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Spread the Word

Privacy notice

Updated 15 October 2026

Steady Circuit Ltd is the data controller for Spread the Word. This notice explains what we collect and why.

What we collect

  • Account details: your name and email address from your Steady Circuit account, to sign you in and send the notifications you choose.
  • Project content: briefs, personas, places, drafts and settings you create, to provide the service.
  • Platform credentials you connect, encrypted as described on our security page, used only to publish what you approve.
  • Public platform content: threads, replies and engagement figures fetched from public pages and APIs, to find conversations and track responses. This can include other people’s public usernames and posts.
  • Link clicks: time, referring site, approximate country and a daily-salted hash of the visitor’s IP address. We never store raw IP addresses.
  • Usage records: credit usage reported to your Steady Circuit account for billing.

What we do not do

  • We do not send your data to AI providers. Drafting happens in the AI tool on your own computer, which receives the content of each job.
  • We do not use advertising or third-party tracking cookies, and we do not sell personal data.

How long we keep it

  • Account and project data, including audit records: while your account is open.
  • Fetched threads you never engaged with: trimmed to their title and link after 90 days.
  • Individual link clicks: rolled up into daily totals after 30 days.
  • Agent job logs: 30 days.

Who we share it with

Service providers who process data for us: Hetzner (hosting, EU), Resend (email delivery), the Steady Circuit account service (sign-in, notifications and credits) and Stripe (card payments, through the account service). Items you approve are, by design, published to the platforms you choose.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to processing. Email privacy@steadycircuit.com. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).