Privacy policy

Newsletter and Resend

Newsletter subscription is optional. It asks for an email address, the language of the mailing and consent. The public form does not record a name.

Atlas Limits keeps the address, the language, the subscription status, the associated dates and the hash of the unsubscribe token, in order to send the newsletter and to honour a request to stop it.

Mailing is sent through Resend. Delivery, bounce and complaint notices update the status of the address. Atlas Limits keeps the type of notice, a provider message identifier and a hash of the notification, not the body of the message.

Each mailing contains an unsubscribe link. Using it stops later mailings. The address is kept with the status unsubscribed. The link does not erase it.

A signup limiter stores a hash calculated from the IP address and a counter of attempts. Those rows are not an account and are not deleted automatically.

Ask Atlas and OpenAI

Ask Atlas is an optional feature of the website. A question is sent to Atlas Limits systems. When the feature is active, it is sent to OpenAI in order to produce the answer. Excerpts from the Atlas Limits corpus that are needed for the answer may accompany the question. From a publication, the identifier of that public page may also be sent so that the answer can refer to it.

The browser may attach up to six messages from the same visit. That history stays in the memory of the page. It is not written to the editorial database and disappears when the page is closed.

When the feature is active, the configuration in use asks the API not to retain the Response as application state where that option applies. The provider may nevertheless retain some data temporarily under its own security, abuse-prevention and retention terms.

To limit abuse, Atlas Limits computes a pseudonymised fingerprint from the IP address. That fingerprint is used for security and to limit the number of requests. It is not a user account. The IP address is not sent in clear text to OpenAI for this purpose. When an Ask request is sent to OpenAI, a security identifier derived from that fingerprint may accompany the request in order to prevent or detect abuse. That identifier is not an Atlas account, an advertising identifier, or a permanent device identifier.

Under the current implementation, the text of Ask questions is not stored in the Atlas Limits editorial database.

In the Android application, the question is sent only when the mobile feature is enabled. When it is not enabled, the request is refused before a fingerprint is calculated and before any question is sent to OpenAI. When it is enabled, the question follows the same processing as on the website.

Retention

The retention period of the host logs is not stated here. Data processed by OpenAI and by Resend remains subject to their own periods, which are not set in this policy.

The language cookie remains for one year in the browser, unless the reader deletes it. The administration cookies last seven days.

Ask Atlas rate-limit rows are deleted when a later Ask request runs and their last update is older than 48 hours. That deletion does not start by itself if no new request arrives. It does not delete the newsletter signup limiter rows.

Ask Atlas hourly aggregates older than 90 days are deleted when a new aggregate is recorded. They record a language, a result and a duration. They contain neither the text of a question nor an IP address.

An address subscribed to the newsletter is kept for that service, including after unsubscription, until a deletion request has been carried out. No automatic erasure period is implemented.

The signup journal keeps a hash of the address and the outcome of the request, not the content of a message. No automatic period is defined for that journal.

Data deletion

To request deletion of data, write to Atlas Limits and state that the request is for deletion. If it concerns the newsletter, give the address concerned. There is no separate form and no account page.

Address for the request: contact@atlaslimits.com.

The unsubscribe link stops mailings immediately and keeps the address. Erasure of the stored address is not a self-service control. The service does not apply an automatic processing deadline, so no response time is stated here.

The request may concern the newsletter record Atlas Limits holds, that is the address, the language, the status and the associated dates, and the sending rows that contain that address.

It does not erase what Atlas Limits does not hold as a profile. Bookmarks, downloads, reading progress and settings remain on the device and are removed in the application. The text of Ask questions is not stored in the editorial database. Search terms are not kept there as a history.

Ask Atlas rate-limit rows older than 48 hours are removed by the technical rule described above, when a later Ask request runs. Aggregates older than 90 days are removed when a new aggregate is recorded. These records are not accounts and cannot be selected from an email address.

Copies that OpenAI or Resend may keep under their own terms, and host logs whose retention period is not stated, are not erased by this request. The signup journal, limited to a hash and the outcome, has no automatic period and is not erased by a scheduled process.