Effective 2026-05-14 · Policy version 1.1

Privacy policy.

We operate under GDPR (Norway / EEA) and apply the same handling to every customer regardless of where you live. CCPA / CPRA-equivalent rights extended to California residents (see §13). Plain English, dev-tone, no privacy-policy-lawyer-speak. If something here is unclear, DM us — we'll fix the wording.

TL;DR: No KYC. No model training on your prompts. No tracking cookies, no analytics pixels, no card data. We store your contact handle, your order record, and per-request token counts (numbers only — never content). Crypto-only checkout means we see a transaction ID and nothing else. Want your data gone? DM us — deleted in 48 hours, confirmed by timestamp.

1. Who runs this

llmdeal.me is operated by an EEA-based independent operator. I'm the data controller under GDPR Article 4(7) — meaning I decide what gets collected and why, and I'm the one you complain to if something goes wrong.

Contact: [email protected] · Matrix (preferred): <owner-matrix-handle> · Telegram: <owner-telegram-handle> · Discord (expires soon): discord.gg/ZgcKssAWJ6

2. What we collect

Collected

Contact handle. The email or messaging handle you give us when you preorder or join the launch ping list. Used to deliver your API key and billing-related DMs.

Order data. Order ID, SKU, currency (BTC / XMR / LTC), USD amount, status, timestamps. Append-only ledger so we can credit your account at launch.

Token counts. Once the gateway is live, we log the number of input + output tokens per request — for billing only. Never the prompt content, never the response content.

Transient: IP + user-agent. Captured at request time for fraud and rate-limit purposes. Deleted within 24 h of order settlement.

Not collected

Prompt or response content. Not logged, not retained, not used for training. Once a request completes, the content is gone.

KYC / identity documents. No name, no address, no ID, no date-of-birth. Crypto-only checkout means we don't need any of it.

Persistent IP addresses. We don't keep IPs beyond the 24 h fraud window.

Tracking cookies / analytics scripts / pixels. No Google Analytics, no Mixpanel, no Segment, no Facebook pixel, no anything. The only cookie we may set post-launch is a session cookie for the customer portal.

Card details. We never see them. Crypto only.

2a. No KYC. No model training. No exceptions.

Two commitments that materially differentiate us from most LLM gateways. They are stated here because they are operational rules, not aspirations.

If you believe these commitments have been breached, GDPR Art. 21 (objection) and Art. 17 (erasure) apply — DM us with subject GDPR breach report and we respond within 72 hours.

3. Why we're allowed to collect it (lawful basis)

GDPR Article 6 requires a lawful basis for each piece of personal data we process. Ours:

4. How long we keep it (retention)

5. Your rights

Under GDPR Articles 15-22 you have seven rights. Here's each in one line plus how to use it.

The seven rights, plain English

Access (Art. 15). Ask what we hold about you. We send you a copy.

Rectification (Art. 16). Fix anything wrong (typo in your email, wrong order, etc.).

Erasure (Art. 17). "Right to be forgotten" — delete everything we have on you.

Restriction (Art. 18). Tell us to stop processing your data while a complaint is resolved.

Portability (Art. 20). Get your data in a machine-readable format (we hand you a JSON file).

Objection (Art. 21). Object to legitimate-interest processing — e.g. opt out of fraud-IP capture (we'd have to refuse service, but the option exists).

Automated decisions (Art. 22). Not subject to purely automated decisions with legal effect. We don't run any.

How to exercise any of these

DM us using the contact handle you signed up with — that's how we verify you're the right person. Subject line / opener: GDPR request: <right>.

We respond within 30 days (GDPR statutory limit). Erasure requests are typically completed within 48 hours and we send you a deletion timestamp.

No fee for the first request. Repeat / abusive requests may incur a reasonable admin fee per Art. 12(5).

6. International transfers

Our compute lives in the EU. Order records and contact handles stay on EU infrastructure.

What happens when smart-route picks a US model?

When the router escalates your request to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Groq, the request payload is forwarded to their US infrastructure and processed under their data policy — exactly as if you'd called them directly with your own key.

Anthropic doesn't train on API data. OpenAI lets you opt out of training via their dashboard (we don't proxy your opt-out — set it on your own OpenAI account if you want it for the underlying provider too). Groq's policy is at groq.com/privacy.

