Privacy Policy

UCS A11yAllies – Privacy

UCS A11yAllies is designed to perform accessibility auditing primarily on your device. This policy explains what information remains local and what limited information is transmitted to UCS services for authentication, account management, entitlements and, where applicable, plan usage metering.

Account information

A11yAllies requires users to sign in. Authentication is provided through AWS Cognito. Account information required for authentication, such as your email address and authentication credentials, is transmitted securely to the authentication service.

Authentication tokens may also be sent to UCS account services to authenticate requests and retrieve account, plan, entitlement and usage information.

Website audits

Website content is analyzed in your browser when you explicitly start an accessibility audit. Accessibility findings, page information, project information and related audit data are stored locally on your device.

The audited page content, accessibility findings and audited page address are not uploaded to UCS servers by this version of A11yAllies. Where plan usage metering applies, only limited usage information, such as the number of pages audited and the type of scan performed, is transmitted to UCS account services as described below.

Plan usage and metering

For plans that use page-based metering, A11yAllies may transmit limited usage information to UCS account services to manage and enforce the usage limits associated with the signed-in account.

This information consists of the number of pages audited and the type of scan performed. The address of the page you audited is not transmitted as part of usage metering. The page address is kept locally on your device, where it may be used to identify pages in your audit records and support local usage tracking and de-duplication.

The current Free plan does not transmit usage-metering information.

Usage information is used to manage account entitlements and applicable plan allowances. It is not used for advertising or behavioural analytics.

The audited page content, accessibility findings, evidence screenshots, EPUB content and generated reports are not uploaded as part of this usage-metering process.

Evidence screenshots

Screenshots captured as accessibility evidence are stored locally on your device.

Screenshots may contain an A11yAllies watermark identifying the account that created the evidence.

Screenshot uploading to UCS-hosted storage is disabled in the current release.

EPUB audits

EPUB files selected for auditing are processed locally. EPUB content is not uploaded to UCS servers.

Publication information, accessibility findings and related audit records are stored locally on your device.

Reports

Accessibility and EPUB validation reports generated by A11yAllies are created locally on your device.

Generated reports are not automatically uploaded to UCS.

Analytics and telemetry

A11yAllies does not upload accessibility findings, evidence screenshots, EPUB content or generated reports to UCS analytics services.

A11yAllies does not transmit behavioural analytics or advertising telemetry in the current release.

Account information is transmitted as required for authentication and entitlement management. Where usage metering applies to a plan, the limited usage information described under Plan usage and metering may also be transmitted to UCS account services.

Purpose of account and usage information

Account and, where applicable, plan-usage information is processed as needed to authenticate users, determine available features, manage account entitlements and enforce applicable usage limits.

This information is separate from the accessibility audit content, findings, evidence and reports that remain stored locally as described in this policy.

Local data

Projects, accessibility findings, page information, evidence and related audit information are stored locally by A11yAllies.

Removing the extension or clearing browser or extension storage may remove this locally stored information.

Users should export any reports or evidence they need to retain before clearing local data or removing the extension.

Data sharing and sale

UCS does not sell A11yAllies user data.

Audit content, accessibility findings, evidence screenshots, generated reports and EPUB content are not shared with advertisers.

Account and, where applicable, plan-usage information described in this policy is used to operate A11yAllies account, entitlement and usage-limit functionality and is not used for advertising or behavioural analytics.

Your data and choices

You control when website and EPUB accessibility audits are started.

Locally stored audit information can be removed by clearing the applicable browser or extension storage or by removing the extension.

Before removing local information, export any reports or evidence you wish to retain.

Future cloud features

A future version of A11yAllies may offer optional cloud-based features.

If such functionality is introduced, this Privacy Policy will be updated to describe the information transmitted, its purpose, storage and applicable user controls before those features are made available.

This Privacy Policy applies to the current release of UCS A11yAllies. It may be updated when product functionality or data handling practices change.