Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Best Productivity Resources ("the site", "we", "us") is a curated directory of productivity tools, apps, courses, books and methods, operated by Shushant Lakhyani. This policy explains what information is collected when you use the site, why it is collected, how it is stored, and the choices you have.

2. Information we collect

We collect as little information as possible. The data we handle falls into these categories:

• Resource submissions. When you suggest a resource by messaging us on LinkedIn, we receive only the details you choose to share in that conversation, such as your name and the resource details. This information is used solely to review the submission and, where necessary, follow up with you.
• Contact messages. If you reach out through the contact page or by email, we receive your message and any contact details you include, used only to respond to your enquiry.
• Newsletter subscription. Newsletter sign-ups happen on Gumroad, not on this site. Gumroad stores the email address you enter and makes it available to us as the creator so we can send you updates. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email, and Gumroad's privacy policy applies to the sign-up itself.
• Technical request data. Like every website, the site receives standard request information when your browser loads a page: IP address, browser and device type, the page requested, the referring page and the time. The site is hosted on Cloudflare's network, which processes this data to deliver pages, keep them fast and block attacks. We do not use it to identify or profile you, and it is kept by those providers under their own policies.
• Visit counts. We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, a small script from Cloudflare that runs when a page loads. It records the page, the referring site, your country, your device type and browser, and page load speed. It sets no cookies, uses no local storage, does not fingerprint your device and does not track you across other websites, and we see only totals. Before 7 November 2026, our former host, Lovable, counted visits from the requests your browser made to load pages. We do not use visit counts to build personal profiles.
• Affiliate tracking. Our pages load the Universal Tracking Tag from Impact.com, an affiliate network. It tells Impact that a page was viewed, along with standard request details such as your IP address, browser and the referring page. It can turn some outbound links into Impact tracking links and set cookies on this site, so that a partner company can credit us if you sign up or buy after clicking. Impact handles this data under its own privacy policy. The script currently loads for every visitor and is not a choice in the cookie banner; you can block it or its cookies in your browser. It is not loaded in the embeddable widget.
• Upvotes. When you press Upvote on a tool, our database (Supabase) stores the tool, the week and a one-way code made from your IP address and browser details mixed with a secret key and the week. The code lets each person vote once per tool per week; your IP address itself is not stored, and the code cannot be turned back into it. Votes are deleted after 60 days, and only vote totals are ever shown.
• Browser-only tools. The PDF tools (merge, split, compress, convert, rotate, rearrange, extract pages, remove pages and protect), the calculators, the text and everyday utilities, the Personal Card Builder and the writing and ideas tools process the files, images, text and numbers you enter only inside your browser. That content is not uploaded, transmitted to us or stored on our servers. Temporary download data is discarded when you close or refresh the page. The "What should I write today" tool can keep your points and streak in your browser, but only if you allow preference saving.

3. What we do not collect

• No account registration is required, so we do not store passwords or profiles.
• No advertising cookies are used. The only tracking is the Impact.com affiliate script described above.
• We do not collect precise location data, device fingerprints or behavioral profiles.
• We do not receive or retain files and content processed by the browser-only tools.
• We make no automated decisions about you and do not build profiles for advertising.
• The site is not directed at children. India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act treats anyone under 18 as a child, so we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18 without verifiable consent from a parent or guardian. If you are under 18, please ask a parent or guardian before subscribing or contacting us. If we learn that we hold a child's data without that consent, we delete it.

4. Cookies, local storage and your consent

The site uses no advertising cookies. The Impact.com affiliate script described in section 2 can set its own cookies and is not covered by the banner. On your first visit you are shown a cookie banner with two clearly separated categories, essential and preference saving, and nothing else beyond the essential category runs until you choose:

• Essential (always on). A single browser storage entry, bpr-cookie-consent, records your cookie choice and its date so we do not ask again on every page. Without it the site cannot respect your decision.
• Your Saved list (only if you use it). When you tap the heart on a resource, its page name is kept in your browser under bpr-saved so you can find it later on the Saved page. It is never sent to us, and you can clear it on that page at any time.
• Recently viewed (only with preference saving). If you allow the preferences category, the names and page addresses of the last three resource pages you opened are kept in your browser under bpr-recent, so the homepage can offer "Continue where you left off" next to your saved count. It is never sent to us. Use the Clear button in that strip to delete it, and it is deleted automatically if preference saving is turned off.
• Last visit (only with preference saving). If you allow the preferences category, the time of your current and previous visit is kept in your browser under bpr-last-visit, so the homepage can show how many tools and articles were added since you were last here. It is never sent to us, and it is deleted automatically if preference saving is turned off.
• Preferences saving (optional). Lets the site remember things for you in your browser. Today this is the "What should I write today" tool, which keeps your points and streak under the key wsiw-today-state, and the Recently viewed list described above, under bpr-recent, the last visit time under bpr-last-visit, and settings for free tools such as the Pomodoro timer, under bpr:prefs:<tool>. This data never leaves your device, and nothing is saved unless you allow this category.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time with the Cookie preferences link, also available in the footer of every page. Clearing your browser storage resets the banner to its default state. The full list of storage keys, their purpose and their lifetime is in the Cookie Policy.

5. How we use your information

• To review, verify and publish resource submissions.
• To respond to questions, feedback or correction requests.
• To send the newsletter, through Gumroad, to subscribers who opted in.
• To understand aggregate traffic patterns and improve the directory.
• To keep the site secure and prevent abuse.

