Privacy Policy
What we collect
- URLs you submit for audit and the audit results derived from publicly accessible pages of that site.
- Email address — only if you provide it to unlock a report, subscribe, or purchase.
- Payment data — processed entirely by Stripe. We never receive or store your card number.
- Operational data — a salted hash of your IP for rate limiting (we do not store raw IPs with audits), and standard server logs retained briefly for abuse prevention.
- Analytics — privacy-respecting aggregate usage events (page views, tool usage). No advertising pixels, no cross-site tracking, no sale of analytics data.
How we use it
- To run the audit you requested and deliver its report and fix files.
- To email you the report you asked for and, if you opted in, relevant follow-ups. Every email has a working unsubscribe.
- To prevent abuse (rate limiting, bot protection via Cloudflare Turnstile).
- In aggregate, anonymized form for research (e.g. "X% of audited sites block GPTBot"). Aggregates never identify a specific customer's domain without permission.
Retention
- Audit reports and generated artifacts: deleted after 90 days unless attached to a paid account.
- Email subscription data: until you unsubscribe or request deletion.
- Purchase records: retained as required for tax and accounting.
Sharing
We use these processors: Cloudflare (hosting, bot protection), Stripe (payments), Resend (email delivery), Anthropic (passage scoring — passages from your public pages only, no personal data), and Google PageSpeed Insights (performance checks). We do not sell personal information collected through citefuel.com.
Your rights (including CCPA)
You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information by emailing hello@citefuel.com. We respond within 45 days. California residents: see also Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. We honor opt-out requests without penalty or degraded service.
Cookies
We set strictly functional cookies only (report-unlock state). Cloudflare sets security cookies for bot mitigation. No advertising cookies.
Contact
hello@citefuel.com · CiteFuel, Florida, USA. We'll update this page as the product evolves; material changes get a dated changelog entry here.