MerchantContext

Privacy policy

Effective 2026-08-28 · applies to merchantcontext websites and the Merchant Context Plugin for ChatGPT, Claude, and other assistants

What we collect

What we publish

The business index contains facts about licensed businesses drawn from public records — state licence registers, corporate filings, Google Business Profiles, the Better Business Bureau, and businesses' own websites — each with its source and check date. It describes businesses, not consumers.

Purposes

Answering the queries above, keeping the service reliable and abuse-free, and improving coverage. Nothing else.

Recipients

Our hosting infrastructure processes traffic to serve it (currently Railway Corp. for the plugin service and Vercel Inc. for the website). We do not sell or share personal data with anyone.

Retention

Server logs are kept up to 30 days, then deleted. Queries are not stored beyond those logs. Public-record business facts are retained and refreshed as part of the index.

Your controls

If you believe a fact about your business is wrong, tell us — every fact links to its source, and we correct against the authoritative record. For any privacy question or request, contact support.