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What Project Issue keeps

We store the account identifier and email used to sign in; URLs, text, images and files you deliberately save; source metadata; private extracted article text, captions, transcripts or on-device OCR; the structured Issues produced from those Saves; paired-device and push-delivery identifiers; and product events needed to understand whether capture and Issues work. If you apply to a Founding Editors cohort, we also keep the practice, weekly save range, publication preference, optional profile and short answer you submit.

We also store your current Terms acceptance, optional AI-editor permission, and any rights, privacy or safety request you submit. We do not collect advertising identifiers, sell personal data, or track you across apps and websites.

Why it is used

Data is used to capture what you share, retrieve source material, remove duplicates, infer the patterns connecting that week's Saves, generate and deliver your Issues, render your archive and deliberate public publications, secure paired devices, respond to rights requests, and measure capture, reading and weekly retention. The optional AI editor is off until you give explicit permission. Platform audiovisual transcription remains off unless the relevant provider authorizes it and a specific disclosure and permission are added.

Private input, deliberate publication

Saves and unpublished editorial material are private by default. An Issue can be private, unlisted or public. Public and unlisted Issues expose the selected editorial object, source attribution, short permitted excerpts and original links—not the private full-text reader. Anything you publish may be copied or cached by recipients and third-party services outside our control.

Processors and transfers

Cloudflare hosts the Web application, database and private uploaded objects. OpenAI provides sign-in; only when you enable the optional AI editor does OpenAI also receive the selected source URLs, titles, publishers, saved or extracted text and Issue context required for one edit. Apple receives a device token and Issue-ready notification data for push delivery. These providers may process data outside Japan. Each receives only the information needed for its task, and private service credentials stay on the server.

Retention and deletion

Account and source data remains while the account is active. You can disconnect a device without deleting the account, or permanently delete the Project Issue account from Account & Privacy on the Web or inside the iOS app. Deletion removes the account record, Saves, extracted source content, uploaded objects, Issues, relationships, cohort application, device credentials and linked analytics events from the live product. A rights, privacy or safety request and its review record may be retained separately when reasonably necessary to document and comply with that request. Security logs and infrastructure backups may persist temporarily under provider retention practices and are not used to recreate the account.

Your choices

You control Issue visibility, can revoke any capture device, can disable future AI-editor transfers, can stop saving at any time, and can delete the account without contacting support. Deleting Project Issue does not delete your ChatGPT account or content on the original source sites. For access, correction or privacy questions that cannot be completed in the product, use the rights and privacy request form or contact payphone1402@gmail.com.