---
title: Privacy · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/privacy
---

[The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/)
[Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Why](https://directindex.org/why)[Method](https://directindex.org/methodology)[About](https://directindex.org/about)

 Privacy

# What we keep, and what we do not

Short, because there is not much.

## What we collect

- **Email addresses you give us**, on the sign-up, claim, city request and contact forms, with the time and the page. Used only to send what you asked for and to answer you.
- **Scan results of public websites**: the pages we fetched, the checks and the score. These are about businesses, not people, and they are published.
- **Request logs** kept briefly by Cloudflare, which hosts the site, for security and to count scans per address for rate limiting.

## What we do not do

- No cookies. No advertising. No third-party trackers. Fonts are served from this site, not from Google.
- No selling or sharing of addresses. Ever.
- We never submit forms, place orders or make bookings on the sites we scan.

## Analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless and does not profile visitors, to see which pages are read and where visitors come from.

## Your rights

You can ask what we hold about your address and have it deleted, under the GDPR and otherwise. The controller is Antonio Curado, Lisbon, Portugal. Write through the [contact form](https://directindex.org/about). If a page is about a website you own and you want it removed, ask and it will be.

## Retention

Addresses are kept until you unsubscribe or ask for deletion. Scan results are kept as history so the index can show change over time.

Last updated 13 October 2026.

#### The Direct Index

[Why direct](https://directindex.org/why)[About and principles](https://directindex.org/about)[Methodology](https://directindex.org/methodology)[Privacy](https://directindex.org/privacy)

#### Use it

[Free scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[City indexes](https://directindex.org/cities)[Common fixes](https://directindex.org/fix)[What agent-direct means](https://directindex.org/agent-direct)

#### For agents

[llms.txt](https://directindex.org/llms.txt)[llms-full.txt](https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt)[OpenAPI](https://directindex.org/openapi.json)[MCP server](https://directindex.org/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)[A2A agent](https://directindex.org/.well-known/agent-card.json)

#### Data

[Sitemap](https://directindex.org/sitemap.xml)[City data, JSON](https://directindex.org/api/city/lisbon)

Business data from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Built in Lisbon.

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```