UK Shortlists Buyer Guide privacy notes

What the app does

The ChatGPT app helps a reader turn a buying question into a safer starting route on UK Shortlists. It can search eligible buying guides, recommend a starting route, summarize caveats, and explain checks before buying.

The app recommends UK Shortlists pages. It does not return raw affiliate links, Amazon links, Awin links, direct merchant checkout links, live prices, stock, ratings, review counts, or deal claims.

Information used by the app

• The buying question or route request a user gives inside ChatGPT.
• The route slug or guide id when ChatGPT asks for a specific UK Shortlists guide summary.
• Basic operational request data handled by the hosting provider for security, reliability, and debugging.

UK Shortlists does not need a user login, exact location, payment details, contact list, government id, or account credentials for the first version of the app.

Restricted information

The app should not ask users to provide payment card details, passwords, API keys, government identification, protected health information, precise location, or other sensitive account credentials.

If a user asks for medical, legal, financial, insurance, or safety-critical advice, the app should keep the answer general, avoid product recommendations where unsafe, and suggest qualified professional or official sources where appropriate.

Prompt retention and analytics

The intended version 1 position is that UK Shortlists does not store raw user prompts by default. Aggregate operational signals may be used to understand route-match quality, no-safe-match cases, tool errors, and reliability.

If more detailed logging or analytics is introduced later, this page and the wider privacy policy should be updated before that change is used for the public app.

Third-party services

ChatGPT app interactions are handled through OpenAI's ChatGPT platform. The UK Shortlists app endpoint may also be hosted by a cloud provider. Those providers process technical data needed to deliver the service under their own terms and policies.

The app itself should not send user prompt text to affiliate networks or merchants. Merchant and affiliate journeys remain on the UK Shortlists website, where route-level disclosure and external-link controls apply.

Retention and updates

Operational logs should be kept only as long as needed for reliability, security, and app-quality review. UK Shortlists should avoid retaining sensitive prompt details unless a specific privacy-reviewed need is documented.

These notes should be reviewed before the app is submitted publicly, after any material app-behaviour change, and after any change to logging, analytics, hosting, or data retention.