Privacy policy

What we collect

When you use the email generator, the details you type (restaurant name, type, goal, offer and tone) are sent to our server and passed to an AI model on Cloudflare Workers AI to write your email. We don't save what you type or the email you get back. The goal and tone you pick from the lists are recorded by our analytics tools (see Analytics below). We don't ask for your name, email address or payment details.

Please don't type guest names, guest email addresses or other personal data into the form. The generator doesn't need them.

Technical data

Like any website, our hosting provider, Cloudflare, processes technical data such as your IP address to deliver pages, block abuse and allow up to 8 generator requests a minute from each connection. Our pages load their heading font from Google Fonts, so Google also receives your IP address when you visit. We don't use advertising cookies.

Analytics

We use two analytics tools, Google Analytics and PVUV.ai, to count visits, see where visitors come from and learn which parts of the site are useful. Both load on every page of the site and both set cookies as soon as a page opens. We don't use either tool for advertising.

What you type into the generator (restaurant name, type of restaurant, and offer or details) and the email it writes are not sent to either tool. PVUV.ai does learn that you started or submitted the form, and when an email is written we send both tools a generate_email event with the goal and tone you picked from the two lists.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is provided by Google. On each visit it receives the address and title of the page, the page you came from, your browser, device, operating system, screen size and language, an approximate location that Google works out from your IP address (Google says Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses), random identifiers kept in cookies, and how long the page was in view. Google's optional enhanced measurement, which would also record scrolling, clicks on links to other sites and form use, is turned off.

It sets two cookies: _ga, a random ID that tells visitors apart, and _ga_5HBS4C6LSS, which keeps the state of your current visit. Google sets both to last 2 years; some browsers, such as Chrome, keep cookies for at most 400 days.

Google keeps event and user-level data for 14 months. For returning visitors, the 14 months for user-level data run from the most recent visit. This limit does not apply to the aggregated totals in Google's standard reports. We have not turned on Google signals and have not linked Google Ads. Google may process this data in the United States and other countries. Google explains how it uses data from sites that use its services.

PVUV.ai

PVUV.ai is an analytics service that tells human visitors from bots. Its script sends PVUV.ai the full address of the page, the page you came from, the campaign tags (utm_source and similar) in the address, random visitor and visit identifiers, your screen size, language and time zone, how long the page was visible and how far you scrolled, summary figures about mouse movement (not the path), the label of each button or link you click (up to 24 characters of its text), the fact that you started or submitted the generator form (the form's ID only), the address of links you follow to other sites, page loading speed, and the first 200 characters of any JavaScript error message on the page.

To spot bots, the script runs checks in your browser, such as looking for signs of an automated browser, drawing a small test image and, on Android devices, checking for about two seconds whether the motion sensor reports readings. It sends the results as yes or no flags and small counts, not the image or the sensor readings.

It sets three cookies: _pv_id, a random visitor ID kept for up to about 13 months and renewed on each visit, which is also saved in your browser's local storage with no expiry date; _pv_sid, kept for 24 hours, with a random ID, the time and the campaign tags of your current visit; and _pv_ft, kept for up to about 13 months, with the page you first came from and the campaign tags of your first visit.

PVUV.ai's servers receive your IP address and browser details with each request, as any web server does. PVUV.ai says its analytics records hold keyed hashes of IP addresses rather than the addresses themselves, that its hosting and security providers may separately process IP addresses and request logs, and that it works out an approximate location from network information. It also says its traffic-quality checks can use hashed fingerprint information. It does not promise a fixed period after which analytics data is deleted, or a particular country where data is stored. See the PVUV.ai privacy policy.

Where you first came from

The first time you open the site, a small script of ours saves the page you came from, any campaign tags in the address, the page you landed on and the time in your browser's local storage, under the name first_touch. It is saved once and stays in your browser: we don't send it to our server or to anyone else.

When you arrive from another website, or through a link with campaign tags, our server also sets first-party cookies for 30 days: first_referrer, with the address of the page that linked to us (without its query string), and one cookie per campaign tag (utm_source and similar). Your browser sends them back to our server with each request, but we don't store them anywhere or share them with anyone.

If we later add accounts or paid plans and start saving this information with an account, we'll update this page first.

Opting out of analytics

To stop both tools, use a content blocker that blocks their scripts (from googletagmanager.com and pvuv.ai). The generator works the same with them blocked. For Google Analytics alone, Google offers an opt-out add-on for desktop browsers. Blocking cookies alone does not stop the data being sent; it only makes repeat visits harder to recognize.

To remove what is stored in your browser, clear this site's cookies and site data. Clearing cookies alone leaves the PVUV.ai visitor ID and the first_touch entry in local storage. Neither step deletes what Google and PVUV.ai have already received.

Changes

If how we handle data changes, we'll update this page and the date above. Questions? Contact us.