Privacy Policy

Maraudr ("we", "us") is operated by Auberon LLC in Washington, United States, and provides a competitive-intelligence service that monitors public sources for activity about companies you ask us to track, scores that activity with AI, and surfaces it to you. Auberon LLC is the data controller for the Service. This policy explains what personal data we collect, why, and who processes it.

Information we collect

• Account information. Your email address, and — if you sign in with Google — your name and profile image as provided by Google. We do not receive your Google password.
• Onboarding details you give us. The product, competitors, category, and preferences you submit so we can set up your account.
• Usage and technical data. Basic request metadata (e.g. a hashed IP address, browser user-agent) for security and abuse prevention, and your in-app actions such as feedback ratings.
• Monitoring data. The competitor signals we collect are drawn from public sources across the web — for example, public posts and pages on social platforms, developer communities, review sites, and forums, plus RSS feeds and other public web pages. This is information about the companies you track. It may include personal data of the people who posted that public content (such as a username and what they wrote), which we process only to surface and classify competitor signals.

How we use it

• To create and operate your account and authenticate your sign-in.
• To build and run your monitoring — collecting, classifying, and delivering competitor signals.
• To send you the emails you've opted into (sign-in links, alerts, the weekly digest) and important service notices.
• To secure the service and prevent abuse.

We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use it for advertising.

Cookies

In the Maraudr app (app.maraudr.com) we use essential cookies only — to keep you signed in and to secure the service. We don't use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies there.

On our public marketing site (maraudr.com) we use privacy-friendly, cookieless product analytics (Vercel Web Analytics) to understand visits in aggregate, plus a single cookie that remembers which version of the page you were shown. No advertising or cross-site tracking.

Service providers

We share data only with the categories of service providers that run the service for us, and only as needed to operate it:

• Cloud hosting and database — to run the application and store account and signal data.
• AI processing — to classify and summarize signals.
• Email delivery — to send sign-in links, alerts, and the weekly digest.
• Web data retrieval and search — to fetch and find public content from the sources you track.
• Product analytics — privacy-friendly, aggregate usage measurement on our marketing site (see Cookies above).
• Google — only if you choose Google sign-in, to authenticate you. We use your Google account data solely to sign you in and create your account.

We do not sell your personal data or share it for advertising. Data is processed and stored in the United States, and the service is intended for users in the United States.

Want the specific vendors behind these categories? Email privacy@maraudr.com and we'll share our current list.

Data retention

We keep your account data while your account is active. You can ask us to delete your account and associated data at any time (see Contact below) and we will remove it, except where we must retain limited records for legal or security reasons.

Your choices

• You can unsubscribe from the weekly digest from any digest email or in your settings.
• You can request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data by emailing privacy@maraudr.com.

Security

We use reputable infrastructure providers and standard safeguards to protect your data. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information.

Children

The Service is not directed to anyone under 18, and we don't knowingly collect personal data from children. If we learn that we have, we'll delete it.

Changes

We may update this policy as the product evolves. We'll revise the "last updated" date above and, for material changes, notify you by email.

Contact

Questions or requests about your data: privacy@maraudr.com.