Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Ovatly (ovatly.com) is a publication about AI tools, software and productivity. We publish articles; we do not offer user accounts, and there is no sign-up on this site. If you have any question about this policy, email hello@ovatly.com.

2. Information you give us

• Email messages: if you write to us, we receive your email address and the content of your message, and we keep it in our email inbox so we can reply and keep a record of the conversation.
• Newsletter: the newsletter signup shown on this site is not active yet and does not collect your email address today. Before signup opens, we will update this policy to name the email provider we use and explain how subscribing and unsubscribing work.

That is all. There are no accounts, no comment forms collecting personal details, and no checkout on this site.

3. Information collected automatically

Like almost every website, our hosting and security providers process basic connection data when you visit: your IP address, browser and device type, the pages requested, and the time of the request. This data is used to deliver the site, keep it secure and understand aggregate traffic levels.

We do not currently run any analytics service on this site. No analytics cookies, behavioural tracking or visitor profiling is active today. If we add a privacy-respecting analytics tool in the future, we will update this policy before or when it goes live and name the provider here.

4. Cookies

This site does not set advertising or analytics cookies. Our hosting and content-delivery providers may set strictly necessary cookies, or process equivalent connection data, to serve pages and protect the site against abuse. You can block cookies in your browser settings; the site will continue to work.

5. Advertising (planned, not yet active)

We plan to fund this publication partly through Google AdSense. Advertising is not active on this site today: no ads are served and no advertising cookies are set. Before ads go live, this policy will be updated to explain that Google and its partners may use cookies to serve and measure ads based on your visits to this and other sites, and that you can opt out of personalised advertising through Google's Ads Settings. We will also publish an ads.txt file naming our authorised advertising sellers.

6. Affiliate links

Some articles in the future may contain affiliate links to products we write about. Articles that contain them say so clearly at the top, and the disclosure also appears on our About page. If you click an affiliate link, the retailer may use a cookie or similar tracking to attribute a purchase to us, under that retailer's own privacy policy. We earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Affiliate relationships never change our verdicts.

7. Third-party services we use

• Vercel: website hosting and delivery.
• Cloudflare: domain DNS and email routing, which forwards messages sent to our published addresses to our inbox.

Articles link to other websites (tool vendors, documentation and sources). Those sites have their own privacy policies, and we are not responsible for how they handle your data.

8. The retired Ovatly product

Ovatly previously operated as a testimonial collection tool. That product is permanently retired: its accounts and content are no longer accessible through this website, they are not used by this publication, and nothing from them is sold or shared. The data is retained securely for a limited period under our retention plan. If you were a user of the old product and want your data deleted, email us and we will action it.

9. Data retention and your rights

We keep email messages for as long as we need them to handle your enquiry and keep reasonable business records. We never sell personal information. Depending on where you live, you may have legal rights to access, correct, export or delete your personal data, and to object to certain uses. To exercise any of these rights, email hello@ovatly.com and we will respond within a reasonable time.

10. Children

This site is written for a general adult audience of working professionals and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

11. Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, we will update the date at the top of this page. Material changes, such as activating advertising or analytics, will be reflected here before or when they take effect.