Privacy

What we collect, and what we do not

Last updated 9 September 2026. This describes what the service actually does. It is short because the service collects very little.

The short version. One optional email address. One cookie, and only if you sign in. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels, no third-party cookies, no profiling, and nothing sold or shared. Everything is stored on a server in Nuremberg, Germany.

Who is responsible

AnswerRange is a product of Telic Technologies Pvt Ltd (telictech.com), which is the data controller for everything described here and decides how it is handled. You can reach us about any of it at privacy@answerrange.com.

Still to be published here: our registered postal address. Article 13 of the GDPR asks for it and we would rather show this line than print an address we had not checked. Ask at the email above and we will send it.

What we store

What	Why	How long
Your email address	Only if you give it. Used to send your report when it finishes, to send sign-in links, and for nothing else.	Kept until you ask us to delete it.
The domain you measure	Along with the category and the markets you chose, and any competitor domains you named.	Kept while the measurement exists.
Your measurement results	The questions asked, which assistants answered, which domains were cited, and the pages behind those citations.	Kept while the measurement exists.
A session cookie	Set only after you sign in. HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax, expires after 30 days. It holds a random identifier and nothing else.	Expires after 30 days, or immediately when you sign out.
Ordinary server logs	Request paths and timestamps, kept to keep the service running and to spot abuse.	Rotated and discarded.

What we deliberately do not do

No analytics. There is no Google Analytics, no tag manager, no Plausible, no Hotjar, nothing. We do not know which pages you visited.
No advertising or remarketing, and no data sold, rented or shared for it.
No third-party cookies. The only cookie is the sign-in session, and only after you sign in.
No passwords. Sign-in is a one-time emailed link, so there is no password for anyone to lose, including us. Both the link and the session identifier are stored only as hashes.
No profiling and no automated decisions about you.

Who else touches the data

These are the only processors involved. Each does one job.

Processor	Where	What they do
Hetzner Online GmbH	Germany	Hosts the service and the database. All measurement data lives here.
Brevo	France	Sends the sign-in links and the report notification. Receives your email address and nothing else.
DataForSEO	Estonia / United States	Runs the Google AI Overviews and AI Mode queries on our behalf.
OpenAI, Google and Perplexity	United States	The assistants we measure. They receive the buying questions and the market, and no personal data.

Transfers outside the EU are limited to the measurement itself — the question we ask an assistant, and the market we ask it in. Your email address is never sent to any of them.

If you connect Google Search Console

Connecting Search Console is entirely optional and the service works fully without it. If you connect it, this is exactly what happens.

What we ask for. One scope, webmasters.readonly. It is read-only: we cannot change anything in your Search Console account, and we do not ask for the ability to.
What we read. The list of properties you have access to, and — for the one property you choose — the search performance data Search Console already shows you: queries, impressions, clicks and average position.
What we do with it. One thing. We use your real search queries to decide which questions to measure your AI visibility against, instead of guessing from your category. Queries containing your own brand name are discarded, because an assistant naming you in answer to your own name proves nothing.
What we keep. The resulting list of questions, and the aggregate figures behind the choice. We do not keep a copy of your Search Console account.
How to stop. Disconnect on your report page at any time, which deletes the stored token immediately. You can also revoke access from your Google account permissions.

Limited Use. AnswerRange's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We do not use Search Console data for advertising, we do not sell it, we do not allow humans to read it except where you have explicitly asked us to for support, and we do not use it to train any model.

Your rights

If you are in the EU or the UK you have the right to see the data we hold about you, correct it, have it deleted, take it elsewhere, and object to how we use it. In practice:

To see it — every measurement exports as CSV from its own report page, without asking anyone.
To delete it — email privacy@answerrange.com and we will remove your account, your measurements and your email address.
To complain — you may lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority.

The legal basis is performance of the contract for the measurement you asked for, our legitimate interest in keeping the service running securely, and your consent for the optional Search Console connection.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we do with your data, the date at the top changes and anyone with an account is emailed. We do not make quiet changes.

Questions about any of this: privacy@answerrange.com.