Privacy Policy
Last updated: May 16, 2026
Overview
Pillar is a content-management platform operated by Apollo Franklin (“we,” “us”). This policy describes what data we collect from people who sign in to Pillar to manage their organization’s content, how we use it, and the choices you have. Pillar is a B2B tool — we don’t serve advertising on the platform and we don’t sell user data.
What we collect
When you have an account on Pillar, we store:
- Your email address and (optionally) your name and avatar URL.
- A bcrypt hash of your password. We never store your password in plaintext.
- An audit log of actions you take in the platform (pages created, leads updated, settings changed, etc.), along with timestamps.
- Content you create on behalf of your organization — pages, posts, forms, and lead submissions.
- Webhook-delivery logs that may include destination URLs, status codes, and short response excerpts.
Pillar uses a single HTTP-only session cookie (pillar_session) to keep you signed in. We don’t use analytics, ad, or fingerprinting cookies.
How we use it
We use the data above to:
- Authenticate you and authorize access to your organization’s content.
- Show you and your team an audit trail of changes for accountability and recovery.
- Deliver transactional emails (account invitations, password resets, lead notifications).
- Diagnose and fix problems with the service.
Sub-processors
Pillar runs on a small set of third-party services that process data on our behalf:
- Supabase — managed Postgres hosting for the application database (and future Storage for uploads).
- SendGrid — outbound transactional email delivery.
- Vercel — application hosting (when deployed to production).
Each service receives only the data necessary to provide its function (e.g. SendGrid receives the recipient address and email body).
Retention
- Account records (email, password hash, profile) are kept while your account is active.
- Audit-log entries are retained for 12 months, then purged.
- Content you create is retained until you or an admin deletes it.
- Webhook delivery logs are retained for 90 days.
Your choices
You can:
- Reset your password from the sign-in page at any time.
- Ask an admin in your organization to update or remove your account.
- Request a copy or deletion of your personal data by writing to info@apollofranklin.com. Deletion requests are completed within 30 days.
Security
Passwords are hashed with bcrypt. Sessions are signed with HS256 and stored in HTTP-only, SameSite=Lax cookies. Connections to Pillar use HTTPS in production. API keys are stored as SHA-256 hashes, never in plaintext.
Changes to this policy
We’ll update this page when our practices change. Material changes will be announced inside Pillar or by email to account owners.
Contact
Questions about this policy? Email info@apollofranklin.com.
© 2026 Pillar by Apollo Franklin. This document is a draft pending legal review.