Overview
HanzoShaft is a portfolio website for video editing, motion graphics, YouTube visuals, product edits, and creator-focused digital work. This policy explains what information may be collected when visitors browse the site, open video embeds, or submit the contact form.
Information collected through the contact form
When you submit a project brief, the form may collect your name, email address, project type, budget range, message, and anti-spam fields such as the hidden honeypot, extra bot-trap field, human check, and timing metadata. Do not submit passwords, payment details, private account credentials, government IDs, or confidential files through the form.
How the information is used
Contact form information is used to review your inquiry, respond to your message, understand the requested editing or motion service, and reduce automated spam or abuse. The website does not sell contact form submissions.
Netlify Forms
The contact form is processed by Netlify Forms because the site is hosted on Netlify. Netlify may process form data and anti-spam metadata as part of hosting, form handling, spam filtering, and site security.
YouTube embeds and external links
Video players are lazy-loaded where possible and are only loaded when a visitor chooses to open or play a video. Links may take you to YouTube, LinkedIn, Behance, GitHub, Buy Me a Coffee, or other public profile pages. Those services are separate platforms with their own privacy practices.
Cookies and analytics
This project does not include custom analytics code by default. Third-party services such as YouTube, Netlify, or linked profile platforms may use cookies, logs, or similar technologies according to their own policies.
Data retention and requests
Contact messages may be kept for as long as needed to respond to the inquiry, manage project communication, prevent abuse, or maintain basic business records. You can request deletion or correction of a message by contacting HanzoShaft and providing enough detail to identify the submission.
Security
The website uses static hosting and HTTPS through Netlify. Reasonable care is taken to avoid unnecessary data collection, but no website or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure.
Updates
This policy may be updated when the website, contact flow, hosting setup, embeds, or legal requirements change. The latest revision is also available in PRIVACY.md.