Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 10, 2026 · RankGear is a Digitaleer product.

1. Who we are

Digitaleer, LLC (“Digitaleer,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) publishes RankGear, desktop search-engine-optimization software for macOS and Windows, publishes the RankGear Browser SERP extension, and operates rankgear.com. Questions about this policy can be sent through our contact page or to [email protected].

2. The short version

RankGear stores your settings, provider credentials, projects, and reports on your computer. We do not operate a server that receives your SEO projects or provider keys from the current desktop app. When you use a connected feature, the app sends the information needed for that request directly from your computer to the chosen provider or destination. Providers may keep requests under their own terms and your account settings. RankGear’s website separately handles the contact and usage information described below. The RankGear Browser SERP browser extension keeps captured results in your browser, exports them to a CSV file on your computer, and sends them nowhere unless you pair it with the desktop app on your own machine; section 5 covers it in full.

3. Information the website handles

• If you contact us, we receive the name, email address, message, and other information you choose to send so we can respond and provide support.
• Our website hosting and any analytics we use may record standard information such as IP address, browser type, pages viewed, and referring pages. We use this information to operate the site and understand traffic.
• The website may use essential cookies and, where applicable, analytics cookies. You can use the site’s cookie controls and your browser settings to manage them.

4. Information the desktop app stores and sends

RankGear stores settings, provider credentials, keyword sets, analysis data, generated workbooks, and reports on your computer. Provider credentials are kept in a local file restricted to your operating-system account, not in the macOS Keychain. The Mac App Store edition uses its own sandbox storage, separate from the direct-download edition. Exported files remain wherever you save them, including copies and backups you make.

When you request a connected feature, RankGear sends information directly to the selected service using your credentials:

• SerpApi, Bright Data, or RapidAPI may receive your search query and the search region or map coordinates you enter. Those coordinates describe the area you ask RankGear to search; the app does not request your device location.
• DomDetailer and DataForSEO may receive domains for enabled domain and backlink lookups. TextRazor may receive page text for enabled entity extraction.
• Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google may receive the material described in the confirmation prompt for an AI feature. Depending on the feature, that can include your prompt, business context, page excerpts, workbook evidence, experiment details, or outreach positioning information. You can cancel before RankGear sends the AI request.
• ClickUp receives task content only when you choose to create a task in your connected workspace. A deployment destination receives the files and authentication information needed for a deployment you initiate. RankGear does not automatically send prospect messages or deploy files.

Connection-test buttons contact the corresponding provider and may send a small test request. Your provider credential or account identifier is sent to that provider to authenticate the request. Provider usage may incur charges separate from the RankGear subscription. Providers may retain account identifiers, queries, prompts, page content, and responses according to their policies and your account settings. We do not control those providers’ retention or deletion processes.

To analyze a website, RankGear requests its pages and embedded resources. Those sites and services receive ordinary web request information, including your IP address. Map reports may load tiles from OpenStreetMap or Google and disclose the displayed map area. An exported HTML report may make those map requests when opened outside RankGear.

The current desktop app has no Digitaleer-operated advertising or analytics collector and no RankGear account service.

5. The RankGear Browser SERP extension

Digitaleer also publishes RankGear Browser SERP, a browser extension distributed through the Chrome Web Store. This section covers the extension, including CSV export and its optional connection to the RankGear desktop app. The extension is separate from the website (section 3) and the desktop app (section 4). Installing it is optional and it requires no account. The extension terms in this section took effect November 7, 2026.

What the extension handles

When you click Collect Google results, the extension reads the search query from your active supported Google search and opens a separate capture tab. It reads organic result URLs, titles and snippets, follows recognized next-page links, and records source-page URLs and offsets, collection time, requested and captured counts, warnings, and extension version. Source search URLs preserve supported search-context parameters, which can include language, country, filters, personalization preferences, or an encoded search location. The extension does not request your device’s GPS location.

Search queries and result text may contain personal or sensitive information. Only collect and export information you are authorized to handle. The extension does not access unrelated tab content, read browser history records, extract Google account identifiers, read cookies, or collect provider API keys or complete page HTML. Its tab permission allows it to observe URLs for the active search and its dedicated capture tab, including final destinations during wrapped-link resolution.

What happens during browsing

Collection makes normal browser requests to Google, using your browser’s existing search context. Google receives those requests under its own policies. If you enable wrapped-link resolution, the capture tab visits linked destination sites, which receive normal browser requests and may run scripts and use cookies. The extension does not inject its extraction script into those destination sites or read their page content. Clearing an extension capture does not erase browser-managed history, cookies, open tabs, or data retained by websites.

How extension data is used and stored

The extension uses capture data to provide your requested CSV export and optional desktop import. Capture checkpoints are stored in chrome.storage.session, restricted to trusted extension contexts. They remain available when the popup closes or the background worker restarts, and are removed by Clear local capture or when the browser session ends. Starting a new collection replaces the prior capture. Browser-managed local storage is not a promise of independent encryption at rest.

