Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 17, 2026
Last Updated: September 17, 2026

Overclock Search respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information may be collected when you visit overclocksearch.com, how that information is used, the legal bases for processing it, who it may be shared with, how long it may be retained, and the privacy rights available to you.

For purposes of applicable data protection law, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the data controller is:

Overclock Search
Operated by: Andrew Kyle
Email: [email protected]

1. Information We Collect

Information You Provide Directly

When you contact Overclock Search through our contact form, email us directly, or otherwise communicate with us, we may collect information such as:

• Your name
• Email address
• Website URL
• Company or business information
• The contents of your inquiry
• Any other information you voluntarily provide

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through the contact form unless it is necessary for your inquiry.

Submitting an inquiry does not automatically subscribe you to marketing emails.

Information Collected Automatically

When you access the website, certain technical information may be processed automatically as part of normal website operation, security, analytics, and fraud prevention.

This may include:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Device type
• Operating system
• Requested URLs
• Referring pages
• Date and time of requests
• General geographic information
• Security and network information
• Website interaction and usage information where analytics consent has been provided

Some of this information may be processed through our hosting environment, Cloudflare, Wordfence, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and other services described below.

2. How We Use Personal Information

We may process personal information to:

• Respond to inquiries and requests
• Communicate with prospective and existing clients
• Determine whether Overclock Search can provide requested services
• Prepare proposals, estimates, or other pre-contractual communications
• Provide contracted services
• Maintain appropriate business records
• Understand how visitors use the website
• Improve the website’s content, usability, and performance
• Diagnose technical problems
• Detect and prevent spam, abuse, fraud, malicious traffic, and cyberattacks
• Comply with legal obligations
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims where necessary

We do not sell personal information.

We do not automatically add people who contact us to promotional mailing lists.

3. Legal Bases for Processing

Where the GDPR applies, we process personal information only where an appropriate lawful basis exists.

Contract and Pre-Contractual Steps

When you contact us about potentially purchasing SEO consulting or related services, we may process your information because it is necessary to take steps at your request before entering into a contract or to perform an existing contract.

This processing is based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Legitimate Interests

We may process certain information based on our legitimate interests under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

These interests include:

• Operating a professional consulting business
• Responding to ordinary business inquiries
• Maintaining business correspondence and records
• Protecting the website and infrastructure
• Preventing spam, abuse, fraud, and malicious activity
• Maintaining the reliability and security of our systems

Consent

Where required by applicable law, we rely on your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR before using non-essential analytics technologies such as Google Analytics.

You may withdraw your consent at any time through the website’s cookie preference controls.

Legal Obligations

Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal requirement, we rely on Article 6(1)(c) GDPR.

4. Contact Form

The Overclock Search website provides a contact form for prospective clients and other visitors.

Information submitted through this form is currently delivered to us by email. We do not intentionally maintain a separate WordPress database of contact-form submissions.

Form submissions may therefore remain within our business email correspondence in accordance with the retention periods described in this policy.

Providing information through the form is voluntary. However, we require enough information to understand your request and a valid method of contact in order to respond.

5. Email Communications

Our current business email provider is Proton Mail.

If you contact us through the website or directly by email, correspondence may contain information such as your name, email address, business information, website address, message contents, attachments, and subsequent communications.

We use this information to respond to inquiries, provide requested services, and maintain appropriate records of business communications.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Overclock Search uses cookies and similar technologies for website functionality, security, consent management, and, where permitted by your preferences, analytics.

A complete and current list of cookies used by the website is maintained separately in our Cookie Policy.

Essential Cookies

Certain cookies are necessary to operate the website or remember privacy choices and cannot reasonably be disabled without affecting those functions.

For example, WPConsent currently uses:

wpconsent_preferences

This cookie stores the visitor’s cookie-consent choices so that those preferences can be respected on future visits.

Essential cookies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary for the requested website functionality.

