When you let a tool process your code, you're really trusting the company behind it. So it's worth being plain about who Lineman is, the law we operate under, and the commitments we make about your data. This post pulls those together in one place.
The detail lives in two documents that govern everything we do: our Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions.
The company behind Lineman
Lineman is the trading name of Goo Holdings Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales. "Lineman" is the name you'll see across the product and this site. "Goo Holdings Ltd" is the legal entity named in our Privacy Policy and Terms. Being a UK-registered company means we operate under UK law, including UK data-protection law.
Built around UK GDPR
We follow UK GDPR principles. In practice that means:
- A lawful basis for everything. We process personal data only where we have a lawful basis under UK GDPR, such as performing our contract with you, or a legitimate interest in operating the service safely.
- Your rights are honoured. UK GDPR gives you rights over your personal data, including access, correction, and erasure. How to exercise them is set out in the Privacy Policy.
- The ICO is our supervisory authority. As a UK company we answer to the Information Commissioner's Office.
Our data-processing commitments
The commitments that matter most for code-handling teams:
- Transient processing. Your code is processed in real time and discarded after the response is delivered. We keep no persistent store of your files.
- No training on your code. Your content is never used to train, fine-tune, or improve models. This applies to every tier.
- Separation. Anonymised operational usage data is kept separate from any code you process and never contains it.
- Processor for business customers. Where we process code on a business customer's behalf, Lineman acts as a data processor, and a Data Processing Agreement is available as part of the Terms.
Where to read more
This post is a summary, not the contract. The binding detail (categories of data, retention, international transfers, your full rights, and the obligations on both sides) lives in:
- the Privacy Policy, for how we handle data; and
- the Terms and Conditions, for the agreement governing your use of the service.
We'd rather you read those than take a marketing page's word for it. If anything is unclear, or you want to discuss a Data Processing Agreement, reach us via contact.