With your permission, Google Ads uses cookies and receives information about visits to our public pages to measure our ads. We do not send your scan email or report to Google Ads. Your choice does not affect your scan. Privacy details
EmailFootprint processes only the data necessary to perform a search, including:
EmailFootprint does not:
Search results are generated on demand and held temporarily in server memory. We do not maintain a database of scan emails or reports.
EmailFootprint does not maintain a database of searched email addresses or their results.
We keep separate operational payment records, including payment references, amounts, delivery status and refund status, to recover failed purchases and prevent duplicate scans or refunds. These records and restricted server delivery records contain no scan email or report content. A completed report response sent by our server counts as delivery; a browser acknowledgement is not required.
To run your scan, EmailFootprint sends data to configured services below. Availability depends on configuration and provider responses; the report shows the checks attempted. Providers may retain requests under their own policies: our report deletion does not delete their records.
To verify results, EmailFootprint's server also opens the public pages that searches return. Those websites receive the requested URL and our server network information. If a discovered URL contains the scan email, that website receives it as part of the URL. We do not add the scan email to verification requests.
EmailFootprint reports where the address is exposed, not who you are: personal profile attributes such as names, locations and employers are reduced to types and counts rather than copied into the report, and nothing found in results is used to run further searches.
EmailFootprint does not control third-party content, does not guarantee its accuracy or legality, and is not responsible for changes or removals of third-party content or breach records.
We do not use scan emails or findings for advertising, profiling or marketing. Third-party search, hosting and payment services have their own data practices.
Essential storage supports service operation. A separate, optional choice controls Google Ads measurement on public information and landing pages. Rejecting measurement does not prevent a search or purchase.
Only after you select Accept measurement, our public pages load the Google Ads tag. Google receives browser and network information, public-page visit information and ad-click identifiers, and may set or read advertising measurement cookies such as _gcl_au. Google processes this information under its Privacy Policy. This may involve processing outside the EEA.
We do not send searched email addresses, their hashes, report contents, payment-session references or billing contact details to Google Ads. We do not enable personalized advertising, remarketing audiences, enhanced conversions or Google Analytics. The tag is not loaded on checkout-return, scan, report or error pages. A public-page visit is not a purchase conversion.
We remember your measurement choice in your browser for up to 180 days, separately from scan consent. The old cookie-notice acknowledgement does not count as measurement consent. Use Cookie settings on any public page to change or withdraw your choice. Withdrawal stops future tag loading and clears accessible Google advertising cookies on our domain; it does not erase data already received by Google. If browser storage is unavailable, your choice may not persist to the next page.
Users may contact EmailFootprint for data protection inquiries or legal notices at helpemailfootprint@gmail.com.
Depending on the circumstances, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction or portability of your personal data, or object to processing. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it. You may also lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority, including Romania's ANSPDCP.
EmailFootprint is operated by Ionut Lupulescu, an individual based in Romania, who is the data controller for the processing described in this policy. Contact: helpemailfootprint@gmail.com.
Location: Măldărești, Vâlcea, 247370, Romania.
Payment processing is handled by Stripe, Inc. EmailFootprint does not store, process, or have access to payment card details. Stripe's privacy policy applies to all payment transactions.
New checkouts send Stripe a random reference, not the email submitted for scanning. The reference connects your payment to the email held temporarily in our server memory. Stripe may collect a separate billing or receipt email and retains payment records under its own policy. This change does not remove information from earlier payment records.
If you arrive through a campaign link, we carry a general source label (Google, Microsoft, Reddit or Quora) through links and checkout and include it in Stripe payment metadata to count purchases by source. This uses no advertising cookies, tracking pixel or visitor identifier. The label remains in Stripe payment records under its retention policy; we do not upload purchases to advertising platforms through this feature.
EmailFootprint's servers are located in Germany (EU).
Several of the services listed in section 3 are based outside the European Economic Area, mainly in the United States (including SerpApi, Google, Microsoft/Bing, Brave, GitHub, Automattic, the Internet Archive and Stripe), and Have I Been Pwned is operated from Australia. Provider headquarters do not necessarily identify every processing location. Processing locations and retention depend on the selected providers and their policies.
Contact us about erasure using the address above. Scan emails and findings follow the temporary retention described in section 2. Payment records, support messages and records held by third-party providers are separate; report deletion does not erase those records.
