Privacy Policy

In short

The short version

• SEOSage runs on your computer. Your projects, crawl results and reports are saved there.
• The app does not send your crawl results, projects or usage statistics to us.
• The app checks your licence online. For that it sends your licence key, the name of your computer and the app version, to us and to our seller, Polar. Never your crawl data (see “Your licence”).
• We do not sell your data. The website uses analytics to count visits, and we may show you ads for our own products (see “This website” and “Advertising”). Your crawl data and Search Console data are never used for ads.
• If you allow them, we send web push notifications through Notix (see “Push notifications”).
• If you connect Google Search Console or Google Analytics, SEOSage only reads that data, and it stays on your computer. We never receive or share it.
• Your Google sign-in tokens and licence are locked on your computer, and everything sent over the internet is encrypted (see “How we protect your data”).
• A few features contact other services, only when you use them. They are listed below.

The app

The SEOSage app

What stays on your computer. The websites you add, the pages and issues found in a crawl, your competitor lists, your settings, your reports and any backups you save to your computer are stored on your computer. If you add sign-in details to crawl a password-protected or staging site, they are stored on your computer only, encrypted where your computer supports it. If the page-rendering option is on, pages are opened in a browser built into the app, on your computer. The app can also show notifications on your computer, for example when a crawl or speed check finishes; these are created by the app itself and nothing is sent to us. Your licence key and licence record are saved on your computer too (see “Your licence”).

What the app contacts. When you crawl a website, SEOSage requests that site's pages, and the site can see those requests, like any visitor or search engine. The app also contacts:

• Competitor websites, only if you add them. The Competitors page reads the public pages and sitemap of the sites you add, like a visitor or search engine would. The results stay on your computer.
• Google, for site icons. To show a small icon for each website, the app asks Google's public icon service using the website's domain name.
• Google PageSpeed Insights, only if you add a Google key. Core Web Vitals uses a built-in estimate by default. If you add a Google API key in Settings, the address of the page you test and your key are sent to Google to get its score, and Google also returns real-visitor speed data for that page. The key is stored encrypted on your computer where supported.
• seosage.co, to check for updates. When the app opens, and every few hours while it is open, it reads one small public file from seosage.co to see if a new version is available. Like any web request, our web host sees your IP address and basic request details in its standard logs. The app does not send your projects, crawl results or usage statistics with it.
• seosage.co and Polar, to check your licence. When you activate SEOSage, when the app opens and from time to time while it is open, the app checks that your licence is still valid. Details are in Your licence below. No crawl results, projects or usage statistics are sent.
• Google Search Console and Google Analytics, only if you connect them. Each connection is read-only and you approve it with your own Google account. Details are in Google user data below.
• Google Drive, only if you back up there. You sign in with your own Google account and SEOSage saves backup files in a folder it makes in your Drive. Details are in Google Drive backups below.
• Claude, only if you connect it. The connector lets Claude read your crawl results on your computer when you ask it a question or ask it to build a report. It can also read the competitors you track and, if you have connected Search Console, your Search Console numbers (clicks, impressions, click rate, position, and your top queries or pages), which SEOSage fetches live from Google only when Claude asks for them. It can also start a new crawl of a website you name. It cannot change your settings, and your login, passwords and Google sign-in are never shared with Claude. What Claude reads becomes part of your conversation with Claude, so what Claude does with it is covered by its own terms and privacy policy.

Your licence

SEOSage needs a licence key to run. Because of that, the app checks your licence online, and it may stop crawling and exporting if it has not been able to check for a while. This is what happens, and what is sent.

