Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 18, 2026

Protein Bar Nerd ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or use an official Protein Bar Nerd integration, including our ChatGPT plugin (together, the "Services").

1. Information We Collect

Automatically Collected Information

When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system
  • Pages visited and time spent on pages
  • Referring website addresses
  • Device identifiers

Information You Provide

We may collect information you voluntarily provide when you:

  • Contact us through forms on our website
  • Subscribe to newsletters or updates
  • Participate in surveys or feedback requests
  • Create user accounts (if applicable)

ChatGPT Plugin Information

When you use the Protein Bar Nerd plugin in ChatGPT, we receive only the information needed to answer the tool request. This may include your search terms, nutrition filters, a selected product identifier, or the brand and flavor you ask us to inspect. We do not receive your entire ChatGPT conversation.

OpenAI may attach optional technical or contextual metadata to a request. Our plugin does not read or retain ChatGPT subject or session identifiers, organization identifiers, locale, user-agent information, time zone, or coarse location for analytics. The plugin does not request your name, email address, payment information, health records, or precise location.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website
  • Process ChatGPT plugin searches and return requested public product information
  • Improve and personalize your experience
  • Understand how you use our website
  • Develop new features and functionality
  • Communicate with you for customer service and support
  • Send you updates, newsletters, and marketing communications (with your consent)
  • Detect and prevent fraud or abuse
  • Analyze usage trends and optimize our content
  • Monitor reliability, prevent abuse, and enforce request limits

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and store certain information. Types of cookies we use include:

  • Essential Cookies: Necessary for the website to function properly
  • Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website (e.g., Google Analytics)
  • Preference Cookies: Remember your settings and preferences

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

4. Third-Party Services

We use third-party services that may collect information used to identify you:

  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze website traffic and usage patterns. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information anonymously. You can opt-out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
  • OpenAI: OpenAI operates ChatGPT and sends plugin tool requests to Protein Bar Nerd. Your use of ChatGPT is also governed by OpenAI's own terms and privacy policy.
  • PostHog: We use PostHog to measure aggregate plugin tool usage, reliability, latency, and empty or failed results. We do not send tool arguments, search terms, product selections, ChatGPT conversations, subject or session identifiers, organization identifiers, or location metadata to PostHog.
  • Supabase and Fly.io: Supabase stores the public protein-bar data returned by the plugin, and Fly.io hosts the plugin server and processes standard network and server logs needed to operate and secure it.

5. Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

6. Data Retention

Plugin tool inputs are processed to answer the request and are not intentionally stored by the plugin server. To enforce rate limits, the server temporarily holds a client network address in memory for no more than 60 seconds; it is not written to our database or analytics. Standard security and hosting logs may be retained for up to 30 days. Aggregate PostHog operational events contain no tool arguments or user/session identifiers and may be retained for service trend analysis. Information you submit through contact or subscription forms is retained until the request is resolved or you unsubscribe, and ordinarily no longer than 24 months, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law. Public protein-bar records are retained as product data rather than as user records.

7. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:

  • Access to your personal information
  • Correction of inaccurate information
  • Deletion of your personal information
  • Objection to processing of your information
  • Withdrawal of consent
  • Data portability

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information provided below.

You can stop plugin processing at any time by not using or by uninstalling the plugin. Because aggregate plugin telemetry is not tied to a user or ChatGPT session, it cannot be retrieved or deleted as an individual profile. You may contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of information you provided directly.

8. Children's Privacy

Our Services are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can delete such information.

9. International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ. By using the Services, you consent to such transfers.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Email: privacy@proteinbarnerd.com

Website: proteinbarnerd.com

By using Protein Bar Nerd, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.