Privacy policy

Scanpubs(“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates scanpubs.com and related applications that help publishers evaluate website readiness for monetization. We respect your privacy and process personal data in line with this policy and applicable law.

By using the service, you acknowledge this policy. If you do not agree, please do not use Scanpubs.

For privacy-related requests, contact us at contact@scanpubs.com or through our contact page.

Depending on how you use Scanpubs, we may collect:

• Account data: name, email address, password hash, plan tier, and preferences you set in your profile.
• Billing data: subscription status, invoices, and payment references processed by our payment provider (we do not store full card numbers).
• Site and audit data: URLs you submit, crawl results, audit scores, reports, Fix Center items, and other outputs generated from your sites.
• Technical data: IP address, browser type, device identifiers, approximate location derived from IP, logs, and security events.
• Communications: messages you send to support or via contact forms.
• Guest preview data: limited session data when you try features without signing in, which may expire automatically.

We use personal data to:

• Provide, operate, and improve audits, dashboards, and paid features
• Authenticate users and protect accounts from abuse
• Process subscriptions and send billing-related notices
• Respond to support requests and product feedback
• Analyze aggregated usage to improve reliability and UX
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms

Where required by law, we rely on appropriate legal bases such as contract performance, legitimate interests (for example security and product improvement), or your consent (for example optional marketing, where offered).

We use cookies and local storage for sign-in, security, preferences, and analytics. Details are in our Cookie policy.

We do not sell your personal information. We may share data with:

• Hosting, database, and infrastructure providers
• Payment processors (for example Razorpay for eligible regions)
• Email and customer-support tools
• Analytics providers that help us understand product usage in aggregate
• Professional advisers or authorities when required by law

These parties process data under contractual obligations consistent with this policy.

Your data may be processed in countries other than where you live. Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers.

We retain information only as long as needed for the purposes described here, to provide the service, resolve disputes, and meet legal requirements. Guest sessions may expire automatically. You may request deletion of account data subject to lawful retention limits (for example tax or fraud records).

Audit and report retention may depend on your plan; see our Data policy for more detail on stored outputs.

We implement administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal data. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure; please use a strong password and keep credentials confidential.

Depending on your location (including India, the EEA, UK, or certain US states), you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or port personal data, and to object to certain processing. You may also withdraw consent where processing is consent-based.

To exercise these rights, email contact@scanpubs.com. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request.

Scanpubs is not directed at children under 16 (or the age required in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. Contact us if you believe a child has provided data and we will delete it where appropriate.

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.