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Privacy

What ayeoh.io collects, why, and what you can ask of us.

Last updated 20 October 2026

Who we are

ayeoh.io is built and run by LOOPSIO. The data controller for anything the site collects is:

LOOPSIO Ltd
Registered in Scotland, company number SC742314
Registered office: 48 West George Street, Suite 2/3, Glasgow, G2 1BP
Email: ayeoh@loopsio.com

Reading the site

You can read every page without an account and without telling us who you are. We set no cookies on readers' browsers and run no advertising scripts. Five things happen in the background when a page loads, and a sixth when you open a story:

  • Our host, Vercel, keeps ordinary web-server logs (your IP address, the page requested, your browser's name) for a short period to keep the site running and secure.
  • We count page views with Vercel Web Analytics so we know which stories and pages are read. It records the page, where you came from, your country and your browser type, against a visitor hash that changes every day and cannot be turned back into you. It sets no cookie and stores no IP address. We see totals, not people.
  • We also count visits ourselves, as a check on that count. When a page loads, your browser tells us which page it is, the name of the website that sent you (such as google.com, never the full address), the campaign tags on the link you followed when it has them (such as utm_source=linkedin, which our own posts and emails add to say which post or issue a link is from) and whether the browser is being driven by a program. We add one to that day's count for the kind of page, where the visit came from and your country, and, for the first page of a visit, one to that day's count for the website that sent you and the link's tags. Those counts are all we keep: no IP address, no cookie, nothing that tells one reader from another. The only things kept on your device are the notes below.
  • The typefaces are served by Google Fonts, so your browser asks Google's servers for them. Google sees that request as it would any font request.
  • If a page breaks, your browser may send a short error report (the error's message and the page's address without anything after a question mark) to Sentry, our error-tracking service, at most five a page load. It carries no cookie and no account details, and Sentry receives it as any website receives a request.
  • When you click a story, your browser tells us which story was opened, so we know what readers find useful. We keep a count per story per day and nothing else: no IP address, no cookie, nothing about you.

Remembering when you first came

We'd love to know whether people come back to ayeoh, because that tells us whether it's worth coming back to. So your browser keeps three small notes for us, in its own storage on your device. Not a cookie, and nothing else:

  • the week of your first visit, such as “2026-W42”;
  • the day of your last visit, such as “2026-10-16”, so that coming back later in the same week can be told apart from reading a second page on the same day;
  • in this browser tab only, the time this tab last loaded one of our pages, so that reloading a page, going back to it, or opening another of ours within 30 minutes is not counted as a new visit. Your browser forgets it when you close the tab, and it never leaves your device: all we are told is whether a page load starts a visit.

Once a day at most, when a page loads, your browser tells us that week, whether you've been before, and how many days it has been. We add one to that day's count and keep nothing else. There is no ID, nothing on our side ties one visit to another, and nothing in it says who you are. Your phone and your laptop are two separate counts to us, even though they're both you.

The law lets a site do this without asking first when it is only to count how the site is used, so it can be made better, and when you can say no at any time for free (the statistical purposes exception in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, Schedule A1 paragraph 5, added by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and in force since 5 February 2026). That is all we use it for. To say no on this browser:

Checking this browser…

Saying no clears these notes and leaves a single one in their place that says only “don't remember”, so we stop. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, we remember nothing. Clearing this site's data in your browser also clears the notes, and you'll simply count as new next time.

Not counting our own visits

So that the counts are about readers and not about us, the person who runs ayeoh marks his own browsers with a private link. That leaves two notes on his browsers only, a cookie named “ayeoh_owner” and a note in the browser's storage named “ayeoh.owner”, each saying only “1”, and his visits are then left out of both counts above. Nothing sets them on a reader's browser.

The weekly email

If you sign up for the weekly email we keep:

  • your email address;
  • when you signed up and which page you signed up on;
  • when you confirmed, and when you unsubscribed if you do.

We use this for one purpose: to send you the email you asked for, once a week, and to stop when you ask us to. We do not sell or share the list, and we do not use it for anything else. Every email carries a one-click unsubscribe link that works without a login. Sign-up is double opt-in: nothing is sent until you click the confirmation link we email you.

The list is stored with Supabase (our database) and the emails are delivered by Resend. Both process the data on our instructions only. After you unsubscribe we keep your address marked as unsubscribed so that we never email it again; ask us and we will delete it outright.

The talent list

Until 10 October 2026 the site had a form for putting your name down for a talent index we are building: a page for each person who wants one, findable by the companies the site tracks. The form is closed. If you used it, we keep what you gave us:

  • your name and your email address;
  • what you do, in a line, if you wrote one;
  • your city and a link (a portfolio or a profile), if you gave them;
  • which you ticked: open to a move or looking, hiring, or just curious;
  • when you signed up and which page you signed up on.

Why: to build the index, and to email you once, when it is ready, to ask whether you want a profile on it and what it should say. You gave it to us for that, and it is used for nothing else: no newsletter, no marketing, no sharing.

Who sees it: only the LOOPSIO people who run the site. Nothing from the form has ever been published, and no company or recruiter can see it. It is stored with Supabase, our database, which processes it on our instructions only.

How long: until we have asked you that one question. If you say no, we delete your entry. If you say yes, your profile is yours to change or take down.

To have it deleted now, email ayeoh@loopsio.com from the address you signed up with, and we delete it within one month of asking.

Claiming a company page

If you claim your company's page we keep:

  • your work email address, and when you asked and confirmed;
  • the corrections you send, and whether an editor took them;
  • a scrambled, salted code made from your internet address and the day, which cannot be turned back into the address, so one person cannot send a stream of claim emails.

Why: to email you the one link that proves you can read mail at the company's own domain, and to know who sent each correction. It is used for nothing else: no newsletter, no marketing, no sharing. The page shows the company's domain as the claimant, never your address. It is stored with Supabase and the email is delivered by Resend. To have it deleted, email ayeoh@loopsio.com.

The “As featured on ayeoh.io” badge

When the badge loads on another website we add one to a count for that day, company and website (the website's name only, never the page or anything about the person looking). Nothing is stored on the reader's device.

People named in stories

The site gathers headlines, short summaries and links from news outlets and from organisations' own announcements, all of them public. Where a story names a person, that is the publisher's reporting, which we link to. If you are named in a story on this site and want to raise it, write to us and we will remove the entry from our pages; the article itself belongs to its publisher.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to our using it. Email ayeoh@loopsio.com and we will act on it within one month of asking. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Changes

When the site starts doing something new with your data, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves.