Last updated: 04.09.2026
This Privacy Policy explains how personal data is handled when you visit seo-expert.site, contact me or leave a comment.
1. Who is responsible for your data?
I am Andrey Ovsiannikov, a private individual based in Switzerland and the operator of SEO Expert. SEO Expert is the name used for this website and my independent activities, not a separate legal entity.
Email: info@seo-expert.site
I am responsible for deciding why and how personal data is processed in connection with this website. You can use the contact details above for privacy questions or to exercise your rights.
2. Website hosting and technical data
The website is hosted by AlpHosting – TiZoo Sàrl, Rue des Alpes 29, CH-1023 Crissier, Switzerland.
When your browser requests a page, technical request data is processed to deliver the website, maintain its availability and investigate errors or abuse. This includes your IP address, the requested page or file, the time of the request and browser information transmitted with the request.
The hosting provider’s logging and retention arrangements for this website are:
The hosting provider processes web server and security logs for the operation, security and protection of the website. These logs may include the visitor’s IP address, requested URL, user-agent, timestamp and HTTP response code.
Live web access logs are rotated daily. Monthly archives are stored within the hosting account until deleted by the website operator. Copies of web requests, server error information and security events are retained in the provider’s central security log system for up to 90 days. Firewall incident history may be retained on the server for up to 100 days.
Visitor statistics generated through AWStats or Webalizer may contain IP addresses and remain stored within the hosting account until they are deleted or the statistics feature is disabled.
The hosting and backup locations used for this website are:
The website is hosted by alphosting.ch on shared hosting infrastructure located in Switzerland. The primary hosting infrastructure and central security log storage are located in the canton of Vaud. Backups are stored on a dedicated backup system in a second data centre in Geneva. According to the hosting provider, website content and backups are not stored outside Switzerland.
Backup copies are retained for:
Daily backups of the hosting account, including website files and databases, are stored on a dedicated backup system in Geneva, Switzerland. Backups are retained on a rolling daily, weekly and monthly schedule, with the oldest available restore point being approximately 90 days old. According to the hosting provider, backup contents do not leave its infrastructure in Switzerland.
3. Contact forms and email
When you contact me, I process the information you provide, such as your name, email address, website address, project details and the content of your message. I use it to respond, discuss your requirements, prepare a proposal and, where applicable, manage our working relationship.
The contact form uses Happyforms. Form submissions are sent to my email address; I do not use a Happyforms submission archive in the WordPress administration area. The form is still processed by the website’s server, and the resulting email is stored in the relevant mail systems. Technical logs and backup copies are subject to the arrangements described in this policy.
I use Google Workspace, including Gmail, to receive, store and manage email for info@seo-expert.site. Google processes the messages and attachments you send, together with the email addresses and technical information needed to deliver and operate the email service.
Information about Google’s contractual data-processing provisions is available in its Cloud Data Processing Addendum. The recipients, processing countries and applicable international transfer arrangements for this website’s services are described in section 7.
Providing contact information is voluntary, but I need enough information to answer your request. Please do not send passwords, payment card details or sensitive personal documents through the contact form. A project enquiry does not subscribe you to marketing emails.
4. Comments
When you submit a comment, WordPress processes the comment text, your chosen display name, your email address and any website address you supply. It also records technical metadata, including your IP address and browser information, for moderation and abuse prevention.
Approved comments and the chosen display name are public. A website address you supply can appear as a public link. Your email address is not displayed as part of the comment. Comments and their associated metadata are stored in the website database.
Avatars are provided through Gravatar, a service operated by Automattic Inc. When Gravatar is used, a hash derived from the email address associated with a commenter or author may be sent to Gravatar to determine whether a profile image is available. Loading an avatar also involves transmitting technical connection data, such as an IP address and browser information. If a comment is approved, the corresponding profile image may be displayed publicly alongside the comment. Further information is available in Automattic’s Privacy Notice.
5. Cookies and your choices
The website uses Complianz to manage cookie choices. Essential cookies remember your consent preferences. Optional analytics is enabled only after you allow it.
You can accept optional cookies, reject them or change your choice through Cookie settings. This link opens the consent settings provided on the Cookie Policy page.
Withdrawing consent stops future consent-based analytics collection on this website. It does not make earlier lawful processing unlawful or automatically delete data already collected. You can contact me about a deletion request.
See the Cookie Policy for the cookies used, their purposes and their lifetimes. Rejecting optional analytics does not prevent you from browsing the website or sending an enquiry.
6. Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
With your consent, I use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors find and use the website and to improve its content and usability. Google Tag Manager is used to load the analytics tags. In this website’s configuration, both Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics are blocked until analytics consent is given.
Analytics processes information about page visits and interactions, referral sources, browser and device characteristics, approximate location and identifiers used to distinguish browsers or sessions. Your browser also transmits technical connection data, including an IP address, when communicating with Google’s servers. This processing should not be understood as completely anonymous.
The Google entity providing the analytics service under my account agreement is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Additional analytics features and data-sharing settings relevant to visitors are:
Google signals is disabled. With your consent to analytics, Google Analytics collects granular location and device information, which may include your approximate city, device brand and model, browser and operating system details, and screen resolution. This information helps me understand how visitors access and use the website.
My Google Analytics property is linked to my Google Ads account. Advertising personalisation is disabled both for this link and for all geographic regions. Newly collected Analytics data is therefore designated as not eligible for personalised advertising. The connection is retained to support measurement of advertising for my services; disabling personalisation does not disconnect the accounts or prevent measurement-related data exchange.
