Legal, privacy, and other things our lawyers made us say
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And now, a word from our lawyers. Our lawyer is ChatGPT. We typed "write me a legal page" and pasted whatever it gave back. If any of the below is wrong, that is between you and a model with no bar membership, no malpractice insurance, and a worrying confidence in its own advice.
The fiction bit (the important one)
Startup Katt is a work of fiction. The characters, companies, pitch decks, valuations, and bad decisions are invented for comic effect. Any resemblance to real persons, living or fundraising, is, whilst unfortunate, purely coincidental.
If you read a strip and thought "that is weirdly specific, that is basically me", we want to be clear: it is not about you. It was never about you. And honestly, if you genuinely recognise yourself in Startup Cat, the cat who keeps shipping things nobody asked for, we are not angry. We feel sorry for you. Take the afternoon off.
Copyright
The comics, characters, and writing are © 2026 Startup Katt. You are very welcome to share a strip, link to it, or send it to the one person on your team who needs to see it. Please keep the watermark and link back here. Do not sell our cat, slap him on merchandise, or feed the strips into a model to spin up a competing cat. He is one of a kind, and his lawyer is already typing.
About the art
The art is AI-generated. The jokes, the characters, and the editorial voice are written and curated by a human. We mention this here because we mention it everywhere, not because a model made us.
Privacy (this part is real)
Comedy aside, here is exactly what this site does with your data, in plain English. There is not much of it.
- Reactions. When you tap a reaction on a strip, we store a one-way hash of your IP address so the same device or network can only vote once per comic. We cannot turn that hash back into your IP, and it is never linked to your name or email. That is the entire anti-spam system.
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A cookie that lights up buttons. We set one cookie,
sk_votes, that remembers which reactions you tapped so the buttons highlight when you come back. It lives in your browser, it is not used for tracking or advertising, and clearing it just un-highlights some buttons. Nothing breaks. - The newsletter. If you subscribe, your email is sent to beehiiv, who run the newsletter and store the list. Their privacy policy covers what happens to it there. You can unsubscribe from any email, any time, and we forget you cheerfully.
- Boring server logs. Like every website on Earth, the web server keeps standard request logs (IP, time, page) for security and debugging. Nothing exciting, nothing sold.
What we do not do: no ad networks, no third-party tracking pixels, no analytics that follow you around, no selling your data to anyone for any reason. We make a cat comic. We are not in the surveillance business.
Changes and contact
If we change any of this, the "last updated" date at the top changes with it. If something here worries you, or you want your email removed, the fastest way to reach a human is Mark Ashworth on LinkedIn. A real person reads it. The lawyer (ChatGPT) does not.