Privacy Policy

Last updated on August 31, 2026

Welcome to Niche Ranker ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website NicheRanker.com, including our freelance marketplace, hourly livestream tools, desktop agent, and any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the "Site"). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms and Conditions.

The Site is intended for users who are 18 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:

  • Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, and telephone number, that you voluntarily give to us when you use our contact forms, create an account, or purchase our services.
  • Marketplace Profile Data: If you become a seller or otherwise use the freelance marketplace, we collect profile information you provide, including headline, bio, skills, languages, location, category, avatar, and optional intro video (for example a Loom or YouTube URL).
  • Marketplace Activity: Gig titles, descriptions, tags, images, packages, and sample deliveries; job postings; bid proposals (cover letters, amounts, delivery estimates, attachments, and optional video); reviews and seller responses; order details; delivery notes and files; and revision requests.
  • Messages: Content of conversations and attachments you send to other users or to us through marketplace messaging and order threads.
  • Hourly Livestream Monitoring Data: If you use hourly livestream contracts, we collect live screen share (display video and, where captured, system audio), periodic still screenshots, shift recordings, mouse and keyboard event counts (not key contents), session metadata (start/end times, heartbeat, truncated device/user-agent string, agent version, session identifiers), buyer watch-session timestamps, timesheet and billing aggregates (billable/idle seconds, rates, fee snapshots, invoice identifiers), and idle-return elections. See Section 8 below.
  • Payout Data: Information needed to pay sellers, such as PayPal, Wise, or USDC (ERC-20) payout details you submit.
  • Google User Data: When you connect your Google account to our services, we access and collect your Google email address and Google Search Console data (including website properties, search analytics, and performance metrics) through Google OAuth 2.0. This data is accessed with your explicit consent and is used solely to provide our SEO reporting and analytics services. See Section 10 below for detailed information about our use of Google user data.
  • Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and the pages you have viewed.
  • Financial Data: Financial information related to your payment method (e.g., credit card details) when you make a purchase. All financial information is stored and processed by our third-party payment processors.
  • Data From Contact Forms and Audits: Information you provide when you fill out our contact forms or request a free SEO audit, which may include your name, email, website URL, and any other information you choose to provide.

2. How We Use Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you to:

  • Create and manage your account.
  • Fulfill and manage purchases, orders, payments, fees, and seller payouts.
  • Operate the freelance marketplace, including matching buyers and sellers, displaying gigs, jobs, and profiles, and processing bids and reviews.
  • Enable messaging, deliveries, revisions, and order records between buyers and sellers.
  • Operate hourly livestream contracts, including live viewing, timesheets, stills, recordings, idle detection, invoicing, and payout credits.
  • Verify billed time, prevent fraud, and review disputes using stills, recordings, activity intervals, and messages.
  • Moderate listings, messages, and other user content, and enforce our Terms.
  • Provide you with our SEO and link-building services.
  • Sync and display your Google Search Console data to provide SEO reporting and analytics services.
  • Send you newsletters, order notifications, and other promotional or transactional information.
  • Respond to your inquiries and offer support.
  • Analyze usage and trends to improve our Site.
  • Prevent fraudulent transactions and protect against criminal activity.

3. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations:

  • By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information is necessary to respond to legal process, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others.
  • Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us, including payment processing (such as Stripe and PayPal), payout processors (such as Wise), hosting and database providers (such as Supabase), live video relay and object storage (such as Cloudflare Realtime and Cloudflare R2), email delivery, data analysis, and marketing assistance. We do not share your Google user data with third parties except as necessary to provide our services (e.g., hosting providers) or as required by law.
  • Other Marketplace Users: If you use the marketplace as a buyer or seller, other parties to a conversation, gig, job, bid, or order can see information reasonably needed for that transaction. That may include your name or display name, profile details, messages and attachments, order and delivery information, and public reviews. On an hourly contract, the buyer and seller on that order can see timesheets and stills; the buyer can watch the live stream and stored shift recordings. When you publish a seller profile, gig, or review, that content may be visible to other users and to the public. Niche Ranker does not control what other users do with information you share with them, and we are not responsible for their use of that information.
  • Business Transfers: Your information may be transferred in connection with a merger, sale of assets, or acquisition of our business.
  • Google User Data: We do not sell, rent, or share your Google user data with third parties for their marketing purposes. We only use Google user data as described in Section 10 below.

4. Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the information you provide, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

5. Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data; to opt out of marketing; and, where applicable under laws such as the CCPA or GDPR, to request a copy of your data, to object to or restrict certain processing, or to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. To exercise these rights, contact us at info@nicheranker.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. You can also opt out of future marketing communications by using unsubscribe links or contacting us.

Marketplace messages, reviews, order records, timesheets, activity intervals, billing invoices, stills, and recordings may be retained as needed to operate the Site, bill and pay for hourly work, resolve issues, prevent fraud, and meet legal, tax, and accounting obligations even after you delete public profile content. Media retention defaults are described in Section 8. Timesheet, interval, and billing records are not automatically purged.

6. Cookies and Analytics

We and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies to operate the Site, keep you signed in, remember preferences, measure traffic, and improve performance. You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may limit some features of the Site.

7. Third-Party Websites

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, including payout providers and video hosts you choose to link (such as YouTube or Loom). Any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy.

8. Hourly Livestream, Screen Monitoring, and Recordings

Hourly livestream contracts use screen sharing and activity tracking to bill time and to let the buyer verify work. This section describes that monitoring. Our Terms and Conditions (especially Section 12) govern billing, unpaid invoices, and freelancer agreement. This Privacy Policy governs the data.

8.1 What is captured and what is not

During a tracked hourly shift we may process:

  • Live screen share: The display (and, where enabled, system or app audio) the seller chooses to share via the browser or desktop agent. Microphone audio is not requested by design.
  • Stills: JPEG frames captured from the live stream during billed active time, at the interval in the hire terms (currently 2, 5, or 10 minutes, or off; default 10 minutes).
  • Shift recordings: Continuous video of each tracked (non-manual) shift from start to stop, while storage is configured, uploaded to object storage.
  • Activity counts: Counts of mouse and keyboard events used to mark time as active or idle (idle currently after 10 minutes with no input). We do not store typed characters, clipboard contents, camera video, or browsing history as such.
  • Session and billing metadata: Shift start/end, heartbeats, device label (a truncated user-agent string), agent version, session identifiers, watch-session times, and timesheet/invoice aggregates.

Anything visible or audible on the shared display can appear in the live stream, stills, or recordings. That may include incidental personal data (documents, notifications, other people, account names). Sellers are responsible for what they share.

8.2 Who can access it

  • Buyer on that order: live stream, stills, shift recordings, and timesheets.
  • Seller on that order: stills and timesheets. The seller publishes the live stream but does not get a buyer-side live viewer or stored-recording download.
  • Niche Ranker: platform operators may access monitoring and billing records as needed to operate the Site, bill and pay, prevent fraud, enforce the Terms, and comply with law.

8.3 Retention

  • Live WebRTC stream: Relayed in real time and not archived as a full live dump.
  • Stills: Default retention is ninety (90) days, after which we delete stored stills. We may change this period in platform settings.
  • Recordings: Default retention is thirty (30) days, after which we delete stored recordings. We may change this period in platform settings.
  • Timesheets, activity intervals, sessions, and billing records: No automatic purge. We retain them as needed to invoice, credit payouts, handle chargebacks, prevent fraud, and meet legal, tax, and accounting obligations.

Signed download links for stills and recordings expire on a short timer (on the order of minutes to an hour). Expiration of a link does not delete the underlying file until retention cleanup runs.

8.4 Consent and control

The seller consents to this monitoring for a contract by accepting hire terms (including any required checkbox) and by starting a shift, which also requires an operating-system or browser screen-share prompt. The buyer consents by hiring on hourly terms and choosing a screenshot interval. Continuing a shift after an idle-return prompt is further consent to activity tracking for billing.

The seller can stop sharing or end the shift at any time. Tracked hourly work cannot start, and generally cannot continue as billable, without screen share when the contract requires it. The buyer can set the screenshot interval, including off. Turning stills off does not necessarily disable live viewing or shift recordings; recordings may still run for billed tracked shifts when storage is configured.

8.5 Processors

Hourly monitoring and billing may be processed by Stripe (invoices and cards), Supabase (database, stills storage, realtime signals), Cloudflare Realtime (live WebRTC relay), Cloudflare R2 (recording files), and STUN/ICE providers used to establish the live connection.

9. Privacy Policy Accessibility

This Privacy Policy is prominently displayed and easily accessible to all users:

  • This Privacy Policy is linked in the footer of every page on our website (NicheRanker.com)
  • The Privacy Policy link is clearly labeled and visible on our homepage and throughout our website
  • This Privacy Policy is hosted on our verified domain (NicheRanker.com) which we own and control
  • This Privacy Policy is specific to Niche Ranker and our application - it is not a template or sample policy

If you have any difficulty accessing this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@nicheranker.com and we will provide you with a copy.

