Privacy Policy

How shippedit collects, uses, shares, and protects information for accounts, launch submissions, plans and payments, site insights, digest emails, and platform security.

Who we are

shippedit is a product launch directory for builders. Contact us at nowshad@shippedit.me for privacy requests or questions.

Information we collect

• Account data such as your name, email address, avatar, OAuth provider profile data, and session records.
• Launch submission data such as product name, tagline, description, URL, categories, pricing, media, social links, and comments.
• Payment metadata including checkout identifiers, payment status, amount, and timestamps. We do not store full card numbers.
• Subscription data for plan subscribers: the billing provider's subscription and customer identifiers, your plan's name, price and limits (stored as a snapshot on your subscription record), subscription status, and current billing period dates.
• Site insights data: automated scan results for submitted websites — performance metrics, security check results (including the Google Safe Browsing verdict), AI-readiness audit findings — plus scan timestamps and counters for manual re-check usage.
• Email preferences data such as subscription type, notification choices, unsubscribe status, and delivery metadata.
• Technical data such as IP-derived request context, browser/device information, upload metadata, rate-limit counters, and security diagnostics.

How we use information

• To create accounts, authenticate users, and keep sessions secure.
• To accept, review, schedule, publish, and moderate product submissions. All submissions are reviewed by an admin before going live.
• To review and approve ad slot bookings before they go live.
• To process featured launch payments, manage plan subscriptions, confirm orders, handle refunds, and keep payment records.
• To send transactional emails, product digests, and admin alerts.
• To run scheduled and on-demand site scans, generate AI fix suggestions, and keep insights current.
• To operate uploads, AI prefill, duplicate detection, badge checks, search, analytics, spam prevention, and platform security.

Public content

Submitted products, product pages, logos, screenshots, websites, categories, upvotes, and similar content may become public after review. Do not submit confidential information or content you are not authorized to share.

Payments and subscriptions

Payments are processed by Dodo Payments. They handle card and payment method details under their own privacy and security practices. We store only the transaction and subscription metadata needed to confirm payment, apply your plan, provide support, prevent duplicate charges, handle refunds, and maintain business records.

Cookies and local storage

We use a small number of browser storage mechanisms to run the service: a pseudonymous visitor cookie (dob_cid) that counts aggregate visits and clicks for launch analytics without identifying you or tracking you across other websites, and a session token kept in your browser's local storage to keep you signed in (it is sent only to shippedit's own API). We do not run third-party advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

Free report tool emails

If you leave your email address at the free site-report tool (for example when you hit the monthly scan limit), we store it with your consent to send you your report link and the account signup that keeps it — one email, plus an unsubscribe link in every message that deletes the address when used. We never add these addresses to account or marketing lists without an account, and we do not share them with third parties.

Service providers

We use service providers to run the platform — hosting on a virtual private server, Cloudflare for DNS, MongoDB Atlas for the database, Dodo Payments for payment processing, Google's PageSpeed and Chrome UX Report APIs for performance data, a headless-browser provider (Browserless) for page rendering, Open PageRank for domain authority data, an AI provider (Z.ai) for automated product analysis and fix suggestions, and an email delivery provider for transactional and digest email. These providers process information only as needed to provide their services to us. We do not sell personal information.

Email choices

Your account starts with product emails switched on — launch notifications for your products and a weekly performance digest. You can turn any of these off in your dashboard settings, and every digest or marketing email includes an unsubscribe link. Transactional emails about your account, submission, payment, or security may still be sent when needed to operate the service.

Retention

We keep information for as long as needed to provide the service, maintain public listings, process payments, resolve disputes, enforce terms, prevent abuse, and comply with legal obligations.

Your rights

You can request access, correction, deletion, or export of personal information by contacting nowshad@shippedit.me. We may need to verify your identity and may retain records where required for legal, security, payment, or abuse-prevention reasons.

Children

shippedit is not directed at children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16.

Changes

We may update this policy as the platform changes. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.