Privacy

PRIVACY POLICY

Effective as of October 20, 2026 Last Updated: October 20, 2026

Statement of Privacy

This Statement of Privacy applies to tofua.org ("the Site") and Microcosm Media, LLC and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Microcosm Media, LLC include tofua.org, pedrotofua.org, related newsletters, podcasts, books, gatherings, and other media (collectively, the "Services").

The Site is a digital media platform operated by Microcosm Media, LLC. By using the Site or subscribing to any of its email newsletters, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of Your Personal Information

Information You Provide

Access to our free newsletters requires only a working email address. Access to paid memberships, gatherings, or other services may include additional information as detailed below.

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, the Site may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

First and Last Name
E-mail Address
Phone Number
Birthday/Birth Date/Time
Preferences
Gender

For In-Person Gatherings: If you apply for or attend an in-person gathering, we may collect additional information necessary for event coordination and safety, including:

Emergency contact information
Dietary needs and restrictions
Location/lodging information
Health or accessibility information relevant to participation

If you purchase products, paid media, or services, we collect billing and credit card information via Stripe, our payment partner. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. This information is recorded by them—not us.

Anonymous Demographic Information

The Site may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:

Age
Gender

Interaction Data

When you interact with our newsletter or website content, we may receive anonymous information about your interactions from our third-party providers. This information includes:

Geographic Location
Time Zone
Type of interaction (email click or open; number of opens; number of clicks; links or buttons clicked)

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by the Site. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site.

Use of Your Personal Information

The Site collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.

The Site does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.

The Site may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.

The Site may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Site, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The Site may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Site; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site, or the public.

Service Providers

We use third-party service providers to operate certain aspects of our Services:

Ghost for website hosting and newsletter delivery (which may utilize Mailgun for email transmission)
Stripe for payment processing
Flodesk for email marketing (transitioning away)
Substack for newsletter distribution (future)

These providers have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but may not use it for other purposes.

Tracking User Behavior

The Site may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within the Site, or emails newsletter subscribers open, or links within emails newsletter subscribers click, in order to determine what services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within the Site to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Use of Cookies

The Site may use "cookies" to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. When you return to the same Site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the services or websites you visit.

Links

This website and newsletters contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security of Your Personal Information

The Site secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Site uses the following methods for this purpose:

SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Right to Deletion

Deletion requests apply to the properties owned by Microcosm Media, LLC, but not necessarily any other properties or domains. Please send an individual request for each, and specify the platform you are inquiring about. Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

Delete your personal information from our records; and
Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
Honor an existing subscription. Please ensure you have unsubscribed completely prior to making any personal information deletion requests;
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise her or his right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Thirteen

The Site does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Age Restrictions:

Online content and newsletters: Users must be 14 years or older. Users aged 14-17 must have parental or guardian consent.
In-person gatherings: Participants must be 18 years or older.

The Site targets its content and advertising to individuals over the age of 18.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, the Site may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from the Site or click on a link therein.

In addition, the Site maintains email newsletters you may subscribe to.

If you would like to stop receiving newsletters, marketing or promotional communications via email from the Site, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the unsubscribe button.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to This Statement

The Site reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

If you have questions about this policy or wish to request a copy of or make updates to your personal information collected by the Site, please contact us at soulstice@soulstice.club.