Privacy policy — what we collect, what we don't.

Effective 2026-07-31. Short read: AltAI is a static directory, collects very little, and prefers to tell you in advance what will change rather than after.

The short version

AltAI is a static website. It does not run a login system, does not store user accounts, and does not collect data beyond what is strictly needed to run the directory and the newsletter.

Google AdSense serves ads on this site and uses cookies to do so. If you are in the EU or UK, the cookie banner lets you accept or reject those cookies before any personalized ads load. Everything else described below runs regardless of your consent because it does not set cookies or track you.

What we collect

• Newsletter email addresses — only if you submit the footer signup form, and only to send you the newsletter. We never sell or rent email addresses. You can unsubscribe from any email using the link at the bottom.
• Aggregated usage analytics via Microsoft Clarity and Google Analytics 4 — which pages are read, where visitors arrive from, coarse device type and country. Clarity also records anonymised interaction data (clicks, scrolls and session replays) with automatic masking of passwords and form fields. Both set cookies in your browser; you can block them with any content blocker and the site works the same. See Microsoft's privacy statement and how Google uses data from partner sites.
• Affiliate click attribution via UTM parameters — outbound clicks to vendor sites pass a UTM source tag so we can tell which tools drove clicks. No personal data is included. Some vendors may set their own cookies after you arrive on their site; that is between you and them.
• Anonymous feedback signals — the "Was this page helpful?" buttons record yes/no plus the page URL. No identifier is attached.

What we don't collect

• We do not collect names, addresses, phone numbers, or any identifiers beyond what you voluntarily submit.
• We do not ask for payment information on this site. All financial transactions happen on the vendors' sites, under their own policies.
• We do not run third-party session-recording, heatmap, or behavior-tracking tools.
• We do not sell or share data with marketing networks.

Cookies used on this site

Cookies set on the AltAI domain and by embedded scripts, as of the last update to this page:

• Google AdSense cookies — set by pagead2.googlesyndication.com and Google's ad-serving infrastructure. Purpose: ad measurement, fraud prevention, frequency capping, personalized advertising (subject to consent). Retention: set by Google; see Google's cookie page.

Your rights

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, California, or any jurisdiction with equivalent privacy legislation, you have the right to ask us: what data we hold on you, how to correct it, how to delete it, and where it came from.

To exercise any of these rights, email the address on the contact page. We aim to respond within 14 days. We cannot reasonably do anything with rights requests from addresses we do not hold — for most visitors to a static directory, the honest answer is "we already hold nothing".

Who handles our data

The site is hosted on Vercel (static files, no origin compute). The newsletter (when wired) uses one of Buttondown, ConvertKit, or Beehiiv — whichever is currently configured. The current provider is listed on the contact page.

If and when we enable Google AdSense, ad serving will be handled by Google and its certified ad partners.

We do not use any other third-party processors.

Contact + changes

This policy can be contacted via the contact page. Material changes will be announced at the top of this page with a new effective date and, when the change is meaningful, in the newsletter.