Who is responsible
This website is operated by CitedGEO, the data controller (legal details: terms). Contact: hello@citedgeo.com .
What this website collects
- Hosting logs. The site is hosted on Cloudflare Workers. Cloudflare processes technical request data, such as IP address and browser type, to deliver and protect the site. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
- Preferences on your device. Your theme choice is saved in your browser's local storage. It never leaves your device.
- Cookieless visit counting. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views. It sets no cookies, does not track you across sites and does not build a profile of you; it sees the page, the referrer, the visitor's country, and the browser type.
Apart from the cookieless counting above, we do not currently load analytics or advertising tags. If we add them, they will load only after you accept them in a cookie banner, and a Cookie settings button will appear.
When you request an audit or a check, or email us
If you email us or submit the contact or free audit form, we receive your name, email address, website, and the rest of what you write. The free instant check at /free-check/ receives the website you check and, if you enter it, your email address. With each contact or audit request, and with each check where you enter your email, we also store your IP address and your browser's user-agent. With an audit request, we also store the link label (UTM) you arrived with, or the domain of the site that referred you, when either is present. Your IP address is also used briefly to limit how often the forms can be used. We use this data only to reply, to prepare the audit or check you asked for, to limit abuse of the forms, and to see which of our links or which site brought an audit request.
Who receives it:
- Cloudflare hosts the site, runs the Turnstile bot check on our forms, and stores each form submission for up to 90 days. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
- Telegram delivers a notification of each submission to us. See Telegram's privacy policy.
- mailbox.org (Heinlein Support GmbH, Germany) hosts our email inbox, so emails you send us and our emails to you are stored there. See mailbox.org's privacy policy.
These providers may process the data outside the UK and the EEA.
Legal basis (GDPR): steps taken at your request before entering into a contract, Art. 6(1)(b); and our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries, protecting the forms from abuse, and knowing which of our links bring enquiries, Art. 6(1)(f).
Retention: enquiries, including form submissions and their notifications, are kept for up to 24 months after our last contact; outreach contacts who do not reply are deleted after 6 months.
When we email you first
We sometimes email journalists and businesses at work addresses they publish, for example on a contact page, about research or services relevant to their work. We keep your name, work email, where we found it and our messages. Legal basis (GDPR): our legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f). Reply "no" or email hello@citedgeo.com and we will not contact you again; we then keep your address only on a do-not-contact list.
Your rights
If you are in the EU, the UK or another region with similar law, you can ask us to access, correct, delete or export your data, to restrict or object to its processing, and you can complain to your local data protection authority. California residents have comparable rights under the CCPA. We do not sell personal information or share it for advertising.
To exercise a right, email hello@citedgeo.com.
Changes
We will update this page when our practices change and show the date at the top.