• When you activate. The app sends your licence key to Polar, our reseller, to confirm it is valid, and registers your computer under the name your computer uses for itself, so we can limit a key to the number of computers its plan allows. You can remove a computer in Settings in the app, or in your Polar customer portal.
• While you use the app. The app checks again when it opens and about every twelve hours while it is open. It also contacts seosage.co from time to time, sending your licence key, the ID of your computer’s registration and the app version, to keep the app working. Our server confirms the key with Polar before it answers. We keep a scrambled code for each activated computer, with the date it first and last checked in and the app version, only to count how many computers use SEOSage.
• Offline. If your computer cannot reach the internet, SEOSage keeps working for a few days. After that it asks you to connect, then carries on.
• What we keep. Our web host keeps standard logs, such as your IP address. To limit misuse, we keep a count of checks against your IP address and key for about an hour, and a short note (about ten minutes) that your key checked out. We do not keep a list of what you crawl, because we never receive it.
• On your computer. Your licence key, your computer’s registration ID and a small data file from our server are saved on your computer. They are locked to your computer using a code made from your computer’s hardware ID. That code is used on your computer only and is never sent anywhere. On a Mac, the app also reads, on your computer only, whether macOS’s own security protection is switched on; nothing about this is sent.

Buying SEOSage

Trials and purchases are handled by Polar (polar.sh), which sells SEOSage to you as our reseller and is the seller of record. Our own trial and plan forms on this website ask for your name and email address, and, if you want to give them, your website, your role and your company. We use them to set up your trial or checkout with Polar and for our customer records (see “Our customer records”). Polar then collects your email address, payment and billing details and handles tax and payment. SEOSage and this website never see your card number. We receive your email address and basic order details from Polar, such as your plan and whether it renews, so we can send you a welcome email and give you support. The welcome email is sent from hello@seosage.co when you start a trial. Polar handles your information under its own privacy policy. To cancel or manage a plan, use the link in your Polar emails or your Polar customer portal.

Our customer records

When you send us a message or a feature request, or when you fill in our trial or plan form (even if you do not finish), or when you start a trial or buy through Polar, we keep a record of you in Zoho CRM, a customer record tool run by Zoho. The record holds your email address, your name if you gave it, your website, role and company if you gave them, what you sent us, your plan and whether it is a trial, paid or cancelled. We use it to answer you and to know who our customers are. We only email you news or offers if you ticked the box to hear from us. If you unsubscribe, we mark your record so we do not email you. To see or delete your record, write to hello@seosage.co.

Listing your website as a SEOSage user. The trial and plan forms have an optional box, switched off by default: “You may list my website as a SEOSage user”. If you tick it, we may show your website’s name and address on seosage.co and in our marketing as a site that uses SEOSage. If you do not tick it, we do not. We note your answer in your customer record. To have your website taken off, write to hello@seosage.co.

Google data

Google user data (Search Console and Analytics)

If you choose to connect Google Search Console, this is exactly what SEOSage does with your Google data.

• What we read. You can connect more than one Google account. SEOSage reads your Search Console data: the list of websites in your account, and for a site you pick, its clicks, impressions, click rate, average position, and the search queries and pages behind them.
• Read-only. SEOSage asks Google for read-only access (the webmasters.readonly permission). It cannot change, add or delete anything in your Search Console account.
• It stays on your computer. The connection is made directly between the SEOSage app on your computer and Google. The data, and the sign-in token that lets SEOSage read it, are stored on your computer only. The token is stored encrypted where your computer supports it. Our servers never receive it.
• We do not share it. We do not receive, store, sell, share or transfer your Search Console data to anyone. We do not use it for advertising, and no person at SEOSage reads it. If you also connect Claude, Claude can read it only when you ask it a question: SEOSage fetches the numbers live from Google on your computer and hands them to Claude, and keeps no copy for Claude. Claude never receives your Google sign-in. Once Claude has the numbers they are part of your conversation with Claude and are covered by its own terms and privacy policy.
• You are in control. You can disconnect at any time inside SEOSage, or remove access in your Google account at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Uninstalling the app removes the data from your computer.

If you choose to connect Google Analytics (on the Traffic page), the same rules apply:

• What we read. The list of your Analytics properties and the website address each one measures, and for a property you pick, the number of visits, visitors, page views and the share of engaged visits for each page.
• Read-only. SEOSage asks Google for read-only access (the analytics.readonly permission). It cannot change, add or delete anything in your Analytics account.
• It stays on your computer, and we do not share it. The connection is made directly between the SEOSage app and Google. The numbers and the sign-in token are kept on your computer only. We do not receive, store, sell, share or transfer your Analytics data, we do not use it for advertising, and no person at SEOSage reads it.
• You are in control. Disconnect at any time on the Traffic page, or remove access at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

SEOSage’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Google Drive backups

Backing up to Google Drive is optional. If you do, this is exactly what SEOSage does.

