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This Privacy Policy describes how GEO Glossary ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, stores, and protects your information when you use our website at aisearchglossary.comand related services (collectively, the "Service").

GEO Glossary is a free reference dictionary for the 2026 AI-search vocabulary. We collect very little personal information — only what is needed to deliver newsletter content to subscribers and to understand basic site usage. We do not run user accounts, do not accept payments, and do not host user-submitted content.

If you have questions, contact us at hello@aisearchglossary.com.

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide

  • Email address. If you sign up for our newsletter, we collect the email address you submit and the source page from which you signed up (e.g. footer or term page). That is the only personal data we ask for.
  • Support correspondence. If you email us, we retain the message thread to respond and to maintain a record of corrections, errata, and feedback.

Information collected automatically

  • Analytics data. Through Vercel Web Analytics, we collect anonymized page views, referrer URLs, country-level location, device type, and browser type. Vercel Analytics is privacy-friendly by design — it does not use cookies or fingerprinting and does not collect IP addresses or persistent user identifiers.
  • Server access logs. Our hosting provider (Vercel) automatically records request metadata (timestamp, path, response status, approximate IP) for operational and security purposes. We do not aggregate, profile, or sell this data.

Information we do NOT collect

  • No passwords (we have no user accounts)
  • No payment data (the Service is free)
  • No user-uploaded content or profile data
  • No location data beyond country-level from Vercel Analytics
  • No cross-site tracking pixels or advertising IDs

2. How We Use Your Information

  • Newsletter delivery. Your email is used solely to send you the GEO Glossary weekly digest and to manage your subscription preferences. We do not use it for any other purpose and we do not share or sell it.
  • Site improvement. Aggregated, anonymized analytics help us understand which terms are most-read and where readers find the site. We use this only to prioritize editorial work.
  • Operational integrity. Server logs help us detect abuse (scraping bursts, denial-of-service patterns) and diagnose outages.

3. Third-Party Services

We rely on a small set of third-party processors. Each handles a specific category of data and has its own privacy practices:

4. AI Crawler Disclosure

GEO Glossary is a public reference site and we explicitly allow major AI crawlers to fetch our pages. This includes (but is not limited to) GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, anthropic-ai, and cohere-ai.

What this means for you as a reader:

  • Content you read here may be used by AI search engines to answer queries elsewhere (cited or paraphrased), which is the intended outcome of the site.
  • Your individual reading activity is not exposed to AI crawlers — they fetch the same public pages anyone fetches. We do not report your personal reading patterns to any third party.

The current crawler allowlist is also documented in our public /robots.txt and in the term page AI crawler bots.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use no cookies for tracking or advertising. Vercel Web Analytics is cookieless by design. Your browser may temporarily cache page content (a normal part of how the web works), but we do not set any first-party tracking cookies.

6. Data Storage and Security

  • Subscriber emails are stored in a Supabase Postgres database with Row Level Security (RLS) enabled. Only our server (using the service-role key, never exposed to the browser) can read the subscriber list. The public-facing anon-key client can only insert new emails, not read existing ones.
  • All traffic is HTTPS-only, with HSTS preload for a two-year max-age via Vercel.
  • We do not store passwords because we do not have user accounts.

7. Data Retention

  • Newsletter subscriptions are retained until you unsubscribe. Unsubscribed records are kept in a soft-deleted state (timestamp only, email retained) for 90 days to honor your unsubscribe choice across re-signup attempts, then permanently deleted.
  • Server logs roll off after 30 days at the Vercel provider level.
  • Analytics data is aggregated continuously and not retained at an individual-event level beyond Vercel's default retention window.

8. Your Rights

You have the right to:

  • Access. Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you (in our case, your subscriber record).
  • Correction. Ask us to correct any inaccurate data.
  • Deletion. Ask us to delete your subscriber record entirely. Every newsletter email contains an unsubscribe link, but you can also email us for full deletion.
  • Objection. Object to our processing of your data on legitimate-interest grounds.
  • Portability. Receive your data in a machine-readable format.

To exercise any of these rights, email hello@aisearchglossary.com. We aim to respond within 30 days.

9. International Data Transfers

GEO Glossary is operated from Australia. The third-party processors above (Vercel, Supabase, Resend, Cloudflare) operate globally and may process data in the United States, the European Union, and other jurisdictions. By using the Service or subscribing to our newsletter, you consent to these transfers.

10. GDPR (EU / UK)

If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we process your newsletter subscription under the lawful basis of consent (Article 6(1)(a)). You may withdraw consent at any time using the unsubscribe link in any email or by contacting us. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out beforehand.

We are not currently registered with any specific EU data protection authority because our scope is below the threshold requiring formal representation. You may still contact your local supervisory authority if you have unresolved concerns.

11. CCPA (California)

If you are a California resident, you have the rights described in Section 8 above, including the right to know what personal information we collect and the right to delete it. We do not sell personal information.

12. Children

The Service is not directed to children under 13 (or under 16 in the EU/UK). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has subscribed to our newsletter without parental consent, please email us and we will delete the record.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be announced in a newsletter issue and dated above in "Last updated." The change history is also visible in our public GitHub repository (when made public) as commit history on this file.

14. Contact

For any privacy-related question, email hello@aisearchglossary.com.

For the editorial methodology that complements this privacy policy (how content is written, how facts are checked), see About & editorial methodology.