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Privacy

What we guarantee

  • ✓No account or login: iView Search requires no account creation, registration, or login credentials.
  • ✓No email collection: We never ask for, store, or process your email address or any personally identifiable information.
  • ✓No conversation storage: Your chat messages are not written to any database. Closing the tab ends the conversation—nothing is retained by us.
  • ✓No advertising: iView Search contains no ads, sponsored content, or promotion tracking.
  • ✓No advertising trackers: We do not use Facebook Pixel or similar cross-site advertising profiling tools. See “Usage analytics” below for the one measurement tool we do use.

What we cannot guarantee for you

Third-party model provider

When you chat, your prompts are sent to a third-party model provider (via OpenRouter) to generate replies. Your search wording is also sent to Vercel AI Gateway to build the embedding used to look up matching shows. These providers have their own privacy policies and data retention practices. We recommend reviewing the relevant model provider's privacy policy to understand how they handle the data you send.

Usage analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how many people visit and which pages they use, so we can tell whether the demo is worth maintaining. Google sets cookies to do this and processes the data under its own privacy policy. We do not send it your chat messages or search wording. You can block it with a browser extension or by disabling third-party cookies without affecting how the site works.

Abuse prevention

If abuse protection is enabled, a short-lived derived value based on your IP address may be stored briefly to prevent misuse. This value cannot be reversed back to your IP address and is automatically discarded after a brief period.

Outbound links

Links to ABC iView are governed by ABC's separate privacy policy. Once you leave iView Search and visit ABC iView, you are subject to their terms and privacy practices, not ours.

In summary

iView Search is designed with privacy in mind. We don't ask you to create an account, we don't build a profile of you, and we don't store your conversations. We do use Google Analytics for anonymous visit counts, and the chat itself is sent to a third-party AI service. We encourage you to review their privacy policies if you have concerns about data retention.