Plain English. What data is collected, why, who gets to see it, and how to make us stop. If anything here is unclear, email garde@ai-bear.io and we'll explain.
"AI Bear" is the trading name of Evgenii Garde, a sole operator based in the United Kingdom. Evgenii is the data controller for all personal data described in this notice.
The brand spans the AI Bear newsletter (on beehiiv), the LinkedIn profile, and any future ai-bear.io site.
Contact: garde@ai-bear.io
Postal address available on request.
| Data | Why we need it | Lawful basis |
|---|---|---|
| Send you the newsletter | Consent | |
| Name (if you give it) | Personalise the greeting | Consent |
| Open and click data | Improve the newsletter | Legitimate interest |
The newsletter is hosted on beehiiv, which has its own privacy policy at beehiiv.com/privacy. They act as a data processor for us and a data controller for some platform functions.
We retain what you sent so we can reply and refer back to the conversation. We may also add a brief note to our internal people register (name, role, where we met, context of the conversation, last interaction date) so we can remember who you are next time. Lawful basis: legitimate interest. We don't add you to any product or paid offering without you asking.
If we contact you to pitch a podcast, conference, collaboration, or piece of work, we may have looked at publicly available information about you (LinkedIn, your published writing, your company's site). The lawful basis is legitimate interest: a narrowly targeted, one-off, business-context outreach that a reasonable person in your role would expect to receive. We do not buy, scrape in bulk, or maintain a marketing database. If you tell us to stop, we stop.
We use third-party tools to run AI Bear. Each one acts as a data processor under their own terms and ours.
| Processor | What they do | Where data sits |
|---|---|---|
| beehiiv | Hosts and sends the newsletter | USA |
| DigitalOcean | Hosts ai-bear.io services | UK (London region) |
| Bluehost | DNS for ai-bear.io | USA |
| Anthropic (Claude) / OpenAI | AI assistance for content drafting and operations | USA |
| Google Workspace | Email (garde@ai-bear.io), Drive, Calendar | USA / EU (mixed) |
We never sell your data. We don't share it with advertisers. We don't use it to train AI models, and we use paid tiers of AI tools with model-training opted out.
Some processors (beehiiv, Anthropic, OpenAI, Bluehost) operate from the United States. We rely on their published Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent UK transfer mechanisms. If you would like a copy of the relevant safeguards, email us.
Under UK GDPR you can:
To exercise any of these, email garde@ai-bear.io. We aim to respond within 7 days and resolve within 30. There's no charge.
If we don't resolve a concern to your satisfaction, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or 0303 123 1113.
We don't set any cookies of our own. No tracking cookies, no ad cookies, no analytics cookies.
The newsletter (on beehiiv) uses beehiiv's cookies, governed by their own policy.
AI Bear content is intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. If you believe we have, email us and we'll delete it.
AI Bear uses AI tools (currently Claude, possibly others) to draft content, run operations, and assist with research and analysis. We use paid tiers with model-training opted out, which means:
When this notice changes materially we'll update the version number and "last updated" date at the top, and notify newsletter subscribers by email at the next sensible touchpoint. Minor wording fixes are made without notification.
Anything about your data: garde@ai-bear.io.
Postal address available on request.