Privacy Policy

Last updated: 13 August 2026

This policy explains what ALOP-AI collects, who it is shared with, and what you can do about it. It is written to be read, not to be skimmed past. If anything here is unclear, ask us.

1. Who we are

ALOP-AI is operated by Mohamed Fateh Douba, a sole trader established in the United Arab Emirates (“we”, “us”). We are the data controller for the personal data described in this policy.

Postal address: Style Tower 2603, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Privacy contact: privacy@alop-ai.com

2. Who may use ALOP-AI

You must be at least 13 years old to use ALOP-AI. If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you must be at least 16.

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children below these ages. If we learn that we have, we will delete the account and its data. If you believe a child has created an account, email privacy@alop-ai.com and we will act promptly.

3. What we collect

You give us

We generate or observe

Search caching. To keep the service fast, the text of a generated search query and its results are cached for up to 15 minutes and may serve another user who asks a similar question. This cache is not linked to your account — it holds no user identifier — but it does contain text derived from messages. It is never readable by other users directly.
Answer caching. When a question can be answered without anything specific to you, we store the answer and reuse it for anyone who asks the same question. This makes the second asking instant, and it is how the service stays inside the daily model allowance it shares between all of its users.

A cached answer is stored against a fingerprint of the question, your language, your country, your plan and whether you asked for detail. It carries no user identifier and cannot be traced back to you.

We do not cache an answer that was shaped by anything about you. If the reply drew on your conversation history, your chat summary, anything the service remembers about you, your learned preferences, an image you attached or a file you uploaded, then no fingerprint is calculated and nothing is stored or reused. That is enforced in the code rather than by policy: those turns never produce a cache key at all.

Cached answers expire on their own — an hour for anything you asked about the present, six hours for anything drawn from a web search, and seven days otherwise. They are never readable by other users directly.

4. Why we use it, and our legal basis

PurposeLegal basis (UK/EU GDPR)
Providing chat, search, image generation and screen analysisPerformance of our contract with you
Managing your account and enforcing plan limitsPerformance of our contract with you
Taking payment and managing subscriptionsPerformance of our contract with you
Caching search results and non-personal answers so the service stays fast and within its shared daily model allowanceOur legitimate interest in a service that works for everyone using it
Preventing abuse, rate limiting, and security investigationOur legitimate interest in keeping the service available and safe
Diagnosing errors and improving reliabilityOur legitimate interest in a working product
Meeting tax, accounting and legal obligationsCompliance with a legal obligation

We do not use your conversations to train our own models, and we do not sell your personal data.

5. Who we share it with

ALOP-AI is built on third-party services. The tables below list the processors that receive your data, and what each one receives. Several of these are outside the UAE, including in the United States. Where a service is reached directly by your browser rather than by our server, we say so, because in those cases it also sees your IP address.

Services that receive your conversation content

ServiceWhat it receivesWhy
OpenRouter, Inc. (upstream providers: NVIDIA, InclusionAI, OpenAI, Poolside and Google)Your messages and conversation historyOpenRouter is an LLM API gateway that routes prompts to upstream model providers. All council model inference is routed through it
Google (Gemini API)Images, screen captures and message textVision analysis and text processing
Brave SearchGenerated search queriesWeb search results
TavilyGenerated search queriesWeb search results
Google (Custom Search)Generated search queriesWeb and image search results
WikipediaTopic lookupsReference information
Jina AIURLs of pages to be readExtracting readable text from web pages
Pollinations.aiYour image-generation promptsGenerating images

Infrastructure and operations

ServiceWhat it receivesWhy
ClerkAccount and authentication dataSign-in and session management
SupabaseAccount records, chats, usage and audit logsOur database
StripePayment and subscription dataProcessing payments. Stripe is a controller in its own right for card data — see Stripe's privacy policy
VercelRequests to the website, including IP addressHosting and delivering the frontend
RenderAPI requests, including IP addressHosting the backend
SentryError reports, which may include request contextDiagnosing crashes (only when enabled)
Google FontsYour IP address when a page loadsDelivering the site's typeface

We also disclose personal data where we are legally required to, or where it is necessary to establish or defend legal claims or protect someone's safety.

6. International transfers

The services above process data in a number of countries, including the United States. Where data leaves the UK or EEA, we rely on the receiving provider's own transfer safeguards — typically Standard Contractual Clauses or an adequacy decision. You can ask us for details of the safeguards that apply to a particular provider.

7. How long we keep it

DataRetention
Chats and messagesUntil you delete them or close your account
Account recordUntil you close your account
Usage countsFor the current billing period, plus a rolling history for limit enforcement
Audit log, including IP addresses90 days
Cached search queries and results15 minutes
Cached answers to non-personal questions1 hour, 6 hours or 7 days, depending on how quickly the answer goes out of date. No user identifier is stored with them
Uploaded filesWith the chat they belong to; deleted with it
Screen capturesNot stored on our servers after the response is produced
Billing recordsAs required by tax and accounting law, typically 5 years

8. Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us to:

You can delete individual chats and your account from within the app. For anything else, email privacy@alop-ai.com. We will respond within 30 days. We will not charge you or degrade your service for exercising these rights.

If you are in the UK or EEA and think we have handled your data badly, you may complain to your national data protection authority. We would rather you told us first.

9. California residents

This section applies if you live in California, under the CCPA as amended by the CPRA.

Categories of personal information we have collected in the past 12 months:

We collect these from you directly and from the services listed in section 5. We use them for the purposes in section 4, and we disclose them to the processors in section 5 for business purposes only.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We have not done so in the past 12 months. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16. Because we do not sell or share, an opt-out is not required — but we will honour a Global Privacy Control signal as an opt-out request regardless.

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes requiring a right to limit. You have the right to know, delete, correct, and to be free from discrimination for exercising any of these. You may use an authorised agent; we may ask them to prove they act for you. Requests go to privacy@alop-ai.com.

10. Security

All traffic is encrypted in transit with TLS. Database access is restricted by row-level security so one account cannot read another's data. API endpoints are rate limited, and administrative access requires several independent credentials.

No system is perfectly secure, and we will not pretend otherwise. If a breach affects your personal data and creates a real risk to you, we will tell you and the relevant authority without undue delay.

11. Automated decisions

ALOP-AI generates answers automatically. It does not make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you. Its output can be wrong, and you should not rely on it as professional, legal, medical or financial advice.

12. Changes

We may update this policy. If a change materially affects your rights, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. The date at the top always reflects the current version.

13. Contact

privacy@alop-ai.com