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Last updated 21 October 20264 min read

What SkipATS keeps about you, why, who else touches it, and how to delete it. We try to keep this short and true. It describes what the product does today.

  • Never soldYour data is used to run your search. It isn't sold or used for advertising.
  • Delete in one message/delete_everything wipes your profile, files, matches, drafts and Gmail connection.
  • Gmail, limitedUsed to send what you approve and to watch replies to those emails. Nothing else.
  • Hosted in IndiaServers are in AWS Mumbai. Gmail tokens are stored encrypted.

1Who we are

SkipATS is run in India by Daksh Sawhney, who decides how your data is used (the "data fiduciary" under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023). Message the SkipATS bot on Telegram and say what you need. It reaches the person who runs it.

2What we collect

  • Account: your Telegram ID, name and username, and the messages you send the bot.
  • Your profile: what you share to build it, such as your resume, LinkedIn PDF, links (GitHub, portfolio), pasted text and voice notes. Voice notes are transcribed on our own server.
  • Preferences: the roles, locations and country you choose.
  • Your search: the startups matched to you, the drafts written, the emails you approve and send, and replies to them.
  • Gmail, if you connect it: your Gmail address and an access token, stored encrypted.
  • Founders and companies: public business information (names, roles, work emails found on public pages) used to write to them. This is shared between users.
  • Technical data: basic logs and your IP address when you use the website, used for security and rate limiting.

3How we use it

  • To build your profile and find startups that fit you.
  • To write drafts from your own work and check them against the facts you gave us.
  • To send the emails you approve and follow up in the same thread.
  • To alert you about replies, bounces and opt-outs, and to stop follow-ups when someone answers.
  • To keep the service safe and working, for example limiting sends and fixing bugs.
  • To improve your own drafts, for instance by remembering edits you asked for.

4AI processing

We send the text needed for a task to an AI provider, currently Anthropic (Claude), for example your profile text and a company's public details to write a draft, or a reply you received so it can be summarised and checked for opt-outs.

We don't send your Google password or Gmail tokens. We don't use Gmail data to train AI models.

5Information from Google (Gmail)

SkipATS uses Google permissions only to provide its email features: sending the emails you approve and, during the beta, reading replies to emails SkipATS sent for you so follow-ups can stop. It looks at the threads it started and bounce notices, not the rest of your mail. Google describes this permission as reading your email; that is Google's wording for the access level.

SkipATS's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We don't use Google user data for advertising, we don't sell it, and people at SkipATS don't read it except to fix a problem you ask us about or where the law requires.

You can remove access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions or with /delete_everything.

6Who we share it with

We don't sell your data. We use a small number of providers to run the service:

  • Telegram, for the chat.
  • Google, for Gmail sending and sign-in.
  • Anthropic, for AI processing described above.
  • Amazon Web Services (Mumbai), for hosting and encrypted backups.
  • Cloudflare, to deliver the website securely.
  • An email-verification provider, which only sees founders' business addresses, never yours.

Other SkipATS users can't see your profile, drafts or emails. We may disclose information if the law requires it.

7Where it is stored

Data is stored on servers in India (AWS Mumbai). Gmail access tokens are encrypted. Daily backups are encrypted and kept for 30 days.

8How long we keep it

We keep your data while your account is active. When you send /delete_everything we delete your profile, files, matches, drafts and Gmail connection. Backups made before then are removed as they expire, within 30 days.

We keep a short list of email addresses that asked not to be contacted, so we honour that permanently. It contains no profile information.

9Security

Connections use HTTPS, Gmail tokens are encrypted, access to the system is limited to the person who runs it, and the bot only acts for your own account. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a Gmail you are comfortable connecting.

10Your choices and rights

You can ask to see, correct or delete your data, withdraw your consent, and complain about how it is handled. Deleting is one message: /delete_everything. For anything else, contact us as below and we'll respond as soon as we can.

Founders and others whose business details we hold can ask us to stop using them and we will, permanently.

11Cookies

The website uses a login cookie after you sign in with Telegram, plus short-lived cookies to complete login and Gmail connection safely. We don't use advertising or tracking cookies.

12Age

SkipATS is for people who can lawfully agree to these terms. It isn't aimed at children.

13Changes to this policy

If we change what we collect or how we use it in a way that matters, we'll tell you in the bot first. The date at the top shows the latest version.

14Contact

Message the SkipATS bot on Telegram and say what you need. It reaches the person who runs it.