Privacy

If you are not signed in, no. A name you enter is sent to our server, checked against the registries and the platforms, streamed back to you, and not written down. It is not in a database, not in a log we keep, and not attached to anyone.

If you are signed in, your checks are kept as a history on your account, because it is the only way we can tell you that something has come free since you last looked. Domains lapse and handles get released, and without a record of what you were told before, nobody can point that out. It is on by default and you can switch it off on your history page, which deletes what is already there.

A history entry holds the name, when you checked it, and the verdict for each target. It is capped at your last 100 checks, expires after 90 days, and you can delete any entry or all of them at once. Nobody but you can read it: it is stored against your account id and there is no way to ask for somebody else’s.

Separately, we cache the answer for a short time, that example.com was taken when we last looked, so a repeated check is fast and cheap. That cache holds the target and its status. It does not hold who asked.

Two things, both only to make the free check work once rather than forever:

• A random value in a cookie named handleyo_v. It identifies nothing about you; it is a number we generated so we can recognise the same browser.
• A one-way hash of your IP address. We never store the address itself. We only ever ask whether we have seen a given one before, and a hash answers that without us holding a list of visitor IPs.

Both are kept for one year and then expire.

If you are signed in and have not turned it off, we also keep your search history. See above for exactly what that holds and how to delete it.

Accounts are handled by Clerk, which stores your email address and sign-in details on our behalf. We do not run our own user database. See Clerk’s privacy policy.

If you subscribe, payment is handled by Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe directly and never reach our servers. We store only the subscription status Stripe reports back to us, so we know whether to let you keep checking. See Stripe’s privacy policy.

No. There is no analytics package, no advertising pixel and no third-party tracker on this site. Nobody is being profiled here, including by us.

• Vercel hosts the site and keeps standard server logs, which include IP addresses, as any web host does.
• Upstash holds the cache and the free-check records described above.
• Clerk and Stripe as described above, only if you make an account or subscribe.
• Checks are made outbound to registries and to the platforms being checked. Those requests carry the name being checked, because that is the question being asked. They do not carry anything about you.

We do not sell data, and there is nothing here that would be worth selling.

Clearing your cookies removes the browser side. For an account, delete it from your account settings and Clerk removes it. For anything else, write to hello@zootric.com and we will deal with it.

There is no search history to request, because we never made one.

If this page changes materially we will update the effective date above. The substance , that we do not store what you check, is the point of the product and is not something we plan to change.