How we handle your data

What we collect

Your email address and your website's address, when you ask for a check. When you open your report, we log the time, your browser's name, and the rough place and network your connection comes from (for example "Leeds, GB · BT"), looked up from your IP address. We don't keep the IP address itself, only a scrambled form of it, so we can tell how many people opened the link. The lookup runs on our own server; your address isn't sent anywhere else.

The emails we send you with a report contain a tiny image that tells us when the email is opened. When your mail app loads it, we store the time, your browser's or mail app's name, a scrambled form of your IP address and the country it's in. Many mail apps load images on their own or through a proxy, so we treat this as a hint, not a fact. If your mail app doesn't load images, nothing is recorded.

Why

To confirm the request was yours, to run the check, and to send you the report. If you don't confirm the request, we delete it.

How long

Report pages expire after 30 days. We delete your email and site address 90 days after our last contact, unless you become a customer.

What we read

The check reads the public pages of your site, slowly, following your site's robots.txt rules, and never anything behind a login. The page text is read by an AI model as part of the check.

Payments

If you buy a report, the payment is handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card number; we keep the amount, the date, your email address and Stripe's reference for the payment, for as long as tax and accounting rules require.

Deleting it

Write to hello@factdriftbot.com and we delete the report and your details within 2 working days.

Who we are

FactDriftbot is a product of VTSOL INC., which is responsible for your data. Data is stored on a server in the EU. Questions about your data go to hello@factdriftbot.com.