Privacy

Atlas composes your magazine in your browser, and never stores your photographs or your writing. Making the issue and exporting it happen entirely on your device. Three things can leave it, each only when you ask: the text of your story, if you ask the copy desk to edit it; your voice, if you record your story rather than type it; and small previews of your photographs with your story, if you ask the editor to lay out the issue.

• Your photographs. They are read from your device into the browser tab and stay there. Closing the tab discards them.
• Your finished magazine, unless you save it to share. It is laid out and exported by your own browser's print engine; no copy is sent to us. Saving is covered below.
• Your card details. Payment is taken by our payment provider on their own pages; we never see or hold a card number.

• Your account. If you sign in with Google we store the email address, name and profile picture Google gives us, so the site can greet you and tie a subscription to you.
• Your subscription. Which plan you are on, its status, and when the period ends — mirrored from our payment provider so a page load does not have to ask them.
• Your payment history. Amounts, currency, dates and invoice references. Not card numbers.
• Your email address, if you join the mailing list. Nothing else, and you can ask us to remove it at any time.

The copy desk is optional and off until you press it. When you use it, the text of your story is sent to an AI provider, edited, and sent back. It is not stored by us — not logged, not written to a database, not kept in a file — and your photographs are never part of the request.

The provider processes the text to return the edit. We do not use your writing to train anything, and we do not permit our providers to either.

The Speak tab is optional. While you record, your voice is streamed from your browser straight to OpenAI, transcribed, and the text comes back into your story as you speak; that audio never passes through our servers. If you upload a recording instead, it is sent through our server to OpenAI a couple of minutes at a time and held only in memory while each piece is transcribed. Either way, neither the audio nor the text is stored by us — not logged, not written to a database, not kept in a file.

Your browser asks before Atlas can use the microphone, and the microphone is released the moment you press stop.

The editor is optional and does nothing until you press it. When you do, your browser makes a small, low-resolution preview of each photograph — enough to see what it shows, far too small to print — and sends those with your story and title to an AI provider, which suggests a style, an order and a crop for your issue. Your full-size photographs are never sent. Nothing is stored by us: not logged, not written to a database, not kept in a file.

When you press Save & share, each page is drawn as a picture and locked in your browser with a key made for that magazine alone, before anything is sent. We store the locked pictures, how many pages there are and when it expires. The key goes in the link, after the #, the part of an address a browser never sends to a server. If you keep the magazine in My magazines, the key is also kept on your account, so you can open it on another device.

If you turn on Allow editing later, the magazine also keeps its editable copy: your photographs, made smaller, and your words and layout, locked in your browser with the same key as the pages. It is off unless you turn it on, and it is the only way your photographs and words are ever kept. Editing it replaces the stored copy with the new one; taking the magazine down, or its expiry, deletes all of it.

You can share a magazine you keep in My magazines with people by email address, or with a group code and a password you choose, for them to read it or, if it can be edited, to edit it with you. We store each address and the access you gave it, and the code with its password as a one-way hash we cannot read back. The people you share it with open it with the key kept on your account. You can change their access or stop sharing at any time.

Submitting a layout is the one time we keep something you made, and only because you ask us to. We store the design as a template — its boxes, fonts and colours, with every photograph removed and every word replaced by placeholder text before it is saved — together with the name and description you give it, and the sample picture you attach, which does show your own photographs and words.

The sample is private while the editors review it. If the layout is accepted, the template and the sample are shown to everyone in the directory with your first name; if it is not, the sample is deleted a month after the decision. We email you the decision at your account address. You can withdraw a layout at any time, which deletes it and its sample straight away.

• Supabase — accounts and the database described above.
• Google — only if you choose to sign in with it.
• Dodo Payments — our merchant of record. They take the payment, issue the invoice and hold the card details.
• Vercel — hosting, plus visitor counts and page-speed measurements. These are cookieless and do not identify you.
• Resend — sends the email telling you whether a layout you submitted was accepted.
• OpenAI or Anthropic — the copy desk and the editor, and only when you use them. OpenAI also transcribes recordings from the Speak tab, only while you record.

We set no advertising or tracking cookies. Signing in stores a session in your browser so you stay signed in; that is what it is for and it does nothing else. Our analytics do not use cookies.

Account and subscription records last as long as your account does. Ask us to close it and we delete them, except records we are required to keep for tax and accounting — invoices, principally — which we keep for as long as the law requires and no longer.

You can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to hello@ouratlas.co.in and we will answer within 30 days. Most of what people want is on the account page already.

Atlas is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

If this policy changes we update the date at the top. Material changes — anything that alters what we collect or who we share it with — will be told to account holders by email before they take effect.

Atlas, at ouratlas.co.in. Questions to hello@ouratlas.co.in.