Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how FynTrends ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information when you access or use our website and services.

For the purposes of applicable data protection laws, FynTrends acts as the data controller for the personal information we collect through the services, unless otherwise stated.

Privacy contact: privacy@fyntrends.com

• Account information, such as your name and email address
• Authentication data collected through Supabase Auth, and legacy Clerk authentication data where applicable during migration
• Payment and transaction data processed through PayPal
• Credit ledger entries and billing records
• Tool inputs, such as search queries and the results we return
• Device information, IP address, usage logs, and error reports
• Cookies and similar technologies

We use personal data to provide and improve the services, process payments, authenticate users, maintain a credits ledger, prevent fraud, respond to support requests, and comply with legal obligations.

• DataForSEO - search provider. We send requests on your behalf to retrieve results.
• GDELT - news data provider. We send search keywords to retrieve recent news and related signals for News Explorer.
• OpenAlex - research data provider. We send search keywords and filters to retrieve scholarly works and related metadata for Scholarly Search.
• PayPal - payment processor. We share transaction and billing information necessary to complete purchases.
• Supabase - authentication and database provider that manages sign-in, session data, account records, and application data storage.
• Clerk - legacy authentication provider that may continue to process sign-in and session data for some accounts during migration.
• Other analytics, infrastructure, and hosting providers as needed, where applicable.

We record credits issued and spent in an audit ledger for billing, fraud prevention, and dispute resolution. Credits may be deducted when a request is initiated or processing begins, so interrupted requests may still consume credits.

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Your information may be processed and stored on servers located outside your jurisdiction.

If you are located in the EU, EEA, or UK, you may have rights under applicable data protection laws, including the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection. California residents may have additional rights under applicable state privacy laws.

To exercise these rights, contact us at privacy@fyntrends.com.

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal data. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date above indicates when the policy was most recently revised.