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information to anyone, and we do not share it with third parties for their marketing purposes.

6. Third-party services and links

Listings link to external websites, tools and services. Once you leave this site, the destination's own privacy policy applies, and we are not responsible for their practices. Resource submissions are handled through LinkedIn direct messages, which are governed by LinkedIn's privacy policy. Visit totals come from Cloudflare Web Analytics, under Cloudflare's own terms.

The directory includes a featured section that highlights selected productivity tools. Links in that section may be sponsored or affiliate links. We only feature trustworthy productivity resources we genuinely recommend, and any compensation or referral relationship does not change which tools are included. Full details are in the Affiliate Disclosure.

The site also shows sponsored slots at the sides on desktop and as strips on mobile. Empty slots simply link to our payment page, and booked slots link to the sponsor's own website. Sponsored slots set no cookies, run no third-party ad script and collect no data about you on this site. Terms for sponsors are in the Sponsorship & Advertising Policy.

A few parts of the site load content from other companies' servers, which means those companies receive your IP address and browser details when the content loads, and their own privacy policies apply:

• Launch badges. The Product Hunt, ScrollLaunch, Peerlist and Uneed badge images are loaded from those services.
• Testimonials. The testimonial widget is provided by Senja and may load video players, such as YouTube, which can set their own cookies under their own domains. If you leave a testimonial through the Senja form, Senja stores what you submit, such as your name, words and any photo or video, and its own privacy policy applies.

Links to our products, newsletter and support pages go to Gumroad, and the payment page for sponsored slots goes to PayPal. We receive no personal data from these embeds and links beyond what you choose to give those services.

Ask AI buttons. Some pages offer buttons that open ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Grok with a ready-made question about the page. Nothing is sent until you click, and the question then goes to that AI service under its own terms and privacy policy.

Outbound links. Links to listed resources include utm_source=bestproductivityresources and utm_medium=referral so the destination can see that the visit came from this site. These tags identify the site, not you. Some links are affiliate links and are labelled as such, and the Impact.com script may turn some links into Impact tracking links when you click; see the Affiliate Disclosure.

The Featured badge. Makers can show a "Featured on Best Productivity Resources" badge on their own websites. When a page shows the badge, the visitor's browser loads the image from our site, so our hosting providers receive the same technical request data described above, including the address of the page showing the badge. We do not use it to track individuals.

The Tool of the day widget. Other websites and Notion pages can embed our daily tool pick (see the widget page). The widget itself sets no cookies, loads no analytics and stores nothing in the browser; the pick is chosen from the date alone. Loading it sends our hosting providers the same technical request data described above, and Cloudflare may set its bot-protection cookie (__cf_bm), as it does on every page of this site.

The MCP server. Our free MCP server runs on your own computer. It has no analytics or telemetry and never sends us your questions; its only request to us is a download of the public catalogue (/resources.json), which our hosting providers handle like any other page request.

AI Use Cases pages. The list on AI Use Cases is stored with our database provider, Supabase. When you open these pages, your browser or our server reads the public list from Supabase, so Supabase receives the same technical request data described above, such as your IP address and browser details. These requests set no cookies, store nothing in your browser and send no personal information about you; the list itself holds no personal data.

7. Data retention and security

Submission and contact data is kept only as long as needed to handle your request and maintain accurate records of published resources. Upvote records are deleted after 60 days. Newsletter emails are held by Gumroad until you unsubscribe. We apply reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect the limited data we hold, though no method of transmission or storage on the internet is completely secure.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export or delete the personal data we hold about you, and to object to or restrict certain processing. To use those rights, email us directly at shushant@bestproductivityresources.com from the address concerned so we can verify you. We acknowledge requests within 7 working days and resolve valid ones within 30 days.

• India. Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 you may ask for a summary of the personal data we process, ask us to correct or erase it, withdraw consent, and nominate another person to exercise these rights on your behalf if you die or become incapacitated. The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 bring most of these duties into force in stages through May 2027; we already follow them.
• UK and EU. You may also ask for your data in a portable format and complain to your local data protection authority, such as the UK Information Commissioner's Office, if you think we have mishandled it.
• US states. Residents of states with privacy laws, such as California, may ask to know, correct or delete their personal information. We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, and we will not treat you differently for making a request.

Grievances. If you are unhappy with how we handled your data or a request, write to the same address with the subject "Privacy grievance". We acknowledge grievances within 7 working days and aim to resolve them within 30 days. If you are still not satisfied, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India once it is operating, or to the authority that applies where you live.

9. Legal bases for processing

Where the UK/EU GDPR or a comparable law applies to you, we rely on these legal bases:

• Consent for optional preference saving and newsletter emails. You can withdraw it at any time.
• Legitimate interests for responding to your messages, reviewing submissions, keeping the site secure and preventing abuse, including stopping repeat upvotes.
• Legal obligation where we must keep records or respond to a lawful request.

10. International transfers

The site is operated from India and hosted on infrastructure that may store or process data in other countries, including Cloudflare, Supabase, Gumroad, Senja and Impact.com. Where data leaves your region, we rely on the providers' own safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses. The amount of personal data involved is deliberately minimal.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected on this page with an updated revision date, and notable updates are also recorded in the site's update log.

12. Website builder and AI tooling

This website was built using Lovable, an AI powered website builder. Some parts of the design, code and content were created or assisted by AI and then reviewed by the operator before publication. Lovable's own terms and privacy practices apply to the platform and hosting services it provides.