This page is used to inform visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service.
Ahrefs’ SEO Toolbar is a part of Ahrefs’ toolset.
This browser extension is provided at no cost for any user. It allows you to get primary on-page SEO data, check web pages for broken outgoing links, estimate the number of outgoing links from a page, and track URL redirections. If you have an active paid subscription at ahrefs.com, you also get access to Ahrefs’ page and keyword metrics straight from this SEO Toolbar.
If you choose to use Ahrefs’ SEO Toolbar in your browser, you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing the Service only. We will not use your information in any other way except as described in this Privacy Policy. We will not send this information to any third parties, disclose it, or use it for any other purpose.
The information that we get from the browser where Ahrefs’ SEO Toolbar is installed is strictly necessary for the functioning of the Service. It includes:
Ahrefs’ SEO Toolbar uses this information to trace the redirecting URLs that you open in your browser and report the redirect paths to you.
This data is not being sent to our servers and is only used internally in your browser.
Ahrefs’ SEO Toolbar needs access to the HTML code of the page that you’re browsing to report basic on-page SEO data such as page title, description, OG tags, word count, etc. In addition, access to the page source code allows Ahrefs’ SEO Toolbar to count the number of outgoing links from the page and check the page for broken outgoing links.
This data is not being sent to our servers and is only used internally in your browser.
Ahrefs’ SEO Toolbar uses this information to report the HTTP Response Headers of the page to you.
This data is not being sent to our servers and is only used internally in your browser.
If you have an active paid subscription at ahrefs.com, Ahrefs’ SEO Toolbar will show Ahrefs’ SEO metrics, such as AR, DR, UR, Organic traffic estimation, Number of backlinks, and Number of referring domains for the page that you’re browsing. To do that, the Toolbar will send the URL of the page that you’re browsing to our server via an API request.
We may store this data within your account at ahrefs.com for our internal performance analysis. We will not send this information to any third parties, disclose it, or use it for any other purpose.
For the users who don’t have an active paid subscription at ahrefs.com, Ahrefs SEO Toolbar may send single individual URLs of the pages that you’re browsing to our server when checking your login status at ahrefs.com.
If you have an active paid subscription at ahrefs.com, Ahrefs’ SEO Toolbar will show Keyword Metrics, such as Search Volume, Keyword Difficulty, Clicks, and Global Volume for Google and YouTube right in your browser. To do that, the Toolbar will send the search query that you make to our server via an API request.
We may store this data within your account at ahrefs.com for our internal performance analysis. We will not send this information to any third parties, disclose it, or use it for any other purpose.
Ahrefs SEO Toolbar sends your IP address along with API requests to our servers.
We may store this data for our internal performance analysis. We will not send this information to any third parties, disclose it, or use it for any other purpose.
Ahrefs SEO Toolbar needs read-access to the cookies for ahrefs.com website in your browser. Also, our Toolbar uses the browser's local storage to keep your settings.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.