Legal

Privacy policy.

We collect the minimum we need to fulfill your reservation, take your money for a deposit, and reply to your email. We do not sell your data. Effective 2026-05-16; last updated 2026-09-24.

Ameka isn't taking reservations or deposits. Ameka One is in development and hasn't been built. The reservation and deposit parts of this page apply only if we open reservations in the future, and we'll update them before we do.

Plain-English summary

  • We collect name, email, country, optional org for reservations and investor inquiries.
  • Payment data goes straight to Stripe. We never see your card number.
  • We don't run ad tracking. No Google Analytics. No Facebook pixel. We count page views with a simple, cookie-free counter run by our founder's analytics service (alcock.ai).
  • We use our hosting (GitHub Pages, Vercel) to serve pages and process forms. Standard server logs are kept 30 days.
  • You can request your data, ask us to delete it, or correct it any time: legal@ameka.ai.

1. Who we are

"Ameka" means Ameka, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Pasadena, California. For privacy questions: legal@ameka.ai.

2. What we collect

Reservations

  • Name, email, country, optional studio/organisation.
  • Selected tier and reservation reference (AMK-XXXXX).
  • Stripe payment metadata (last 4, brand, billing ZIP) — we do not see your full card.

Investor inquiries

  • Name, email, optional fund/firm, LinkedIn URL.
  • Self-reported accreditation status and expected check size.
  • Free-form notes that you write.

Site visits

  • Standard server logs: IP, User-Agent, requested path, timestamp. Used to keep the site online and prevent abuse. Kept 30 days.
  • We do not set marketing cookies. We do not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, TikTok pixel, Segment, or any advertising tracker. The site uses only one functional cookie set by GitHub Pages for cache and one by Vercel for routing the API.
  • We count page views with a simple, cookie-free counter run by our founder's analytics service (alcock.ai). For each page view it records the page address and title, the referring page, your approximate country and your browser's user-agent string (browser and device type). It sets no cookies and does not store your IP address; to count a repeat visit on the same day only once, it keeps a one-way hash of your IP address and browser that changes every day. It builds no profiles and is never used for advertising.

3. Why we collect it

  • Fulfil reservations and refunds.
  • Respond to investor and press inquiries.
  • Email you Bench Notes if you subscribe.
  • Comply with US tax, KYC/AML, and export-control law.

4. Who else sees it

We share data only with the small set of vendors that help us run the business:

  • Stripe — payment processing. stripe.com/privacy.
  • GitHub (Pages) — static site hosting. GitHub privacy.
  • Vercel — API hosting. vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy.
  • Namecheap — domain registration.
  • alcock.ai — our founder's own service. It runs the page-view counter described above, and it receives what you send through our forms, with your IP address, approximate location and browser type, so the founder is notified and can reply.
  • JPMorgan Chase — banking for segregated deposit account.
  • Outside legal, tax, and accounting professionals under confidentiality obligations.
  • Law enforcement when legally compelled by a valid order.

We do not sell or rent your personal data to anyone. Ever.

5. Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us to:

  • Confirm what we hold about you.
  • Provide a portable copy.
  • Correct anything inaccurate.
  • Delete your data (unless we need it to comply with law).
  • Stop sending you marketing email (you can unsubscribe with one click).

Email legal@ameka.ai with your request. We respond within 30 days. EU/UK readers: this is your GDPR / UK-GDPR right. California readers: this is your CCPA / CPRA right. We treat these requests the same regardless of where you live.

6. Security

We follow standard practice: TLS everywhere, no plain-text password storage (we don't have accounts yet — the reservation flow does not require a password), encrypted secrets in our hosting provider, principle of least privilege on tokens.

7. Retention

  • Reservation data: kept while your reservation is active and 7 years after for tax/audit.
  • Investor inquiries: kept for as long as you remain in our investor pipeline, then deleted on request.
  • Server logs: 30 days.
  • Stripe receipts: as long as Stripe's policy requires (typically 7 years).

8. Children

Ameka does not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16. If you believe we have, email legal@ameka.ai and we will delete it.

9. Changes

We will email reservation holders if we make a material change to this policy, at least 30 days before it takes effect.

Questions? legal@ameka.ai.