Effective 16 October 2026
Privacy Notice
This notice explains what personal information 10Kelvin LLC collects through 10kelvin.com, why we collect it, and what you can ask us to do with it.
Who we are
10Kelvin LLC, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. We are the business responsible for the personal information described here.
What we collect
This site has no accounts, no advertising and no analytics or tracking cookies. We collect personal information in only one place: the partnership inquiry form.
Information you give us. When you submit the inquiry form we receive the name, organization, email address, inquiry type and message you enter. Everything in those fields is up to you — please do not send confidential technical information through the form. Technical detail is exchanged under a non-disclosure agreement, which we will arrange before any such discussion.
Information collected automatically. When you submit the form, our server records a one-way cryptographic hash of your IP address, together with the time of submission. We use this only to limit how many submissions can come from one connection in an hour, which is how we keep the form from being abused. The hash cannot be reversed into your IP address, and we do not store the address itself.
The bot check. The inquiry form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which distinguishes people from automated scripts. To do that, Cloudflare receives your IP address and technical information about your browser, and issues a one-time token that our server checks. Cloudflare acts as our service provider for this, does not use what it sees to build an advertising profile, and Turnstile does not set tracking cookies. Their handling of it is described in Cloudflare's own privacy policy. The check runs only on the inquiry form, not elsewhere on the site.
Like almost every web server, our hosting provider keeps short-lived operational logs of requests. We do not use those logs to build a profile of you.
Why we collect it
- To read your inquiry and reply to it.
- To email you a copy of your inquiry, at the address you gave, as confirmation that it arrived.
- To carry on the resulting correspondence about a partnership, license, evaluation or media request.
- To protect the form from automated abuse.
We do not use your information for marketing unless you ask us to, and we do not add enquirers to a mailing list.
Who else sees it
Your inquiry is delivered by email directly to the people at 10Kelvin who can answer it. It is not passed to any third-party form service, marketing platform or data broker.
Three service providers necessarily handle it: the company that hosts this website, our email provider, and Cloudflare for the bot check described above. They act on our instructions and for no purpose of their own.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We may disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect our legal rights.
How long we keep it
Inquiries are kept in our mailbox for as long as the business relationship or its record reasonably requires, and are deleted when neither applies. A copy is also written to a private file on our server, which is not reachable from the web, so that a message is not lost if email delivery fails; those copies are deleted on the same basis. The rate-limiting hashes are deleted automatically one hour after they are recorded. The bot-check token is used once and not stored.
Your choices
You can ask us to give you a copy of the personal information we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it. Depending on where you live, state law may give you these rights formally, along with the right not to be treated differently for exercising them.
To make a request, use the inquiry form and say what you would like us to do. We will need enough information to be confident the request is really yours, and we will respond within the time the applicable law allows.
Children
This site is aimed at businesses and research institutions. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18.
Changes
If we change how we handle personal information, we will update this notice and change the date at the top. Material changes will be described here rather than made quietly.
Contact
Questions about this notice can be sent through the inquiry form, addressed to the attention of 10Kelvin LLC, Raleigh, North Carolina.