Privacy policy.

What The Cusp is

The Cusp (thecusp.app) is a free, state-by-state divorce information site. This policy covers thecusp.app and any app that connects to it. It does not cover a professional you contact through our directory, or any outside site we link to — each of those has its own privacy practices.

What we actually collect

Right now, there are exactly two places on this site that ask you for anything:

• The early-access signup on the homepage — your email address, your state, and optionally your county.
• The buddy-connections waitlist — your email address, your state, and roughly where you are in the process (a multiple-choice field, not free text). We do not ask for your name on this form, on purpose.

Beyond that, our web host records the ordinary things every website records automatically when a page loads — your IP address, browser type, the page you visited, and roughly when — the same way any site does. We use this only in aggregate, to see which states and pages need attention, never to identify an individual visitor.

What we do with it

We use your email only for the reason you gave it to us: to tell you when early access opens in your state, or when buddy connections opens in yours. We do not send a newsletter, and we do not use either list for anything else.

Who else sees it

The forms on this site run on Jetpack, a service from Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com, who host this site) — when you submit a form, Jetpack delivers it to our inbox at hello@thecusp.app. Automattic can see form submissions in transit as our hosting provider, the way any host can. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise share your email address, state, or any other information with attorneys, advertisers, listed professionals, or anyone else. There is currently no paid checkout on this site; if that changes, this policy will be updated to name whichever payment processor we use before any payment information is collected.

Cookies and analytics

WordPress.com sets a small number of cookies needed to run the site. We also use PostHog, an analytics tool, to understand how the site is used: which pages get read, how long for, and where people give up. PostHog sets its own cookie.

PostHog also records sessions. That is a replay of the pages visited and where the cursor and the scroll went, so we can see where a page fails somebody. Anything you type is masked and never recorded. We do not learn your name or your email from this, and we do not try to.

Some pages are never recorded at all. Every protective-order page, and the pages on domestic violence, abuse and digital safety — fifty-five pages in total — are excluded from recording entirely. If you are reading those pages, there is no replay of your visit, and there is none to delete.

We do not run display ads and do not use third-party ad-tracking pixels — that is a deliberate choice, described on our how we make money page. We do not sell any of this to anybody.

If you would rather not be counted at all, turning on your browser’s Do Not Track setting stops it. This site is set to respect that signal, which is not a promise every site keeps.

What this page used to say, and why it changed. Until 12 September 2026 this section said only that cookies produced “basic, aggregate visit statistics”, and said we never used them to identify an individual visitor. Session recording had been switched on before that and the page was never updated, so the description was out of date and understated what we collect. We found it ourselves and we are saying so here rather than quietly rewording it. The protective-order exclusion above was added the same day.

How long we keep it

We keep waitlist emails until either the feature you signed up for launches and we have contacted you, or you ask us to remove you — whichever comes first. Email hello@thecusp.app any time and we will delete your information; there is no form to hunt for and no delay tactic.

Your choices

You can ask us, at any time, what we have on file for you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, by emailing hello@thecusp.app. If you are a California resident, or a resident of another state with its own privacy law, you may have additional specific rights under that law — we will honor a reasonable request either way, and you do not need to cite a specific statute to make one.

A note specific to this site

Some of what this site covers — protective orders, leaving an abusive relationship — is sensitive, and for some readers, unsafe for someone else to find in their browser history. If that is your situation: most browsers have a private or incognito window that does not save history, and the protective orders page links directly to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, who can help without you needing to browse here at all if that is safer for you.

Children

This site is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has submitted information to us, email hello@thecusp.app and we will remove it.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will update the date at the top of this page. Last checked 24 Aug 2026.

Contact

Questions about any of this: hello@thecusp.app.