Throoli Privacy Policy
Effective 28 October 2026
1 Who is responsible for your information
Throoli is operated by Hammer Learning Experiences LLC, an Illinois limited liability company, 980 N Michigan Ave, Ste 1090 #101371, Chicago, IL 60611, United States (“we,” “us”). Contact support [at] hammerlearning.co about this policy or your information.
This policy covers the Throoli website, accounts, the presentation workspace and support. Throoli is currently a free beta open by invitation to professionals aged 18 and over.
2 Information we handle
| Category | What it is |
|---|---|
| Company waitlist | The work email address you enter in the “Join the waitlist” form. No other fields are requested. |
| Beta tester requests | What you enter in the “Request beta access” form: your name, email address and role, and optionally your organization and the kind of presentations you give. |
| Account information | Your email address, a short display name and your sign-in details. If you sign in with Google, Google shares your email address and name with us; we do not keep your profile picture. If you use email and password, your password is stored only in hashed form by our sign-in provider. |
| Presentation content | What you write and attach in the workspace: your description of the presentation, your answers and corrections, pasted text, attached files (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, images and text files), links you share and the pages Throoli opens from them, and the material Throoli prepares for you (research findings, storyline, Slide Blueprint and Speaker Guide, with their earlier versions). |
| Support messages | What you send us by email and the information needed to answer you. |
| Usage records | For each AI request: the time, the stage of the work, the amount of text processed, the cost and the response time. For each workspace visit: when it started and how long the workspace stayed open and in use. These records do not contain your presentation content. |
| Technical information | Your IP address, browser and device information and request times, recorded by our hosting provider for security and reliability. |
| Browser storage | See section 9. |
We do not offer paid plans and do not collect payment information.
3 Why we use information
- To let you sign in, check that your email address has been invited, and keep your work available to you.
- To coach you and prepare the material you ask for, including the field research for your case.
- To answer your support requests.
- To keep the Service secure, prevent abuse and keep it running, including keeping track of the AI usage allowance for the beta and understanding how much the beta is used.
- To contact people on the company waitlist about Throoli for their organization. We do not use waitlist emails for other marketing.
- To review beta tester requests and invite testers. We use what you send only to decide on and arrange your access, not for other marketing.
We do not send marketing messages, and we do not make decisions about individuals that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
4 Presentation content and AI processing
To coach you and prepare your material, we send the relevant part of your presentation content (your description, answers, attached files and the pages you shared) together with Throoli's own coaching instructions to OpenAI's models, through Netlify's AI Gateway. This is business use of the OpenAI API, not a consumer chat service. Each request asks OpenAI not to store the response. Under its API terms, OpenAI does not use this content to train its models, and may keep requests for a limited period (currently up to 30 days) to detect and prevent abuse.
For field research, Throoli asks the model to search the web on topics drawn from your case, such as your industry and audience. The search queries are run by OpenAI's web search. When you share a link, Throoli opens that page itself and keeps its text with your presentation.
We do not use your content to train AI models, and we do not use it as examples, test cases or material for anyone else. Each person sees only their own presentations.
Access to your content is limited to you. We open it only when you ask us to look at a problem, or when necessary to investigate a security incident or abuse.
The microphone button (voice to text) uses your browser's own speech recognition. No audio reaches Throoli, only the text that appears in the box. Some browsers, including Google Chrome, process the audio on their maker's servers under that maker's privacy terms.
The PowerPoint file is built in your browser from your saved work. Creating it sends nothing to us or to anyone else.
5 Who receives information
- Service providers that run parts of the Service for us: Netlify (hosting, sign-in, database, file storage, the waitlist form and the beta request form), OpenAI (AI processing and web search, through Netlify's AI Gateway) and Google (only if you choose to sign in with Google). They process information on our behalf under their business terms.
- Tools you choose: if you download your presentation and open it in another program, that program's terms apply to that use.
- Authorities or others where the law requires it, or where necessary to protect rights, security or people. We assess each request.
- A successor business, in a merger, acquisition or similar transfer, subject to this policy.
We do not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising or use it for targeted advertising.
6 Where information is processed
Our business is based in the United States. Netlify hosts the website, database and file storage in the United States. OpenAI may process requests in the United States and in other countries where it operates. Information about the safeguards that apply is available from support [at] hammerlearning.co.
7 How long we keep information
| Information | How long |
|---|---|
| Presentations, attached files, opened pages and their versions | Until you delete them, or 12 months after the last activity on the presentation, whichever comes first. Deleting a presentation removes it, its files and its history from our database and file storage immediately. Inactive presentations are deleted automatically each day. |
| A reply being written | Removed as soon as the reply is finished. |
| Account information | While you have an account. Ask us to close your account and we delete it, with your presentations, within 30 days. |
| Usage records | For as long as needed to account for the beta's AI usage. They contain no presentation content. |
| Company waitlist emails | Until you ask us to remove your email, or until the waitlist closes, whichever comes first. |
| Beta tester requests | Until you ask us to remove your request, or until the beta ends, whichever comes first. |
| Support emails | Up to 12 months after the request is resolved. |
| Copies kept by providers | OpenAI as described in section 4. Our hosting provider's backups and logs are kept for its limited standard periods and then overwritten. |
8 Security
Only people whose email address has been invited can open the workspace. Every request is checked on our servers against a verified sign-in, and each person can reach only their own presentations. Information travels over encrypted connections. Uploaded files and the instructions Throoli uses are kept in private storage that no web address can reach, and access keys stay on our servers. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Report a suspected security issue to support [at] hammerlearning.co. If an incident affects your information, we will notify you as required by law.
9 Cookies and browser storage
Throoli uses only what it needs to work:
- a sign-in cookie (
nf_jwt) that keeps you signed in, set when you sign in and removed when you sign out; - settings saved in your browser: light or dark mode, whether you closed the site banner, how your saved projects are sorted, and which suggested project names you dismissed;
- a short-lived marker used once during Google sign-in.
We do not use analytics, advertising or tracking cookies, and no third party tracks you across sites through Throoli. Because we do not track you, browser Do Not Track and opt-out preference signals do not change how the Service works.
10 Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete your personal information, receive a copy of it, object to or restrict certain processing, and withdraw consent. You can delete any presentation yourself at any time in the workspace. For anything else, email support [at] hammerlearning.co. We will verify your request in a way that fits it and answer within the period the law requires. If we turn down a request, you may appeal by replying to our answer. You may use an authorized agent where the law allows. We will not treat you differently for exercising your rights. You may also complain to your local data protection authority.
11 Children and changes to this policy
Throoli is for adults aged 18 and over. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact support [at] hammerlearning.co and we will delete it.
We will update this policy when our practices change and show the new effective date at the top. We will tell you about material changes by email or in the workspace before they take effect, and ask for your consent where the law requires it.