Geekflare

GDPR overview

Implementation is documented but partial. The privacy policy, last updated on 2 February 2026, carries a dedicated legal basis section for EEA and UK users — performance of a contract, legitimate interest for security and analytics, consent for non-essential cookies and marketing — and lists access, rectification, erasure, objection and portability rights. Geekflare LTD names itself as data controller, states that it does not sell personal data, addresses the CCPA separately, and says international transfers rely on the Data Privacy Framework or Standard Contractual Clauses. What is missing is just as telling: no published DPA, no EU Article 27 representative, no named DPO, no GDPR contact address, and nowhere does the site literally claim to be GDPR compliant. Rights are exercised through a web form.

Who owns the data?

The terms are unusually clear on ownership. Inputs stay yours: you retain all rights to the text, data and URLs you submit. Outputs generated by the AI services are granted to you, and the pricing FAQ confirms that you own the data you extract and the images you generate, commercial use included. For scraping traffic Geekflare positions itself as a data conduit and infrastructure provider. Two exceptions matter. Any comment or contribution posted on the public site carries a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide and royalty-free licence to Geekflare. Third-party keys supplied through Bring Your Own Key remain yours, encrypted at rest and never shared.

Reuse rights

Yes. Data retrieved through the APIs can be reused without asking permission: Geekflare grants you ownership of the output and states that commercial projects are fully allowed. The real limit is not contractual with Geekflare but with the sites you target — you alone remain responsible for respecting their terms of service, their robots.txt directives and applicable copyright, and you must not extract sensitive personal data or bypass paywalls and login walls. On its own side, Geekflare logs only request metadata (API key, IP address, timestamp, endpoint), does not log request bodies except for temporary debugging, keeps scraped content only as long as needed to cache the response, and states that customer input is never used to train its models.

Data retention & training

Hosting summary

Geekflare LTD is based in the United Kingdom and states that its infrastructure runs on Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Cloudflare and DigitalOcean. No hosting country is ever named. The privacy policy says only that infrastructure and service providers may process data in the United States or in other countries, and that international transfers rely on the Data Privacy Framework or Standard Contractual Clauses. Customers cannot select a region. In transit, traffic is protected by TLS; at rest, sensitive material such as API keys and Bring Your Own Key credentials is encrypted with AES-256. The security page notes that the hosting providers themselves hold ISO 27001, SOC 2 and PCI DSS certifications, but Geekflare claims none of its own. Payment card details are never stored, being handled by Stripe, Wise and PayPal. For a buyer with data residency obligations, the practical conclusion is that residency cannot be established from the published documentation and would have to be obtained in writing.