Download CSV creates a file on your computer. It includes query, collection order, result URLs, titles and snippets, capture time, page offsets, requested and captured counts, partial-capture status, warnings, and extension version. Formula-like text is prefixed with an apostrophe for safer opening in spreadsheet applications. Downloaded files, copies, backups, and any cloud synchronization of your download folder are under your control and remain until you delete them.

Optional desktop pairing

CSV export requires no account, desktop app, or pairing. If you choose Send results to RankGear, the extension connects only to 127.0.0.1 on your computer at the port supplied by the RankGear app. Initial pairing uses a setup code you paste, a browser public key, extension identifier, and proof of key possession. The setup code expires after 15 minutes and is not saved by the extension. Do not share it.

Pairing stores a local endpoint port, public key identifier, app public key, and expiry in chrome.storage.local, and a non-extractable private signing key in the extension’s IndexedDB. This data is not synchronized through Chrome sync. Authorization lasts up to 90 days. Expiry disables the saved pairing; the signing key can remain stored until you use Forget paired RankGear or remove the extension. Pairing alone does not send captures. Each explicit Send transfers the collected results and search metadata to the paired app using application-layer encrypted, signed requests; it does not start analysis. The loopback transport itself uses HTTP. The initial pairing exchange includes authentication material over loopback.

Use Forget paired RankGear to remove local pairing metadata and the signing key, and to request revocation from the open app. If the app is closed or unreachable, use its Disconnect / forget pairing control separately. Clear local capture does not delete pairing. Forgetting a pairing does not delete previously downloaded CSVs or imported desktop reports. The desktop app controls its own imported data and retention; later analysis can contact the providers you enable, as described in section 4.

Extension sharing and Chrome Web Store limited use

The extension does not send captures to a Digitaleer-operated server, include advertising, sell personal data, or include analytics or telemetry. Data handling is limited to the features described in this section: collection, local export, and your optional desktop transfer. We do not use extension data for advertising, creditworthiness, or lending decisions. RankGear Browser SERP’s use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. The extension does not use Google OAuth or Google account APIs; search content is read from the page for the requested feature.

Your choices and extension security

You can stop collection, finish with available results, clear the local capture, forget pairing, remove the extension, or delete exported files. Removal clears extension-owned browser storage subject to browser behavior. Protect sensitive queries and downloads using your device’s access controls. Browser-held non-extractable keys and encrypted desktop transfers do not protect against a compromised device, browser profile, or malicious software update.

If you contact us about the extension, we receive whatever information you choose to include so we can respond. Avoid sending setup codes, keys, or confidential captures. We update this section when extension behavior changes and revise the effective date shown at the top of this policy.

6. Purchases and subscriptions

Apple handles payments for RankGear subscriptions purchased through the Mac App Store. RankGear reads Apple-verified transaction information on the Mac to determine subscription access, renewal, expiration, billing grace, and revocation. We do not receive your payment-card details or operate a server that receives these purchase records. Apple handles payment information under its own privacy policy and your Apple Account settings. Purchases on other platforms, where available, are handled by the applicable store or provider.

The optional demo uses synthetic provider responses and a separate temporary workspace. It does not call external search or AI services, create tasks in third-party accounts, or publish files. Demo artifacts are examples, not live research. Temporary demo workspaces may remain on the Mac until the operating system clears them; copies you export remain until you remove them.

7. How we use information

We use website and support information to operate, secure, and improve the website, respond to your inquiries, and send updates you requested. We may also use information as needed to comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms. We do not sell your personal information. Desktop connected-service requests are made to perform the feature you choose; provider accounts and their independent uses are governed by the provider agreements you accept.

8. Sharing

Website hosting, analytics, and email providers may handle information needed to run the website and respond to you. The desktop app sends information directly to the connected services and destinations described in section 4 when you use those features. Digitaleer does not receive a copy of those requests through a RankGear-operated server. The browser extension likewise sends captures only to the CSV file you download or to the desktop app on your own computer, as described in section 5. We may also disclose information we hold when required by law or as part of a business transfer, subject to applicable requirements.

9. Retention, control, and deletion

We keep website and contact information only as long as needed for the purposes above or as required by law. RankGear’s local settings and reports remain on your computer until you remove them. Remove a saved provider key in Settings > API keys; disable optional integrations in Settings > APIs; and delete reports from the output folder you selected. You may cancel an AI confirmation prompt before that request is sent.

Removing a local key or file does not revoke that credential at its provider, remove exported copies or backups, or delete data the provider already kept. Use the provider’s account controls to revoke keys and request access to or deletion of information the provider retains. You can manage or cancel a Mac App Store subscription through your Apple Account.

10. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or port personal information we hold, or to object to or restrict certain processing. Contact us through our contact page or at [email protected]. We will respond under applicable law. For information held by a connected provider, use that provider’s account and privacy tools.

11. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information under our control. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure. The security of locally stored data also depends on how you protect your computer and provider accounts.

12. Children

RankGear is a professional tool intended for business use and is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. We will revise the effective date when we do and provide a more prominent notice for material changes where appropriate.

14. Contact

Digitaleer, LLC — RankGear. Contact us through our contact page or at [email protected].