Cookie Preferences

Visitors can accept or reject optional cookie categories through our cookie banner.

Previously saved choices can also be changed later using the website’s Cookie Preferences controls.

7. WordPress Comments

WordPress supports optional cookies that can remember information entered by visitors when leaving comments, including name, email address, and website URL.

These cookies may include:

• comment_author
• comment_author_email
• comment_author_url

These cookies are only relevant where commenting functionality is available and a visitor chooses to use it.

If Overclock Search disables public commenting, these cookies are not intentionally used for normal visitor activity.

The current cookie inventory is available in our Cookie Policy.

8. Google Analytics 4

Overclock Search uses Google Analytics 4 (“GA4”) to understand how visitors interact with the website and to help improve its content, performance, and usability.

Where consent is required by applicable law, Google Analytics is not activated until you consent to analytics technologies through the site’s cookie preferences.

Analytics information may include data such as:

• Pages viewed
• Sessions and interactions
• Referring websites or traffic sources
• Device and browser category
• Approximate geographic location
• Interaction events
• General website usage patterns

We do not intentionally send your name, email address, contact-form contents, or other directly identifying contact information to Google Analytics.

Google states that GA4 does not log or store individual IP addresses in Analytics. IP addresses may be processed temporarily to derive information such as approximate location before being discarded.

Analytics Consent

Our intended configuration uses Basic Google Consent Mode.

Under this configuration, Google Analytics tags are prevented from loading until a visitor grants the relevant consent.

If you reject analytics cookies, you can continue using Overclock Search normally.

Analytics Retention

We configure GA4 user-level and event-level retention for up to 14 months.

Aggregated reporting may be retained according to Google’s own policies and technical configuration.

9. Google Tag Manager

Overclock Search may use Google Tag Manager (“GTM”) to manage website measurement scripts and tags.

Google Tag Manager is a tag-management system rather than an analytics service itself.

Tags configured through GTM may include Google Analytics or other measurement technologies and may process information or set cookies depending on their configuration.

Where a tag requires consent, we configure it to respect the visitor’s applicable consent preferences.

For the current list of cookies and technologies detected on the website, please see our Cookie Policy.

10. Cloudflare and Cloudflare Turnstile

Overclock Search uses Cloudflare services for website delivery, performance, network security, and protection from malicious traffic.

Our contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to help distinguish legitimate visitors from automated activity and reduce spam and abuse.

Turnstile may process technical information and browser or network signals necessary to determine whether a request appears legitimate.

We use these services based on our legitimate interest in protecting our website, contact form, infrastructure, and visitors from spam, fraud, abuse, and malicious activity.

Turnstile is used for website security and is not used to determine whether someone qualifies for Overclock Search services.

11. Website Security and Wordfence

Overclock Search uses Wordfence and other security technologies to help detect, prevent, and investigate malicious activity.

These services may process information including:

• IP addresses
• Requested URLs
• Browser and user-agent information
• Login attempts
• Timestamps
• Firewall events
• Security-related request data

This processing is based on our legitimate interest in protecting the website, infrastructure, business information, and visitors.

12. How We Share Personal Information

We do not sell personal information.

We may share or permit processing of information by service providers where reasonably necessary to operate the website or business.

These may include:

• Cloudflare — content delivery, network security, and Turnstile
• Defiant / Wordfence — website security
• Google — Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
• Proton — business email
• Website hosting and infrastructure providers
• Professional advisers such as accountants, attorneys, or consultants where necessary

We may also disclose information where required by applicable law, legal process, court order, or a valid request from an appropriate governmental authority.

Information may also be disclosed where reasonably necessary to establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim.

13. International Data Transfers

Overclock Search is based in the United States.

Personal information collected through the website may therefore be processed in the United States or other jurisdictions where our service providers operate.

Some of those countries may have data protection laws different from those in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland.

