Corporate-training inquiries — only when you choose to submit the inquiry form on the corporate page: your name, work email, an optional company name, your message, and the page you submitted from, so we can reply with a relevant proposal.
- Aggregate, anonymous usage data — we use Plausible, a cookieless, privacy-friendly analytics tool that reports only aggregate figures (page views, referring sites, and anonymous conversion counts such as “waitlist signups”). It does not identify you or build a profile.
- We do not collect anything beyond the two forms above — no phone numbers, no payment details, no special category data. Course purchases happen on Udemy under Udemy’s own privacy policy — we never see your payment information.
Why we collect it
The single purpose of the waitlist email is to notify you when the course you registered interest in becomes available, and the single purpose of a corporate inquiry is to answer it. That’s it — no newsletters you didn’t ask for, no drip campaigns.
Where it’s stored
Waitlist emails and corporate inquiries are stored in a Supabase (PostgreSQL) database with row-level security that allows the website to add an entry but not to read anything back — only the site owner can access it. The site is served over HTTPS on Cloudflare.
Legal basis & consent
We process your email on the basis of your consent, given when you submit the form. You can withdraw that consent at any time (see “Your rights” below), and doing so does not affect anything you’ve already received.
How long we keep it
We keep a waitlist email until the relevant course has launched and you’ve been notified, plus a short follow-up window — or until you ask us to delete it, whichever comes first.
Cookies & tracking
This site does not set advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. Any analytics we use is chosen specifically because it is cookieless and privacy-respecting, which is why you won’t see a cookie-consent banner.
Third parties
We rely on a small number of infrastructure providers who process data on our behalf: Cloudflare (hosting and delivery), Supabase (waitlist storage), and Udemy (where the courses are hosted and sold, under their own terms). We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with anyone for marketing.
Your rights
You can ask us what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted. Email sergey@bess.engineer and we’ll action it promptly. Depending on where you live, you may also have rights under the GDPR, UK GDPR, or similar laws; this policy is written to respect them.
Changes to this policy
If we change what we collect or how we use it, we’ll update this page and the “last updated” date above.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email sergey@bess.engineer.