• What it saves. A backup file of your sites, crawl results and settings, in a folder called “SEOSage Backups” that SEOSage creates in your Drive. Google sign-in details and your licence are never put in a backup.
• Limited access. SEOSage asks Google for the drive.file permission, which lets it see only the files and folder it created itself. It cannot see or change anything else in your Drive. It also reads your email address, only to show which account is connected.
• It stays between you and Google. The connection is made directly between the SEOSage app on your computer and Google. The sign-in token is stored on your computer only. We do not receive, store, sell, share or transfer your backups or your Drive data, we do not use them for advertising, and no person at SEOSage reads them.
• You are in control. Choose Disconnect Google Drive in SEOSage at any time, or remove access at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Backups already in your Drive stay there until you delete them.

SEOSage’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

How we protect your data

This covers the sensitive data SEOSage handles: your Google sign-in tokens, the Google data you choose to connect (Search Console, Analytics and Drive), sign-in details you add for password-protected sites, and your licence key. We use encryption and security procedures to protect the confidentiality of your data, as set out below.

• Encrypted in transit. Every connection the app makes to Google, to seosage.co and to Polar uses HTTPS (TLS), so what is sent cannot be read on the way. This website is served over HTTPS only.
• Safe Google sign-in. You sign in on Google’s own page in your browser. SEOSage never sees your Google password. The sign-in uses a one-time code that only works with the app that asked for it (the OAuth PKCE method), and it returns to a private address on your own computer.
• Encrypted on your computer. Google sign-in tokens, the Google API key you may add, and sign-in details for password-protected sites are encrypted using your computer’s own secure storage (the macOS Keychain, or Windows data protection), where your computer supports it. Your licence key and licence record are locked to your computer with a code made from its hardware ID, which never leaves it.
• No central copy to leak. Your Google data, crawl results and projects are kept on your computer only, not on our servers. We do not hold a store of your sensitive data that could be exposed in a breach of ours.
• The crawler stays on the public internet. A website you crawl cannot use SEOSage to reach devices on your own network. If a redirect or link sends the crawler to a private address (your router, another computer, a local service), SEOSage refuses to open it and shows a notice. A local or staging address that you start the crawl from yourself is crawled as normal.
• Least access. SEOSage asks Google for the smallest permissions that work: read-only for Search Console and Analytics, and file-only access for Drive backups. Backup files never contain your Google sign-in details or your licence.
• No AI training. We do not use your Google data to develop, improve or train AI or machine-learning models, and we do not give it to anyone who would.
• Limited access on our side. The little we do hold (licence checks and customer records, see “Your licence” and “Our customer records”) is available only to the owner of SEOSage. Licence keys are checked with Polar, which handles payments. Our server and customer-record tools are protected by sign-in, and we keep licence checks limited to stop misuse.
• How long we keep it. Your Google data and sign-in tokens stay on your computer until you disconnect, delete the project or uninstall SEOSage, and you can remove them yourself at any time. What we hold about you (licence and customer records) is kept while you are a customer and deleted when you ask us to at hello@seosage.co.
• If something goes wrong. If we learn that personal data we hold has been exposed, we will tell the people affected without delay, say what happened and what to do, and tell the authorities where the law requires it.
• Your part. Keep your computer locked and up to date. If you lose a computer, remove it in Settings, or remove SEOSage’s access at myaccount.google.com/permissions. That makes the stored tokens useless.

This website

This website

What we collect. If you email hello@seosage.co, we receive your email address and what you write, and we use it only to reply and to keep a record of the conversation.

