Privacy
Last updated 8 November 2026
The Value-First Universe at valuefirstuniverse.com is run by Conveying Your Message LLC dba Value-First Team ("we"). This notice covers this site only. It says what the site records when you walk it, and how to stop it.
What the world asks of you
Nothing. There is no sign-up and no account here, and nothing asks for your name or email address.
What is recorded: HubSpot's tracker
This site loads HubSpot's tracking script (portal 40810431), the same one our other Value-First sites load. It runs for every visitor on valuefirstuniverse.com, once the page has finished loading. There is no consent prompt. It sets HubSpot's cookies in your browser and reports your page views, with the technical details any web page sends: your IP address, your browser and device, your screen size and the page you came from.
The Universe is one page, so it tells HubSpot about each place you reach as a page of its own. A place counts once
you have stayed in it for about two seconds, and it is recorded as the place's own link, for example
valuefirstuniverse.com/#ainativeshift/court. The orrery view, where every site is a body, is recorded as
the front page.
What the tracker is not told: where exactly you stand or which way you face (the link in your address bar carries that, and it stays in your browser unless you share it), and what you choose inside a room. One exception: HubSpot's first page view of a visit reads the address as it stands when its script starts, which is usually the link you arrived by, so if that link points to an exact spot, the spot is part of it. HubSpot's script also notes the first time you press each link or button on the page.
If HubSpot already recognises your browser, most often because you have clicked a link in an email from Value-First Team or filled in a form on another Value-First site, your visit is added to your contact record in our CRM. That includes members of the Value-First Collective. HubSpot processes this on our behalf, as a data processor.
What the world keeps in your browser
The world keeps a few things in your own browser's storage so it works the way you left it: the places you visited recently (for the Places list), whether you have already seen the opening, and a few choices that last only as long as the tab. None of it is sent to us or to anyone, and clearing your browser's data removes it.
Hosting, videos and search
The site is hosted on Vercel, which may log ordinary web-server data (IP addresses, request times and related technical details) as part of serving the pages. Videos in the world play from YouTube, in its privacy-enhanced mode, and from Mux, and pictures and pages come from our own sites; each of those requests carries your IP address and your browser's standard details, as any web request does, under that service's own policy. A library's search sends the words you type to our search service on valuefirststudios.com to find pages; it does not send who you are.
How it is used
So that a visit from someone we already know is part of the history of that relationship, as it is on every site of ours, and so we can see which places people actually reach. We never measure the Universe by how many people visit it or how long they stay. We do not sell personal information, we do not run advertising trackers, we do not share this data with ad networks, and we do not record sessions.
How to refuse it
Nothing in the world depends on the tracker. You can block HubSpot's script or its cookies in your browser, or with a
tracker-blocking extension, and the world works exactly as before. You can also add ?track=0 to the
address (for example valuefirstuniverse.com/?track=0); the tracker then stays off for that visit, and
the option travels with you through the world.
Your rights
You can ask us to tell you what we hold that is associated with you, to correct it or delete it, or to stop processing it or contacting you. Write to the address below and we will answer within 30 days. Where the law requires us to keep a record, we will tell you so rather than quietly keeping it.
California residents. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act you also have the right to know what personal information is collected and to ask for it to be deleted. We do not sell personal information.
Visitors in the UK and EEA. Where the UK GDPR or EU GDPR applies to you, our basis for the tracking described above is our legitimate interest in knowing how the Universe is walked and who we already know is walking it. You may object using the address below, and you can stop it yourself at any time as described above.
Members of the Value-First Collective
The Collective's own notice covers your membership, your sign-in and the Collective's site: valuefirstcollective.com/privacy.
Links away from the Universe
The worlds here open pages on our other sites and on video services. Each has its own privacy practices and its own notice. This one covers valuefirstuniverse.com.
Children
This site is not directed to anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes
When what the site records changes, this notice changes before the new behaviour goes live, and the date at the top moves with it.
Contact
Conveying Your Message LLC dba Value-First Team · chris@valuefirstteam.com