Privacy Policy

DebateGuard is operated by DebateBogdan ("we", "us", the "Seller"), trading as DebateGuard. We act as the data controller for the personal data described in this policy. You can reach us at contact@debateguard.com.

We process your data on the following legal bases (UK/EU GDPR Art. 6):

• Performance of a contract — to provide accounts, run real-time fact-checking, save your debate history, and deliver the Pro subscription you purchased.
• Legitimate interests — to secure the Service, prevent abuse and fraud, debug, and improve product quality. We balance these against your rights.
• Legal obligation — to keep tax and billing records and respond to lawful requests from authorities.
• Consent — for any optional communications you opt into (e.g. product updates). You can withdraw consent at any time.

We do not sell your data and we do not use your content to train our own AI models.

We share data with the following categories of recipients, only as needed:

• Paddle.com — our payment provider and Merchant of Record for all Pro subscriptions. Paddle handles checkout, billing, sales tax/VAT, invoicing, subscription management, refunds, and chargebacks. See Paddle's Privacy Notice.
• Lovable Cloud — database, authentication, and storage hosting.
• Lovable AI Gateway (Google Gemini / OpenAI) — processes fact-checking requests.
• Cloudflare — delivery infrastructure and SSL.
• Google AdSense — serves ads on free pages; may set cookies subject to Google's policies.
• Professional advisers and authorities — where required by law (e.g. accounting, lawful requests).

Some processors above are located outside the UK/EEA (e.g. the United States). Where this happens, transfers rely on appropriate safeguards such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses or applicable adequacy decisions.

Account data and saved debates are kept until you delete your account. Unsaved session transcripts are not persisted on the server. Billing records held by Paddle and by us are kept for as long as required by tax law (typically up to 10 years). Logs are kept for up to 90 days, then deleted or anonymised.

Subject to local law (including UK/EU GDPR), you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, or port your personal data, and to object to processing based on legitimate interests. You can withdraw consent at any time and you have the right to complain to your local supervisory authority. Send requests to contact@debateguard.com; we respond within one month.

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures — including encryption in transit (HTTPS/TLS), encryption at rest for the database, access controls, and least-privilege server credentials — to protect your data.

We use essential cookies for authentication and session management. Paddle and Google AdSense may set their own cookies on pages where they appear; you can manage these via your browser settings.

The Service is not intended for people under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from minors.

We may update this policy. The current version is always available at /privacy. Significant changes will be announced by email or in the app.

Questions? Write to us at contact@debateguard.com.