Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 27, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to AI Tools Directory ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (https://aitoolsdirectory.xyz) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the data controller is AI Tools Directory.

2. Information We Collect

We collect and process the following categories of personal data:

  • Contact Information: Name and email address when you subscribe to our newsletter or submit contact forms.
  • Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including pages visited and time spent on each page.
  • Tool Submission Data: Information you provide when submitting AI tools to our directory.

3. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data on the following legal bases:

  • Consent: When you explicitly agree to the processing of your personal data (e.g., newsletter subscription).
  • Legitimate Interests: When processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as improving our services and preventing fraud.
  • Contract Performance: When processing is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you.
  • Legal Obligation: When we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

4. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider:

  • Newsletter subscriptions: Until you unsubscribe
  • Contact form submissions: 2 years
  • Tool submissions: Duration of listing plus 1 year
  • Technical and usage data: 26 months

5. International Transfers

We use Supabase for our database hosting, which processes data in the EU. However, some of our third-party service providers may be based outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing appropriate safeguards:

  • Using specific contracts approved by the European Commission
  • Only transferring data to countries that have been deemed to provide adequate protection
  • Using providers who are bound by specific certification schemes

6. Cookies and Tracking

Our website uses only essential cookies that are necessary for the website to function properly. We do not use any tracking or analytics cookies.

Essential cookies include:

  • Session cookies for security
  • Preference cookies to remember your settings

7. Your Data Protection Rights

Under GDPR, you have the following rights:

  • Right to Access: Obtain a copy of your personal data.
  • Right to Rectification: Correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • Right to Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: Limit how we use your data.
  • Right to Data Portability: Receive your data in a structured format.
  • Right to Object: Object to our processing of your data.
  • Rights Related to Automated Decision Making: Not be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing.

To exercise any of these rights, please email us at privacy@aitoolsdirectory.xyz or use our contact form with "Privacy Request" as the subject. We will:

  • Respond to acknowledge your request within 2 business days
  • Verify your identity to protect your privacy
  • Process your request within 30 days as required by GDPR
  • Provide your data in a structured, commonly used format (for access/export requests)
  • Confirm once your data has been removed (for deletion requests)

8. Third-Party Services

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our service, provide service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our service is used. These third parties have access to your personal data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

9. Children's Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: