Field manual · Data protection

PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 2 August 2026

Short version: the only personal data this site touches is the email address you volunteer for the waitlist. No cookies, no third-party requests, no tracking. Everything runs on our own server in the EU. The details follow.

01 · Controller

WHO WE ARE

Operation Steel is a product of Steuber Design, a sole proprietorship registered in the Netherlands. Steuber Design is the data controller for everything described on this page.

Steuber Design · Winterswijkseweg 66, 7141 LA Groenlo, the Netherlands · Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KVK) no. 09162322

Questions, requests or complaints about your data: email steuberdesign@gmail.com. We answer every message ourselves — there is no department to get lost in.

02 · Processing

WHAT WE PROCESS AND WHY

THE WAITLIST

When you sign up for the waitlist, we store exactly two things: your email address and the UTC timestamp of your signup. Nothing else — no IP address, no name, no device data.

Data stored
Email address + UTC signup timestamp
Purpose
Messages about the launch and your founder discount
Storage
SQLite database on our own server (EU)
Shared with
Nobody. No third parties, no profiling, no automated decision-making

Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link. You can also ask us to delete your address at any time by emailing us.

ANALYTICS

We measure visits with a self-hosted Plausible CE instance running on the same infrastructure as this site. It works without cookies and stores no personal data: your IP address and user agent are used only transiently to compute a visitor hash that changes every day, and are never written to disk. There is no tracking across other websites, and analytics data never leaves our own server.

04 · Retention

HOW LONG WE KEEP IT

We keep your email address until you unsubscribe. Independently of that, the entire waitlist is deleted no later than 12 months after the launch campaign.

Analytics retains no personal data at all, so there is nothing to keep or delete on that front.

05 · Location

WHERE YOUR DATA LIVES

Everything — this website, the waitlist database and the analytics instance — runs on our own server hosted at Hostinger, physically located in Germany (EU). Hostinger acts as our processor in its role as hosting provider.

The page itself is self-contained: fonts and the analytics script are served from our own domain, and your browser makes no requests to third parties when you visit this site.

06 · Your rights

YOUR RIGHTS

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

To exercise any of these, email steuberdesign@gmail.com. Given that we only hold your email address and a timestamp, most requests are handled by simply deleting the row.

If you believe we're handling your data unlawfully, you can lodge a complaint with the Dutch supervisory authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens: autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl.

07 · Cookies

NO COOKIES

This site uses no cookies and no localStorage. That's also why there is no cookie banner: there is nothing to consent to.

08 · Changes

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

When the Operation Steel app launches, things will change: there will be user accounts, and — only with a separate, explicit consent checkbox — health-related data such as weight, height and training goal. This policy will be revised before that happens.

Any updated version will be published on this page with a new "last updated" date. For now, what you've just read is the complete picture.