Privacy Policy

What this site does

SeoSpidie is a free set of SEO tools. No account is needed and we don't ask for your name, email or any other personal details. Many tools — generators, previews and text checkers — run entirely inside your browser, and what you type into them is not sent to us. Tools that read other websites (audits, crawls, link, redirect and feed tools) fetch those public pages through SeoSpidie's own server, and the result is analysed in your browser. We don't store your reports.

Pasted page code and the one-click audit button

If you paste a page's source code into a tool, or use the “Audit with SeoSpidie” bookmark button, that page code is analysed inside your own browser. It is not sent to our server and is not stored. The bookmark button only reads the page you click it on, at the moment you click it; it also copies that page's code to your clipboard as a backup.

Site statistics

We keep our own daily totals of page views, tool uses, traffic sources, devices, browsers, languages and an estimated country based on your browser’s time zone. This uses no cookies and we do not store your IP address; it is used only briefly to limit abuse and to count unique visitors each day. Browsers that send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control are not counted. When a tool reads a website through our server, we record that website’s domain name and when it was checked, with nothing that links it to you.

SeoSpidie Chrome extension

The “SeoSpidie SEO Site Audit” browser extension only reads the page in the tab you’re on, and only when you click Audit This Page or Download Full Report. It doesn’t run in the background, doesn’t read your browsing history, other tabs, passwords or form entries, and has no analytics or ads.

• Audit This Page: the page’s tags, headings, images, links, text and load timings are checked inside your browser. To check indexing, the extension also asks that same website for the page’s headers and its robots.txt file, just as your browser does. Nothing is sent to us or anyone else, and nothing is stored.
• Highlight on page and clicking a heading, link or image only mark or scroll that page in your own tab; they disappear when you turn them off or reload.
• Tool links (“Fix with …”) open the matching free tool on seospidie.com with the page address filled in, so you can continue there. Nothing is sent until you click.
• Download Full Report: the extension opens our audit page on seospidie.com and passes that page’s code to it inside your browser, where the full report is built. The page code isn’t uploaded to our server; only the page’s address is used by our server to read that site’s public robots.txt and sitemap for the report.
• Full Website Audit: opens our audit page with the website’s address, and our server then reads that public page as described in “How other websites are read” below.
• No ads on extension pages: any seospidie.com page the extension opens with your page’s address or content shows no advertising, and that information is never used for ads, sold or shared with anyone.
• Settings (appearance, auto-start) are saved in your browser only.

The extension asks for the “active tab” and “scripting” permissions so it can read the page you choose to audit, and for access to seospidie.com only so it can hand that page to our audit page. Its use of information complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements: data is never sold, shared, or used for advertising or creditworthiness. You can remove the extension at any time from your browser’s extensions page.

What we keep

Usage limits: to keep the service fair and prevent abuse, the server counts requests per visitor. For this it keeps a one-way hash of your IP address and a request counter for up to 15 minutes; it isn't linked to anything else and is then discarded.

Crawl log: for multi-page crawls (sitemap, RSS and feed tools) we keep a short technical record — the website address that was checked, the tool used, how many pages were read and how long it took — to monitor and improve the service. It contains no information about you.

Server logs: like any website, our hosting provider keeps standard access logs (such as IP address, page requested and browser type) for security and troubleshooting.

Stored in your browser

Some tools remember small things in your browser’s local storage — for example your list of recent audits or saved UTM links. This stays on your device, is never sent to us, and you can clear it at any time from your browser settings.

Advertising, cookies and your consent

SeoSpidie itself doesn’t set any cookies and doesn’t use analytics services. The only cookies on this site come from our advertising partner: the site is free because it shows ads from Google AdSense. How ads are shown is described in our Advertising Policy.

What Google collects. When an ad loads, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, similar technologies, your IP address and information about your device and the page you’re on, to show and measure ads, limit how often you see the same ad, and prevent fraud. Where you allow it, this information is also used to show personalised ads based on your interests. Google is responsible for this processing; see how Google uses information from sites that use its services and Google’s Privacy Policy.

Consent in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland. Visitors there see Google’s consent message (a Google-certified consent management platform that follows the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework) before any advertising cookies are stored or personal data is used for ads. You can accept, refuse, or choose purposes and vendors one by one. If you refuse, you may still see non-personalised or limited ads, which use only what’s needed to show the ad and prevent fraud.

US state privacy laws. If you live in a US state with consumer privacy laws (such as California), you can opt out of the use of your information for personalised advertising through the “Privacy & cookie settings” link below or Google’s ad settings.

Change or withdraw your choice at any time with the Privacy & cookie settings link (also in the footer of every page). You can also turn off personalised ads at Google Ad Settings, opt out of other vendors at aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.eu, and delete or block cookies in your browser settings.

Children. SeoSpidie is a tool for website owners and isn’t directed at children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country), and we don’t knowingly collect their information.

How other websites are read

When a tool reads a public web page, the request comes from SeoSpidie’s own server and identifies itself as “SeoSpidie” (more about our crawler). No third-party relay or proxy services are used, so the addresses you check aren’t shared with anyone else. Only publicly accessible pages are read; private or internal network addresses are refused, and pages behind a login are never accessed. Multi-page crawls follow each site’s robots.txt rules. The “Website preview” in the audit report draws the audited page in your browser with its scripts switched off; its images and styles are loaded by your browser directly from that website (without telling it which page you came from), just as if you visited it. The fonts and code the site uses are hosted on our own server, so loading a page doesn’t contact other services apart from advertising.

Your choices

Because we don’t collect personal details or create accounts, there is usually nothing about you for us to show, correct or delete. If you have a question or request about your data — including under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act or the EU GDPR — contact us and we’ll reply.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date. Questions can be sent via the contact page. See also our Terms of Use.