Where applicable law requires safeguards for an international transfer, we or our service providers rely on appropriate legal mechanisms such as:

• Adequacy decisions
• The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework where applicable
• Standard Contractual Clauses
• Other legally recognized transfer mechanisms

14. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

Prospective Client Inquiries

If you contact us but do not become a client, we generally retain inquiry correspondence for up to 12 months after the last substantive communication, unless there is a legitimate reason to retain it longer.

Client Records

If you become a client, relevant business correspondence, agreements, invoices, project information, and related business records may generally be retained for up to seven years following the end of the client relationship, or longer where required by law.

Google Analytics

GA4 user-level and event-level data is configured for retention of up to 14 months.

Security Logs

Routine technical and security logs are generally retained for shorter operational periods.

Security information may be retained for longer where reasonably necessary to investigate an incident, identify repeated abuse, or establish or defend legal claims.

Cookie Preferences

Cookies may remain on your device for the period specified in our Cookie Policy unless you delete them or change your cookie preferences sooner.

15. Data Security

We use reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information.

These measures may include:

• HTTPS encryption
• Access controls
• Website firewall technologies
• Anti-bot protection
• Security monitoring
• Software maintenance and updates
• Authentication controls
• Network and hosting security measures

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

16. Your Rights Under the GDPR

If the GDPR applies to our processing of your personal data, you may have rights including:

• Access — request information about personal data we process about you
• Rectification — request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data
• Erasure — request deletion of personal data in certain circumstances
• Restriction — request that processing be restricted in certain circumstances
• Objection — object to certain processing based on legitimate interests
• Data portability — obtain certain personal data in a portable format where applicable
• Withdrawal of consent — withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Complaint — lodge a complaint with an appropriate data protection supervisory authority

These rights may be subject to exceptions or limitations provided by applicable law.

For example, we may need to retain certain information where required by law or where necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

To exercise a privacy right, contact [email protected].

We may request information reasonably necessary to verify your identity before fulfilling a request.

17. Withdrawal of Cookie and Analytics Consent

Where analytics processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

Use the Cookie Preferences control available on the website to review or change your selections.

After consent is withdrawn, optional analytics technologies will be disabled according to your updated preferences.

You may also delete existing cookies using your browser settings.

Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

18. Right to Object

Where we process personal data based on legitimate interests, you may have the right to object based on circumstances relating to your particular situation.

Where required by applicable law, we will stop the relevant processing unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds to continue or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

You may object to processing for direct-marketing purposes at any time.

19. Right to Lodge a Complaint

If you are located in the European Economic Area and believe our processing of your personal information violates applicable data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate supervisory authority.

This may include the supervisory authority in the country where you normally reside or work or where the alleged violation occurred.

You may also contact us first at [email protected], and we will make a reasonable effort to address your concern.

20. Automated Decision-Making

Overclock Search does not use personal information to make decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

Automated security systems such as Cloudflare Turnstile and Wordfence may evaluate technical signals to identify suspected bots, spam, abuse, or attacks.

These technologies are used for website security and do not determine eligibility for Overclock Search services.

Google Analytics may automatically categorize website interactions for statistical reporting, but we do not use Analytics to make significant decisions concerning individual visitors.

21. Children’s Privacy

Overclock Search is a professional-services website and is not directed toward children.

We do not knowingly solicit or intentionally collect personal information from children.

If you believe a child has provided personal information through the website, contact [email protected] so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.

22. Third-Party Websites

The website may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.

Overclock Search is not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites.

We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of third-party services before providing them with personal information.

23. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as our website, services, technologies, business practices, or legal obligations change.

When changes are made, the Last Updated date at the top of this page will be revised.

Where required by applicable law, additional notice may be provided regarding material changes.

24. Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy Policy, our processing of personal information, or requests to exercise privacy rights, contact:

Overclock Search
Operated by: Andrew Kyle
Email: [email protected]

You can review the specific cookies currently used by the website in our Cookie Policy and manage optional technologies at any time through Cookie Preferences.