Privacy

We never collect

• Your files, device identifiers, or any access to your disks. The site has no technical ability to do this.
• Your answers to the guided help tool. They exist only in the page while you use it.
• Advertising profiles. Advertising is switched off.

What is collected, and when

Analytics: a single self-hosted Matomo instance, running entirely on our own server. It sets no cookies, respects your browser’s Do-Not-Track setting, and truncates IP addresses, which is why there is no consent banner to click through. It counts page views and coarse events; never your tool answers, filenames, or the text you type.

Correction reports: if you report a problem, we store the report, the optional email you give us (deleted 90 days after resolution), and the page it concerns. Please do not include files, passwords or confidential data.

Security and rate limiting: short-lived technical logs protect the site from abuse. Rate-limit keys expire within 24 hours and are stored as salted hashes, not raw IP addresses.

Outbound links

When you follow a link to a vendor, their site handles your data under their own policy. Our outbound links are ordinary links with no added identifier.

Controller and contact

EssentialDataRecovery.com is run by Sam Moreton, who is the data controller for the processing described above. The quickest way to reach us about anything in this policy is the contact page; mark your message as a privacy question and it goes straight to the operator.