Analytics on this website. To understand how many people visit and which pages they read, this website uses Google Tag Manager, which loads Google Analytics and a few other privacy-friendly analytics tools that do not use cookies. We also count actions on the site, such as clicks on the Download and Start free trial buttons, FAQ questions you open, free tools you use, videos you play and forms you start or send (we never record what you type into a form, apart from the details you choose to send us). We also use Microsoft Clarity, which records how visitors use the site (clicks, scrolling, mouse movement and pages viewed) as anonymous session recordings and heatmaps, so we can find and fix confusing pages. Clarity hides text you type into forms. Clarity runs only on the same terms as Google Analytics below, and Microsoft processes that data for us under its privacy statement. Our web host uses Cloudflare, which also counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. They can collect things like the pages you view, how you arrived, your approximate location, and your browser and device. Some of these tools may set cookies. You can accept or decline them in the cookie notice, and change your choice any time with “Cookie settings” in the footer. If you decline, Google Analytics and Clarity set no cookies (in the EU, UK and Switzerland it stays off until you accept). Our other analytics tools, including Cloudflare Web Analytics, count visits without cookies. See the cookie policy for the full list. This applies to the website only. The SEOSage app does not use them and does not send us your crawl data. To opt out, you can block these scripts in your browser, use a content blocker, or install Google’s Analytics opt-out add-on. In the EU, the UK and Switzerland, analytics stays off until you click Accept. In other places, if you do not click Decline, we treat that as accepting analytics and the notification prompt.

Partner program. We run our partner (affiliate) program with GrowSurf, which loads on this website when you arrive through a partner’s link, or did in the last 30 days, unless you decline cookies in the cookie notice (in the EU, the UK and Switzerland, only after you click Accept). If you arrive through a partner’s link, GrowSurf remembers which partner sent you, in your browser, so they can be credited. It can see that code, the pages you view and basic browser details. If you then start a checkout with our plan form, we pass your email address to GrowSurf, and when you pay we send it the order amount (never your card details) so the partner earns their commission. We also keep a partner’s name and email address, and the email address of anyone a partner brings in, in our customer records (Zoho) so we can follow up; none of them is put on our marketing list unless they ask. Partners who join the program give GrowSurf their name and email address, and GrowSurf handles that under its own privacy policy.

Template download. The SEO audit template is a free download and does not ask for any personal details. Until 5 November 2026 it asked for an email address. If you gave us yours then, we keep it with the record that you agreed to hear from us, and use it to send occasional SEO tips and SEOSage news. We do not sell it. Every email we send has an unsubscribe link. If you unsubscribe, we keep your address on a private do-not-email list (on our website and in a Google Sheet) so we never email you again. To have your address deleted, write to hello@seosage.co.

Feature requests. If you send a request through the feature request form, we receive what you write and your email address. We use it only to decide what to build and to reply to you.

Free tools. When you use a free tool, the web address you type is sent to our checking service on Cloudflare, which loads that address, sends you the result and does not store it. The one exception is a share link: when you use a share icon to get a short link, the address or list you typed and its result are kept on Cloudflare so the link keeps showing that saved result. Share links do not expire; to have one deleted, email hello@seosage.co with the link. To limit misuse, we keep a count of checks against your IP address for about an hour. The tools use Cloudflare Turnstile to confirm you are a person, which works under Cloudflare's own privacy terms.

Redeeming an AppSumo code. If you redeem a SEOSage code from AppSumo, we receive your name, your email address and the code or codes. We use them to check that each code is real and unused, to set up your lifetime plan and licence key with Polar, and to show and email you your key. We keep a record that links your email to a scrambled copy of each code, so a code can be used only once. Polar sends your key and handles it under its own privacy policy. AppSumo handles your purchase of the code under its own privacy policy.

Job applications. If you apply for a job or internship by email to hr@seosage.co, we receive what you send, such as your name, contact details and CV. We use it only to consider your application and reply to you, we do not share it, and we delete it when you ask us to.

How long we keep it. We keep a customer record, including trial and form leads, for as long as you are a customer or in touch with us, and we do not keep it longer than we need it. We delete it when you ask. Our do-not-email list is kept so we never email you again.

Server logs. Like most websites, our web host keeps standard logs, such as IP address, browser and the pages requested, to keep the site secure and running. We do not use them to identify visitors.

Advertising

We may show you ads for our own products, SEOSage, on other websites and platforms, including Google, Microsoft (Bing), LinkedIn, Reddit, Quora and Meta. We also use 6sense, which can help match visits to companies so our ads are more relevant. To do this, and to see whether our ads work, we may use advertising cookies or small tracking pixels from those partners on this website. They can record things like the pages you view, that you reached this site from one of our ads, and your approximate location.