10. Google User Data - Comprehensive Disclosure

This section provides comprehensive disclosure about how Niche Ranker accesses, uses, stores, and shares Google user data when you connect your Google account to our services.

10.1 What Google User Data We Access

When you choose to connect your Google account to Niche Ranker, we access the following Google user data through Google OAuth 2.0:

  • Google Email Address: We access your Google account email address to identify and associate your Google Search Console data with your Niche Ranker account.
  • Google Search Console Data: We access read-only data from your Google Search Console account, including:
    • List of verified website properties (sites) in your Search Console account
    • Search analytics data (queries, clicks, impressions, click-through rates, average position)
    • Performance metrics and historical data for your websites

OAuth Scope Used: We request the scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters.readonly, which provides read-only access to your Google Search Console data. We do not request write access or modify any data in your Google Search Console account.

10.2 How We Use Google User Data

We use the Google user data we access solely for the following purposes:

  • SEO Reporting and Analytics: To sync and display your Google Search Console data within our platform, allowing you to view your website's search performance metrics, keyword rankings, and analytics data in one centralized dashboard.
  • Service Provision: To provide you with our SEO reporting and analytics services, including generating reports, tracking keyword performance, and analyzing search trends for your websites.
  • Account Management: To associate your Google Search Console data with your Niche Ranker account and ensure data is displayed correctly to the appropriate user.

We do not use Google user data for advertising purposes, nor do we use it to create user profiles for purposes other than providing our SEO services.

10.3 How We Store Google User Data

We store Google user data securely as follows:

  • OAuth Tokens: We securely store encrypted OAuth access tokens and refresh tokens in our database. These tokens are encrypted at rest and are used only to authenticate API requests to Google's Search Console API on your behalf.
  • Google Email Address: Your Google email address is stored in our database and associated with your Niche Ranker account to identify which Google account is connected.
  • Search Console Data: We cache your Google Search Console data (search analytics, performance metrics) in our database to improve service performance and reduce API calls. This cached data is refreshed periodically and is stored securely.
  • Security Measures: All Google user data is stored using industry-standard encryption, access controls, and security measures. Our database is hosted on secure servers with restricted access.
  • Data Retention: We retain Google user data only for as long as necessary to provide our services. If you disconnect your Google account or delete your Niche Ranker account, we will delete your stored Google user data within 30 days, except where retention is required by law.

10.4 How We Share Google User Data

We do not sell, rent, or share your Google user data with third parties for their marketing or advertising purposes. We only share Google user data in the following limited circumstances:

  • Service Providers: We may share Google user data with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our platform (e.g., cloud hosting providers, database services). These service providers are contractually obligated to protect your data and use it only for the purpose of providing services to us.
  • Legal Requirements: We may disclose Google user data if required by law, court order, or government regulation, or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, your safety, or the safety of others.
  • Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, Google user data may be transferred as part of the business transaction, subject to the same privacy protections.

We do not allow third parties to access Google user data for their own purposes, and we do not use Google user data to create advertising profiles.

10.5 Your Control Over Google User Data

You have full control over your Google user data:

  • Revoke Access: You can revoke Niche Ranker's access to your Google account at any time by:
    • Visiting your Google Account settings at myaccount.google.com/permissions and removing Niche Ranker's access
    • Disconnecting your Google account through your Niche Ranker account dashboard
  • Data Deletion: You can request deletion of your Google user data by contacting us at info@nicheranker.com. We will delete your stored Google user data within 30 days of your request.
  • Access Your Data: You can view the Google user data we have stored by accessing your account dashboard or by contacting us at info@nicheranker.com.
  • Opt-Out: You can choose not to connect your Google account to our services. Our core services remain available without Google account connection, though some SEO reporting features may be limited.

10.6 Data Transfer and Processing

Google user data is processed and stored on servers that may be located outside your country of residence. By connecting your Google account, you consent to the transfer of your Google user data to these servers for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data during transfer and processing.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. When we make changes to how we access, use, store, or share Google user data, we will notify you by:

  • Posting the updated Privacy Policy on this page with a new "Last updated" date
  • Sending an email notification to registered users if the changes materially affect how we handle Google user data
  • Displaying a prominent notice on our website homepage for at least 30 days following significant changes

Your continued use of our services after any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.

12. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Niche Ranker
Email: info@nicheranker.com
Address: 30 N Gould Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801