# Privacy notice

> Draft for legal review. This document has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer and may change before launch.

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](https://spread-the-word.steadycircuit.com/security), 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).

Updated 2026-10-15. Canonical page: https://spread-the-word.steadycircuit.com/privacy