Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. It is SearchConsoleInsights.com’s policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our website, https://www.searchconsoleinsights.com, and other sites we own and operate.

Personal information is any information about you which can be used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as name, address, and date of birth), your devices, and even information about how you use a website or online service.

In the event our site contains links to third-party sites and services, please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our site.

This policy is effective as of 5th August 2024.

Last updated: 5th August 2024

Information We Collect

Information we collect falls into one of two categories: ‘voluntarily provided’ information and ‘automatically collected’ information.

‘Voluntarily provided’ information refers to any information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions.

‘Automatically collected’ information refers to any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and services.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and personalize content. Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website.

We use the following types of cookies:

Essential cookies: These are necessary for the website to function properly.
Analytical/performance cookies: These help us analyze how visitors use our website.
Functionality cookies: These allow us to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features.
Targeting cookies: These are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests.

You can control and manage cookies through your browser settings. However, please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website.

Log Data

When you visit our website and web app, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details about your visit.

Additionally, if you encounter certain errors while using the site, we may automatically collect data about the error and the circumstances surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technical details about your device, what you were trying to do when the error happened, and other technical information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive notice of such errors, even in the moment they occur, that they have occurred, or what the nature of the error is.

Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.

Google Search Console Data

We never share, train on, or sell your Google search console data. It’s securely stored, and if you delete your account, the data is deleted too. You can also request data deletion at any time.

Personal Information

We may ask for personal information — for example, when you subscribe to our newsletter or when you contact us — which may include one or more of the following:

Name
Email

Legitimate Reasons For Processing Your Personal Information

We only collect and use your personal information for a legitimate reason. In this instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.

Collection And Use Of Information

We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website:

Register for an account
Enter any of our competitions, contests, sweepstakes, and surveys
Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels
Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content
Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies
When you mention us on social media

We may collect, hold, use and disclose information for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:

to provide you with our platform’s core features and services
to enable you to customize or personalise your experience of our website
to deliver products and/or services to you
to contact and communicate with you
for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you
to enable you to access and use our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
for internal record keeping and administrative purposes
to run competitions, sweepstakes, and/or offer additional benefits to you
to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have
to attribute any content (e.g. posts and comments) you submit that we publish on our website
for security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our sites and apps are safe, secure, and used in line with our terms of use
for technical assessment, including to operate and improve our app, associated applications, and associated social media platforms

We may combine voluntarily provided and automatically collected personal information with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources. For example, If you provide us with your location, we may combine this with general information about currency and language to provide you with an enhanced experience of our site and service.

Security Of Your Personal Information

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure and no one can guarantee absolute data security.

You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services. For example, ensuring any passwords associated with accessing your personal information and accounts are secure and confidential.

Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Specifically:

Account information: We retain your account information for as long as your account is active and for a period of 12 months after account closure.
Usage data: We retain usage data for 24 months to improve our services and for analytics purposes.
Communication data: We retain communication records (e.g., customer support emails) for 36 months.

After these retention periods expire, we securely delete or anonymize the data.

Your Rights

Under applicable laws, you have the following rights regarding your personal information:

Right to Access: You can request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: You can ask us to correct or update any inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
Right to Erasure: You can request the deletion of your personal information under certain circumstances.
Right to Restrict Processing: You can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain cases.
Right to Data Portability: You can request a copy of your personal information in a machine-readable format.
Right to Object: You can object to our processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in the “Contact” page linked in footer below.