Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

AnswerRankIQ provides AI visibility intelligence, website audits, search visibility analysis, and answer-engine optimization recommendations. This policy explains how we process personal data when you visit this website, submit a domain, request access, or use the private platform.

Controller: AnswerRankIQ / Tagydes operator. Contact: privacy@answerrankiq.com. Final registered company name, address, VAT number, and supervisory authority details should be inserted before public commercial launch.

2. Data we may process

• Website and domain data submitted through the domain-check or audit workflow.
• Account data such as name, email address, organization, role, authentication logs, and security events.
• Technical data such as IP address, browser type, device information, timestamps, server logs, and consent preferences.
• Business communication data when you contact us or request access.
• Audit output generated from public website content, metadata, technical signals, and AI/search visibility analysis.

3. Legal bases under GDPR

• Contract or pre-contract steps: to provide audits, dashboards, reports, and access requests.
• Legitimate interests: to secure the service, prevent abuse, improve reliability, and analyze public website visibility.
• Consent: for optional analytics, marketing cookies, newsletters, and similar non-essential processing.
• Legal obligation: where retention, accounting, security, or regulatory duties apply.

4. Purposes of processing

• Deliver the public website, domain preview, and private audit platform.
• Create AI visibility reports and technical recommendations.
• Manage authentication, security, fraud prevention, and operational telemetry.
• Respond to requests, provide support, and communicate service updates.
• Improve product performance, user experience, and audit quality.

5. Processors and international transfers

We may use hosting, analytics, security, email, payment, and AI infrastructure providers. Where data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, we use appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses, adequacy decisions, or equivalent lawful transfer mechanisms.

6. Retention

We retain personal data only as long as necessary for the purpose collected, including security, audit history, legal, accounting, and operational requirements. Domain preview data may be retained to prevent abuse and improve the service unless deletion is requested and no overriding legal basis applies.

7. Your rights

If GDPR applies, you may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection to processing, and withdrawal of consent. You may also lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

To exercise rights, contact privacy@answerrankiq.com.

8. Cookies and consent

Non-essential cookies and local storage categories are disabled unless accepted. You can manage consent from the cookie banner or the cookie settings link in the website footer. See the Cookie Policy for details.

9. Security

We apply technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal data, including access controls, authentication, service logging, limited data access, and operational monitoring. No system is guaranteed to be perfectly secure.

10. Changes

We may update this policy when our service, legal requirements, or processing operations change. Material changes will be reflected by updating the date above and, where required, by requesting renewed consent.