Privacy and terms
Who we are
Meantly (meantly.com) is an independent service run from the Kingdom of Bahrain. It reads public statements by leaders in politics, the economy and sport and shows the likely intent behind the words. For anything on this page, write to privacy@meantly.com or use the contact form.
Privacy
Without an account. You can read the live feed, signals and market view without signing in. We don't ask who you are, and we don't use advertising or tracking cookies.
Your account. You can sign up with Google or with an email address and password. With Google we receive your name, email address, profile picture and a Google account ID. With email we store your address and a salted hash of your password (never the password itself), and send one-time codes to confirm the address or reset the password. With either, we keep your settings (region, language, the people you follow, email alerts), your plan, and daily usage counts (Meantly reads, searches, decodes) that enforce plan limits, plus which reads you have opened so they stay open.
Text you paste. Text you send to the decoder goes to an AI model through OpenRouter and its model providers so it can be read. We don't store pasted text. Don't paste confidential or personal information.
Emails. We send account emails (codes, password resets) and, if you have them switched on, alerts about people you follow. You can switch alerts off in your account. Emails are sent through Brevo from no-reply@meantly.com.
Payments. Pro subscriptions are sold and processed by Polar, the merchant of record. We never see or store your card details. We receive your subscription status, renewal date and a customer ID so we can switch Pro on and off.
Cookies and local storage. One essential cookie keeps you signed in (it lasts up to 30 days). Your browser also remembers your language, region and desk (Politics, Economy or Sport) locally. Google's sign-in button is loaded from Google and is covered by Google's privacy policy.
Visit statistics. We count visits with Umami, which runs on our own server. It uses no cookies and stores no personal data: we see totals such as pages viewed, the site that referred you, your country and device type, never who you are. If your browser sends “Do Not Track”, your visits are not counted.
Contact form. If you write to us, we keep your name, email address and message so we can reply, and a one-way hash of your IP address to stop spam. We delete them when they are no longer needed.
Server logs. Our server keeps short-lived technical logs (such as IP addresses) for security and to limit abuse.
Why we use your data. To provide the service you signed up for (your account, plan and settings), to keep it secure and fair (limits, abuse prevention, the weekly review below), and to send the emails you asked for. We don't sell personal data, and we don't use it for advertising.
Who helps us. Hostinger (servers), OpenRouter and the AI model providers it routes to (reading text), Google (sign-in), Polar (payments) and Brevo (email). They process data for us under their own terms, and some are outside Bahrain, so your data may be handled in other countries.
How long we keep it. Account data stays until you delete the account. Usage counts, logs and contact messages are kept only as long as they are needed for the purposes above.
Your rights. You can see, correct, export or delete your data, and object to how we use it. Change your settings or delete your account at any time from the account menu; deleting removes your profile, settings and usage records (cancel any active subscription first from "Manage subscription"). For anything else, email privacy@meantly.com or use the contact form. We answer within 30 days. You can also complain to your data protection authority; in Bahrain that is the Personal Data Protection Authority.
Age. Meantly is not meant for children. Don't create an account if you are under 16.
How AI is used
Every "Meantly read", intent summary, score (hostility, audience impact, market pressure, policy stance) and translation on the site is generated automatically by AI models and a transparent pattern engine, and is labelled as a Meantly read. People do not write or approve each read before it appears. When a read is shown, the model may be given that person's recent Meantly reads as background, so it can notice when a message repeats, escalates or shifts.
Posts on Meantly's social media accounts are created automatically from the same reads and link back to the site.
Content standards and corrections
What a read is. A read is a hypothesis about rhetoric: what the words seem designed to do and for whom. It is not a fact-check, and not a statement about anyone's honesty, character or conduct. Our models are instructed never to call a person a liar or a claim false, and to apply the same standard to every person, party, country and side.
Where quotes come from. Official transcripts and statements, and direct quotes that news publishers attribute to a named person in the same passage. Each item links to the original. An automatic check tests whether the named person really said a news quote, and hides it if not.
Weekly review. Every week a person reviews the past seven days: reads whose wording sounds like a verdict, quotes whose attribution is unconfirmed or disputed, the most extreme reads, balance of coverage and tone across regions and parties, unanswered error reports and privacy requests, and signs of misuse of the service. Anything that breaks these standards is corrected or removed, and the review is signed off and kept on record.
Corrections and right of reply. If a quote is wrongly attributed, taken out of context or misread, report it or email corrections@meantly.com. We aim to act within three working days, and at once on a clear misattribution. A person who is quoted, or their office, can ask for a correction or for their response to be noted.
Publishers. We show short passages with a link to the original publisher, who owns that content. If you are a publisher and want an excerpt removed, write to us and we will remove it.
Terms of use
Accepting these terms. By using Meantly you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the site.
Not advice. Market tags, policy stance and signals describe the pressure a speaker appears to signal and how rhetoric moved alongside market data. Correlation is not cause. None of it is a forecast, or financial, investment, legal or betting advice.
Fair use. Don't scrape the site or the API at scale, resell or republish reads in bulk, get around plan limits or share accounts, interfere with the service, or use it for anything unlawful. Don't present a Meantly read as the speaker's own words or as established fact, and don't use reads to harass anyone. When you share a read, keep the Meantly attribution and link. We may limit, suspend or close accounts that break these rules.
Our content. The site, its design, the reads and scores are ours. You may quote and share individual reads with attribution to Meantly and a link.
Pro plan. Pro is a monthly subscription billed through Polar. It renews automatically until cancelled, and you keep Pro until the end of the paid period. Prices and features may change with notice. Refunds follow Polar's policy and applicable consumer law.
Availability and liability. The service is provided as is, without guarantees of availability, completeness or accuracy. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for decisions made on the basis of a read or a score, or for indirect losses. Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer law that cannot be limited.
Changes. We review these terms regularly and change the date above when we update them. If a change materially affects account holders, we will tell you by email before it applies.
Law. These terms are governed by the laws of the Kingdom of Bahrain, without taking away protections you have under the law of the country where you live.
Photo credits
Portraits of public figures come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under their free licences (public domain or Creative Commons). Each is credited below. To report a wrong photo, email the address above.