Privacy policies, made simple.
Plainlyst reads the privacy policies most people never have time to read — showing what companies say they collect, use, and share, and what you can do about it.
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Why this matters. A draft feels private because you never pressed send. Whether one is kept depends on where an app stores what you type.
This includes any content that you upload to the service. For example, you may write messages or posts (including drafts), send voice messages, create custom emojis, or post other content that you create with features that we develop. You may also upload and share files through the services.
From the Discord Privacy Policy
Still growing. Companies, findings and verified controls are added as more policies are read. These figures are counted from what has been published, not estimated.
Every finding is read out of a company's own published privacy documents — what it says it gathers, from your location and your messages to biometrics and the things you never pressed send on.
Collection is only half the question. Plainlyst records what a policy says about who else receives the information, what it is used for, and how long it is kept after you leave.
Where a company documents a real setting, Plainlyst verifies it and shows the steps — including what the setting does not change, and what may stop working if you use it.
Plainlyst reads a company's published privacy documents in full.
Every disclosure is reviewed, and the ones that change what a reasonable person would expect are kept.
Each finding gets a plain sentence, why it matters, and the company's own wording underneath it.
Where a company documents a real setting, Plainlyst verifies it and shows the steps — including what it does not change.
Why this matters. Background means the app is open but not on your screen. Phone settings usually let you choose between this and sharing location only while you are using the app.
Geolocation Information, if you have consented by enabling location access, we may receive and store your precise location information, including when our apps are running in the foreground (our app is open and on screen) or background (our app is open, not on screen) of your device.
From the DoorDash Privacy Policy
Why this matters. Anything published openly on the web can become training material without anyone being asked.
To power features such as search and as a source for our foundational AI models, Apple uses Applebot, a web crawler, to crawl information that is publicly available on the internet. We have measures in place to reduce the amount of personal data we collect and make no attempt to connect data crawled to any individual Apple user, or to build profiles about individuals.
From the Apple Privacy Policy
Every finding is read out of a company's own published privacy documents.
The sentence a finding came from is shown with it, so you can check us.
Where the wording does not support a finding, we leave it out rather than soften it.
No scores, no rankings, no safe-or-unsafe. Counts and comparisons only.
Every finding is read out of a company's own published privacy policy. Each one is shown with the wording it came from, so you can check our summary against the source without leaving the page. Nothing is inferred about a company beyond what its policy states.
Reports highlight selected disclosures and do not claim to capture every practice or detail. A finding is our reading of a sentence, not a legal conclusion, and none of this is legal advice.
We do not score, grade or rank companies. A report with more findings is a report where our reading found more to record, which is as much a fact about the length of the policy as about the company.
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Plainlyst is operated by JC RESERVE LLC, a limited liability company registered in the United States. It is built and run by one small company. There is no advertising in it, no data collected about the people who read it, and nothing sold to anybody.
It does not rate companies, and it never will. What a policy says is a fact worth reporting. What that makes a company is a judgment, and it is yours to make.
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