If you want to keep everything in the EU, use the Elite tier — EU-only routing by default, all requests pinned to our EEA GPU and EU-resident frontier models. US-hosted models are not blanket-deployed for Elite; they are provisioned on-demand, first-come-first-serve, tailored per end user only when a customer explicitly opts in for a specific workload. Default Elite behaviour: no request leaves the EU.

Upstream processors (sub-processor list)

When your request is escalated to a frontier model, the following may act as sub-processors under GDPR Art. 28:

  • OpenAI, L.L.C. (US) — GPT-4o-class queries
  • Anthropic PBC (US) — Claude Haiku / Sonnet / Opus
  • Groq Inc. (US) — Llama / Mixtral high-throughput
  • NOWPayments (EE) — crypto payment processing
  • Hetzner Online GmbH (DE / FI) — VPS hosting
  • Cloudflare, Inc. (US) — TLS termination, DNS, DDoS

Elite-tier customers get routing restricted to EU-resident sub-processors by default. US sub-processors above are not in the default Elite routing pool; they're activated on-demand, first-come-first-serve, and tailored per end user only when a customer explicitly opts in.

7. Cookies

None for tracking. No analytics, no fingerprinting, no third-party scripts. We may set one session cookie for the customer portal once it goes live — purely functional (keeps you logged in), first-party, HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax. No advertising cookies, ever.

8. Security

What we actually do:

What we don't claim: no SOC2 audit (we're not at scale to pay for one yet), no HIPAA (we're not a healthcare service), no PCI-DSS scope (we don't take card data — crypto only).

8a. Hardware-key authentication for Pro & Elite tiers

Pro-tier API access, Elite-tier access, and all credit / capacity top-ups (any tier) require a FIDO2 hardware key at sign-in for NDA integrity, legal compliance, and security of high-value accounts. YubiKey is included FREE with Pro and Elite — we cover the hardware cost; it's not priced into the per-token rates. See options below (shipped to a mail-drop, reimbursed in credits, or bring your own).

What is FIDO2? Fast Identity Online 2 — an open standard from the FIDO Alliance and W3C. A physical hardware key performs a cryptographic challenge-response on each sign-in. The private key never leaves the hardware, so phishing, credential-stuffing, SIM-swap attacks, keyloggers, and server-side password leaks cannot compromise the account. Browser API: WebAuthn. Device protocol: CTAP2.

Approved hardware-key alternatives (priority order — EEA + open-source first):

Starter tier and waitlist signups continue with passwordless email magic-link plus optional FIDO2. Enrol your key any time from account settings.

9. Breach notification

What happens if there's a breach?

If a personal data breach is likely to result in a risk to your rights and freedoms, we notify you within 72 hours of becoming aware of it — per GDPR Articles 33 and 34.

Notification goes to the contact handle on file. We also notify the Norwegian Datatilsynet (the supervisory authority) within the same 72 h window.

The notification will include: what happened, what data was affected, what we're doing about it, and what (if anything) you should do.

10. Children

Age restrictions

llmdeal.me is not directed to children under 16. We don't knowingly collect data from minors. If you believe a child has given us personal data, DM us and we'll delete the record.

11. Changes to this policy

Material changes (anything that affects what we collect, how long we keep it, who we share it with) are emailed to the contact on file 30 days before they take effect. You can object or close your account in that window.

Non-material changes (wording, typos, new sub-processor of the same category) are deployed when ready and noted in CHANGELOG.md. Effective date at the top of this page always reflects the current version.

12. Supervisory authority

Our lead supervisory authority is the Norwegian Datatilsynet (Norwegian Data Protection Authority). EU residents can also complain to the supervisory authority of their own member state. Contact info is on each authority's website.

We'd rather you DM us first — we'll fix it faster than a regulator can — but you have the right to skip us and go straight to them.

13. California residents — CCPA / CPRA

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the CPRA) gives you a parallel set of rights. We extend them to every customer, not just CA residents — but here is the CA-specific summary.

Categories of personal information collected in the past 12 months (CCPA §1798.130(a)(5)(B)): Identifiers (messaging handle, transient IP), Commercial information (order record, payment cryptocurrency + amount), Internet activity (request token counts — not content). No biometric, geolocation, sensory, employment, education, inference, or sensitive-PI categories.

14. Change log

Any change that affects what we collect, how long we keep it, or who we share it with is announced 30 days before it takes effect (per §11). Wording-only changes are listed here without notice.