Privacy Policy — Intelligence Chronicle

The Feedback Form

When you use the Contact & Corrections form, we receive the message text you write and any name and email you choose to add — both optional; anonymous messages are welcome. To prevent abuse, our server also records your IP address, a coarse location derived from it (country, region, city only), your browser user-agent, and the page you came from. These are used solely to prevent spam and abuse and, where you asked, to reply. They are visible only to the operator and are never shown publicly.

How the Publication Is Made

Each edition is produced by an AI model — Anthropic’s Claude — that researches public reporting on the open web. No reader data of any kind is used to write the brief. The content is AI-generated from public sources and may contain errors; material errors are corrected in the affected edition and can be reported through the Contact & Corrections form. See About & Methodology for the fuller editorial explanation.

AI Screening of Feedback

To help triage the inbox, the message text only of a feedback submission is sent to Anthropic’s Claude to automatically flag likely spam. Your name, email, IP address, and location are never sent to the model. This is only an aid for the operator — it does not block your message and makes no legally significant or automated decision about you. A human operator reviews the inbox.

AI Providers & Training

Our AI provider is Anthropic, used both to generate editions and to screen feedback for spam. Data sent to Anthropic through its API is not used to train its models. We do not use any other AI provider; if that changes, it will be disclosed here in the same way.

Replies

If you provide an email address and the operator replies, your email address is used to send that one reply through Resend, our email delivery provider. We do not add you to any mailing list or send unsolicited email.

Analytics

We keep aggregate, cookieless page-view counts only: the date, the path viewed, the referring host, and whether the visitor looked like a bot. We do not store IP addresses in analytics, do no cross-site tracking, and build no per-visitor profiles. These aggregate counts are retained for about 365 days.

Cookies

The public site sets no cookies for readers. The only cookie-like technology you may encounter is Cloudflare Turnstile’s own technical cookies on the feedback page, which exist to distinguish humans from bots when you submit the form.

Third Parties

• Anthropic — generates editions from public sources and screens feedback message text for spam.
• Cloudflare Turnstile — bot protection on the feedback form.
• Resend — delivers the operator’s reply email to a reader who provided an address.
• IP-geolocation lookup — turns a submission’s IP address into a coarse country/region/city for abuse triage.

Purpose & Legal Basis

Under the GDPR, we rely on legitimate interest for abuse prevention and security and for aggregate, cookieless analytics. The optional name and email you type into the form are processed on the basis of your own choice (consent).

Retention

Feedback submissions are kept until they have been triaged and are no longer needed, then removed. Aggregate analytics are retained for about 365 days.

Your Rights

Where the GDPR applies, you have the right to access, correct, and request deletion of your data. To exercise any of these, contact us through the Contact & Corrections form.