What we collect, and what we do with it

This policy covers autx.ai, the free AUTX AI Visibility Check and the AUTX AI Visibility Report. AUTX DAO LLC, a Wyoming company, runs them. Last updated October 31, 2026.

The short version

• The free check asks for your business details, not for your name or email.
• Our systems never store your IP address, and our order records never store your email address. We keep a scrambled version of each (a salted hash) to apply daily limits and refund rules.
• AI models see your business name, type of business and city, because those are what the questions ask about. They never see your email or payment details.
• We do not sell your data, and we do not use it for advertising.
• We delete free-check details after 90 days and report data 12 months after payment.

What we collect

When you run the free check

The business name, the kind of business, the city, and the website and competitors if you add them. Cloudflare Turnstile checks that you are a person, which uses your IP address. To apply daily limits, we keep a scrambled version of your IP address, never the address itself. We keep the check's result so the page can show it.

When you buy the report

Stripe runs the checkout and collects your email address, your payment details and the business details you type there. We never see your card number. From Stripe we receive your email address, the business details you enter, the amount paid and the payment status. We store scrambled versions of your email address and of the ID Stripe gives your card or bank account, so we can recognize the same buyer for limits and refund rules. We also store the business details, the report, the AI answers it is built from, and any refund reason you write. We read your email address from Stripe each time we send you an email, and our order records keep no copy. If you write to us, we keep that email.

Emails we send you

Only about your order: the report, a delay, a request for missing details, and refund messages. We send no marketing email, and our emails carry no open or click tracking.

How we use it

We use these details to run the check and the report, to handle refunds and to improve the service. We may publish combined figures that name no business.

Cookies and analytics

Our pages set no cookies of their own and run no advertising scripts. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page visits with a small script that sets no cookies. Cloudflare Turnstile may set cookies it needs for its check.

Who else receives data

• AI model providers. The questions name your business, its type and its city. Models with web search may send a question to their search service, such as Microsoft Bing, to find pages for the answer. The free check asks an OpenAI model through Microsoft Azure. The full report also asks Anthropic, xAI's Grok through Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Google's Gemini API (asked without web search) and Perplexity. We send no email address or payment details to any model.
• Microsoft Azure. Hosts the site, stores the data, screens the business details for abusive content, and sends our emails.
• Stripe. Takes the payment and issues refunds. Its own privacy policy covers what it collects.
• Cloudflare. Delivers the site, runs the person check and counts visits.
• GitHub. Runs the job that builds and sends reports.
• AI tools we use to run the service. We use tools such as Anthropic's Claude to help us operate AUTX, for example to review refund requests. Your email address is never part of that.

How long we keep it

• Free checks: we delete the business details and the result after 90 days. If you buy the report, the details stay with your order.
• Daily limits: we delete the scrambled IP address and its count after 7 days.
• Reports: we delete the report, the business details, the AI answers and any refund reason 12 months after payment. Copies in our own email, such as refund reviews, follow the same schedule.
• Payment records: a short record of each order (amount, dates and scrambled identifiers) stays, for accounting, tax and our refund rules. Stripe keeps its own payment records, including the business details you type at checkout.

Your order link

The link in your report email opens your order page and report without a password. Treat it like a key. Anyone with the link can see the report and ask for a refund, so share it only with people you trust.

Your choices

To see or delete the data about your order, email [email protected] with your order reference (it starts with MM-). We reply within 30 days. We delete the report and the business details on request, except the short payment record described above. Stripe keeps its own copy of what you typed at checkout.

Security

Connections use HTTPS, the stored data sits in private storage, and access is limited to the people who run the service. Identifiers are kept scrambled, as described above.

Children

AUTX is for businesses. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 13.

Changes

When this policy changes, we update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Privacy questions: [email protected]. Everything else: [email protected]. AUTX DAO LLC, a Wyoming company. See also our terms.