Privacy Policy

WarWatch collects the minimum data necessary to operate the service. This includes: — Account data: email address, display name, and hashed password (if using credentials login), or OAuth profile data (if using Google Sign-In). — Usage data: pages visited, articles read, and report configurations — used solely to improve service quality and personalize your experience. — Payment data: processed exclusively by Stripe. WarWatch never stores card numbers or billing details. — Technical data: IP address, browser type, and session tokens for security and fraud prevention.

Your data is used to: — Provide and maintain the WarWatch platform and its features. — Send AI-generated conflict intelligence reports you have configured. — Process subscription payments via Stripe. — Detect and prevent abuse, fraud, or unauthorized access. — Improve our conflict scoring and article ranking algorithms. We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes. Marketing communications from WarWatch itself are covered separately below.

Every account receives transactional email — a welcome message, payment receipts, and the alert notifications you've turned on. Those don't need your consent: they answer an action you already took. WarWatch will only send you product updates or promotional offers by email if you have separately and explicitly opted in. This consent is: — Off by default. New accounts start opted out; the choice is a checkbox at registration, never pre-selected. — Recorded with a timestamp, together with the date of your last change, so we can show when it was given or withdrawn. — Yours to change at any time from your dashboard — opting in and opting out are the same one-click control. — Honored via a one-click unsubscribe link on every marketing email we send, in addition to the dashboard toggle. Declining, or never answering, has no effect on your access to WarWatch. Free and Premium features work the same either way.

Account data is retained for the duration of your account. Upon account deletion, personal data is purged within 30 days, except where retention is required by law. News articles are retained indefinitely so that published article URLs keep resolving. AI-generated reports are cached for up to 6 hours. Delivery logs are retained for 90 days for service diagnostics.

WarWatch integrates with the following third-party providers: — Stripe: payment processing (subject to Stripe's Privacy Policy) — Google OAuth: optional authentication (subject to Google's Privacy Policy) — Resend: transactional email delivery, and marketing email for accounts that have opted in — Anthropic: AI report generation (article content may be processed) Each provider operates under their own privacy policy and data processing agreements.

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to: — Access the personal data we hold about you. — Request correction of inaccurate data. — Request deletion of your account and associated data. — Object to or restrict certain processing activities. — Data portability — receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format. — Withdraw marketing consent at any time, as described above, with no effect on any other right or on your access to the service. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at the address below.

We implement industry-standard security measures including TLS encryption in transit, hashed password storage, and JWT-based session management. No system is impenetrable — if you discover a security vulnerability, please disclose it responsibly via our contact page.

For privacy-related inquiries, contact us at: privacy@warwatch.io This policy was last updated in September 2026 and may be revised periodically. Continued use of the platform after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy — except where a change asks for a new consent, such as the marketing communications above, which takes effect only once you give it.