Privacy policy
Casa is a plugin for Obsidian that turns your vault into a pixel room. It is built so that your notes stay on your computer. This page explains what data is involved and where it goes.
Who is responsible
Casa is made by Adriano Fontanari, an independent developer in Italy. You can reach him through adrianofontanari.com.
This website
This page sets no cookies of its own and loads no fonts or scripts from other services, except Google Analytics if you accept it (see Analytics and cookies). It has one form, to join the packs waiting list (see below). The service that hosts it keeps standard technical logs, such as IP address and time of request, to run and protect the site. That is the only personal data involved in visiting, kept by the host for its usual retention period, on the basis of the legitimate interest in running a secure website.
Analytics and cookies
This website can count visits with Google Analytics 4, a service of Google Ireland Limited, with Google LLC (USA) as its parent company. It runs only after you click Accept on the cookie banner. Before you choose, and if you click Reject or close the banner with the X, Google Analytics is not loaded at all and no request goes to Google.
- What is collected: the pages you view, the site you came from, clicks on the Download buttons, whether you saw or used the waiting list pop-up and which packs you ticked in the form (never your email address), plus your device type, browser, screen size and approximate location (country and city). Google states that Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. Google signals and ad personalisation are off, and advertising storage is always denied.
- Why: to know how many people visit, download Casa and join the waiting list. The basis is your consent.
- How long: Google Analytics keeps this data for the retention period set in the property: 2 months, Google's default.
- Transfers: Google LLC may process the data in the United States. That transfer relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, under which Google LLC is certified.
- Change your mind: open Cookie settings (also at the bottom of the Casa page) and click Reject. Nothing more is sent, and the Google Analytics cookies are deleted. Your choice is remembered for 6 months; after that the banner asks again.
| Name | Kind | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Cookie, Google Analytics, only after Accept | Tells visitors apart with a random ID, to count them. | 2 years |
_ga_<ID> | Cookie, Google Analytics, only after Accept | Keeps the state of your visit (session). <ID> is this site's measurement ID. | 2 years |
casa-consent | Browser storage, technical | Remembers your cookie choice. Stays in your browser, never sent. | 6 months |
casa-waitlist-pop | Browser storage, technical | Remembers that the waiting list pop-up was shown, so it is not shown again. Stays in your browser, never sent. | Until you clear it |
The Casa plugin
- Your notes never leave your computer. Casa reads your vault locally. There is no Casa account, no cloud copy and no telemetry.
- Weather: Casa sends the city you set to Open-Meteo to get the forecast. Like any web request, Open-Meteo also sees your IP address.
- Air quality and webcam: the air quality also comes from Open-Meteo for the city you set, or from your own sensor's link if you paste one. The window's webcam picture is fetched from the webcam's own site (a NOAA buoy camera off San Francisco by default, or any webcam image link you paste), which sees your IP address.
- Music: the lofi songs stream from the GitHub releases of Casa's public repository, only when you press play; GitHub sees your IP address. The ambient sounds are made on your computer.
- Calendar: if you paste a private calendar link (ICS), Casa reads it straight from your calendar provider. The link stays in your vault's settings.
- Packs: they are not on sale yet, so there is no licence check.
- Claude (optional): Casa needs no AI. If you choose to ask your own Claude to make a new object, that request goes from your Claude account under Anthropic's terms, not through Casa.
Packs waiting list
If you leave your email to hear when the packs are out, your address and the packs you ticked are stored with Brevo, a French email service, on Adriano's account. You confirm your address by email before it is added. It is used for one thing only: to tell you when the packs you ticked are out. The basis is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time with the unsubscribe link in every email or by writing to the contact above. Your address is kept until you unsubscribe or the list is closed.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you can ask to access, correct or delete personal data about you, and you can complain to your data protection authority (in Italy, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali).
Services involved
The host of this page; Google (Analytics on this website, only if you accept); Open-Meteo (weather and air quality); the webcam's own site; GitHub (lofi songs, only when you press play); your own calendar provider (only the link you paste); Brevo (packs waiting list); Anthropic, only if you choose to use your own Claude.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new date.