All four optional account-level data-sharing settings are disabled: Google products and services, Modeling contributions and business insights, Technical support, and Recommendations for your business. Google still processes data as necessary to provide, maintain and protect the Analytics service. These settings do not disable the separate Google Ads connection described above.
When a contact form is submitted successfully after analytics consent has been given, Google Analytics records a generate_lead event. The event includes a form identifier and form name but does not include the visitor’s name, email address, website address, message or other form-field contents.
The configured retention period is 2 months for event-level data and 14 months for user-level data. Resetting user-data retention on new activity is enabled. These settings do not determine the retention of Google’s standard aggregated reports.
More information is available in Google’s explanation of data received from partner websites. You can withdraw analytics consent using the Cookie settings link above.
7. Recipients and international processing
Personal data is handled by me and the service providers described above, for hosting, backups, email delivery, mailbox operation and consent-based analytics. If disclosure is required by law or necessary to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim, relevant information can also be provided to the appropriate authority or professional adviser.
AlpHosting provides the website hosting, while the email mailbox uses Google Workspace. Swiss website hosting does not mean that the email or analytics data is processed only in Switzerland. Google Workspace and Google Analytics have separate service arrangements.
Google services may process personal data in Ireland, other countries in the EU or EEA, Switzerland, the United States and other countries in which Google or its subprocessors operate. Depending on the destination and applicable law, Google uses recognised transfer mechanisms such as adequacy decisions, the EU-US and Swiss-US Data Privacy Frameworks for certified recipients, and standard contractual clauses. Information about the terms applying to Google Analytics is available in the Google Ads Data Processing Terms.
Although the website and its backups are hosted in Switzerland, limited technical, security or support information may be processed by technology providers used by the hosting provider.
These providers may include WebPros International, LLC and JetApps LLC in the United States; Cloud Linux Software, Inc., with processing in Germany, Finland, Poland and the United States; Monarx, Inc. in the United States; Softaculous in the United Arab Emirates; and Anthropic in the United States.
Depending on the service, the information concerned may include server and domain information, firewall events, IP addresses, requested URLs, user-agents, file hashes, files flagged as potentially malicious, software licence information, or information contained in hosting support requests.
According to the hosting provider, transfers to certified US recipients may rely on the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework. Other transfers may be protected through standard contractual clauses, Swiss contractual additions or service-specific contractual restrictions. The hosting provider states that Anthropic processes hosting support ticket information under a zero-data-retention arrangement and does not use it for model training.
You can contact me for further information about the applicable transfer arrangements and, where relevant, a copy of the safeguards, with unrelated confidential information removed.
8. Purposes and legal grounds
I process personal data in accordance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection. Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation applies, the legal grounds are:
- Consent: optional analytics and its related cookies (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). Consent can be withdrawn at any time.
- Steps requested before a contract and performance of a contract: handling an enquiry about services you wish to purchase and carrying out an agreed engagement (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR).
- Legitimate interests: operating and securing the website, handling general correspondence and communications with a client’s representatives, moderating comments and managing legal claims (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). These interests are balanced against your rights and interests.
- Legal obligations: retaining records or providing information where applicable law requires it (Article 6(1)(c) GDPR).
This Privacy Policy provides information; reading it or browsing the website is not consent to optional analytics.
9. How long is information kept?
General enquiries that do not result in a contractual relationship are normally deleted within 12 months after the enquiry has been completed. Correspondence and records required for a contractual relationship, accounting, compliance with an applicable legal retention requirement or a legal claim may be retained for longer. Records retained for those reasons are limited to what is necessary for the relevant purpose.
Published comments are kept while the related discussion remains available, unless they are removed. Associated moderation data is kept only as long as necessary for moderation, abuse prevention or a legal obligation. You can request removal using the contact details above.
The hosting log, backup and analytics retention arrangements are given in sections 2 and 6. Cookie lifetimes are listed in the Cookie Policy. Email messages and related delivery records follow these retention arrangements:
Messages submitted through the contact form are delivered to the website operator’s Google Workspace mailbox. The hosting provider’s outgoing mail system records the sender address, recipient address, subject line, timestamp and delivery result. These records are retained in the sending server logs for approximately three to four weeks and in the outgoing mail relay records for approximately 180 days. Message bodies are not retained by the hosting provider after delivery.
General enquiries that do not result in a contractual relationship are normally deleted from Google Workspace within 12 months after the enquiry has been completed. Correspondence required for an existing contractual relationship, accounting, legal claims or compliance with statutory obligations may be retained for longer where necessary.
Messages deleted from Gmail normally remain in the Trash folder for up to 30 days. After permanent deletion, a Google Workspace administrator may be able to restore them for an additional period of up to 25 days. After the applicable customer recovery period has ended, Google states that deletion from its systems is completed as soon as reasonably practicable and within a maximum of 180 days, unless applicable law requires continued storage.
Deleting a live record does not necessarily immediately remove it from a backup.
10. Your rights
Depending on the law that applies and its conditions, you can request access to your personal data, correction of inaccurate information, deletion, restriction of processing and a portable copy of certain data. You can also object to processing based on legitimate interests and withdraw consent for future processing.
Contact info@seo-expert.site to make a request. I may ask for proportionate information to verify your identity. I will respond within the applicable legal time limit and explain any lawful restriction on your request.
You can contact the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC). Where the GDPR applies, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection supervisory authority, including in the EU/EEA country where you normally live or work or where the alleged infringement occurred.
11. External links and policy updates
Links to social profiles and other external websites take you to services operated by other providers. Their own privacy notices explain what happens after you follow a link.
I will update this policy when relevant website functions or processing arrangements change. The date at the top identifies the latest version. Where a change requires consent, updating this page alone does not provide that consent.