Privacy notice

The short version

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When you read the site

Each request is logged with the time, page, country, referring site, browser user agent and, for MCP calls, the method, tool and client name. Instead of your IP address we store a short one-way hash of your IP, user agent and the day, which lets us count unique readers without knowing who you are. The detailed log keeps roughly the latest 20,000 requests, and older days are folded into daily totals.

When you ask Handy AI a question

Your question is sent to Anthropic, whose Claude model writes the answer, and the model may search the web for it. We keep the question, your country, the sources used, the cost and timing in our logs so we can watch quality and spend. To apply the daily limit we store a salted one-way hash of your IP address and the day, deleted after three days.

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Who else handles data

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