Authoria Privacy Policy

Information You Provide to Us

When you create an Authoria account, purchase services, or contact us, we may collect information such as:

• Name
• Email address
• Business name
• Business type
• Business address
• Phone number
• Website
• Whether you are acting on behalf of an agency
• Publishers and markets you select
• Communications with Authoria
• Other information you voluntarily provide

We may also collect information necessary to create and maintain your Business Spotlight.

Publicly Available Business Information

Authoria may research publicly available information about businesses in order to prepare, verify, or update Business Spotlight content.

This may include information found on:

• business websites;
• public directories;
• review platforms;
• professional directories;
• social profiles; and
• other publicly available sources.

Payment Information

Payments may be processed by a third-party payment processor.

Authoria may receive limited transaction information, such as payment status, billing contact information, transaction amount, and payment method type. We generally do not receive or store complete credit-card numbers.

Website and Usage Information

When you visit an Authoria website or Authoria-powered page, we may automatically collect information such as:

• IP address;
• browser and device information;
• referring URL;
• pages viewed;
• date and time of access;
• approximate geographic location;
• interactions with the website; and
• technical and diagnostic information.

Authoria is designed in part to make business information accessible to search engines, AI systems, and other automated services.

We may collect information about automated crawlers accessing Authoria-powered pages, including:

• crawler or bot identity;
• IP address;
• user-agent information;
• pages accessed;
• date and time of access; and
• frequency of access.

We may use this information for analytics, reporting, security, product improvement, and measurement of crawler activity.

Authoria may use services such as Google Analytics, Cloudflare, and similar analytics, infrastructure, security, and measurement providers.

These services may use cookies, server logs, IP addresses, device identifiers, or similar technologies to help us:

• understand website usage;
• measure traffic;
• measure crawler activity;
• maintain security;
• prevent fraud and abuse;
• troubleshoot technical issues; and
• improve Authoria.

Authoria does not use publisher audience data for retargeting, advertising, sale, or unrelated commercial purposes unless expressly authorized by the applicable publisher.

Authoria-powered publisher pages will not contain additional advertising or remarketing pixels placed by Authoria unless such practices have been disclosed and approved by the applicable publisher.

We may use information to:

• provide and operate Authoria;
• create and publish Business Spotlights;
• manage advertiser accounts;
• process transactions;
• communicate with customers;
• provide customer support;
• recommend available publishers and markets;
• measure AI crawler and search-engine activity;
• analyze performance;
• improve our services;
• prevent fraud, abuse, and security threats;
• enforce our Terms of Service; and
• comply with applicable law.

We may disclose information in the following circumstances.

Participating Publishers

We may provide information to participating publishers as necessary to create, review, publish, maintain, or remove a Business Spotlight.

Information intended for publication in a Business Spotlight will become publicly available.

Service Providers

We may use vendors that assist with functions such as:

• hosting;
• analytics;
• security;
• payment processing;
• email;
• customer support;
• software infrastructure; and
• business operations.

These providers may access information only as necessary to perform services for Authoria.

Legal Requirements

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

• comply with law or legal process;
• respond to lawful government requests;
• enforce agreements;
• investigate fraud or security incidents; or
• protect the rights, property, or safety of Authoria, Saambaa, our customers, publishers, or others.

Business Transactions

Information may be transferred in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar transaction involving Saambaa or Authoria.

Authoria does not sell personal information for monetary consideration.

Authoria does not use publisher audience data for cross-context behavioral advertising, retargeting, or unrelated marketing without the applicable publisher's approval.

Certain analytics or technology providers may process website information on our behalf as described in this Policy.

Where applicable law provides rights regarding the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information, we will honor legally required requests and preference signals.

Business Spotlights are intended to be publicly available.

Information included in an approved Business Spotlight may therefore be:

• viewed by the public;
• indexed by search engines;
• accessed by AI crawlers;
• incorporated into search or AI systems; and
• cached or archived by third parties.

Once information has been accessed or indexed by an independent third party, Authoria may not be able to control or remove copies maintained by that third party.

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

• provide Authoria services;
• maintain business and transaction records;
• comply with legal obligations;
• resolve disputes;
• enforce agreements; and
• protect against fraud and abuse.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information.

However, no internet transmission, storage system, or security measure can guarantee absolute security.

Depending on where you reside, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:

• request access to personal information;
• request correction of inaccurate information;
• request deletion of certain information;
• obtain information about how your information is used or disclosed; and
• exercise other rights provided by applicable privacy laws.

To submit a privacy request, contact us at hello@getauthoria.com.

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

California residents may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act, including rights to know, correct, and delete certain personal information and to limit certain uses or disclosures where applicable.

Authoria will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights provided by law.

Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by California law.

Authoria may use cookies and similar technologies necessary for:

• site functionality;
• security;
• analytics;
• performance measurement; and
• remembering user preferences.

You may be able to control cookies through your browser or device settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.

Authoria is intended for businesses and is not directed to children under 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Authoria may contain links to publisher websites, payment providers, review platforms, or other third-party services.

Those services maintain their own privacy practices, and Authoria is not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically.

When we make changes, we will revise the “Last Updated” date above. Material changes may also be communicated through the Authoria website or other appropriate means.

Questions or requests concerning this Privacy Policy may be directed to: