Last updated: 11 September 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is processed through the Breathing Statue website and in connection with Slow Downer.
The data controller is:
Ilari Ahti Halonen
Operating publicly under the artist name Breathing Statue
Finland
Email: message@breathingstatue.com
When you visit breathingstatue.com, technical information may be processed automatically.
This can include:
This information may be used to maintain the website, prevent abuse, troubleshoot problems and understand how visitors use the site.
The website may use analytics to understand matters such as:
Where analytics requires consent, it is only enabled in accordance with the visitor's cookie choices.
Analytics information is used to improve the website and understand its general usage.
Cookies are small files or identifiers stored through your browser.
The website may use:
These are used for website operation, security and functions explicitly requested by the visitor.
These may be used to measure website traffic and usage.
Where legally required, analytics cookies are not enabled until you have given consent.
You may accept or decline optional cookies using the website's cookie controls.
You may also delete cookies through your browser settings.
Some Breathing Statue pages may contain embedded content from services such as YouTube.
Third-party embedded services may process information or place cookies according to their own privacy policies.
Where legally required, non-essential third-party content or cookies should not be activated before the appropriate consent has been given.
YouTube is operated by Google and is subject to Google's own privacy practices.
The Breathing Statue website is hosted using GoDaddy services.
GoDaddy may process technical information necessary for:
GoDaddy's processing is also subject to its own privacy and data-protection terms.
When you purchase Slow Downer, information connected with the transaction may be processed.
This may include:
Complete payment-card details are not processed or stored by Breathing Statue.
Payment processing is handled through Stripe Managed Payments / Link.
Slow Downer payments are processed using Stripe Managed Payments.
For these transactions, Link / Sold Through Link, LLC acts as merchant of record.
Stripe and Link may process information necessary for:
Their processing is also governed by their own privacy notices and terms.
Slow Downer uses an online licensing system.
The licensing system may process:
A Slow Downer licence may be active on up to three computers simultaneously.
Users can revoke an activation from within the program.
Licensing information is used to deliver and manage purchased licences, prevent unauthorised licence sharing and provide technical support.
Slow Downer processes audio locally on your computer.
Your audio files are not uploaded to Breathing Statue servers as part of normal Slow Downer audio processing.
The online licensing system is separate from the audio-processing system.
Breathing Statue does not inspect or collect the content of audio being processed by Slow Downer.
If you email Breathing Statue or otherwise request support, information you provide may be processed in order to answer your request.
This may include:
Please do not send confidential audio files unless doing so is necessary for a support request and you are comfortable sharing them.
Personal information may be processed where necessary to:
Depending on the processing activity, the legal basis may include:
Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for its purpose or as required by law.
Licence records may be retained while a licence remains valid and for a reasonable period afterward where necessary for licence restoration, fraud prevention or legal purposes.
Transaction records may be retained for periods required by accounting, tax or other applicable law.
Technical server and security logs are retained only as long as reasonably necessary for security, troubleshooting and abuse prevention unless a longer period is required to investigate an incident.
Personal information is not sold.
Information may be processed by service providers necessary to operate the website and Slow Downer, including:
Information may also be disclosed where required by law.
Some service providers may process information outside Finland or outside the European Economic Area.
Where applicable, transfers are handled using the safeguards required by applicable data-protection law.
Depending on applicable law and the circumstances, you may have rights to:
Some information cannot be immediately deleted where it must be retained to fulfil a valid licence, comply with legal obligations, establish legal claims or protect the licensing system from abuse.
Requests can be sent to:
You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data-protection supervisory authority.
Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect website, customer and licensing information.
Sensitive server credentials and licence-management systems are not intentionally included in the publicly distributed Slow Downer application.
No Internet-connected system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
The Breathing Statue website may link to websites operated by other organisations.
Breathing Statue is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of independent external websites.
This Privacy Policy may be updated when the website, Slow Downer or the services used to operate them change.
The current version will be published on breathingstatue.com.
Privacy questions can be sent to:
Ilari Ahti Halonen / Breathing Statue
Finland