Effective October 17, 2026

Privacy policy

This page explains what personal information Geongyn collects, why, who else handles it, and how to see, correct or delete yours. Geongyn is based in Bayham (Vienna), Ontario, and works with businesses in Canada and the United States. Questions go to josh@geongyn.com.

The short version

  • We don't sell personal information or share it for anyone else's marketing.
  • Our own site statistics never store your name, your email or your IP address.
  • geongyn.com also uses Google Analytics to count visits.
  • The Meta Pixel runs only after you click Allow.
  • You can ask to see, correct or delete what we hold about you at any time.

Our own site statistics

geongyn.com runs a small statistics script that we wrote ourselves, in place of Google Analytics or similar tools. It records:

  • the page you viewed, how far down you scrolled, and how long you stayed
  • the website that sent you (the domain only), and whether it was an AI assistant such as ChatGPT or Perplexity
  • campaign tags in the link you followed, such as utm_source
  • your screen size, and your country as worked out from your connection
  • whether you clicked our email address, opened the booking window, or ran the visibility check, and the score it showed you

To tell new visits from repeat ones, it keeps a random ID in your browser's storage, plus a second one that ends when you close the tab. Neither contains anything about you, and clearing this site's data in your browser removes both.

To spot duplicate visits within one day, we turn your IP address into a scrambled code using a random key that changes every day. Each day's key is deleted when the next day's key is made, so codes from different days can't be matched. We never store your IP address itself, your browser's user agent, your name or email, or anything you type.

Some links we email to businesses carry a short code (?g= followed by a company name). If you open one, visits from that link are tied to the company it was made for. Links you find on your own don't carry one.

We also log visits from automated crawlers such as GPTBot or ClaudeBot: which crawler, which page, and when. These records go to a private Netlify store that only we can read. We haven't set an automatic deletion date for them yet.

Google Analytics

geongyn.com also runs Google Analytics. It sets cookies in your browser and tells Google which pages you viewed, how you arrived, roughly where you are (city or region), and what device and browser you use. We see these as totals and trends, not as named people. Google handles this data under its own privacy policy, and you can block it with Google's opt-out add-on or your browser's tracking protection. Netlify, our host, also keeps standard server logs to run and protect the site.

The Meta Pixel

geongyn.com and the teardown page can run the Meta Pixel, which tells Meta (Facebook and Instagram) that someone visited, possibly from one of our ads or videos. It stays off until you click Allow on the banner. If you click No thanks or ignore the banner, it never loads. Quebec's Law 25 requires opt-in for this kind of tracking, and we apply that rule to every visitor.

When it runs, Meta receives each page you view and three kinds of action: opening the booking window or clicking our email address, running the visibility check, and sending the teardown form. It never receives what you type or the score you get. Our server also sends Meta a copy of each of those signals, with your IP address and browser details attached, so that ad blockers don't make our numbers wrong; the two copies share an ID and Meta counts them once. Meta can connect these to a Facebook or Instagram account you're signed in to, and handles them under its own privacy policy.

Your choice is saved in your browser. To change it, use the Ad measurement choices link at the bottom of any page, or clear this site's data and the banner will ask again.

So that our ads stop showing to people who have already booked a call, we may give Meta their email addresses as a private list.

The AI visibility check

The check on our home page fetches the web address you enter, reads its public pages, and may look the business up through Google's Places service. We reuse each result for 24 hours so a repeat check is quick. To stop abuse, each IP address gets 5 checks a day, so we keep a daily counter on Netlify that is labelled with your IP address. Those counters aren't deleted automatically yet.

The teardown page and form

Our teardown page asks three questions through a form run by Tally: whether you want help with AI, your website or both, your rough annual revenue, and roughly what you could spend each month. It doesn't ask for your name or email. The form also records how you reached it: the ad, video or keyword in the link (fields called ad, reel and kw) and the page address (originPage). We use this to decide whether a call is a fit and to see which videos and ads bring people in. Tally emails us each response and copies it into a private Google Sheet.

Booking a call

Calls are booked through Cal.com. The booking asks for your name, email and website, and whether the call is about AI, your website or both. Links from our ads, form or Instagram replies may also pass along the same ad, reel and kw codes. Cal.com creates a Google Meet link for the call and sends you confirmation and reminder emails. We copy your name, email and website into our private lead sheet so we can prepare.

Instagram messages

If you comment or send a keyword such as SCAN on our Instagram, an automated reply runs through ManyChat. It asks two questions, your rough annual revenue and your monthly budget, and saves your answers with your Instagram username, which video or keyword started the chat, and a tag for the outcome (a fit, not a fit yet, or declined). We may copy these into our private lead sheet. Instagram's own terms also apply to the conversation.

Email

If you email us, we keep your address, the conversation and anything you send, so we can reply and do the work you asked about.

Who handles it for us

  • Netlify hosts geongyn.com and stores our site statistics and the visibility-check counters.
  • Cloudflare hosts the teardown page.
  • Meta runs Facebook and Instagram, our ads, and the Meta Pixel (only with your consent).
  • Tally runs the teardown form.
  • Cal.com takes call bookings.
  • ManyChat sends the automated replies to Instagram messages.
  • Google holds our private lead spreadsheet (Google Sheets), hosts calls (Google Meet), runs Google Analytics on geongyn.com, and answers business lookups in the visibility check.

Several of these companies are based outside Canada, so your information may be stored and processed in the United States or other countries and be subject to their laws.

How long we keep it

Apart from the daily key described above, we haven't set fixed deletion dates yet. We keep form answers, bookings and messages while we need them to reply to you, run your call, or follow up on work you asked for, and we delete yours when you ask.

Your rights

Whether you're in Canada or the United States, you can ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you and how we've used it, to correct it, to delete it, or to stop using it for something you agreed to. Email josh@geongyn.com and we'll reply within 30 days. We may ask a question or two to confirm it's you. Our site statistics hold no names, so we usually can't find one person's visits unless they came through a personalized link.

Josh is the person responsible for privacy at Geongyn. We follow Canada's federal privacy law (PIPEDA) and, for people in Quebec, Law 25. If you're not happy with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or, in Quebec, the Commission d'accès à l'information.

Changes

If we change what we collect or who handles it, we'll update this page and the date at the top.