Privacy

Who runs this site

Plain AI Guides is published by Amir Gabay, an individual based in Israel. In GDPR terms, he is the "data controller" — the person responsible for any personal data this site touches. You can reach him at hello@plainaiguides.com.

What we collect, and why

Almost nothing. Reading this site requires no account, no cookie banner, and no form, and it sets no cookies.

Like almost every website, the servers that deliver these pages — ours run on Cloudflare — keep standard technical logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested) for a short time. That happens so the site loads, stays up, and isn't abused. The legal basis for this under GDPR is our legitimate interest in operating and securing the site (Article 6(1)(f)). We don't use those logs to identify or profile readers.

We do count visits, using Cloudflare Web Analytics. It shows us aggregate patterns — which guides get read, roughly how much traffic arrives — and nothing about you personally. It is cookieless: it sets no cookies, keeps no client-side state to track you with, and builds no cross-site profiles, so it can't recognise you here or follow you anywhere else. What we see are counts, not people. The legal basis is the same legitimate interest in running and improving the site (Article 6(1)(f)). If we ever add anything beyond that, this page will say so first.

Four small things are kept on your own device, and none of them is a cookie. The first is kit progress. When you tick a step in one of our starter kits, your browser saves which steps you ticked in its local storage, so the kit remembers where you are next time. That record stays on your device: it is never sent to us, and we can't see it. It is not a cookie and it contains nothing about who you are, only the kits and steps you ticked and when. "Reset progress" on a kit page removes that kit's record, and clearing this site's data in your browser removes all of it.

The second is your kind of business, if you pick one. When you choose a business type at the end of a guide, or pick one of the starter kit cards on the home page or the playbooks page, your browser saves that one choice in its local storage, with the time you made it, so every guide can end with the next step from that kit. Like kit progress, it stays on your device, is never sent to us, and says nothing about who you are. "Change business type" at the end of any guide replaces it, "Forget my choice" removes it, and clearing this site's data in your browser removes it too.

The third is the details you give our copy-ready prompts, which have boxes for your own details. When you type your kind of business (or your business name) into one of those boxes, your browser saves what you typed in its local storage, so the other prompts on this site can fill it in for you. Nothing else you type into a prompt is saved anywhere: a review you paste, notes about a job, a product's details all stay in the page and are gone when you close it. The saved business details stay on your device: they are never sent to us, and we can't see them. It is not a cookie. "Forget my details" under any prompt that uses them removes the record, and clearing this site's data in your browser does too. The prompts themselves are copied to your clipboard by you, and we never send them to any AI service.

The fourth is the hours-saved log on the Start here page, which works the same way. When you fill in a week, your browser saves what you typed (what you tried and the hours you estimated) in its local storage, so the log is still there when you come back. Like the kit record, it stays on your device: it is never sent to us, and we can't see it. It is not a cookie, and it holds only what you typed into those four weeks and when you last changed them. The Clear log button under the table removes it, and clearing this site's data in your browser removes it too.

If you email us

When you write to us, we get your email address and whatever you put in the message. We use it to reply, and for nothing else — no lists, no sharing, no follow-up campaigns. We keep the conversation only as long as it's useful for answering you; ask us to delete a past conversation and we will.

Who else sees your data

Cloudflare, the company that hosts and delivers this site, processes visitor requests (including IP addresses) to serve pages and block attacks, and it also provides the cookieless analytics described above. That's it — we don't sell, rent, or share data with advertisers or anyone else.

Cloudflare runs a global network, so a request may be handled by a server outside the EU. For EU visitors, those transfers are covered by Cloudflare's standard contractual clauses — the EU-approved safeguard for moving data internationally.

How long data is kept

Server logs are held briefly by Cloudflare — days to weeks, per their retention practices — and then deleted. The analytics figures are aggregate counts held by Cloudflare, carrying no identifier that could point back to you. Emails you send us are kept only as long as the conversation needs, as described above. We store nothing else about you.

Your rights

If you're in the EU or EEA, GDPR gives you the right to ask what data we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to how it's used, and to receive a copy in a portable format. Given how little we hold — typically nothing, unless you've emailed us — most of these requests are quick. Email us and we'll sort it out.

You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority (the "supervisory authority" in your EU country) if you think we've handled your data badly.

Two things worth stating plainly: you're never obliged to give us any personal data — the whole site works without it — and we make no automated decisions about you and do no profiling.

Links to other sites

Guides here link to AI tools and services run by other companies. Once you follow a link, that company's own privacy policy applies — worth a skim before you sign up for anything.

Changes

If the site ever starts collecting something new — say, a newsletter — this page will say so plainly before it happens, with a fresh effective date at the top.

Our terms of use cover the non-privacy side of using the site.