Privacy Policy

How Are you found by AI? (Tech Horizon Labs) handles your information.

What we collect

The website you scan: the URL you enter, so we can analyse it.
Your email: only if you give it to us (to email your results, or to buy a report).
Scan results: the scores and signals we compute for a scanned site.
Basic technical data: IP and request metadata, used for rate-limiting and bot protection.

Google user data (Search Console connection)

If you choose to connect your Google Search Console, we request read-only access (the webmasters.readonly scope) so we can display your own search performance, impressions, clicks, queries and positions, inside your monitoring console and reports, alongside your AI-visibility measurements.

What we access: your Search Console property list and search-analytics statistics. Read-only, we can never change anything in your Search Console.
How we use it: solely to render your own statistics back to you in your console, reports and monitoring emails. We do not use Google user data for advertising, we do not sell it, and we do not share it with any third party.
Storage & retention: we store the OAuth refresh token and cached statistics in our database (Cloudflare, encrypted at rest) only while your connection is active. Disconnect anytime from your Google account permissions or by replying to any of our emails, we delete the stored token on request.
Human access: no human reads your Google data except with your explicit permission for support, for security purposes, or where required by law.

Our 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 use it

To run your scan and deliver your results or report.
To email you results or your purchased report (when you opt in or purchase).
To improve the product and build anonymised, aggregated category benchmarks, never tied to your personal details.

Who we share it with

Only trusted processors needed to run the service: Cloudflare (hosting, security), Stripe (payments, we never see your card details), Resend (email delivery), and search/AI data providers (e.g. DataForSEO and the AI engines) to scan the website you submit. We do not sell your data or share it for advertising.

Retention & your rights

We keep scan and order records only as long as needed to provide the service and meet legal obligations. You can request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data any time by emailing us. We comply with the Australian Privacy Act 1988.

Analytics & cookies

We use only essential scripts (e.g. Cloudflare Turnstile bot protection), no advertising trackers and no third-party analytics cookies. To understand traffic we count visits with privacy-preserving, cookieless analytics: nothing is stored on your device, and unique-visitor counts use a daily-rotating, salted hash that cannot identify you or track you across days.

Chrome extension (Are you found by AI?, AI Visibility Check)

Our browser extension has no accounts, no analytics, no background activity, and collects nothing beyond what is described here.

Readiness checks run locally. When you click the extension icon, it reads the page you are on (schema, robots.txt, meta tags) inside your browser. That page content never leaves your device.
One lookup request. On each click, the hostname of the current tab (for example example.com, never the full URL, never page content, never your browsing history) is sent to areyoufoundbyai.com solely to return that site's entry in our public index. Lookups are not stored against any user or identity; responses are cached briefly per site, not per person.
Markdown copy stays on your device. The "Copy page for AI" and "Download .md" tools build the file locally in your browser and place it on your clipboard or disk. Nothing is transmitted.
No sale, no sharing, no profiling. The hostname lookup is used for no other purpose, not advertising, not creditworthiness, not resale.

Last updated July 2026 · Are you found by AI? is operated by Tech Horizon Labs (Australia) · Questions: hello@techhorizonlabs.com