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Welcome to Ichnos.io (“Ichnos,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and protect information when you visit our website, join our waitlist, create an account, use our browser extension, or otherwise interact with our services (collectively, the “Services”).
By accessing or using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect through:
This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites, services, or content that may be linked to, saved from, or accessible through our Services.
We may collect the following categories of information.
Depending on how you interact with the Services, you may provide us with:
When you register for an account, we may collect and maintain:
If you use Ichnos to save web pages, we may collect and store information associated with those saved pages, including:
These data elements are used to allow you to retrieve pages later using natural-language search and to power related product features.
We collect the search terms and natural-language queries you submit in order to provide search results, improve retrieval quality, maintain security, and support service functionality.
When you use the Services, we may automatically collect certain technical information, including:
We may maintain internal logs of significant account and platform activity, including:
These logs are used for security, fraud prevention, system integrity, debugging, enforcement of our terms, and internal administrative purposes.
We may use cookies, session cookies, CSRF tokens, local storage, and similar technologies to:
You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings, but disabling certain cookies may limit functionality.
We may use collected information for the following purposes:
We use information to:
To provide core product functionality, we may process saved page content and search queries using internal systems and third-party AI service providers, including for:
We may use your information to:
Where required by law, we will obtain consent before sending marketing communications, and you may opt out of those communications at any time.
We may use information to:
We may use information to:
We may use and retain information as necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to lawful requests, resolve disputes, and enforce legal rights.
We may use personal information, saved content, metadata, logs, IP addresses, user agent information, and related account activity to detect, prevent, investigate, and respond to suspected fraud, abuse, infringement, unlawful activity, security incidents, or violations of our Terms or other policies.
We may also use and preserve such information to protect our Services, users, rights holders, and third parties, and to comply with applicable law, legal process, governmental requests, court orders, or regulatory obligations.
Ichnos may attempt to detect and redact certain sensitive strings, such as API keys, access tokens, and passwords, before content is stored server-side. However, this redaction process is best effort only and is not guaranteed to identify or remove all sensitive information.
Accordingly:
Our efforts to identify and redact secrets or sensitive material are intended to reduce risk, not to permit storage of unlawful, unauthorized, infringing, or regulated content. Users remain solely responsible for the content they choose to save or process through the Services.
We do not sell your personal information for money. We may share information in the following circumstances:
We may share information with vendors and service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as:
These providers may access information only as reasonably necessary to perform services for us, subject to contractual or legal restrictions where applicable.
To provide core functionality, page content and search query text may be transmitted to third-party AI providers for processing, including the generation of embeddings, summaries, tags, and related retrieval functionality.
By using the Services, you acknowledge that content you save and search queries you submit may be processed by such third-party providers in accordance with their applicable terms and privacy practices.
We may disclose information if we believe in good faith that doing so is necessary to:
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable legal requirements.
We may share information when you direct us to do so or otherwise consent.
We may disclose information, including account information, saved content, logs, metadata, and other related records, to law enforcement, regulators, rights holders, courts, service providers, or other third parties where we believe such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to investigate suspected unlawful activity, enforce our Terms, respond to infringement claims, protect rights or safety, comply with legal obligations, or reduce legal or security risk.
If and to the extent applicable under laws such as the GDPR or UK GDPR, we may process personal data on the following legal bases:
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide the Services, maintain business records, enforce agreements, resolve disputes, and comply with legal obligations.
In general:
Deleted information may persist for a limited time in backups, logs, archives, or systems maintained for disaster recovery, legal compliance, fraud prevention, or legitimate business purposes.
You may have the ability to delete your account through the Services or by contacting us. If you request account deletion:
Deletion of your account does not necessarily guarantee immediate removal of all information from every system, including logs, caches, archives, or backups.
You may also contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, subject to applicable law.
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request. We may also deny or limit requests where permitted by law.
If you are a California resident, you may have rights under applicable California privacy laws. If you are in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction with similar protections, you may have additional rights under applicable data protection law.
To exercise your rights, contact us at: privacy@ichnos.io
The Services are not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without legally valid authorization.
If you are located in a jurisdiction with a higher digital consent age, the minimum age for use may be higher. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child in violation of applicable law, we may delete that information and take appropriate action.
If you believe a child has provided information to us in violation of this section, please contact us immediately.
Your information may be processed and stored in countries other than the country in which you reside, including countries that may have different data protection laws.
Where required by applicable law, we will take appropriate steps designed to ensure that cross-border transfers are subject to adequate safeguards.
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, and disclosure.
However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security, and you use the Services at your own risk.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for using appropriate caution when saving content through the Services.
The Services may allow you to save, access, or interact with content originating from third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy, security, availability, accuracy, or practices of such third-party sites or services.
Your interactions with third-party websites remain governed by their own terms and privacy policies.
Some browsers may transmit “Do Not Track” signals. Because there is not yet a universally accepted standard for responding to such signals, we do not currently guarantee that we respond to all such signals.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will post the updated version on this page and update the “Last Updated” date above. If required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent.
Your continued use of the Services after any updated Privacy Policy becomes effective constitutes your acknowledgment of the revised Privacy Policy, to the extent permitted by law.
This section provides specific disclosures about the Ichnos.io browser extension (“Extension”) in accordance with the Chrome Web Store Developer Program Policies and applicable privacy laws.
https://ichnos.io/*): Allows the Extension to communicate exclusively with the Ichnos.io backend API to save bookmarks, look up related pages, and validate your account token.On explicit click only: Page text content is extracted and sent to your Ichnos.io account only when you click “Save to Ichnos.” No page content is collected passively.
In the background: When you are logged in, the Extension sends the URL and title of each page you visit to the Ichnos.io API (/api/related) to check whether you have any previously saved bookmarks related to that page. This powers the badge count displayed on the Extension icon. The URL is used solely for this lookup and is not stored as a browsing history log. If you are not logged in (no API token stored), no background requests are made.
The Extension reads the text content of the active tab only when you explicitly initiate a save action. The content is transmitted to your Ichnos.io account for processing. It is not read, collected, or transmitted at any other time.
All data collected by the Extension is used exclusively to provide the Extension’s core features:
No data collected by the Extension is used for advertising, analytics, profiling, or any purpose unrelated to providing these features. No data is sold or transferred to third parties.
When you save a page, the extracted text content and any natural-language search queries you submit may be transmitted to a third-party AI provider (such as OpenAI) to generate summaries, tags, and vector embeddings that power semantic search. This transfer is necessary to provide the AI-driven features of the Service.
Our AI providers process this data on our behalf and are contractually prohibited from using it for their own model training or other independent purposes. Please review the privacy policies of applicable AI providers for more information about how they handle data.
We do not routinely review the content of your saved pages. Human review of saved content may occur only in the following limited circumstances:
To uninstall the Extension: Open your browser’s extension management page (e.g., chrome://extensions), find Ichnos.io, and click “Remove.” Uninstalling the Extension removes all locally stored data, including your API token.
To delete your account and all associated data: Log in to your Ichnos.io account, go to account settings, and use the account deletion option. You may also submit a data deletion request by contacting us at privacy@ichnos.io. Upon verified request, we will delete your account and all saved bookmark data from our servers, subject to any legal retention obligations.
If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact us at: