Privacy Policy

1. Information we collect

• Accounts and submissions: your name, email address, password in hashed form, account status, selected plan, website URL, title, description, categories, and submission history.
• Optional listing details: the address, deep links, social-media and app links, photos, logos, award details and badges, verification URLs, and video URLs you provide where your plan permits them.
• Partner participation: the selected link, requested niche, article/backlink URL, verification results, and information about the continuing backlink requirement.
• Payments: order items, amounts, currency, payment status, PayPal order and transaction references, and payment-related communications. Provider notifications may contain payer details and are retained in protected payment-event records. You enter payment credentials with PayPal, not in our directory forms; we do not ask for your full card number or PayPal password.
• Support and reports: your name, email, subject or report reason, message, relevant listing reference, and related delivery and handling records. A report may retain a snapshot of the listing title and URL at the time of reporting.
• Technical and usage information: IP addresses, browser and device information, request times, page visits, referral information, session identifiers, and security or error logs as generated by the site, host, analytics, and security services.

Editors may also create Free listings using publicly available website information and screenshots. Information about an identifiable person, including a sole trader, can still be personal information even when found publicly. Contact us to request a correction or raise a privacy concern.

Please do not send passwords, payment-card details, health information, government identity documents, or other sensitive information unless we specifically explain why a limited item is necessary. Do not submit someone else’s private information without the required authority.

2. Why we use information

We use information to create and secure accounts; review, organize, publish, and maintain listings; verify ownership and partner backlinks; process orders and promotions; investigate reports; answer requests; maintain records; prevent fraud and abuse; comply with legal obligations; and understand and improve website use.

Where consent is required, we seek it for the relevant purpose and allow withdrawal. Other processing takes place where the applicable law permits it, such as providing a service you request or meeting a legal obligation. Where laws such as the GDPR apply, the relevant bases may include contractual necessity, legal obligations, consent, and legitimate interests in secure operation and proportionate directory administration, subject to your rights.

Creating an account, making a payment, or contacting support does not itself subscribe you to a marketing mailing list. Service messages are different from optional marketing. We do not use this policy as blanket consent to unrelated future uses.

3. Public listings and editorial content

Approved listing details, screenshots, and uploaded listing media may be displayed on public profiles, categories, and directory guides. Search engines and third parties may index or copy public content. Publish only information you intend to make public; an address entered as listing content may be visible to everyone.

Account login details and payment records are not displayed on a listing. Contact-form submissions and reports are handled privately, although we may share relevant details when necessary to investigate a complaint, provide a service, or comply with law. We avoid disclosing a reporter’s identity unnecessarily.

Removing material from our site does not automatically remove independent search-engine caches or copies held by others.

4. Hosting, payments, email, and other providers

Access is limited to people and providers who need information for the purposes described here, including administrators, editors, technical support, and professional advisers where necessary.

• Contabo: provides hosting infrastructure on which our website and data are stored and processed. See Contabo’s privacy information.
• PayPal: processes checkout payments. We send order references, service and amount details, and receive payment status and transaction information. PayPal also processes data for its own payment, fraud-prevention, and regulatory purposes. See PayPal’s Privacy Statement.
• Mailjet: handles email delivery when enabled, including contact and listing-report details sent to our team. This can include your name, email address, message, and related listing information, together with delivery records. See Mailjet’s Privacy Policy.
• Cloudflare Turnstile: helps detect automated abuse on protected forms when enabled. It processes browser, device, network, and challenge information for verification. See Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy.
• Google Analytics: helps measure visits and interactions as explained below. Google processes data according to its services, configuration, and applicable terms.
• Page assets and external content: fonts and interface files are loaded from Bunny Fonts and jsDelivr. Those requests expose technical information such as your IP address to the provider. Following external links or loading third-party media may send information to that service, whose own privacy policy then applies.

We may disclose information when required by a valid legal process, to protect people and the service, or to establish or defend legal claims. In a lawful transfer of the business, relevant information may be transferred with appropriate safeguards and notice where required. We do not sell account or support information as a standalone data product.

5. Cookies and Google Analytics

Necessary cookies support login sessions, form security, and the operation of account and checkout functions. Blocking them can prevent those functions from working. Your browser lets you inspect, delete, or block cookies.

