Privacy notice
Your information.
Handled with care.
Last updated October 18, 2026.
About this notice
AriKarter Digital Studio is a San Diego-based website design and maintenance business. This notice describes information handled when you browse this website, contact the studio or use the AI Concierge. For privacy questions, email AriKarter@outlook.com.
Project inquiries and email
When you submit an inquiry, we receive your name, business name, email address, industry, project message and any optional website URL, package choice, AI Concierge interest or concept reference you provide. We use this information to respond, understand your project and discuss an agreed scope. Form submissions are delivered through Cloudflare’s email service to the studio’s Microsoft Outlook inbox. Direct emails are also handled by Microsoft Outlook. Please do not send passwords, payment details or other sensitive personal information through the form or chat.
AI Concierge
The optional chat sends your message and recent conversation context to our server and Cloudflare Workers AI to generate a response using studio information. The conversation is held in the open page’s memory; the website does not save a persistent chat transcript in your browser. Our application does not store message content in its quota records or intentionally log prompts or replies. Cloudflare processes requests to provide the service and may handle technical service data under its own policies. AI answers may be inaccurate; confirm project scope and pricing with the studio.
Security and technical information
Cloudflare hosts and protects the website. Its services process request and network information, including IP addresses, to deliver pages, detect abuse and operate security checks. The inquiry form uses Cloudflare Turnstile. Our application uses a protected hash derived from an IP address for rate limiting; the chat quota records contain identifiers, counters and timestamps rather than conversation text. Application logs record submission references and outcome categories, not form field contents. Platform logs and traces may contain technical request information.
Analytics and browser storage
The live website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics for traffic and performance information. Google Analytics is not connected. We have not added advertising or marketing tracking. Security services may use browser storage or similar mechanisms to provide their protections. The inquiry draft and chat state are held in page memory rather than intentionally saved as a persistent customer profile. External sites opened through links apply their own privacy and storage practices.
Service providers and sharing
Information is processed by Cloudflare for hosting, security, email delivery and AI responses, and by Microsoft for the studio’s email inbox. These providers may process information outside your location under their own service terms and privacy policies. We use submitted details to handle your request and operate the website; the current site has no advertising data-sharing integration. These providers also apply their own retention and disclosure policies.
Inquiry retention
Our policy is to delete project inquiries that do not become client projects after six months without further contact. The six-month period starts from the most recent project-related exchange with you, rather than the original submission date. Deletion is carried out during monthly mailbox reviews, so it may occur at the next review after the six-month period ends. We may retain relevant information longer when needed for an ongoing request, a dispute or an applicable legal obligation. Email providers may retain recoverable or backup copies under their own policies.
Client records
The six-month unsuccessful-inquiry rule does not apply to active client work, contracts, invoices or other records needed to deliver services, maintain accounts or meet applicable tax and legal obligations. We review these records separately and retain them for the purposes that still apply. Retention depends on the record and relevant obligations; it is not an indefinite default for every client message.
Chat and security records
The inquiry email schedule does not extend the storage of chat or security information. The website does not maintain a persistent application transcript of chat messages. Visitor-level chat quota identifiers expire within short rate-limit windows and are cleared during subsequent requests or scheduled cleanup. Aggregate usage counters and provider technical logs follow separate operational lifecycles. Cloudflare and Microsoft also apply their own retention practices; the six-month mailbox policy is not a promise to erase every provider record on that date.
Access, correction and deletion
You can email the studio to request access, correction or deletion of information you submitted. We will review the request, verify it where needed and explain any information we need to retain. Please identify the relevant inquiry or project without sending unnecessary sensitive information.
Your choices and contact
You can browse without sending an inquiry and can close or reset the AI Concierge. To avoid sending information to the AI service, use email or the project inquiry form instead. For questions about this notice or a privacy request, contact AriKarter@outlook.com and describe the request without including unnecessary sensitive information. We may update this notice as our practices change. The current version will be available on this page.