Sourcely.net is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share your personal information when you visit our website or use our services.
We collect personal information from you when you:
The personal information we collect may include your name, email address, phone number, and other contact information. We may also collect information about your use of our website and services, such as your IP address, browser type, and operating system.
We use your personal information to:
We may share your personal information with third parties who help us provide our services, such as our payment processors and email marketing providers. We may also share your personal information with third parties if we are required to do so by law or if we believe that sharing is necessary to protect our rights or the rights of others.
You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information. You also have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications from us. You can exercise these rights by contacting us at contact@sourcely.net
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. You have the right to request your data in a format that allows you to transfer it to another service provider. If we transfer your data outside the EU, we ensure that the destination country provides an adequate level of data protection. For any concerns or objections regarding data processing, please contact us. If you believe your data protection rights have been violated, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country.
We take steps to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. These steps include using secure servers and encryption technology.
Sourcely offers a developer API and a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that let other software, including AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT, run Sourcely searches on your behalf. This section describes what we receive and keep when you use them.
Submitted text and search results are held only for a short time so that you can retrieve them, and are then deleted automatically. You can delete a search earlier through the API or the MCP server. What remains is a usage record for billing and support, without your text.
As with the rest of Sourcely, searches are powered in part by third-party language model and academic search services, which process what they receive only to return results to us and may retain it under their own policies. We do not use your submitted text to train models, and we do not sell it.
When you connect Sourcely to an AI assistant through the MCP server, the assistant and the company that runs it receive what the Sourcely tools return, together with the text the assistant sent us. How that company handles it is governed by its own privacy policy. You can see and revoke connected assistants on the API and MCP page in Sourcely at any time, which stops the assistant from making further requests.
We record usage events about API and MCP requests, such as that a search ran, whether it succeeded and what was charged. These events are tied to your account and are used to run the service, prevent abuse and improve it. They never contain the text you submit or the results you receive.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any significant changes, we will notify you by email or through a prominent notice on our website.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@sourcely.net
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