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use einternetindex.com. The Google Analytics tag loads only after you accept optional analytics cookies. Depending on configuration and your choices, it can process page views, interactions, referrals, browser/device information, approximate location, and cookie or similar identifiers. Advertising consent and Google signals are disabled in this integration. It is not correct to describe all analytics information as anonymous merely because it does not show your name.

Accepting our Terms of Service is not consent to optional tracking. Use our cookie popup to accept optional analytics, reject it, or save your preferences. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time through Cookie settings in the footer. We remember that choice in this browser’s local storage for up to 180 days; clearing browser storage, using another browser, or an updated consent notice may prompt a new choice. Necessary cookies remain active. Browser cookie controls and Google’s Analytics opt-out browser add-on provide additional options.

Our integration sets first-party Analytics cookies (_ga and _ga_FCKNJVHJZW) for no longer than the remaining 180-day consent period. Withdrawing consent stops further Analytics tracking and removes these cookies set by our integration. It does not erase information already sent to Google. See how Google uses information from sites using its services and Google’s cookie information. We do not intend to send form messages, passwords, payment details, or email addresses to Google Analytics.

6. Storage, international processing, and security

Our hosting provider is Contabo. Hosting, backups, and service-provider processing may involve countries outside India or your country of residence. The exact server and backup locations depend on the hosting configuration; Contabo’s headquarters do not establish where your data is stored. Contact us for location details relevant to your information.

Where information is transferred internationally, applicable transfer restrictions and safeguards must be observed, including contractual safeguards where required. Use of the website is not a waiver of those protections.

We use access restrictions, hashed passwords, and protections for integration credentials and sensitive payment-event records. No website or transmission method is completely secure. We will address security incidents and give notices to affected people or authorities where legally required.

7. How long information is kept

Retention depends on the purpose and applicable legal requirements, not on a promise to erase all information immediately after an account closes:

• Account and listing records are kept while needed to provide and administer the account or listing, handle corrections, and establish authority.
• Order, payment, and refund records may be retained to meet tax and accounting obligations and deal with disputes, chargebacks, or legal claims.
• Support, rejected or incomplete submissions, verification, audit, and security records are retained while needed for their purpose, abuse prevention, or a legal obligation.
• Backup copies may persist after removal from active systems until the relevant backup is replaced or deleted. They are not intended for ordinary public access.

We assess deletion or anonymisation requests against these needs. A listing without a scheduled expiry is not a reason to retain every related personal record forever. Contact us for the retention position of a particular record; this policy does not promise an automatic deletion schedule that the service does not provide.

8. Your requests and rights

You can ask us to explain our use of your information, provide access, correct inaccuracies, delete information no longer needed, or withdraw consent for processing based on consent. Depending on the law that applies to you, you may also have rights to restriction, objection, portability, nomination, or a complaint to a competent data-protection authority.

Send requests to support@einternetindex.com. We may ask for proportionate proof of identity or authority. We will explain any lawful reason we cannot fully comply. Withdrawal does not undo earlier lawful processing, and withholding information necessary for a requested service may prevent us from providing it. Deleting an account does not automatically erase public business information or records we must legally keep.

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and related rules have a phased commencement. Rights and duties under that framework apply as the relevant provisions come into force; this policy does not imply that every provision is already operative. Other applicable protections, including relevant Information Technology Act and sensitive personal data rules, continue to apply as provided by law.

9. Children’s information

Accounts, submissions, and paid services are intended for people aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly solicit children’s personal information for these services. If you believe a child has provided information without the necessary authority, contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate action. Any processing of children’s information remains subject to applicable legal safeguards.

10. Privacy and grievance contact

You can also use our contact form. Include the relevant website or listing URL and, for a payment query, your order or PayPal reference. Do not send passwords, full payment-card details, or unnecessary identity documents.

Use the subject “Privacy request” or “Grievance” and describe the relevant data or concern. We will respond within applicable statutory timeframes and explain the outcome or next steps. This channel does not prevent you from exercising rights before a competent authority.

11. Updates to this policy

We will update this page when our practices or legal requirements change and show the revision date above. Where required, material changes will receive additional notice and a new use requiring consent will not rely solely on publication of a revised policy.