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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Is This QR Safe collects, uses, and protects your personal information.

Information Collected

The following information is collected when you use Is This QR Safe services:

  • Account Information: Your email address and your first and last name, collected through our identity provider (Clerk) when you sign up. We use these to authenticate you, attribute scans to your account, and contact you about your account if needed. Scanning requires a signed-in account; we do not offer anonymous scanning.
  • IP Address: To identify the location of the request.
  • User-Agent String: To understand the device and browser used to access the site.
  • Location: To determine the geographical region of the request.
  • QR Code Data: The information extracted from the QR codes you upload.

Is This QR Safe does not store the images of QR codes you scan or upload.

Fathom Analytics

Is This QR Safe uses Fathom Analytics, a privacy-focused and cookieless analytics service, to understand how visitors use the site. Fathom does not use cookies, does not collect personal data, and is fully GDPR, CCPA, and PECR compliant without requiring cookie consent banners.

Fathom collects only aggregated, anonymized data such as page views and referral sources. No individual users are identified or tracked. If you have enabled the “Do Not Track” setting in your browser, Fathom will respect that preference.

For more information, see Fathom's Privacy Policy.

How Your Information is Used

The collected information is used for the following purposes:

  • To provide and improve services.
  • To submit URLs to VirusTotal for analysis.
  • To analyze and understand the usage patterns of the App.
  • To correlate bad QR codes to geographical locations.

Data Sharing and Disclosure

Is This QR Safe does not sell or disclose your information to third parties, except as necessary to provide services (e.g., submitting URLs to VirusTotal) or as required by law.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and your continued use of the services constitutes acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.