Privacy Policy

1. Commitment to Privacy

At seohack.in ("we", "our", or "us"), we value your privacy above all else. We design our knowledge platform, tools, and playbooks to collect the absolute minimum data necessary to deliver high-quality SEO resources.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data. We do not use invasive fingerprinting or aggressive behavioral cross-site trackers.

2. Data We Collect

A. Information You Voluntarily Provide

• Newsletter Subscription: When you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address. You can unsubscribe at any time with a single click.
• Contact Inquiries: When you submit a message through our contact form, we collect your name, email, and the message content to respond to your inquiry.

B. Interactive Tools (100% Client-Side)

Our free SEO utilities (SERP Preview, Meta Checker, Slug Generator, Word Counter, Schema Generator) run entirely in your web browser via client-side JavaScript. The text, titles, keywords, or URLs you input into these tools are never transmitted to or stored on our servers.

C. Aggregated Analytics & AI Referral Tracking

To understand content performance and identify visits originating from generative search engines (Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude), we collect anonymous, aggregated technical metrics:

• Referrer domain (e.g. perplexity.ai, chatgpt.com, google.com)
• Pages visited, time spent, and scroll milestones
• Device type, browser family, and general country location
• Anonymized IP addresses (masked before storage)

3. Cookies & Local Storage

We use minimal first-party browser storage for functional convenience:

4. Legal Grounds for Processing (DPDP Act 2023)

Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 of India, we process personal data under the following legitimate grounds:

• Consent: When you voluntarily submit your email for our weekly SEO newsletter.
• Legitimate Uses: Operating, securing, and maintaining the stability of seohack.in against security threats, spam submissions, or DDoS attacks.

5. Your Rights as a Data Principal

You have statutory rights regarding your personal information:

• Right to Access: Request a summary of personal data held about you.
• Right to Correction & Erasure: Request the correction of inaccurate data or deletion of your email from our subscriber list.
• Right of Grievance Redressal: Submit a complaint regarding data processing directly to our designated Grievance Officer.
• Right to Nominate: Nominate another individual to exercise your rights in the event of death or incapacity.

6. Third-Party Service Providers

We work with trusted infrastructure providers that adhere to rigorous security standards:

• Hosting & CDN: Cloudflare Pages / Vercel (encrypted data transit, DDoS mitigation).
• Email Distribution: MailerLite / Brevo (for opt-in newsletter delivery, adhering to strict anti-spam guidelines).

7. Grievance Officer & Contact Information

In accordance with the DPDP Act 2023 and the Information Technology Rules, our designated Data Protection & Grievance Officer is: