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title: /trust/
canonical: https://clearcited.com/trust/
published: 2026-09-29
updated: 2026-09-29
author: Logan E Adams
proof_line: "Measured: at least 10 runs per engine, spent adaptively, across 5 AI engines · 95% confidence interval on every figure · open data (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21612952) · how we measure"
---

# Trust

Who processes data on our behalf.

| Subprocessor | Purpose | Region | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stripe | Payment processing and billing. | United States / global | Per Stripe's terms and our legal/tax hold (~6–7 years for financial records). |
| MailerLite | Email/newsletter delivery and subscriber management. | United States / EU | Until unsubscribe or deletion; then suppression entry retained for opt-out proof. |
| Resend | Sending transactional and operational email. | United States | Short operational retention per Resend's terms. |
| Instantly | Sending owner-approved outbound/cold business email (CASL/CAN-SPAM gated; never auto-sent). Only used when the outreach stream is active. | United States | Per Instantly's terms; suppression honoured via our permanent do-not-contact list. |
| Postiz | Scheduling and publishing social media posts. | EU / self-hostable | Per Postiz's terms; post content is published publicly by design. |
| Documenso | Electronic signature for contracts and statements of work (owner-armed). | Self-hosted on Hostinger VPS (EU) | For the life of the agreement plus our legal hold; documents stored on our Hostinger VPS instance. |
| Hostinger | VPS hosting for our self-hosted services (Chatwoot, Documenso, LanguageTool, uptime/change monitoring). | EU (data centre region as configured) | At rest until deleted on our schedule; encrypted backups rotate ~90 days. |
| Chatwoot | Support-inbox software (self-hosted). Its chat widget is currently DISABLED on our site; it would only process visitor data if we ever enable chat, and only after an affirmative pre-chat consent notice (shown before anything you type is transmitted or recorded). | Self-hosted on Hostinger VPS (EU) | Kept for the correspondence and our records, then deleted; self-hosted on our Hostinger VPS. |
| Cloudflare | Website hosting, DNS, CDN, and security/DDoS protection. | Global edge network | Short, per Cloudflare's terms (logs rotate quickly). |
| Google Workspace (Google LLC) | Business email and document/file storage. | United States / global | Until deleted on our schedule; Workspace content is not used to train Google's models. |
| Plausible Analytics | Cookieless, aggregated, anonymized website analytics. | European Union | Aggregate only; no personal data stored. |
| DataForSEO | Search-data and AI-answer-engine measurement APIs used to build audits. | United States / EU | Per DataForSEO's terms. |
| AI answer engines (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Perplexity, xAI Grok) | Querying answer engines to research and build teardowns and audits. | United States / global | Business/API tiers used where available; abuse-monitoring retention varies by provider. |

Last confirmed 2026-06-28.