Who we are
Innov8ive Labs, LLC, an Ohio limited liability company trading as Innov8iveLabs, is an independent software studio operated by Jonathan Poeder. We are the controller of the personal information described here.
2347 W Charleston St., Chicago, IL 60647, USA
contact+privacy@i8l.tech
What this covers
This policy applies to i8l.tech and the product sites under it, including valid8, clipcleared, gener8, investig8 and the studio's internal operations tools.
Where a product has its own written agreement, that agreement governs the data handled inside the product and this policy covers the surrounding website and correspondence.
If you visit the website
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics. It is cookieless. It does not fingerprint you, does not follow you across other sites, and does not build a profile. It reports aggregates: page views, referrers, broad country and device category.
Our host, Cloudflare, processes standard request data such as IP address and user agent to serve pages and to defend against abuse. That is a normal part of running a website and is retained only briefly.
No advertising trackers. No third-party ad networks. No social pixels. No selling, renting or licensing of personal information, to anyone, ever. No cross-site tracking.
If you email us
Mail to our addresses reaches a mailbox hosted by Zoho. We keep correspondence so that we can reply and keep an accurate record of what was agreed.
Some of our addresses carry a tag, such as
contact+gener8@i8l.tech. That tells us which page you wrote from.
It is used for routing, not for profiling.
If you use one of our tools
The studio's portals are single-operator and passcode protected. They are not open to public sign-up. When you sign in, a session cookie is set purely to keep you signed in. It carries no analytics and is not used for tracking.
Business contact information we collect for outreach
This is the part most policies bury, so it is stated plainly.
We identify companies that may be a fit for our products and collect business contact information about the relevant people at them: name, role, employer, business email address, and links to publicly posted company pages. We collect this from publicly accessible sources. We do not collect it from private groups, we do not buy contact lists, and we do not scrape platforms whose terms forbid it.
We use it for one purpose: to contact you once, from a named human, about whether a specific product is relevant to your work. Our basis for this is our legitimate interest in reaching potential business customers, balanced against a genuinely low impact on you.
Who can see it
Only Jonathan Poeder. It is not shared with, sold to, or licensed to any other party.
How to stop it
Every message we send identifies who we are and offers a way to opt out. Ask, in any form and in any words, and we will add you to a permanent suppression list and not contact you again. We keep the minimum record needed to honour that, which is the point of it. Write to contact+privacy@i8l.tech and we will also delete what we hold if you would rather we did that.
Who processes data on our behalf
- Cloudflare: hosting, content delivery, and the cookieless analytics described above.
- Zoho: email hosting for our mailboxes.
- Anthropic: AI models we use to draft and review content. Where our research tools summarise a company, the business contact information described above may be processed by these models to produce that summary.
Each of these acts on our instructions. None of them is permitted to use your information for their own purposes.
How long we keep things
- Analytics: aggregate only, and never tied to you.
- Correspondence: for as long as the relationship or a legal or accounting obligation requires, then deleted.
- Business contact information: deleted when it is no longer relevant, or immediately on request.
- Suppression entries: kept indefinitely, deliberately. Deleting them would mean we could contact you again by mistake.
Your rights
Ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, or tell us to stop contacting you. One email does all of these: contact+privacy@i8l.tech. We do not require a particular form of words and we will not make you create an account to ask.
Depending on where you live you may have further rights under laws such as the GDPR or the CCPA, including the right to complain to a supervisory authority. We have never sold personal information and have no plans to.
Children
Our products are business tools. They are not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.
Changes
If this policy changes materially we will change the effective date at the top and, where we hold your address and the change affects you, tell you directly.