Optional automated assistance
The Gateway Guide uses OpenAI to process the question and supported text attachment you explicitly submit. Directory assistance can also send the public resource records, active discovery filters, self-reported checklist selections, or listing name, category, description and cost notes you explicitly choose to review. Draft review excludes the website and integration URL fields and does not submit, approve or publish a listing. It does not fetch or scan the site. Member assistance uses selected evidence from an eligible purchase linked to your verified account; it does not send your checkout inputs, email, payment credentials, or download access codes. Public research sends the public topic to a search-enabled provider and does not include your account or report context. Never submit credentials, payment details, or confidential information you are not authorized to share. We request no persistent model-response storage; this does not eliminate provider processing or abuse-monitoring retention. Guidance can be inaccurate and cannot purchase, refund, change a discount, or grant access.
We store a validated response for seven-day retry access, together with hashed request identifiers, feature, timestamps, and estimated API usage for budget and misuse controls. We do not separately save the raw question or attached file. Response content may reflect what you submit. Expired response replay is blocked; expiry is not a guarantee of immediate physical deletion or removal from hosting backups. Payment and original report retention periods remain separate.
Member accounts and saved projects
Optional member accounts connect your verified email with eligible purchases and member benefits. Saved project preferences contain project names, product selections, and optional public website bookmarks. Website query strings and fragments are not saved in these bookmarks, and project preferences do not store confidential service inputs. You can remove a saved project in the member portal; this does not remove payment records or copies of files you have downloaded. Result comparisons use eligible purchases linked to your account and show supported recorded metrics and order milestones.
Information we receive
The Website Opportunity Scanner receives the public website address, industry, goal, name, and delivery email you submit for a paid order. It reads a limited set of publicly accessible pages. Transaction services receive unsigned transaction intent, policy choices, business context, name, and delivery email. We never need a private key, seed phrase, recovery phrase, or card number.
How it is used
Submitted information is used to run the requested service, return its result, prevent misuse, understand basic service operation, and respond to an inquiry. Public website evidence may be processed by an automated analysis provider to prepare recommendations. Sanitized deterministic transaction reports may be processed for an optional plain-language explanation. Provider-side storage is disabled in those requests where supported.
Optional Report Insights
If you choose Report Insights before checkout, selected findings from your report are sent to OpenAI for a plain-language explanation. This does not send your delivery email or payment credentials. The selection omits source documents and known credential fields, but is not a guarantee that submitted information is anonymous. Submit only non-sensitive information you are authorized to process. API data is not used to train OpenAI models by default. We request no persistent response storage; provider abuse-monitoring logs may retain data for up to 30 days by default, or longer where required by law or reasonably necessary to protect against harm. Generated analysis can be inaccurate and remains separate from the original report.
Saved reports and order links
Scanner reports receive an unlisted bearer link for 30 days and transaction preflight reports for 7 days. Paid order inputs and private delivery links use the same service-specific period. Anyone with a private report or order link can view its sanitized result, so it should be shared carefully. A link does not create an account.
Operational records
We keep limited job status, service event, abuse-prevention, payment-event, delivery-attempt, and provider-usage records to operate, reconcile, and protect the service. For authorized downloads, we may retain an aggregate response count and the latest response-preparation time with the order. These records do not establish that a file finished downloading or was saved. Paid order inputs and direct delivery details are removed after the applicable report period during normal cleanup. Limited payment-event records may remain longer for accounting, dispute handling, fraud prevention, and legal obligations.
Optional public package advisory lookup
If you request the optional dependency advisory snapshot, the public package names, ecosystems and exact versions you separately select are sent to OSV.dev after your explicit consent. The manifest and other report content are not sent to that provider. Do not select private packages or confidential project names. The result records the provider and query time; its coverage may be partial or unavailable. This option does not scan your installed software or monitor future changes.
Payments, email, and service providers
PayPal receives and processes payment information; this website receives payment status and provider identifiers but does not collect card numbers. When email delivery is configured, a transactional email provider sends the private result link. The private result page remains the primary delivery record if email is delayed or unavailable. Hosting, database, public-network, email-delivery, and automated-analysis providers may process the minimum information needed to deliver the requested service.
Public-page analytics
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics on selected public pages to understand page views, visits, approximate country, referring website, and page performance. It does not use analytics cookies or identify unique people. Private report and order pages are excluded. These measurements do not capture every visit or every automated request.
Directory suggestions
Directory suggestions save the listing name, public website and documentation addresses, category, description, cost details, and stated relationship to the listing in a private review queue. Reviewers use the submitted details and public website evidence to assess suitability. Suggestions and review records remain available for editorial follow-up; there is no automatic deletion period for these records. Only suitable, reviewed public listing information may be published. We keep temporary hashed network identifiers and counters to prevent misuse. Routine suggestions do not send email. An unresolved editorial decision may produce a private report emailed to Gateway. Do not submit confidential information or access tokens. The manual email-draft option remains under your control.
Service workspaces
Optional service workspaces retain the settings, labels, rates, product rules, or packing details you save, together with subscription and access records needed to provide the workspace. If you publish a supported calculator or selector page, its published content is available to anyone with its public address. Do not publish credentials, confidential records, private addresses, or personal contact information. Private management and recovery links are separate from public pages and should not be shared.
Optional checkout guidance
If you use the service finder, your task description and a compact public product catalog are sent to OpenAI to suggest a service. We request no persistent response storage; provider abuse-monitoring retention may still apply as described above. Do not include personal information, account credentials, wallet keys or private order links. Gateway keeps aggregate usage counters for this feature, without saving the description in its helper database. The suggestion never creates an order or authorizes payment. You can browse and buy directly without using it.
Your choices
You can use the public company pages without an account, avoid submitting a tool request, decline paid work, or ask about information connected to a business inquiry. Contact info@gatewayinformationgroup.com for a privacy question or request.
Data utility submissions
Data utilities process the text or file content you submit. Paid jobs retain input and result data with the order for up to the access period; expired content is eligible for automated cleanup. Free previews are processed without saving their input to the order database. Do not submit passwords, wallet recovery phrases, private keys, or confidential third-party information you are not authorized to share. Shielded Zcash, when available, protects on-chain payment information; it does not make the website, payment processor or delivery email anonymous.
Private handoff capsules
Capsule files and filenames are encrypted in your browser before upload. We receive encrypted content, access-token hashes and service metadata; the encryption key stays in the sharing link fragment and browser memory. Anyone with the full sharing link can open the file. Order and payment details still use the existing checkout and delivery providers. Uploads are available for 30 days after fulfillment; each file link lasts seven days from upload, with order management available for up to 37 days. Expiry and revocation block further retrieval immediately; encrypted content is removed by scheduled cleanup after expiry, or from active storage when revoked. Hosting backups may retain encrypted copies. Revocation cannot remove files already downloaded. Capsule pages exclude public-page analytics. Keep your original files and sharing links: we cannot recover a lost encryption key.
Ongoing monitoring
Monitoring stores the public source addresses, configuration, label and optional agency name you submit, together with setup observations, check history, changes and monthly summaries. We receive your PayPal subscriber email for service notifications and retain provider identifiers, confirmed billing periods and delivery records. Your recovery key grants dashboard access; we store its hash rather than the key. The dashboard shows the latest 30 checks and up to 24 summaries; these display limits are not deletion schedules. Cancelling renewal stops future billing and does not automatically erase records. Contact us using the privacy-request details above about stored monitoring data.