What we collect, and what we do with it
Short version: an email address if you ask for one thing, your business name and city if you run a check, and nothing else. We do not run analytics, we do not use advertising trackers, and we do not sell anything to anyone. Last updated 27 July 2026.
No tracking
There is no analytics script, no advertising pixel, and no third-party cookie on this site. We do not set cookies at all. We cannot tell you how many people visited a page, because we do not measure it.
What we collect, and why
| What | When | Why | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business name and city | You run a free check | To ask the AI assistants about that business and store the result so the page can be reloaded and shared | Indefinitely, unless you ask us to delete it |
| Email address | You unlock a full check result | To link a later purchase to the right report, and to deliver it | Indefinitely, unless you ask us to delete it |
| Email address and payment reference | You buy a Fix Pack | To deliver the report, issue refunds, and keep records of a sale | As long as tax and accounting rules require |
| IP address | You submit the check form | Rate limiting only — three checks per hour per address | About two hours, then it expires automatically |
| Business name, city, website domain | You submit an opt-out | To keep the business suppressed permanently, including against future runs | Indefinitely — this is what makes removal stick |
Two things we deliberately do not keep
Opt-out email addresses. If you give an address when requesting removal, it is used once to send the confirmation and then discarded. There is no database column for it. This is deliberate: an opt-out form that quietly builds a sales list is indefensible, and the surest way not to misuse the data is not to have it.
Card details. Payment happens entirely on Stripe. Your card number never reaches this site.
Who else sees your data
When you run a free check, the business name and city you enter are sent to the AI providers below as part of the question, because that is what the check is. Your email address is never sent to them.
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity — receive the question text, including the business name and city, when a check or scheduled run is performed.
- Cloudflare — hosts the site and the database, and processes requests.
- Stripe — processes payments and holds the payment record, under their own privacy policy.
- Resend — delivers our email.
That is the complete list. We do not share data with anyone else, and we do not sell it. There are no advertisers.
Information about businesses on the index
Pages about a business contain only what an AI assistant said in a dated, stored answer: whether the business was named, in what position, and the verbatim sentence. We do not publish opinions about quality, and we do not compile personal information about the people who run these businesses.
If you are, or represent, a business named here, you can have it removed at /opt-out. That takes effect on submission, without verification and without anyone following up. The underlying model responses are retained as the evidence behind claims we previously published, but nothing is published from them once a business is removed. If you want those deleted too, ask and we will do it.
Your rights
Wherever you are, you can ask us to show you what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it. Write to privacy@aianswerindex.com and we will action it — normally within a few days, and within 30 days at the outside. We do not require you to prove a legal basis for asking.
If you are in the UK or the EU, our lawful basis is legitimate interest for maintaining a public factual record, contract performance for delivering something you bought, and consent where you handed us an address voluntarily. You can object to any of it at the address above, and you may complain to your local data protection authority.
Security and location
Data is stored on Cloudflare infrastructure and may be processed in the United States and elsewhere. Access is limited to the one person who operates this site. This is a small operation run by an individual, not a company with a security department — we have kept the amount of personal data collected deliberately small partly for that reason.
Children
This is a service for business owners and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes materially, the date at the top changes with it. Anything at all: privacy@aianswerindex.com, or support@aianswerindex.com for general matters.