Privacy Policy

Scioto Digital LLC

Effective Date: July 30, 2026 Version: 2.0 (entity-wide)

This policy covers all Scioto Digital LLC properties and services, including the applications at scioto.digital and tools.sciotodigital.com, and the company website at sciotodigital.com.

Summary

Scioto Digital is an information technology solutions company. We build software for our community, and we deliver services to our clients. Those two areas of work handle information differently, and this policy covers both.

Our applications do not collect your personal information. No accounts. No tracking. No ads. Everything you do in them stays on your device, in your browser's localStorage. The single exception is a share link, which you create only when you choose to.

Our company website is a conventional business website. It uses standard web analytics, and when you contact us through it, we receive what you send us.

That is the whole picture. The sections below explain each in detail.

Section A: The Applications

This section covers: PULSE, Empire Roadmap, and COMMAND, at scioto.digital and tools.sciotodigital.com.

A1. What We Do Not Collect

We do not collect, store, or process:

Names, email addresses, or any personal identifiers
Location data. PULSE uses a fixed Columbus, Ohio metropolitan configuration and does not access your device GPS or location services
Financial information. Empire Roadmap calculations run entirely in your browser. Salary, pension, and projection inputs never leave your device
Task or project data. COMMAND stores everything in your browser's localStorage
Usage analytics or behavioral tracking data
Cookies for tracking or advertising purposes

There are no user accounts, logins, or registration of any kind in the applications.

A2. What Is Stored, and Where

All three applications use your browser's localStorage to save preferences and data. This storage lives entirely on your device and is never transmitted to Scioto Digital.

PULSE stores your anchor zones, notification preferences, display settings, and onboarding status. Keys are prefixed sd_pulse_.
Empire Roadmap stores your most recent scenario inputs, including salary range, step, retirement parameters, and deferred compensation settings. Keys are prefixed sd_empire_.
COMMAND stores your tasks, board preferences, and schema version. Keys are prefixed sd_command_.
Shared preferences such as theme and font size are stored under sd_theme and sd_font_size.

You can clear all stored data at any time by clearing your browser's localStorage for the application domain, or by using the reset functions inside each application. Clearing browser data, switching browsers or devices, or using private browsing mode will remove this data.

A3. Share Links

Empire Roadmap and COMMAND let you generate a link that reproduces your current scenario or board. This is the one place where application data leaves your device, and it happens only when you choose to create a link.

What happens: your application state is compressed and stored on a Redis server operated by Upstash as a short code. The stored value contains only the configuration values needed to rebuild the scenario. It contains no names, no account identifiers, and no device information.

How long: short codes expire automatically after 365 days. They are not associated with any user identity.

What you should know: anyone who has the link can open the scenario. Treat a share link the way you would treat any link you send to another person. Do not include information in a scenario that you would not want a recipient to see.

If a share link cannot be created, the application falls back to a longer link that carries the same compressed data in the URL itself. In that case nothing is stored on our side at all.

A4. Third Parties Involved in the Applications

Hosting. The applications are hosted on Vercel. Vercel may collect standard server logs, including IP addresses, request timestamps, and user agent strings, as part of normal web hosting. Scioto Digital does not access or use these logs to identify or track individual users. See Vercel's privacy policy at https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Short link storage. Share codes are stored with Upstash as described in A3.

Data feeds, proxied. PULSE aggregates publicly available information. These requests are made by our own serverless functions, which means your browser does not contact these sources directly and no information about you is sent to them. Current sources include the National Weather Service, the Ohio Department of Transportation (OHGO), Ticketmaster, the Columbus Metropolitan Library, and publicly published Ohio State University calendars.

Data feeds, local. Some PULSE information, including curated festival listings and Ohio holidays, is bundled with the application and involves no external request at all.

Map tiles, direct. PULSE displays map tiles served by OpenFreeMap. These tile requests are made by your browser directly to OpenFreeMap rather than through our servers, which means OpenFreeMap receives your IP address and standard browser request information. Scioto Digital does not receive or store this information.

