Privacy Policy

Nicheloom ("Nicheloom", "we", "us") is operated by Excillis Ventures Inc., based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. This page explains what information we collect when you use nicheloom.com, why, and what choices you have.

What we collect

Browsing the site. Nicheloom's dashboards, niche pages, search, and every other analysis view are built entirely from public product-launch data (Y Combinator, Product Hunt, Hacker News, GitHub Trending). Browsing them doesn't require an account, and we don't build profiles of individual visitors.

Site analytics. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand aggregate traffic (visits, pages, referrers, browsers, countries). It's cookieless and doesn't track you across sites or sessions -- see our Traffic page for a live look at the same aggregate numbers we see. We also use PostHog to understand how visitors move through the site (which pages lead to which) and which features get used -- this uses a first-party cookie/local storage to recognize repeat visits from the same browser. We don't use it for advertising, and we don't sell this data. Session recording is turned on, so we can watch anonymized playback of clicks, scrolling, and navigation to see what's actually useful -- anything you type into a form (like your email) is masked and never captured.

Cookies. We set a CSRF token (required to securely process form submissions like the sponsor signup and waitlist forms) and a PostHog analytics cookie (to connect page views from the same visitor into a session). Neither is used for advertising, and neither is a cross-site/ third-party tracking cookie.

If you sign up to sponsor a slot. We collect the name, tagline, URL, and icon you submit (these are displayed publicly on the site) and the email address Stripe collects during checkout, which we use only to send you the self-service link to manage or cancel your subscription. We never see or store your card details -- Stripe handles payment directly.

If you join the sponsor waitlist. We store the email you provide, used only to notify you if a slot opens up.

Server logs. Like virtually every website, our infrastructure (via Cloudflare) logs request metadata (IP address, timestamp, requested path) briefly, for security and abuse prevention -- for example, rate-limiting repeated requests to the checkout and waitlist forms.

Third parties we use

• Stripe -- payment processing for sponsor subscriptions. See Stripe's Privacy Policy.
• Resend -- delivers the sponsor management magic-link email. See Resend's Privacy Policy.
• Cloudflare -- hosting, content delivery, and Web Analytics. See Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.
• PostHog -- product analytics (page paths, feature usage). See PostHog's Privacy Policy.
• Google -- we request sponsors' site favicons from Google's public favicon service to display alongside their ad card; this sends the sponsor's domain, not any visitor's personal data, to Google.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not use it for advertising profiles.

Your rights

You can ask us to access, correct, or delete any personal information we hold about you (sponsor or waitlist email addresses) by emailing [email protected]. If you're in the EU/UK or California, this includes the rights specifically granted under GDPR and the CCPA; we'll honor equivalent requests regardless of where you're located.

Children

Nicheloom isn't directed at children, and we don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.

Changes

If we make a material change to this policy, we'll update the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: [email protected].