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GazeSite privacy policy. Learn how we collect, use, and protect your information.
Last updated: September 5, 2026
GazeSite (“we”, “us”, “our”) operates gazesite.com. This policy describes how we collect, use, and protect your information when you use our service.
Information We Collect
When you run a free scan, we record:
- The website URL you entered – so we can see which kinds of sites people want reviewed and how often a scan fails
- The resulting grade and score, or the error if the site could not be reached
- A one-way hashed version of your IP address – we do not store the IP itself, and the hash cannot be reversed back to it
- An approximate location (country, region, and city) looked up from your IP address at the moment of the scan. The IP is used for this lookup and then discarded; only the location is kept
- Browser user agent and referring page
If you enter your email address to see your results, we also record:
- Your email address, stored together with the URL you scanned, so we know which site you were asking about
When you place an order, we additionally collect:
- Email address – to deliver your audit report and order confirmation
- Website URL – the site you want audited
- Persona selection – which reviewer perspective you chose
- IP address and browser information – for fraud prevention and security
Contacting You About a Scan
Running a scan is a request for our opinion on a website, so we treat it as an invitation to reply.
If you gave us an email address, we may use it to send you your results and to follow up about the scan, about the paid review, and about the service generally.
If you did not give us one, we may look up the contact details that the scanned website publishes on its own pages – the address or phone number a business puts up so that people can reach it – and use those instead. We only use what the site itself publishes for that purpose. We do not use data brokers, WHOIS records, purchased marketing lists, or any other outside source, and we do not guess addresses that were never published.
Every message we send says why you are hearing from us and carries a one-click unsubscribe. Unsubscribing is permanent: we stop, and a later scan of the same site does not start it again.
Payment Information
Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your credit card number, expiration date, or CVC. Stripe handles all payment data under their own privacy policy and PCI-DSS compliance.
How We Use Your Information
- To process your order and deliver the audit report
- To send transactional emails (order confirmation, report delivery)
- To send you the results of a scan, and to follow up about that scan, the paid review, and our service – using either the address you gave us or the contact details the scanned site publishes publicly
- To prevent fraud and abuse
- To understand, in aggregate, which sites are scanned and how the scanner performs, so we can improve it
- To improve our service
We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Unsubscribing
Use the unsubscribe link in any message, or email [email protected] with the address or domain.
We keep a record of the unsubscribe itself – the address or domain, and the date – because that is the only way to be sure a later scan of the same site does not put you back on the list. Nothing else is kept for that purpose, and the record is not used for anything else.
Data Retention
Free scans are deleted automatically after 90 days. We keep them only long enough to understand which sites people ask us to review and where the scanner fails.
The city and region are deleted after 30 days – sooner than the rest of the record. After that point only the country remains, which is what we use for long-term reporting. This is automatic; you do not have to ask.
An email address you gave at a scan is kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it. It is not covered by the 90-day scan deletion above, because its purpose is to let us reply to you rather than to measure the scanner.
We retain order records for accounting and support purposes. You can request deletion of your data by emailing us at the address below.
Cookies
Our website uses minimal cookies for basic functionality. Stripe may set cookies during the checkout process under their own policy.
Third-Party Services
- Stripe – payment processing
- AI analysis providers – to generate your audit report (only your submitted URL is shared, not your email or payment info)
IP-to-location lookups happen on our own servers against a database we ship with the application. Your IP address is not sent to any third-party geolocation service.
Location data is provided by DB-IP under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Security
We use HTTPS encryption, parameterized database queries, and webhook signature verification to protect your data. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.
Your Rights
You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data at any time by contacting us.
Changes
We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated date.
Contact
Questions about this policy? Email us at [email protected].
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