Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to ReadmeBuddy ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose your information when you use our website and services (collectively, the "Service"). By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

2. Information We Collect

We are committed to user privacy and collect minimal data necessary to provide our service.

• Repository and Code Data: When you provide a public GitHub repository URL or upload a local folder, we access the code and file structure for the sole purpose of analysis and README generation. This data is processed in-memory on our servers and is **never stored, logged, or saved** after the generation process is complete. Your code remains your own.
• Analytics Data: We use Firebase Analytics to collect anonymous usage data to help us understand how our Service is used. This includes information like page views, feature usage (e.g., clicks on "Generate from URL"), browser type, and operating system. This data is aggregated and cannot be used to personally identify you.

3. How We Use Your Information

The information we collect is used for the following purposes:

• To Provide and Maintain our Service: Your repository data is used exclusively to generate the README.md file.
• To Improve our Service: Anonymous analytics data helps us understand user behavior, identify popular features, and improve the overall user experience.
• To Provide Advertising: We use Google AdSense to display ads, which helps keep our service free.

4. Advertising and Cookies

We use third-party advertising companies, like Google AdSense, to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.

You can also choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.

5. Data Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. We use industry-standard security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of data. As we do not store any source code or personally identifiable information from your repositories, the risk of data exposure is minimized. All processing happens on-the-fly and is ephemeral.

6. Third-Party Services

We use third-party services like GitHub's API for fetching repository data and Google/Firebase for analytics and hosting. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party services. We encourage you to review their privacy policies.

7. Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via our official support channels listed on our website.