Privacy

Last updated 11/12/2026

What we collect

How credentials are stored

Website credentials, your Search Console and Google Analytics refresh tokens, and your PostHog API key are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM. They are never written to logs and never returned to your browser. Disconnecting deletes them.

Google user data

If you connect Google Analytics, Peak Answer asks Google for read-only access to your Analytics data (the analytics.readonly permission). It reads two things: the list of Analytics properties on your Google account, so you can choose one, and the number of visits to that property each day that came from AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude. It does not read visitor-level data, and it never changes anything in your Analytics account.

Those daily counts are shown to you in the product and in your CSV downloads, and are used for nothing else. They are not sold, not shared with other customers, not used for advertising, and not used to train any model. Nobody at Peak Answer reads your Analytics data except where you ask for support or where the law requires it.

Peak Answer’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

You can disconnect at any time in Settings, under Connections. That deletes the saved token and the visit counts stored from your Analytics. To take the permission back on Google’s side as well, remove access from your Google account permissions page.

If you connect PostHog instead, you paste a personal API key that can only run read queries. Peak Answer uses it to count the same daily visits from AI assistants, and writes nothing to your PostHog.

What we share

We use Bright Data to fetch AI answers and web pages, Anthropic and OpenAI to analyze and write, Stripe for billing, Resend for email, and PostHog and Google Analytics to measure how this website and the product are used. Each receives only what it needs to do its job. We do not sell your data and we do not share it for advertising.

Analytics, and what they are told about you

This site uses Google Analytics and PostHog for analytics. PostHog records which screens are opened and which buttons are pressed, so we can see where the product is confusing. Google Analytics records how people arrive at this website. Both set a cookie and store an identifier in your browser.

Visitors in the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland are asked for consent first. Neither tool loads, and neither sets a cookie, until you accept. If you decline, neither loads. We remember your choice in local storage, you can decline without losing access, and you can change your choice using Cookie settings in the footer. Visitors elsewhere are not shown the banner, and both tools load as normal.

When you are signed in, PostHog is told your account identifier, your plan and your role. The account identifier is a random string that means nothing outside our own database. We deliberately do not send it your email address, your name, or the website address you track, because none of those are needed to answer the questions we use analytics for. Logging out clears the identifier from your browser.

Aggregate data

We compute which directories and web pages are most often cited by AI answers, aggregated across all customers. That aggregate contains no customer identity, no brand names, and nothing that could be traced back to you, it is a list of public URLs and how often they appear as sources.

What we don’t collect

We do not install a script on your website and we do not track the people who visit it. The analytics above run on this website and inside the product, and never on yours. If you connect your own Google Analytics or PostHog, we read only the daily count of visits from AI assistants, never anything about an individual visitor. We deliberately do not build revenue attribution, which would require both.

Browser extension

The Peak Answer browser extension runs only when you click its icon. It sends the address of the page you are on to peakanswer.com to run the answer readiness check, and the result is not stored against you. It reads the page’s robots.txt and structured data inside your browser. If you add a Peak Answer API key, the key is stored only in your browser and sent to peakanswer.com to read your own tracking data. The extension does not collect browsing history, does not run in the background, and does not sell or share data.

Retention

Tracking data is kept for as long as your account is active, because the whole product is a trend over time. After a deletion request we erase personal data without undue delay and within one month, except records we must keep by law (for example tax and billing).

Your rights

Email john@peakanswer.com or use Delete personal data in Settings to access, export, or delete your data. We respond without undue delay and within one month. If we cannot meet a request we will say why, and you can complain to the ICO.