Your privacy, in plain English.

• We collect the minimum we need to run August for you — mainly your website and email.
• We never sell your personal data. Full stop.
• We use trusted providers (like Stripe and our email tool) to actually run the service, and we only share what they need.
• The company and contact details in your reports come from public sources — the same public web a researcher could read.
• You can ask us to show you, export, or delete your data anytime.

August ("August," "we," "us") operates augstai.com and the August lead-research service. If you have any question about your privacy, email us at dharit@augstai.com — a real person will answer.

Information you give us. When you run a sample or buy a pack, you give us your website and your email address. If you create an account or make a purchase, we also collect your name and basic account details.

Payment information. Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number — Stripe does that securely on our behalf. We keep only a record that a payment happened and which plan you chose.

Usage information. Like most websites, we collect basic technical and usage data — pages visited, rough device and browser info, and how you move through the product — so we can keep it fast and fix what's broken.

August's job is to find businesses worth contacting and the right person to reach at each. That information — company names, public business profiles, professional roles, and public contact details — is gathered from publicly available sources on the open web on your behalf.

We process this business-contact information so we can deliver your report. We don't collect private or sensitive personal data about these contacts, and you're responsible for reaching out lawfully and respectfully (more on that in our Terms). If you're a person who appeared in a report and you'd like your details removed, see "If you're in a report" below.

• To run your research and deliver your reports.
• To email you your results, receipts, and important service updates.
• To process payments and manage your account and any weekly refresh.
• To improve August — what to fix, what to build next, what's working.
• To keep the service secure and prevent abuse or fraud.

We don't sell your personal data and we don't share it for anyone else's advertising. We do rely on a short list of trusted providers to run August, and we share only what each needs to do its job:

• Payments — Stripe, to process your purchase securely.
• Accounts & sign-in — our authentication provider, to log you in safely.
• Email — our email delivery tool, to send your reports and updates.
• Hosting & infrastructure — the platforms that run our app and store your reports.
• Analytics — a privacy-conscious analytics tool, to understand and improve usage.
• AI & data providers — the research and AI services that help gather and analyze public information.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect our rights, our users, and the public from harm. If August is ever involved in a merger or acquisition, we'll let you know before your information moves under a different privacy policy.

We'll always send you the things you asked for: your report links, receipts, and essential account notices. If you opt into a weekly refresh, you'll get that too — and you can turn it off anytime. Every marketing email has a one-click unsubscribe, and we honor it quickly.

We keep your reports and account information for as long as your account is active or as long as we need it to provide the service. When you ask us to delete your data — or when we no longer need it — we remove it, except where we're required to keep certain records (like proof of a transaction) for legal and accounting reasons.

We use encryption in transit, reputable infrastructure providers, and sensible access controls. No system is perfectly secure, but we treat your data the way we'd want ours treated, and we work only with providers who take security seriously.

Wherever you live, you can ask us to show you the personal data we hold about you, correct it, export it, or delete it. Depending on your region (for example, the EU/UK under GDPR or California under the CCPA), you may have additional rights — including the right to object to certain processing. We won't charge you or treat you differently for exercising them.

To make any request, just email dharit@augstai.com. We'll verify it's really you and take care of it.

If you're a business contact who appeared in someone's August report and you'd like your information removed from our system, email dharit@augstai.com and we'll remove it. We aim to handle these requests promptly.

We use a small number of cookies and similar technologies to keep you signed in and to understand how the product is used. You can control cookies through your browser settings; blocking some may affect how parts of the site work.

August is operated from, and your information may be processed in, countries that may have different data-protection laws than where you live. Wherever your data goes, this policy and appropriate safeguards follow it.

August is built for businesses and isn't intended for anyone under 18. We don't knowingly collect information from children.

As August grows, we may update this policy. If we make a meaningful change, we'll update the date above and, where appropriate, let you know directly. Continuing to use August after a change means you accept the updated policy.