Privacy policy
CitationRegister is a small editorial project that scores AI-visibility agencies on a public, reproducible ruler. The site itself is mostly published data; the only personal data it gathers comes through one form. This page sets out exactly what that form delivers, what becomes of it, and what you can ask about your own data.
Who is responsible
The operator of citationregister.com is the data controller for anything this page concerns, in the sense of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To ask a question or act on one of your rights, write to hello@citationregister.com.
What the form collects
There is one way to reach us, and it is the form. It asks for three things and nothing more —
- Your name, so a reply can address you.
- An email address, so the reply has somewhere to go.
- A message — the agency to score, the entry to correct, or the right-of-reply you wish to file.
No account, no password, no payment details, no hidden profile. To blunt automated abuse, the time of sending is stored next to a salted SHA-256 hash of the originating IP address; the plain IP and any device traits are never kept.
What is refused on purpose
- No tracking cookies. Visits are counted with self-hosted, cookieless analytics served first-party from this domain; nothing follows you between sites.
- No advertising pixels, no remarketing tags, no marketing beacons.
- No automated profiling and no automated decision with a legal effect on you.
- Nothing sold, rented, or passed on.
Legal basis
Handling your name, email and message after you submit the form rests on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR — steps taken at your request. The IP hash that protects the form rests on the legitimate-interest ground of Article 6(1)(f).
How long it is kept
- Form messages and the email thread they begin: kept while the matter is open, then for 24 months as a record, and deleted after. A message that leads nowhere is removed after 12 months.
- IP hashes: kept 90 days, then erased.
The rights you keep
You hold the GDPR rights of access, rectification, erasure, portability, restriction and objection over everything you send. One email to hello@citationregister.com sets any of them in motion, and you will hear back within a month. You may also complain to the data-protection authority where you live.
Where it is stored
The servers behind citationregister.com sit in European Union (Germany). In the rare case that a further processor (email provider) operates outside the European Union, the transfer relies on standard contractual clauses and the safeguards that party publishes.
Changes
If the handling of data changes in any way that matters, this page is updated and the "Updated" date above moves with it.