What we collect
You can browse baratobot without an account; we don't ask who you are. If you sign in, we keep:
- Your email address, to send your sign-in links and the price alerts you ask for.
- The products you watch, and a log of the alert emails we sent you (which product, which price, when), so we don't email you twice about the same drop.
- When your account was created and when you last signed in.
Sign-in links and sessions are stored only as one-way hashes, so even we can't read them back. We have no passwords to lose.
If you choose Continue with Google, Google tells us your email address and that it's verified, and nothing else: not your name, photo or contacts. We use it exactly like an email you typed in.
Counting what's popular
We count how often each product page is viewed and how often a product's Lazada link is clicked, as a total per product per day. For views we also count the kind of place the visit came from (a search engine, a social app, another baratobot page, another site, or none), and for a visit from another site, that site's name (like example.com), never the page you were on. None of it is tied to you: no cookie, no IP address and no account is stored with it. We use the totals to decide which products to keep tracking.
We count price-alert links the same way: per day, how many were opened, the kind of place they came from (and which AI assistant, if one sent you), and whether they ended in a sign-in and a new alert. Again, totals only, not who.
AI assistants
Assistants like ChatGPT and Claude can look up our prices for you, through our pages or our MCP server (baratobot.com/mcp, described in our llms.txt). The MCP server:
- Only reads public prices. It can search products and return prices, price history and links. It can't sign you in, see your account or watchlist, or change anything.
- Needs no sign-in and gets nothing about you. The assistant sends us only what it is looking up (search words, or a product number or link), not your conversation, your name or your account with it.
- Keeps no record of the lookups beyond the short-lived server and Cloudflare logs described below.
- Never sets an alert for you. If you want one, the assistant gives you a link, and the alert is set only when you open it yourself and are signed in to baratobot.
Its "buy" links are the same as on our pages: some are affiliate links, so we may earn a commission if you buy, at no extra cost to you. What the assistant does with our answers is covered by its own privacy policy.
Cookies
We set one cookie, bb_session, only when you sign in. It keeps you signed in for up to 30 days and is removed when you sign out. There are no advertising or analytics cookies. Cloudflare, which protects and speeds up the site, may set a short-lived security cookie to tell people from bots.
What we don't do
- We don't sell, rent or share your email or your watchlist.
- We don't run ads or third-party analytics or tracking scripts, and we don't track you across pages or sites.
- We don't send marketing email. You only get sign-in links and the alerts you turned on.
Who helps us run the site
- Resend delivers our emails, so it processes your email address and the content of the emails we send you.
- Cloudflare sits in front of the site for security and speed, and sees standard request information (like your IP address) as your browser loads pages.
- Our servers are hosted in the European Union. Like most websites, they keep short-lived request logs (IP address, browser, page requested) for security and troubleshooting, rotated out after a few weeks.
Emails and unsubscribing
Every alert email has a link to stop alerts for that product and a link to stop all alert emails, and neither needs you to sign in. You can also turn alerts off or remove watched products on your account page.
Your rights
Under the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (and similar laws elsewhere), you can ask to see the data we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted. Email [email protected] from the address on your account and we'll do it within 30 days. Deleting your account removes your email, your watchlist and your alert history.
Children
baratobot is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use your email, we'll tell you by email before it takes effect.
Contact
Questions about your privacy: [email protected].