This Privacy Policy describes how Domain Name Rater collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you use our main website at domainnamerater.com and any related services (collectively, the "Services").
By accessing or using our Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use our Services.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following categories of personal information directly from you or through your use of our Services:
- Account and Identity Data: A username or similar identifier you choose when registering for an account with our Services.
- Contact Data: Your email address, which is essential for account creation, communication, and sending important service updates.
- Usage Data: Details of your interactions with our Services, including pages visited, features used, time spent, and other activity logs.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use your personal information only for legitimate business purposes and as permitted by law. Our primary purposes include:
- Service Delivery & Contractual Obligations: To create and manage your account, provide the core functionalities of our tools (like domain evaluation and analysis), and to send you essential service communications.
- Security & Fraud Prevention: To protect our Services, your account, and our business from unauthorized access, abuse, or fraudulent activities.
- Improvement & Analytics: To analyze usage trends (through services like Google Analytics) to understand how our Services are used and to improve their performance, features, and user experience.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes.
3. Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
- Performance of a Contract: When processing is necessary to provide you with the Services you have requested.
- Legitimate Interests: For our legitimate business interests in security, improving our Services, and conducting analytics, provided these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.
- Consent: Where required by law, we will obtain your explicit consent before processing your data for specific purposes (e.g., for non-essential cookies).
4. Third-Party Services & Data Sharing
Domain Data Privacy: We never share the domains you analyze or your research history with third parties for marketing, advertising, or any other purposes. Your research remains 100% confidential.
We rely on trusted third-party service providers only to operate the essential functions of our Services:
- Firebase (Google LLC): We use Firebase for user authentication, account management, and as our primary database. Any information you provide for your account (email, username) is stored on Firebase's secure servers. Please review Google's Privacy Policy.
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze website traffic and usage patterns. This helps us improve our Services. Google Analytics may set cookies as described in their privacy policy.
5. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect your personal information from accidental loss, unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure. However, no internet transmission or electronic storage method is 100% secure.
6. Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including to provide you with Services and for our legitimate business needs.
- Active Accounts: We retain data for active user accounts to provide continued service and access to our platform.
- Inactive Accounts: For accounts that show no activity (e.g., no login, no use of tools) for an extended period (e.g., 24 months), we may classify them as dormant and initiate a review for secure deletion or anonymization.
- User-Requested Deletion: You have the right to request the deletion of your account and associated personal data. You can submit such a request by contacting us at domainnamerater.com/support. We will process your request in accordance with applicable law.
7. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as:
- The right to access, update, or delete your personal data.
- The right to rectification if your data is inaccurate.
- The right to object to or restrict certain processing.
- The right to data portability.
- The right to withdraw consent.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in Section 9. We may need to verify your identity before responding.
8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Services and hold certain information.
- Essential Cookies: These are necessary for the website to function, such as keeping you logged into your account. They cannot be switched off.
- Analytics Cookies (e.g., Google Analytics): These allow us to count visits and traffic sources to measure and improve site performance. You can control these through your browser settings or via cookie consent tools. Blocking them may affect your experience.
By continuing to use our Services, you consent to our use of essential cookies. For non-essential cookies, we will seek your consent where required by law.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal data, you can contact our support team at:
Support Portal: domainnamerater.com/support
For privacy-specific inquiries, please clearly indicate "Privacy Request" in your message.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.