Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 7, 2026

1. Introduction

Welcome to ContextLift ("we", "our", or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have complete transparency over how your data is handled. This Privacy Policy explains our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of information when you use the ContextLift website (contextlift.com) and the ContextLift WordPress Plugin.

Our core philosophy is data minimization. We do not track your site visitors, we do not store your WordPress content, and we do not sell any data to third parties.

2. Information We Collect

2.1. Anonymous Telemetry Data

To help us understand our user base and improve the plugin, the ContextLift WordPress Plugin sends a lightweight, anonymous telemetry ping to our servers. This data includes:

  • The domain name where the plugin is installed
  • The version of the ContextLift plugin
  • Your WordPress and PHP versions
  • The total number of published posts on your site (for scale metrics)
  • Whether the AI Plan is active or not

This ping occurs upon initial activation and is subsequently piggybacked onto the weekly scheduled WP-Cron context rebuild. It contains no personally identifiable information (PII).

2.2. License Validation Data

If you purchase the AI Plan, you will be issued a license key via our merchant of record, Lemon Squeezy. When you activate this key in your WordPress dashboard, your site transmits the license key and your domain name to our server for cryptographic validation.

2.3. AI Processing Payloads

When utilizing the premium AI features (Keyword Suggestions, Link Suggestions, Anchor Optimization, and Content Gap Analysis), your site sends specific payloads (post titles, excerpts, and local keywords) to our API proxy at contextlift.com.

Important: We act strictly as a real-time pass-through proxy. We forward this payload to Anthropic's Claude API for processing and instantly return the result to your site. We do not save, log, or train models on your website's content.

3. Third-Party Service Providers

We employ trusted third-party companies to facilitate our service:

  • Lemon Squeezy: Acts as our Merchant of Record. They securely process your payment, handle tax compliance, and manage your license keys. We never see or store your credit card information.
  • Anthropic (Claude AI): Processes the AI feature requests. Anthropic has strict zero-retention API policies, meaning your data is not used to train their foundational LLM models.
  • Vercel: Hosts the contextlift.com edge infrastructure and API routes.

4. Cookies and Tracking

The ContextLift website (contextlift.com) does not use invasive advertising cookies or cross-site tracking scripts. We may use strictly necessary functional cookies for secure admin authentication (such as the admin telemetry dashboard) and basic analytics to measure landing page performance.

5. Data Security

The security of your data is paramount. All communication between your WordPress site and our API servers is encrypted in transit using strict HTTPS/TLS protocols. Our server infrastructure implements rate limiting, payload validation, and request sanitization to prevent abuse and ensure high availability.

6. Your Data Rights

Depending on your location (e.g., GDPR in Europe, CCPA in California), you may have the right to access, update, or delete the information we hold about you. Because we do not require user accounts and store only minimal telemetry data tied to domain names, any request for data deletion can be directed to our support team, provided you can verify ownership of the domain in question.

7. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify users of any material changes by updating the "Effective Date" at the top of this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this product, please reach out to our support channel or open an issue on the WordPress plugin repository support forum.