Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

Offbeat Inc. operates offbeatinc.com — a website providing DJ gear, software, setup, and music production buying guides. We're a small independent company based in South Carolina.

2. Affiliate Disclosure

This site participates in affiliate marketing programs. Some links on this website are affiliate links, meaning we may earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase — at no additional cost to you. We only recommend products and services we've researched and believe are genuinely useful.

Affiliate links are marked with rel="sponsored" where appropriate. Affiliate relationships do not control our editorial conclusions, rankings, or criticism.

3. Information We Collect

We collect minimal data. Specifically:

• No personal accounts: We do not require you to create an account or log in.
• Analytics: We may use privacy-respecting analytics (such as Cloudflare Web Analytics) to understand traffic patterns. No personal identifiers are collected.
• Cookies: This site does not use tracking cookies. Third-party affiliate links may set cookies on their respective domains — see each program's privacy policy for details.
• Contact forms: If we add a contact form, any information you submit is used only to respond to your message and is not shared or sold.

Quick, practical summary: the table below explains what data may be involved when you browse this site, why it exists, where it lives, and how to minimize or opt out. If something in your browser or a third-party site behaves differently than described here, the third-party site's policy will control their behavior.

Note: like most websites, basic hosting/edge infrastructure can log request metadata for security and reliability. We do not use those logs to identify individual visitors.

4. What We Do Not Do

To keep this straightforward and user-friendly, here are a few things we intentionally avoid:

• No user profiles: we don’t build a profile about you across visits.
• No on-site tracking cookies: we don’t set advertising pixels or behavioral tracking cookies on offbeatinc.com.
• No sale of personal data: we don’t sell, rent, or trade personal information.

5. Third-Party Services & Links

This site may link to or reference third-party services including:

• Retailers, manufacturers, software platforms, and affiliate networks used for product links
• Google Fonts (for typography) — governed by Google's privacy policy
• GitHub Pages / Cloudflare Pages (site hosting)

When you click an outgoing link, you are leaving our website and the third-party site’s privacy policy applies. Third parties may have their own cookies, log retention, and analytics. We encourage you to read their policies if you have concerns.

Tip: if you prefer to avoid affiliate cookies entirely, you can copy the product name and search it directly rather than following an affiliate link.

6. How We Use AI-Assisted Tools

Some content may be drafted or organized with AI-assisted tools, then reviewed before publishing. These tools do not collect visitor data and are not connected to the public-facing website.

7. Your Choices & Rights

Because we collect minimal personal data, there is generally little or nothing for us to delete or correct. Still, we take requests seriously and will help where we can.

• Opt out / minimize: use your browser’s tracking protections, block third-party scripts, and manage cookies. Avoid clicking outgoing affiliate links if you prefer not to be eligible for affiliate attribution.
• Request deletion or correction: contact us and describe what you want removed or corrected. If it’s within our control, we’ll act promptly.
• Third-party data: if the data is held by a retailer, affiliate network, or analytics provider, we may not have direct access. In that case we can point you to the correct place to make the request.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as the site evolves. The "last updated" date at the top of this page will reflect any changes. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance.

9. Contact

Questions about this privacy policy? Reach us via the GitHub profile linked in the footer.

10. Data Retention & Security

We keep data retention simple: if we don’t need something to operate the site or respond to you, we don’t try to collect it.

If you contact us directly, we retain the message thread long enough to respond and handle follow-ups, and we delete it on request when it’s practical to do so.

We use reasonable safeguards appropriate for a small informational website, such as keeping the public site static, limiting the number of third-party scripts we load, and keeping links and embeds simple. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, so we can’t guarantee absolute security.

• Data minimization: we prefer aggregated analytics (if enabled) over personal identifiers.
• Third-party caution: outbound links may have their own tracking; we avoid embedding third-party widgets unnecessarily.
• Practical deletion: if you send us information you want removed, tell us what it is and where you sent it, and we’ll do our best to delete it.

Browsing with minimal tracking: if you want the strictest approach, these are practical steps that work on most modern browsers:

• Use a private/incognito window for shopping sessions.
• Block third-party cookies, then clear cookies/site data for retailers if needed.
• Use built-in tracking protection (or a reputable content blocker) to reduce third-party scripts.
• Prefer copying product names and searching directly rather than clicking outgoing links.