Privacy Policy

API Status Check ("we", "us", "our") operates apistatuscheck.com. This page describes what data we collect, how we use it, and your rights.

We keep it simple: we collect as little as possible and never sell your data.

What we collect

Analytics (automatic)

We use Vercel Web Analytics to understand how people use the site. This collects:

• Page views and referrer URLs
• Country (from IP, not stored)
• Device type and browser

Vercel Analytics is privacy-focused — no cookies, no personal data stored, no cross-site tracking.

Email (if you subscribe)

When you sign up for alerts or a paid plan, we collect your email address. We use it to:

• Send outage alerts for APIs you selected
• Send recovery notifications
• Process your subscription

We never send marketing emails. You can unsubscribe at any time from your dashboard or by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email.

Payment (if you subscribe to a paid plan)

Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your full credit card number. Stripe handles all payment data under their own privacy policy.

ChatGPT app, Claude connector and MCP server

When you ask the API Status Check app in ChatGPT (or any AI assistant using our MCP server) whether a service is down, we receive only the service name or domain the assistant passes us. We do not receive your ChatGPT account, your conversation, your name or your email. We record that a check happened — the tool used, whether it succeeded, the time, and a pseudonymous caller ID (a salted one-way hash, never your IP address) — so we can count usage. We do not store the service name you asked about alongside that record, and we never sell or share it.

Links from the ChatGPT app carry ref=chatgpt-plugin. Your browser remembers that for the current tab only (session storage, cleared when the tab closes — not a cookie), and if you start a checkout from that tab we pass that one word to Stripe so we can tell whether the app is worth keeping. Nothing else about you or your conversation is attached.

The Claude connector works the same way: we receive only the service name or domain Claude passes to the tool, never your Claude account or conversation, and record only the usage fields above. Its links carry ref=claude-connector, which is used for page-view counts only and is not passed to Stripe.

What we don't do

• No tracking cookies. We don't use cookies for analytics or tracking.
• No data selling. We never sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties.
• No ad networks. No Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any advertising trackers.
• No profiling. We don't build profiles about you or track you across websites.

Third-party services

We use the following services:

Data retention

• Analytics: Aggregated, no personal data retained.
• Email & account data: Kept while your account is active. Deleted within 30 days of account cancellation or upon request.
• API status data: Historical uptime data is retained for up to 30 days per API.

Your rights

You can:

• Request a copy of any data we hold about you
• Request deletion of your data
• Unsubscribe from all emails at any time
• Cancel your subscription and have payment data removed from Stripe

To exercise any of these rights, email hello@apistatuscheck.com.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy occasionally. Significant changes will be noted with an updated date at the top. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance.

Contact

Questions about this privacy policy? Email hello@apistatuscheck.com.