This policy describes how SearchCub processes information when you use this website. You can contact us about privacy using the Feedback form, including without an account.
Accounts and Google sign-in
Clerk handles account authentication. SearchCub uses your authenticated account identifier and email address to provide your account, associate your research and saved keywords with it, manage service allowances and connect your subscription.
If you choose Google sign-in, Google and Clerk use your Google identity, email address and basic profile, including your name and profile picture, to authenticate you and display your account. This sign-in connection does not request access to Gmail, Google Drive or private Search Console data.
Research and saved keywords
We process the keywords, domains, regions and research settings you submit, together with the results returned for those requests. Account research history, saved keyword lists and usage records support your research workspace and service allowances.
Research inputs are sent to search-data services to obtain results. Queries can also appear in public research links, as explained below. Avoid entering confidential information in a research query.
Feedback
When you send feedback, we store your message, category, any screenshot you attach and context about the page you are using, including the relevant keyword or domain and region. Your account’s primary email is automatically included when you are signed in. Visitors can provide an optional reply email.
We use this information to understand feedback, investigate problems and handle requests. Original screenshot image metadata is removed during processing; anything visible in the image remains part of your submission. Unsubmitted drafts remain in the current page session.
Payments
Stripe handles payment details through its hosted checkout. SearchCub stores billing identifiers, subscription plan and status, and payment-event records to manage billing and account access. The SearchCub application database does not store your full card number.
Services that process information
SearchCub uses service providers to run the application. They process information relevant to the services they provide:
- Clerk: account authentication, identity and sign-in sessions.
- Google: your Google identity when you choose Google sign-in.
- Stripe: payment processing and subscriptions.
- Vercel and database hosting services: application delivery, storage and operation.
- Search-data providers, including DataForSEO: keywords, domains, regions and request settings needed to obtain research results.
These services also handle information under their own privacy policies. You can read the policies for Clerk, Google, Stripe, Vercel and DataForSEO.
Cookies and browser information
Optional first-party usage measurement helps us improve research and signup. It uses random browser and session identifiers, approved campaign labels, broad traffic-source categories such as advertising, organic search and referrals, device categories, actions, result-count ranges, viewing time, result clicks and return visits. These events do not include research text, form contents, raw IP addresses, full referring URLs or advertising click identifiers. After sign-in, we can connect activity in the same browser to your account. Keyed network identifiers are used only to exclude known internal testing traffic, not to identify ordinary visitors. Detailed usage events are retained for ninety days. Compact visit timestamps and result-engagement summaries are retained for up to four hundred days (about thirteen months) so we can understand repeat usage. Older records are removed through daily maintenance. The browser identifier lasts up to ninety days and sessions up to thirty minutes, renewed with activity. We honor Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals. Disabling measurement does not change your research allowance or access.
You can turn usage measurement off in Cookie preferences or with “Accept necessary only” in the cookie banner. Turning it off also turns off Google advertising measurement.
Authentication cookies and session information support sign-in. Country information supplied by the hosting service suggests an initial research region, which you can change. A preference cookie remembers your chosen region for up to one year.
Browser storage keeps display preferences, locally saved keywords and recent searches made without an account. When you are signed in, recent-search suggestions also use your account’s research history.
Technical and network information helps deliver the service, diagnose problems and prevent abuse. Anonymous 48-hour allowances use a visitor cookie and an identifier derived from your IP address; visitors on the same connection may share these limits. Application rate-limit records use a derived identifier rather than a raw IP address. Hosting and authentication services may also process technical logs needed to operate and secure their services.
Advertising cookies and measurement
We use Basic Consent Mode for Google advertising measurement. We do not download the Google advertising tag, send Google advertising measurement events or set Google measurement cookies while advertising measurement is off, and we send no cookieless Google advertising signals then. Google advertising measurement has its own setting in Cookie preferences, separate from the first-party site-usage measurement described above and from Google sign-in when you choose it.
Whether advertising measurement starts on depends on the country our hosting provider derives from your IP address. In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, or when your country is unknown, it is off until you choose “Accept all” in the cookie banner or turn on Google advertising measurement in Cookie preferences; continuing to browse does not grant permission. Elsewhere there is no cookie banner and it is on by default: you can turn it off at any time in Cookie preferences, and Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control turn it off automatically. Turning it off does not change your research access. While it is on, we can store a Google advertising click reference (GCLID). We do not collect iOS braid identifiers for this measurement.
While advertising measurement is on, we store the click reference encrypted for up to thirty days and may share it with Google together with the time of a completed signup, first useful research in this browser, account activation or first paid subscription. A first payment may include the actual USD amount. We do not send your email, research text, original research or referring address, or saved keywords, and we request no advertising personalization.
After an eligible new signup while advertising measurement is on, a brief confirmation page uses the Google tag to report that same signup with an opaque reference to prevent duplicate counting. The tag can use Google measurement cookies and sends technical information such as your IP address, browser and device details to Google. Measurement runs on a page without your research, email, original page address or referring address. We do not enable Google Analytics or automatic email collection. Browser storage retains an opaque attempt marker to limit retries when storage is available, using the same signup reference so Google can prevent duplicate counting. The marker is used only during the ten-minute signup window and is cleared when you turn advertising measurement off. Your original destination is kept separately in session storage so signup can return you to your work.
A separate signed preference cookie remembers your advertising choice for thirty days; where advertising measurement is on by default, another cookie remembers for a year that you turned it off. Do Not Track, Global Privacy Control and turning off site usage measurement prevent Google advertising measurement. Choosing “Accept necessary only” turns off site usage measurement and withdraws any existing advertising permission; to keep usage measurement on, turn off only Google advertising measurement in Cookie preferences. Withdrawal cancels pending deliveries, clears encrypted click values and removes the Google measurement cookies accessible to this site; it cannot recall information already sent to Google. You can change your choices at any time using Cookie preferences in the site footer or the controls below. Google explains how it uses information from sites and apps and processes information under its privacy policy. Other devices, cleared cookies and denied measurement limit what we can observe. While advertising measurement is off, we do not send your signup to Google Ads as a conversion.
Delivery records without click values are retained for up to ninety days. A keyed fingerprint used to prevent duplicate click capture may remain until ninety days after the click reference expires; it cannot be used to recover the original value. Minimal account milestone and previous-payment markers remain until account deletion so returning accounts and renewals cannot be reported as new acquisitions. Anonymous browser milestones expire after at most four hundred days. Daily maintenance removes expired records.
Retention and your choices
Account research history and most retained results expire after ninety days; some datasets expire sooner. Saved keyword text and research context can remain after associated metrics expire. Expiry removes access to affected research, while physical cleanup takes place separately.
Accounts, saved lists, feedback, billing and usage records do not currently have one uniform automatic deletion period. The research expiry periods above do not describe a deletion schedule for operational logs or backups.
- You can delete research history and saved keywords or lists through your account, and revoke account share links.
- You can clear browser storage to remove information stored only in that browser. This may reset preferences or sign you out.
- You can manage Google sign-in access through your Google Account connections. Disconnecting Google does not itself delete your SearchCub account or research.
- You can use Feedback to request access to, correction of or deletion of your information. We may need to verify that the request relates to your account before acting on it.
Contact and updates
For a privacy question or request, open Feedback, choose “Other” and begin your message with “Privacy request”. If you are signed out and would like a reply, include your email in the optional reply-email field.
We will publish updates to this policy on this page and update the effective date when it changes.