Privacy Policy

1. Who this policy covers

adly.news is operated by Gabardo Ventures in California, United States. We provide sponsor research for newsletter publishers and their advertising-sales teams. This policy covers visitors, account holders, and people whose professional information appears in our research catalogue. You do not need an account to request a correction or removal of your personal information. Contact us at phil@adly.news.

The research service helps publishers identify prospective sponsors. It does not require access to a customer’s subscriber list. Any retained records from our earlier advertising marketplace are described separately below.

2. Account, billing, and saved research

We collect the information you provide when creating or using an account, including your name, email address, profile image where supplied, and support correspondence. When you use Google or Microsoft sign-in, we receive account information and authentication identifiers or tokens from that provider. Email sign-in uses verification links and session cookies.

We store your saved lists, saved advertisers, newsletters and creatives, watches, profile unlocks, and usage counters in our database under your account. These records are available across devices and are not a browser-only bookmark collection. Your lists and watches are not published to other customers.

Stripe processes subscription payments and handles payment-method details. We store Stripe customer and subscription identifiers, subscription status, billing-period dates, cancellation status, and checkout references. We do not receive or store full card numbers or card security codes in our application.

3. Newsletter, advertiser, and professional contact data

Our catalogue is assembled from newsletters delivered to collection inboxes, newsletter issues and archives we can access, advertiser websites, and other relevant business sources. It may contain publication names, categories, reported audience sizes, sender details, issue dates, newsletter HTML, ad text and images, links, advertiser websites, and observed sponsorship relationships.

We also collect professional contact information from business sources, such as names, roles, and business email addresses. A business email address can identify a person. Being listed does not mean that person is an adly.news user, has endorsed the service, or has agreed to receive marketing from our customers.

Automated extraction and AI-assisted analysis help us identify ads, resolve advertiser identities, and summarize business information. Relevant website text or research material may be processed by our AI service providers, including Google. These processes can make mistakes; please report inaccurate information. We do not use this research to make employment, credit, insurance, or housing decisions about individuals.

4. Why we use information

We use information to authenticate users, operate sponsor search and research views, store lists and watches, enforce plan limits, provide subscription access, respond to requests, and maintain the accuracy of the catalogue. We also use technical information to diagnose failures, prevent abuse, and secure the service.

We send requested sign-in links, service and billing communications, and responses to support requests. Any promotional email we send should provide a way to unsubscribe. Choosing not to receive promotional email does not stop necessary account or billing communications.

5. Who receives information

Research customers can view catalogue information according to their plan. Pro access can include professional contact details and permitted CSV exports. This paid access is a disclosure of business contact data and may be treated as a sale of personal information under applicable privacy law. We do not describe all contact data as anonymous or exempt from privacy protection merely because it comes from a business source.

Service providers process information to help us run the service. These include hosting, database and storage providers such as Vercel and AWS; Stripe for billing; SendGrid for email; Google and Microsoft for sign-in when chosen; Google for AI-assisted research; and Datadog for operational monitoring. Information shared depends on the function the provider performs.

We may disclose information when legally required, to respond to lawful requests, protect users or the service, or as part of a business transaction subject to appropriate safeguards. Customer account details and private saved lists are not offered as sponsor prospecting data.

6. Cookies, monitoring, and external content

We use cookies and related identifiers for sign-in and session management. Server logs and operational monitoring may include network identifiers, requested URLs, browser and device information, timing, errors, and security events. We also use hashed identifiers and counters to limit unusually rapid searching. Hashing is not a guarantee that information is anonymous.

The research application does not enable session replay. Operational monitoring may still process technical events. Other legacy areas may use analytics. You can manage cookies through your browser, although blocking authentication cookies may prevent sign-in. Browser settings do not delete records already stored in your account.

Captured ad and newsletter views may load images from external hosts. Those hosts can receive network and device information when an image loads. We remove active links and detected tracking pixels from captured HTML, but cannot guarantee that every remote image or identifier has been identified. Opening an advertiser website or using an external sign-in or billing page is also subject to that provider’s privacy practices.

7. Retention and security

We retain account and research-list information while needed to provide the service, and retain billing, security, and support records as needed for legal obligations, fraud prevention, and disputes. A subscription downgrade does not delete saved lists. Deleting a list removes it from the active account; backups and legally required records may remain for a limited period rather than disappearing immediately.

Catalogue records may be retained as historical sponsorship evidence. We consider accuracy, the original source, privacy requests, and legitimate research needs when correcting or removing records. We may keep a limited suppression record to help avoid reintroducing personal information that has been removed.

We use access controls and other technical and organizational measures to protect information. No service can guarantee absolute security. Safeguards vary by provider and the type of data involved.

8. Your requests and choices

Contact phil@adly.news to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a copy of your personal information; to object to or restrict processing where applicable; or to request removal of professional contact information from the catalogue. Please identify the record or account involved. We may need to verify identity or authority without requesting more information than is reasonably necessary.

Where applicable law provides a right to opt out of sale or sharing, you can submit that request to phil@adly.news without purchasing a subscription or creating an account. We will assess and respond to requests under the law that applies to you. An authorized agent may contact us with evidence of authorization. We will not penalize you for exercising a legally protected privacy right.

Privacy access and deletion requests are separate from Pro CSV-export allowances and are not subject to those paid-product limits. Removing data from our service does not automatically remove information from its original publisher or copies that a customer has already lawfully exported. Contact us about suspected misuse.

Depending on where you live, you may also have a right to complain to a privacy regulator. Mandatory local rights apply even where this policy does not list them individually.

9. International processing and eligibility

Our service providers may process or store information in countries other than your own, including the United States. Applicable safeguards and contractual arrangements depend on the provider and processing involved. Contact us for information relevant to your location.

The service is intended for adults conducting professional newsletter sponsorship research. We do not knowingly solicit accounts from people under 18. If you believe a child’s personal information has been collected, contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate action.

10. Legacy marketplace records and policy changes

If you previously used the adly.news advertising marketplace, we may retain newsletter integration records, business profiles, bids, bookings, campaign materials, messages, payment records, and support correspondence needed to service existing arrangements and meet retention obligations. Those records are not automatically published as part of your research account.

We will update the date above when this policy changes and provide notice of material changes through appropriate account or service communications. Where a change requires consent under applicable law, updating this policy alone does not replace that consent.