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Privacy policy

Last updated 10 September 2026

This explains what MarginBoost collects, why, and who else sees it. It covers the website, your account, and the Margin browser extension. We are the responsible party under the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA).

Responsible party: [registered legal name], [physical address], South Africa. Queries: hello@marginboost.co.za.

What we hold

What	Why
Email address, and your name if you gave one	To identify your account, send receipts and send your welcome message
A hash of your password	To sign you in. We cannot read your password
A hash of your Margin key, and when it was issued	To check your key is valid. We cannot read the key itself
Subscription status and renewal date	To know whether your access is active
A count of drafts you generate, with token totals	To apply the monthly allowance and understand our own costs
Records of payment notifications from Paystack	To resolve billing disputes and prove what happened

What the extension does with your data

Sent to us

Project page content. When you press Draft on a Freelancer project, the text of that project is sent to our server, which passes it to our model provider to write your bid. It is used for that draft and is not stored afterwards.
Your Margin key. Sent with each request so we can confirm your subscription is active.

Never sent anywhere

Your deal log. Every bid, client, price, margin, hour and note in the CRM lives in your own browser, in the extension's local storage. It is never uploaded to us and we cannot see it. If you uninstall the extension without exporting, it is gone.
Your pricing, prompt and settings. Also local to your browser.

The extension reads Freelancer project pages only, and only while you are on one. It does not read other sites, does not track your browsing, and contains no analytics.

Who else sees your data

Paystack — takes payment. They receive your email address and your card details, which go to them directly and never touch our server.
Anthropic — provides the model that writes your bid drafts. They receive the project text and your prompt, under their commercial terms. They do not receive your name, email or key.
Our hosting provider — the server your account sits on.

We do not sell your data, we do not share it for advertising, and there are no trackers or analytics scripts on this site.

Where it is kept, and for how long

Your account data sits on a server in South Africa, with encrypted backups retained for fourteen days. Draft requests are not retained after the draft is returned.

We keep your account while it is open. If you close it, we delete your account within 30 days, except records we must keep for tax and dispute purposes, which we hold for five years as South African law requires.

Your rights under POPIA

You may ask us what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted. Email hello@marginboost.co.za and we will respond within 30 days. You can also complain to the Information Regulator of South Africa at inforegulator.org.za.

Visitor counts

We count page views on our own server so we can see whether the site is working. We record the page, the date, and a one-way hash that tells us one visitor from another on that day only — the hash is salted with the date, so it cannot be used to recognise you tomorrow or to follow you between pages over time. We do not store IP addresses, and there are no third-party analytics or tracking scripts anywhere on this site.

Cookies

One cookie, holding your sign-in session. No advertising or analytics cookies. Clearing it signs you out.

Children

MarginBoost is not intended for anyone under 18 and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If we change how we handle your data we will update this page and email you where the change is material.

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