• Only if you accept. Advertising cookies and pixels are switched on only after you click Accept in the cookie notice. If you decline, they stay off. You can change your choice at any time with “Cookie settings” in the footer.
• Never your product data. We never use your crawl results, projects or Google Search Console and Google Analytics data for advertising. The SEOSage app does not send them to us or to any ad partner.
• We do not sell your data. Our ad partners handle the information they collect under their own privacy policies: Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Reddit, Quora, Meta and 6sense. You can turn off personalised ads in your Google, Microsoft and LinkedIn ad settings, and in the settings of the other services you use.

Push notifications

We use Notix (notix.co) to send web push notifications from this website, such as news about new SEOSage features.

• Only if you allow them. Your browser asks for permission first. The prompt can appear a few seconds after you arrive, unless you click Decline in the cookie notice. If you do not click Decline, we treat that as accepting the prompt, but nothing is sent until you click Allow in your browser. If you click Block, nothing is sent and nothing is stored.
• What is stored. If you allow notifications, Notix stores a subscription code for your browser, plus basic details such as your browser and device type, approximate location, language, the section of the site you were on when you subscribed and whether you opened a notification. It does not know who you are unless you tell us.
• Turn them off any time. Change the notification permission for seosage.co in your browser settings, or clear the site’s data. Notix handles the information under its own privacy policy.

Your rights

Your rights and why we use data

Your rights, wherever you live. You can ask us what personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct it or delete it, and ask us to stop using it. Write to hello@seosage.co from the email address we hold, and we will reply within 30 days. You can also take back any choice you made at any time: use the unsubscribe link in our emails, “Cookie settings” in the footer, or your browser’s notification settings.

If you are in the EU, the UK or Switzerland, you can also object to how we use your data, ask us to limit it, and ask for a copy you can take elsewhere. If you are unhappy with our answer, you can complain to your local data protection authority (see “Complaints”).

Why we use your data (EU, UK and Switzerland). We use it to carry out our agreement with you, such as checking your licence, starting your trial or purchase and giving support. We use it for our legitimate interests: keeping the website secure, seeing how it is used, answering you, and keeping our customer records. We use it with your consent for analytics and advertising cookies, push notifications and marketing emails, which you can take back at any time. And we use it where the law requires.

If you are in California or another US state with a privacy law, you can ask what we collect, ask us to delete or correct it, and opt out of data being “sold” or “shared” for targeted ads. We do not sell personal data for money. Our advertising partners’ cookies can count as “sharing” under California law, and they are switched on only after you click Accept. To opt out, click Decline, change your choice in “Cookie settings” in the footer, or write to us. We will not treat you worse for using these rights.

Where your data goes. We work from India. The services we use, such as Polar, Zoho, Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Resend, GrowSurf and Notix, may handle your data in other countries, including the United States. Where the law needs it, we rely on the safeguards those providers offer, such as the standard contractual clauses approved by the EU.

Sharing

We do not sell or rent personal data. We share it only with the services above when you choose to use them, with Polar (to sell and license SEOSage), with Zoho (to keep our customer records), with GrowSurf (to run our partner program), with Google, Notix and our other analytics and advertising providers, with Resend (resend.com), which sends the emails from this website, with Cloudflare, which hosts the website and runs the free tools, with our other web providers so the site works, or when the law requires it.

Your choices

You can delete a project or its crawl data in the app at any time, and uninstalling the app removes its data from your computer. To free a computer for another install, remove it in the app (Settings, Licence) or in your Polar customer portal. To ask what we hold about you from email, or to have it deleted, write to hello@seosage.co.

Children

SEOSage and this website are made for adults and businesses. They are not meant for children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their information. If you think a child has sent us personal data, write to hello@seosage.co and we will delete it.

Complaints

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, write to hello@seosage.co and we will reply within 30 days. You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live.

Changes to this policy

If we change how data is handled, we will update this page and the date at the top. New app features are listed in the changelog.

Contact

Questions about privacy: hello@seosage.co. SEOSage is a product of Marketingly, a sole proprietorship of Deepak Kumar, Yamunanagar, Haryana, India.