Privacy Policy

IndexerNow ("we", "us") operates indexernow.com and the IndexerNow service. This page explains what we collect, why, and your rights. We aim to keep this short and plain.

What we collect

When you sign in with Google, we receive and store:

• Your Google account email and profile (id, name, picture)
• A refresh token that lets us call Google's APIs on your behalf, scoped strictly to webmasters.readonly and indexing — only for properties you've verified in Search Console

When you use the tools, we store:

• The URLs you submit and the tool (index / status / audit)
• The tier (free or paid), counters for your daily free-tier usage
• Results returned by Google's APIs for each URL (indexed verdict, last crawl time, etc.)

When you pay:

• We pass your email to Dodo Payments to create the checkout
• We store the resulting payment id + status on the batch record
• We never see or store card numbers — those go directly to Dodo Payments

What we don't collect

• No Google Analytics, Mixpanel, or third-party tracking pixels
• No reading or scraping of the content of your pages — we only call Google's APIs about the URLs you provide
• No selling, sharing, or marketing-list sale of your data, to anyone, ever

Where data lives

• Firebase Firestore (Google Cloud) — primary database, encrypted at rest
• Vercel — hosting and serverless runtime; does not persist data beyond standard logs
• Refresh tokens are stored on your user record and only usable while our server holds the Google OAuth client secret — they're useless on their own

Who we send data to

• Google APIs (Indexing, Search Console, PageSpeed Insights) — called as you, using your OAuth grant
• Dodo Payments — paid batches only
• Firebase (Google Cloud) — our database
• Vercel — our hosting

How long we keep your data

Until you delete it. Open Settings → Delete my data to wipe everything immediately — user record, all batches, all usage docs. After deletion, residual logs on Vercel and Firebase may persist briefly per their retention policies; we cannot access them.

Your rights

• Access: view your data in /app/settings and your batch history
• Deletion: one-click in Settings — also revoke our access at myaccount.google.com/permissions
• Portability: every batch has a CSV export button
• GDPR / CCPA: if your jurisdiction grants additional rights, email [email protected] and we'll honor them within 30 days

Cookies

We use one essential cookie (idx_session) to keep you signed in, and a short-lived OAuth state cookie during login. We do not use marketing, analytics, or third-party cookies.

Children

This service is not directed to children under 13 (or under 16 in some jurisdictions). We do not knowingly collect data from minors.

Changes

If we materially change this policy, we'll update the "Last updated" date and notify signed-in users via in-app banner.

Contact

Questions? [email protected]