What we collect
- Check data. The brand and category you enter, the 5 generated buyer questions, the AI's answers, and your resulting score. This is what powers your results and any shareable link you create.
- A hashed IP address. We hash your IP address (SHA-256) before storing it, and only use it to enforce the free-tier limit of 5 checks per day per visitor. We never store your raw IP address.
- Your email, only if you give it to us. If you join the Pro waitlist, or leave your address alongside a check result, we store the email address you enter and, optionally, a reference to the check it relates to. We do not collect email addresses any other way.
- Analytics. We use Google Tag Manager to load analytics tags that tell us which pages get visited and how people find the site. This does not affect the data described above — your checks, hashed IP, and any email are handled the same way regardless.
What we don't collect
- No account system exists today, so there's no password, profile, or login history to store.
- No raw IP addresses — only the hashed form described above.
- No API keys. If you bring your own key for ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek or Groq, it is sent with that one check, used to ask the questions, and discarded when the request ends. It is never written to our database and never written to a log, at any level, including error logs.
Bring-your-own-key providers
The free check runs on Claude using our own Anthropic key. You can optionally add your own API key for another provider to compare answers. When you do:
- The key travels with that single check over HTTPS, is used as an authorization header for the requests to that provider, and is discarded. We store nothing about it — not the key, not a hash of it, not a fingerprint.
- If you tick “Remember these keys in this browser”, the keys are saved in your own browser's local storage on your device so you don't have to paste them each time. That is a convenience with a real tradeoff: anything running in that browser can read them. The box is off by default, and “Forget saved keys” clears them.
- Your brand, category and the generated questions are sent to whichever providers you select, and each one processes that request under its own API terms and your own account with them.
Who else sees this data
Running a check requires sending your brand, category, and generated questions to Anthropic (the maker of Claude) to get the AI's answers — that's the core of the product. Anthropic processes that request under its own API terms. The site itself runs on Cloudflare (Workers, D1 database, and Turnstile for bot protection), which processes traffic and stores data on our behalf as our infrastructure provider.
We don't sell data, and we don't share it with anyone else for advertising or marketing purposes.
Why we store check results at all
Storing each check is what makes the "Copy verdict" / "Share on X" links and the /r/<id> results page work — if we didn't keep the record, a shared link would have nothing to load. It also lets us enforce fair-use rate limits without asking you to sign in.
How long we keep it
Check records and hashed IPs are kept to operate the product (results pages, rate limiting, and abuse prevention). If you'd like a check or a stored email removed, contact us — see below.
Your choices
You can use the free checker without ever giving us an email address. If you've given us your email — via the Pro waitlist or the "save my email" option on a result — and want it removed, or want a specific shared check result taken down, reach out via alejandrorioja.com and we'll handle it.
Changes to this policy
If what we store changes — for example, when accounts or the paid plan launch — this page will be updated first, and the "last updated" date at the top will reflect it.
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