Privacy Policy

Zignites (“we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy. This policy explains what information we collect when you use zignites.com, how we use it, and the choices you have.

Information we collect

We only collect information you choose to give us. When you submit our contact form or subscribe to updates, we collect the details you provide — typically your name, email address, and the contents of your message. We also collect analytics data about how the site is used — the pages visited, your general location, and a recording of how the page was interacted with — which is described in Analytics and session recording below.

How we use your information

• To respond to your enquiries and provide the services you request.
• To send updates you have subscribed to (you can unsubscribe at any time).
• To improve our website, content, and services.
• To comply with legal obligations.

Analytics and session recording

The public pages of this site use two analytics tools. Google Analytics 4 counts page views and reports the general location and device a visit came from. Microsoft Clarity records how a page is used (pointer movement, clicks, scrolling, and the layout and text of the page as it was displayed to you) and aggregates those into heatmaps and session replays. We use both to find pages that are slow, confusing, or broken. Neither is used to identify you, and we make no attempt to connect a recording to a named person.

Microsoft Clarity is not used on the WordPress plugin checker or on its report pages. Those pages display the address of the site you scanned, and we promise to keep that address only as a one-way hash, so no session on those pages is recorded. If you arrive at the checker from another page, recording stops before the checker loads. Google Analytics 4 still counts visits to those pages and records which features are used, such as starting a scan or downloading a report, but not the address you entered.

Anything you type into a form is not recorded. Clarity masks the contents of input boxes and drop-down menus in all of its modes, and that masking happens in your browser, so the text is never uploaded. Recordings cover this site’s own pages only, never your other tabs, your files, or any other site you visit.

Clarity is operated by Microsoft, which acts as a data controller for what it collects and keeps recordings for up to 30 days. Its handling of that data is described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

You can opt out. Clarity honours the Global Privacy Control signal, which many browsers and extensions can send on your behalf automatically, and you can opt out of Microsoft’s analytics telemetry directly through the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page. Everything on this site works with both tools blocked.

Free tools

Our free tools, such as the WordPress Plugin Risk Report, need no account and ask for no personal details. When you run a scan we store the findings together with a one-way hash of the address you entered, so that scanning the same address again within a day returns the stored report instead of requesting the site a second time. We also store a salted one-way hash of your IP address, which is used only to enforce the per-visitor limit on how many scans can be run. Neither the address you entered nor your IP address is stored in a readable form, and the checker and its reports are not session-recorded (see Analytics and session recording).

Scan results are private to the person who ran them. A report becomes publicly readable only if you press the button that publishes it, which also makes the scanned domain visible on that page; you can make it private again from the same panel at any time.

Sharing your information

We do not sell your personal information. We only share it with trusted service providers who help us operate the site (for example, our hosting and form-processing providers, and the analytics providers named above), and only to the extent needed to deliver those services.

Data retention

We keep your information only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described here or to meet legal requirements, after which it is deleted or anonymised.

Your rights

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of the personal information we hold about you. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at zeeshan.sardar@zignites.com.

Cookies

We use a minimal set of cookies: those the site needs to function, and cookies set by the two analytics tools above so that several page views can be recognised as one visit rather than several. We run no advertising on this site. Google Analytics 4 sets _ga and a _ga_ cookie named after our measurement ID, both on this site’s own domain.

On the pages where it runs, Microsoft Clarity sets two cookies on this site’s domain and several on Microsoft’s. The descriptions below are Microsoft’s own, from its list of Clarity cookies.

• _clck (this site): keeps the Clarity user ID and preferences for this site.
• _clsk (this site): joins several page views into one session recording.
• CLID (Microsoft): identifies the first time Clarity saw this browser on any site that uses Clarity.
• MUID (Microsoft): identifies unique browsers visiting Microsoft sites, which Microsoft says it uses for advertising, site analytics and other operational purposes.
• MR (Microsoft): whether to refresh MUID.
• SM (Microsoft): used to keep MUID in step across Microsoft’s domains.
• ANONCHK (Microsoft): whether MUID is passed to an advertising cookie; Microsoft states Clarity does not use that cookie and always sets this to 0.

When we checked on 17 September 2026, a Clarity page also caused a cookie called SRM_B to be set on Microsoft’s c.bing.com domain, which Microsoft’s list does not describe. The opt-out routes above cover Clarity. You can also control or clear cookies through your browser settings; nothing on this site stops working if you block them.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Reach us at zeeshan.sardar@zignites.com.