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Privacy Policy

Last updated: [to confirm: launch date]

ArticleSift (“ArticleSift”, “we”, “us”) is operated by [to confirm: legal entity]. You can contact us at [to confirm: privacy@domain].

This Privacy Policy explains what we collect when you use ArticleSift, a tool that converts publicly accessible article URLs into clean, print-ready PDFs.

What we collect

Information you provide

• Article URLs you submit for conversion.
• Account information such as your email address and authentication identifier if you sign in.
• Preferences you save, such as reading or formatting preferences.
• Payment-related identifiers and purchase status when you buy credits through Creem. We do not store your full payment card number.
• Messages you send to us for support, refund requests, or privacy requests.

Information collected automatically

• Technical logs such as IP address, browser or device type, timestamps, pages or API routes accessed, job status, and error reasons.
• Usage events such as conversion started, conversion succeeded or failed, sign-in, and checkout started.
• Cookies or similar technologies needed for sign-in, security, preferences, and analytics if analytics is enabled.

Generated files and job data

• We store conversion job metadata and generated PDFs so you can download results, retry jobs, and view history.
• We do not build a searchable library or corpus of articles.
• We do not store your cookies, login credentials, paywall credentials, or other bypass credentials.

How we use information

We use information to:

• Provide article-to-PDF conversion and download results.
• Maintain accounts, history, preferences, credits, and purchases.
• Prevent abuse, rate-limit anonymous usage, and keep the service secure.
• Debug failed conversions and improve output quality.
• Process payments, refunds, and customer support requests.
• Understand product usage if analytics is enabled.
• Comply with legal, accounting, and tax obligations.

Cookies and similar technologies

We use:

• Strictly necessary cookies for authentication, security, and CSRF protection.
• Preference storage for settings you choose.
• Analytics cookies only if analytics tools are enabled. If enabled, we will identify the provider and provide opt-out or consent controls where required.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking required cookies may prevent sign-in or checkout from working.

Third-party services

We use service providers to operate ArticleSift, including:

• Cloudflare for hosting, content delivery, application compute, databases, file storage, queues, and security logs.
• Creem for checkout, payment processing, and billing webhooks.
• [to confirm: authentication provider] for sign-in.
• [to confirm: transactional email provider] for sign-in links, receipts, and support messages.
• [to confirm: analytics provider, if enabled] for product analytics.

These providers process information only as needed to provide their services to us.

Data retention

We keep information only as long as needed for the purposes described above:

• Generated PDFs are stored temporarily. Free results expire after [to confirm: free TTL]. Paid retention depends on your plan.
• Conversion job metadata is retained for [to confirm: job metadata retention].
• Account and preference data is kept while your account is active.
• Billing and transaction records are kept as required for accounting, tax, fraud prevention, and dispute handling.
• Security and diagnostic logs are kept for [to confirm: log retention].

You may request deletion of your account or history by contacting [to confirm: privacy@domain]. Some records may be retained where legally required or needed for security, fraud prevention, or dispute resolution.

Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your personal information, and to object to or restrict certain processing.

You can:

• Request access, correction, export, or deletion by contacting [to confirm: privacy@domain].
• Opt out of non-essential analytics where controls are provided.
• Control cookies through your browser.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising unless we explicitly say so and provide required opt-outs. If analytics or advertising tools are added, this policy will be updated before those tools are enabled.

International processing

ArticleSift targets users in the United States, but the service may be accessed from other locations. Our service providers may process information in the United States and other countries where they operate.

Children

ArticleSift is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us and we will delete it as required by law.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures such as HTTPS, access controls, signed download URLs, and limited retention. No service can guarantee absolute security.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our data practices or service providers change. We will update the “Last updated” date and, when required, provide additional notice.

Contact

Privacy requests: [to confirm: privacy@domain] Support: [to confirm: support@domain] Mailing address: [to confirm: legal entity address]

Cookies

Last updated: [to confirm: launch date]

ArticleSift uses cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

Category	Purpose	Examples	Can you disable it?
Strictly necessary	Sign-in, session security, CSRF protection, load balancing	session cookie, auth token, CSRF token	No, if you want to use sign-in or checkout
Preferences	Remember settings you choose	layout, language, reading preferences	Yes, through product settings or browser storage controls
Analytics	Understand usage and improve the product	page views, conversion funnel events, device/browser type	Yes, where analytics controls or consent tools are provided
Payment	Checkout and fraud prevention by Creem	Creem checkout cookies	Controlled by Creem during checkout

We do not use cookies to scrape articles, bypass access controls, or store your login credentials for third-party sites.

If analytics is enabled, we will name the provider and provide required opt-out or consent controls before enabling the tool.