Privacy Notice

Policy snapshot: This notice explains how The Great Debate Today handles account, classroom, moderation, and billing information during normal operation.

Plain English: This notice covers the account, concierge, and classroom data we need to run the site.

Scope and who this notice covers

This Privacy Notice applies to The Great Debate Today websites, member areas, checkout surfaces, support requests, and related launch pages operated by Aeliana AI, LLC. It describes how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when people visit the site, create an account, buy a plan, request support, use educator or admin tools, or otherwise interact with the product.

If a school, district, newsroom, or enterprise customer uses the service under a separate written agreement, that agreement may add privacy, security, or student-data requirements. When a separate written agreement imposes stricter protections, those stricter protections control for that deployment.

Plain English: We collect the basics needed for accounts, billing, support, and the News Desk experience.

Information we collect

Account and identity data: name, email address, login and password-reset events, linked sign-in provider information, and account role or membership status.
Usage and device data: IP address or approximate location derived from it, browser type, device signals, page views, session events, referral data, and troubleshooting diagnostics.
Content you provide: support requests, feedback, feature requests, compare-report inputs, classroom notes you intentionally submit, concierge prompts, and other text you send through the service.
Product operations and moderation data: safety reviews, educator or admin setting changes, override logs, and records used to investigate abuse, fraud, or policy violations.
Billing and entitlement data: plan selection, purchase state, renewal status, refund correspondence, and identifiers needed to confirm or restore access. Payment card details are typically handled by our payment processors rather than stored in full by us.
Cookies and similar technologies: browser storage used for sign-in continuity, preferences, privacy choices, analytics consent, and related site functionality.

Plain English: We use your data to run the product, keep it safe, and respond to you.

How we use information

To provide, maintain, secure, and improve the service, including accounts, memberships, support, compare reports, ANN briefings, and classroom features.
To personalize the experience, display the right entitlements, remember settings, keep educator-only or admin-only tools properly scoped, and remember News Desk or ANN News Daily preferences where your account allows it.
To monitor product health, diagnose bugs, analyze site performance, and understand which pages or features are working well.
To detect abuse, investigate fraud, enforce policies, maintain platform integrity, and document moderator or administrator actions where review is needed.
To communicate about account activity, purchases, service updates, support tickets, privacy requests, safety concerns, and legal obligations.
To review, test, and improve AI-assisted summary quality, safety systems, and moderation workflows. That may include human review of submitted content or product-related records where reasonably necessary for operations, support, or safety.

Plain English: Generated content and moderation logs may be kept so we can make the product work and review problems.

Generated content and moderation records

The Great Debate Today includes generated summaries, compare briefs, concierge responses, and role-based controls. To operate those features, we may retain prompts, report metadata, story-context notes, concierge requests, and moderation notes for quality review, abuse prevention, audit trails, and product improvement. We try to limit access to those records to people and service providers who need it for legitimate business, safety, or legal purposes.

Generated outputs can reflect patterns in training data, prompt context, or real-time system behavior. They are generated content, not verified statements of company belief, and they should not be treated as a substitute for primary reporting, professional advice, or school policy.

Plain English: Necessary browser storage keeps sign-in and preferences working; optional analytics stays optional.

Cookies, browser storage, and analytics

We use necessary cookies or local browser storage to keep sign-in, entitlement checks, security features, privacy choices, and display settings working.
We may use analytics and diagnostic tools to understand traffic, usage trends, and product performance. Where required by law, we expect those tools to be subject to consent or other legally valid controls.
Optional analytics is scoped to page and feature usage. It is not set up to collect the text of compare-report drafts or private support submissions from this site.
You may be able to manage some cookie behavior through browser settings, privacy signals, or on-site preference controls. Blocking necessary storage may cause parts of the service not to work as intended.

Plain English: We share data only with service providers, legal requests, or business transactions when needed.

We share information with service providers that help us operate the service, such as hosting, analytics, authentication, billing, communications, security, moderation, and technical support vendors.
We may share information within Aeliana AI, LLC and its controlled affiliates as needed to run, secure, support, and improve the product.
We may disclose information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to legal process, protect users, enforce our terms, or investigate abuse, fraud, or safety incidents.
As of this launch surface, we do not intend to sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising in the ordinary meaning of those terms. If that changes materially, we would expect to update this notice and any required user controls.
If the business is involved in a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, or asset sale, relevant information may be disclosed as part of that process subject to customary confidentiality and legal obligations.

Plain English: We do not aim this at children, and schools should preview sensitive topics before use.

Children, students, and school use

The general consumer version of The Great Debate Today is not intended to be directed to children under 13. If a school or educator uses the service with students, the school or educator is responsible for deciding whether the use is appropriate, what notices or permissions are required, and whether student access is allowed under local policy or law.

If we learn that personal information from a child was collected in a way that does not fit applicable law or a permitted school context, we expect to investigate and take appropriate steps, which may include deletion or access restrictions.

Plain English: You can ask us to access, correct, delete, or copy eligible data.

Your choices and privacy rights

You may request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a copy of certain personal information by contacting [email protected].
Depending on where you live, you may also have rights to object to certain processing, appeal a denial, limit use of sensitive information, or opt out of sales or sharing if those concepts apply under your local law.
We may need to verify your identity before completing a request, and we may deny or limit a request when the law allows us to do so.
Account cancellation, sign-out, cookie controls, and membership cancellation are separate from a formal privacy request and may not remove all records we are required or permitted to keep.

Plain English: We keep records long enough to run the service, handle disputes, and meet legal duties.

Retention and security

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, support accounts, maintain audit trails, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, comply with law, and enforce our agreements.
Different categories of information may be kept for different lengths of time. For example, billing records, security logs, and moderation records may be retained longer than routine viewing history when needed for legal, accounting, or safety reasons.
No internet system is perfectly secure. We use administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to reduce risk, but we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Plain English: If we change the policy, we will update this notice and tell you when required.

Changes to this notice

We may update this notice to reflect changes in the service, applicable law, our providers, or our data practices. When required, we will provide additional notice or obtain any consent that the law requires for a material change.

Plain English: Privacy requests go to legal, and billing questions should include the account email.

Contact

If you have a privacy question or want to submit a request, email [email protected]. For billing or entitlement issues, include the account email and enough detail for us to identify the purchase or session involved.