Privacy policy

Last updated: 2026-11-11

Who is responsible

SEO Guard is operated by Nicolas Schmidt. Contact: [email protected].

What we collect and why

When you request a free audit we store the website, email address and (optionally) the name you enter, plus the date and your country as reported by our hosting provider. We use this only to crawl the public pages of that website, send you the audit report and follow up on it (legal basis: steps taken at your request before a contract, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). We never sell or share it for marketing.

To prevent abuse, a one-way hash of your IP address is kept for at most one hour for rate limiting. We do not store your IP address itself.

Clients

For clients we process the data needed to deliver the service and invoice it (contact details, site access tokens you grant us, invoices). Access tokens can be revoked by you at any time.

Cookies and tracking

This website sets no cookies and uses no tracking, advertising or fingerprinting scripts. If we measure visits, we only use cookie-less, aggregate analytics that do not identify you.

Processors

The site and form run on Cloudflare (hosting, form storage). Email is handled by our email provider. Payments are made by bank transfer through Wise. These providers process data on our behalf under their own data-protection terms.

How long we keep it

Audit requests are deleted 12 months after the last contact unless you become a client. Client and invoice records are kept as long as the law requires.

Your rights

You can ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or object to processing by emailing [email protected]. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data-protection authority.