A5. Your Controls

Because application data stays in your browser, you hold it directly:

View it. Open your browser developer tools, then Application, then Local Storage, then the application domain.
Delete it. Clear localStorage for the site, or use the in-application reset functions.
Prevent it from persisting. Use private browsing mode. Preferences and tasks will not carry between sessions.

No deletion request to Scioto Digital is necessary for application data, because we do not hold it.

Section B: The Company Website and Our Services

This section covers:sciotodigital.com, and information we receive when you contact us or engage us for paid work.

B1. The Website Platform

The company website is built and hosted on Squarespace. Squarespace collects standard website analytics on our behalf, including pages visited, referring sites, approximate geographic region, device and browser type, and time spent on the site. Squarespace sets cookies to support these functions.

We use this information to understand which parts of the site are useful and to improve them. We do not use it to build advertising profiles, and we do not run advertising on the site. See Squarespace's privacy policy at https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

You can limit cookies through your browser settings. Some site functions may not work correctly if you do.

B2. When You Contact Us

If you submit a contact form, send an email, or otherwise reach out, we receive what you choose to send. That typically includes your name, your email address, and the content of your message, and may include your organization, phone number, or a description of your project.

We use this only to respond to you and to evaluate whether Scioto Digital is a fit for what you need. We do not sell it, rent it, or share it for marketing purposes. We retain inquiry correspondence for our business records.

We do not currently operate a marketing email list. If we start one, it will be opt in and it will include an unsubscribe link in every message.

B3. When You Engage Us for Paid Work

When you become a client, we will request and retain additional information related to your purchase and the services rendered. Depending on the engagement, this may include billing and contact details, project requirements and business context, and access to systems, accounts, or data that we need in order to perform the work.

Client information is handled under the signed services agreement between us, which governs confidentiality, ownership, and handling in more detail than this policy does. In the event of a conflict between this policy and a signed services agreement, the signed agreement controls for that client relationship.

Where we access data belonging to a client's own customers or employees, we act on the client's instructions and only for the purposes of the engagement. Handoff, retention, and deletion of that data is documented as part of the engagement.

B4. Payment

Payment for services is handled by direct invoice or through a third-party payment processor. Scioto Digital does not receive or store full payment card numbers.

The applications are free to use and there is currently no payment function in them. If that changes, this policy will be updated before any payment feature launches.

Section C: Applies Everywhere

C1. Who We Are

Scioto Digital LLC is a technology company organized in Ohio and based in Columbus, Ohio. Scioto Digital is the entity responsible for the information practices described in this policy.

Scioto Digital LLC [Mailing address] Columbus, Ohio feedback@sciotodigital.com

C2. What We Never Do

Across every Scioto Digital property:

We do not sell your personal information.
We do not share your personal information with advertisers or data brokers.
We do not use your information to build behavioral advertising profiles.
We do not run third-party advertising.

C3. Security

We use current, reputable service providers and standard protective measures, including encrypted connections across all properties. No system is perfectly secure, and we do not claim otherwise. The strongest protection in our applications is structural rather than procedural: information we never collect cannot be exposed.

C4. Children's Privacy

Our applications and website are general audience properties and are not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. The applications collect no personal information from anyone. If you believe a child has sent us personal information through the website, contact us and we will delete it.

If we introduce user accounts in the future, children's privacy requirements will be addressed at that time.

C5. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have rights under applicable privacy laws to request access to the personal information we hold about you, to request correction or deletion of it, or to object to certain uses.

Regardless of where you live, you may contact us at feedback@sciotodigital.com and we will respond. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.

For information stored in your browser by our applications, no request is needed. You already hold it and can delete it yourself, as described in A5.

C6. Changes to This Policy

We will update this policy when our practices change. The effective date at the top of this page will be revised.

Material changes, including the introduction of user accounts, server-side storage of personal information, or any payment feature in the applications, will be communicated in the applications themselves and posted here before those changes take effect.

C7. Contact

Questions or concerns about this policy: feedback@sciotodigital.com