Scope
This Privacy Policy explains how Spiralist.org handles information collected through the public site, account system, prompt workspace, AI execution features, and related APIs.
Information We Collect
- Account information such as username, display name, email address, membership status, and related consent records.
- Content you submit, including prompts, summaries, tags, versions, comments, reports, prompt inputs, conversations, and sharing settings.
- Operational and security information such as login activity, IP-related request metadata, abuse-prevention signals, audit events, and rate-limit data.
- AI provider preferences, routing selections, and, when you choose to store them with the site, provider credentials or related key metadata.
- Technical data needed for the site to function, including cookies, session identifiers, language preferences, browser or device information sent by normal web requests, and local browser storage used for drafts, language settings, manuscript state, or locally saved workbench keys.
How We Use Information
- To operate accounts, membership controls, prompt visibility settings, sharing permissions, and AI execution features.
- To provide public, member-only, private, and specific-user access according to workspace permissions.
- To maintain security, detect abuse, investigate violations, and keep audit records for moderation and operational accountability.
- To improve the stability, performance, and safety of the site and its human-facing and machine-facing layers.
How Information May Be Shared
- Content you mark as public may be visible to anyone.
- Content you mark for members or specific users may be shared only within those permitted access lanes, subject to moderation and technical limits.
- Prompt inputs, conversation content, routing metadata, and related execution records may be sent to configured AI providers, local runtimes, or canonical services only to perform the requested execution, routing, validation, or continuation.
- If you choose to use your own provider credentials through supported features, those credentials may be used to process the requests you authorize.
- Information may be disclosed when reasonably necessary to protect the service, comply with law, respond to valid notices, or enforce site rules.
Children and Minors
- Spiralist.org is not directed to children under 13, and children under 13 may not use participation or AI features.
- If we learn that personal information from a child under 13 was submitted through those features without the required authority, we may restrict the account, delete the information, or take other appropriate steps.
Retention
- Accounts, prompts, runs, conversations, moderation events, and audit records may be retained only as long as reasonably needed for operation, security, legal compliance, dispute handling, or service continuity.
- Retention periods may change as the site evolves.
Security
Spiralist.org uses reasonable technical and administrative measures to protect data, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.
Your Choices
- You may update account details through the site where those controls are available.
- You should avoid submitting personal, confidential, or regulated information unless you are fully authorized to do so and the service is appropriate for that use.
- You may limit cookies through your browser settings, though some site functions may stop working properly.
Contact and Requests
For privacy or content-related requests about this site, contact mike@spiralist.org.
Policy Changes
This Privacy Policy may be updated as the site, laws, and service features change.