Privacy policy

This policy explains in plain language how Novus Examples handles data. It describes the service as shipped; it is general information, not legal advice for your own project. The site is operated by Novus Stream Solutions, a sole proprietorship trading as Novus Stream Solutions in London, Ontario, Canada. As a Canadian operator we handle personal information in line with PIPEDA and applicable Ontario law.

What we collect

• Analytics (Google Analytics 4). We use Google Analytics to measure overall usage. It runs with Consent Mode v2. In EU/EEA/UK and unknown-timezone visits, or when Global Privacy Control is present, Analytics starts denied; elsewhere the category starts enabled, and you can turn it off on the cookie preferences page. While denied it sets no analytics cookies and may send only aggregate, cookieless signals; while enabled it can set standard analytics cookies (such as_ga). Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses: an IP is used only momentarily to derive a coarse, city-level location and is then discarded. Consent Mode also carries Google’s advertising signals (ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization); those are what the “Advertising signals” switch in cookie preferences turns on and off.
• Advertising (Mediavine). Mediavine’s Journey script tag is part of the HTML of every page on this site, this one included, so it loads on every visit. Ads are placed only where the page provides an ad position: legal, consent, security, and accessibility pages provide none, so no ad appears on them. Whether Mediavine may store or read advertising identifiers on your device is decided by Mediavine’s own consent prompt, which it shows where prior consent is required, and not by anything on this site. The switches on our cookies page cover analytics, including the Google advertising signals described above. Google AdSense and Infolinks are not loaded.
• An account, if you choose to create one. Accounts are optional: the whole library can be browsed, previewed and downloaded without one. If you sign up we store your email address, the display name you give us, whether the address has been verified, and the files you choose to save to your account. Signing in with a password stores a hashed password, never the password itself; signing in with Google stores the tokens Google issues for that link instead. Each active sign-in also records a session with its IP address and browser user-agent string, which is what lets you stay signed in and lets us shut a stolen session down. We do not use any of it for advertising, and we do not sell or share it. Delete the account from your account page and the record and its saved files go with it; sessions expire on their own. Email is used only to verify an address, reset a password, and answer you.
• Contact you send us. If you email us or submit a form, we receive whatever you choose to include. The on-site form currently posts to a demo endpoint that stores nothing; email is the real channel.
• Server logs. Our host keeps standard technical logs (IP address, timestamp, request) for security and reliability.

Files, editors, and local creation

Catalog downloads are static files. Text, form, document, and visual editing happens on your device. The synthetic audio and video workspaces do not request a camera or microphone, accept an upload, create an account, or send source media to a Novus server. After you press Generate, the browser loads the required first-party worker and, where selected, a pinned WebAssembly encoder bundle. Generated bytes remain in browser memory until you download, cancel, retry, replace, or close the page.

Optional local conveniences also stay on this device: Form and Document Studio drafts use local storage; Visual Studio can keep selected image assets in IndexedDB; Browse can retain one versioned local collection; and blog or documentation feedback remembers only whether you selected yes or no. None of that content is synced to us. Clear it in the relevant workspace or clear this site's browser data to remove it. The exact storage names are listed in the cookie and storage policy.

What we don't do

• No account requirement: nothing in the library is behind a sign-in, and an account is needed only to save files to one.
• No file-upload endpoint and no server-side media processing.
• No camera, microphone, geolocation, or display-capture permission.
• No selling or sharing of personal data.
• No first-party advertising identifier: no cookie or other storage this site sets on your device identifies you to an advertiser or follows you between sites. Two first-party cookies do carry advertising decisions rather than identities and are listed by name in the cookie policy: nx_consent, which remembers whether Consent Mode may send Google’s advertising signals, and nss_ads_optout, which records a decision not to request ads, shared by the Novus sites on novusstreamsolutions.com. To be exact about that second one: on this site it currently suppresses nothing, because advertising here is placed by Mediavine from a script tag in the page’s HTML. It does still stop the other Novus sites on that domain asking an ad network for an ad. It never reaches Sonic Weaver, which is on its own domain at sonicweaver.com.

Your choices

You control non-essential categories from the cookie preferences page, which also lists every cookie by name. EU/EEA/UK and unknown-timezone visits begin with non-essential categories off; most other visits (including Canada) begin with them on, with no prompt on arrival. Your saved choice and Global Privacy Control override that starting state, and you can disable either category at any time. Those switches govern Google Analytics and its advertising signals; Mediavine’s advertising is controlled from Mediavine’s own consent prompt, which the same page can reopen for you wherever Mediavine is collecting that answer. See the cookie policy and terms of use for more.

How Google uses data, and opting out

When Analytics is enabled, Google processes usage data as described in Google's privacy policy and how Google uses information from sites that use its services. Beyond withdrawing consent here, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on to block Analytics on every site.

Data retention

• Analytics: Google retains event-level Analytics data for up to 14 months, then aggregates it.
• Account: kept until you delete the account, which removes the record and the files saved to it. Sign-in sessions expire on their own, and password-reset and email-verification links expire shortly after they are issued.
• Server logs: standard technical logs are kept for a short period for security and reliability.
• Consent choice: stored in your browser only (see the cookie policy), never on our servers.
• Local drafts, collections, assets, and feedback: retained on this device until you clear them.
• Generated audio/video: kept in memory for the current page session and released when the job or page ends.
• Offline app shell: if you use the installable Progressive Web App, your browser may cache a small set of first-party pages for offline chrome; downloads and ad/analytics scripts are not cached that way.

Children

This site is a general-audience fixture library and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us and we will delete anything we hold.

Who we are & where the site runs

This site is operated by Novus Stream Solutions, a sole proprietorship trading as Novus Stream Solutions in London, Ontario, Canada. It is hosted on Vercel, which keeps standard technical logs to serve requests. The library itself is static: every catalogue page is built ahead of time and reading one involves no database at all. The optional account features are the exception, and they are the only part of the site that stores anything about you on our servers — sign-in, your profile and your saved files use a hosted Turso (libSQL) database. If you never create an account, nothing about you is written to it.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the site changes; the “last reviewed” date above reflects the latest revision. Material changes will be reflected here.

Contact

Questions about privacy, including access or correction requests under PIPEDA? Email examples@novusstreamsolutions.com. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.