1. Data Ingestion & Purpose
StopBotAPI, operated by DigitalSteel Studios, acts as a localized data processor for your digital storefront. Our primary function is autonomous threat interception. To accomplish this, our API endpoints ingest and temporarily hold webhook payloads sent by your systems. We process this data exclusively to identify malicious bots, synthetic traffic, and fraudulent automation.
2. The Hive-Mind & PII Anonymization
When a new threat is detected, our Global Hive-Mind Network reverse-engineers the attack signature to immunize all connected StopBotAPI nodes. DigitalSteel Studios isolates Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and does not use it to build threat signatures.
Names, physical addresses, email addresses, and payment data belonging to your end-customers are never utilized to build threat signatures, nor are they ever broadcast across our global network. The Hive-Mind exclusively syncs structural bot indicators (e.g., malicious headers, synthetic payload formatting, and automated IP footprints).
3. Information Storage & Retention
Event logs containing original payload snippets are stored in an encrypted PostgreSQL database solely to populate your private Dashboard's "Live Audit Stream" and "Active Quarantine Zone." As the account administrator, you maintain the ability to manually pardon and subsequently purge these logs. DigitalSteel Studios implements aggressive automated data rotation, routinely deleting historic webhook logs to minimize persistent data footprints.
4. Third-Party Sharing
We do not sell, rent, or trade your data to third parties. Data is only shared with trusted infrastructure partners (such as secure cloud hosting) strictly for the purpose of operating the StopBotAPI service, or when legally compelled by a valid court order.
5. Jurisdiction & Contact
DigitalSteel Studios operates in compliance with applicable state and federal data protection laws. This Privacy Policy and all related data operations are governed under the jurisdiction of North Carolina.
For privacy inquiries, data deletion requests, or compliance audits, please contact our administrative team directly at: support@stopbotapi.com