1. Overview and Scope
NowRift ("we," "our," or "us"), operated by CRAM Services, is dedicated to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy details how we collect, process, utilize, and protect your personal information when you access our AI-synthesized daily tech and AI news platform, search tech professional directories, apply for funding via our Grants Hub, or register for our newsletter alerts.
By utilizing the website located at nowrift.com(the "Service"), you consent to the data collection and usage practices described in this policy. If you do not agree with any terms in this Privacy Policy, please discontinue access to the Service.
2. Information We Collect
We collect several categories of information depending on how you interact with our platform:
A. Information You Voluntarily Provide
- Newsletter Subscriptions: When you subscribe to our tech alerts or deep dive notifications, we collect your email address. This is processed and stored in collaboration with our distribution sub-processors (Beehiiv and Resend).
- Administrator Credentials: If you are an authorized editor or administrator logging into the backend CMS, we collect your username, email address, password hashes, and multi-factor authentication setup parameters (stored securely via bcryptjs and jose JWT tokens).
- Support Communications: If you contact us directly for legal, editorial, or partnership inquiries, we keep a record of that correspondence, including your email and name.
B. Automatically Collected Technical Information
When you browse the platform, our servers and network log standard request headers automatically, including:
- Device details, operating systems, and browser user-agent tokens.
- Network identifiers, such as IP addresses (which may suggest general geographical location).
- Navigation logs, including channels selected (e.g., Data Science, AI Models, Cybersecurity), scroll behavior, visual scroller speeds, and exact content links clicked.
C. AI Synthesis and Indexing Metadata
Our automated news crawler indexes public technology feeds, developer repositories, and academic publications. During this synthesis:
- We extract public authorship metadata (such as primary author names, publication sources, and original URLs).
- We perform compliance analysis resulting in an AI Compliance Score and source similarity audits. This data is displayed publicly to ensure media transparency and original author attribution.
3. How We Use Your Information
CRAM Services processes the data we gather on NowRift for the following commercial and operational purposes:
- Service Delivery: To generate and render our vertical-based feeds, searchable developer tools lists, and matching grants directories.
- Communications: To send you daily intelligence reports, platform alerts, and administrative notifications via email.
- Security & Abuse Prevention: To authenticate admin portal logins, prevent scraping abuse, verify session tokens, and block malicious attacks on our systems.
- Analytics and Optimization: To monitor system resources, load balancing, page loading speeds, and optimize dynamic scroller velocities based on actual user activity.
- Compliance Logs: To maintain verifiable records of original articles parsed for AI synthesis, validating similarity metrics for licensing and fair use reporting.
4. Sub-processors and Sharing Partners
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. To maintain system operations, we disclose necessary data to verified sub-processors who adhere to strict data security standards:
| Partner / Service | Data Categories Shared | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Beehiiv Inc. | Email, subscription timestamps | Newsletter delivery, segment analytics |
| Resend Inc. | Email, recipient logs | Transactional alerts & validation tokens |
| Upstash Inc. | IP hashes, rate limit counters | Redis-based edge caching and security controls |
| Prisma / PostgreSQL | Admin records, session tokens, crawled headers | Core relational storage of news platform data |
5. Data Retention and Safeguards
We store your information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the specific operational purposes outlined in Section 3. For example:
- Newsletter subscriber details are retained until you opt out of our email lists using the "unsubscribe" link.
- System logs and security rate-limiting caches are deleted automatically within 30 days.
- AI-extracted attribution metadata remains inside our database as long as the corresponding synthesized article is published on the site.
We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use.
6. Global Rights (GDPR / CCPA / CCPA Opt-Out)
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have specific data protection rights, including:
- Right to Access and Portability: You can request a digital copy of all personal information we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification and Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You can request that we update incorrect details or delete your records from our databases.
- Attribution Updates for AI Summaries: If you are an original content author and notice incorrect attribution or audit details on our synthesized posts, you may contact our legal team for an immediate review and correction.
- Right to Opt Out: You can choose to opt-out of newsletter list inclusion at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please email us directly at legal@nowrift.com. We will verify your identity before processing the request, matching standard legal timelines.
7. Updates to this Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect software updates, changes in governing law, or the introduction of new service providers. The current version will be posted directly to our footer with a modified "Last Updated" timestamp at the top of the document.
8. Contact Information
If you have any questions, feedback, or legal inquiries regarding our privacy procedures, please contact us at: