Privacy

This is a one-person site selling one guide. I collect as little as I can get away with, and I do not sell or share any of it.

Who is responsible for this site

get13a.com is operated by an individual based in Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines. There is no company, no team, and no data department. Questions about anything on this page go to zachary@get13a.com and are answered by me.

What I collect, and why

What	When	Why
Your email address	When you request the free checklist or buy the guide	To deliver the file, and to send updated editions when the Bureau of Immigration changes forms, fees, or requirements.
Your name, if you give it	At checkout, or when you email me	So I can address you properly and match a refund request to an order.
Order details	When you buy	Which product, when, and how much, so I can support and refund it.
The content of emails you send me	When you write to me	To answer you. Kept in my mailbox, like any other email.
Site analytics	When you visit	Google Analytics records pages viewed, roughly where in the world visitors come from, and which site or link sent you. I use it to see which pages people actually read.
Advertising pixel	When you visit	A Reddit advertising pixel records that a visit happened. It lets me measure whether an ad I paid for sent anyone here, and to show follow-up ads to people who have visited before.

What I never collect

• Your payment details. I never see your card number, expiry, or security code. Those go directly to the payment processor.
• Anything about your immigration case. This site sells a document. It is not a service, I do not review anyone’s paperwork, and there is no reason for me to hold your passport number, visa status, marriage details, or documents. Please do not email them to me.
• Anything I would rather not be responsible for. That is the general principle here.

Who else touches your data

Running even a small site means a handful of other companies are involved. Each has its own privacy policy, and each holds only what it needs:

• Gumroad processes payments and delivers the files. They act as the seller of record, hold the payment details, and keep the order record. Your card statement will show them rather than get13a.com.
• My web host stores the site itself and keeps standard server logs, which include IP addresses, in the ordinary course of running a web server.
• My email provider holds any correspondence between us, and the list used to send the checklist and update notices.
• Google receives the analytics data described above, through Google Analytics.
• Reddit receives a record that a visit occurred, through their advertising pixel, when I am running ads.

Nobody on that list is given your data to use for their own marketing, and nothing is sold to anybody at all.

Emails I send

If you give me your email address, expect: the file you asked for, an updated edition when the guide changes materially, and occasionally a short note when something in the process changes that affects people applying. That is the whole editorial plan. There is an unsubscribe link on everything, it works immediately, and unsubscribing does not affect your access to anything you bought.

How long anything is kept

• Order records: kept while I am selling the product, because refunds, support and re-delivery all depend on them.
• Email list: kept until you unsubscribe or ask to be deleted.
• Correspondence: kept in my mailbox unless you ask me to delete it.

What you can ask me to do

Regardless of where you live, you can ask me to tell you what I hold about you, correct it, delete it, or send you a copy. Email zachary@get13a.com and I will do it. If you are in the EU or UK, these are your rights under the GDPR; if you are in California, under the CCPA. I am applying the same standard to everybody because maintaining two standards for a mailing list of this size would be absurd.

One limit worth stating: I cannot delete records that Gumroad is required to keep for tax and accounting purposes. For those, contact them directly.

Cookies

Yes, this site uses cookies, and it is worth being plain about which.

Functional. WordPress sets cookies needed to run the site. The payment processor sets its own when you go through checkout on their pages.

Analytics. Google Analytics sets cookies to tell repeat visits from new ones. This data goes to Google and is governed by their privacy policy as well as this one.

Advertising. The Reddit pixel sets a cookie so that Reddit can tell whether someone who saw one of my ads later visited this site, and so I can show follow-up ads to people who have been here. This is third-party tracking, it does follow you back to Reddit, and I would rather say so than bury it.

If you would prefer none of this, browser settings and tracker-blocking extensions stop all three, and nothing on this site breaks when you block them. Buying the guide works fine with everything blocked.

Children

This site is intended for adults dealing with their own immigration paperwork. It is not directed at children, and I do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.

Changes to this policy

If this changes in a way that matters, I will update the date below, and if the change is significant I will say so in an email rather than quietly editing the page.

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