Last Updated: August 27, 2026

CounterNest (“CounterNest,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) provides website traffic counters, real-time visitor analytics, uptime monitoring, website status monitoring, security reputation monitoring, and related services.

This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit CounterNest, create or use a counter, monitor a website, enable notifications, or otherwise use our services.

By using CounterNest, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

The information CounterNest processes depends on the features you use.

Information You Provide

You can use certain CounterNest features without creating an account.

When using our services, you may voluntarily provide information such as:

• Email address for monitoring alerts
• Website URL submitted for monitoring
• Counter or monitoring preferences
• Notification preferences
• Information included in messages sent to us through support or contact forms

Where email verification is required, we may also process verification tokens necessary to confirm that the email address belongs to or is controlled by the person requesting notifications.

Website Visitor Information

When a website owner installs a CounterNest traffic counter or tracking code on their website, CounterNest may automatically receive technical information about visitors to that website.

Depending on the CounterNest features being used, this may include:

• Page URL being viewed
• Page title
• Referring website or URL
• Approximate geographic location, such as country
• Browser and device information
• Date and time of activity
• Online/presence status
• Technical identifiers used to distinguish visits or browsers
• IP address as transmitted during normal internet communications

CounterNest may use this information to provide real-time visitor counts, active-page information, country statistics, referral information, traffic reports, graphs, and related analytics.

We aim to collect only information reasonably necessary to provide these services.

2. Website Monitoring Information

When you create a website monitor, CounterNest processes the URL you submit and technical information generated by monitoring that website.

This may include:

• Website URL
• HTTP response status
• Website availability
• Response time
• Check timestamps
• Downtime and recovery events
• Incident duration
• Security reputation results
• Monitoring history

CounterNest’s servers may automatically request monitored URLs at scheduled intervals to determine whether they are available.

These automated monitoring requests may identify themselves as originating from CounterNest.

3. Deceptive and Security Reputation Monitoring

CounterNest may provide tools designed to identify whether a monitored website has been associated with supported security warnings, including deceptive websites, phishing, social engineering, malware, unwanted software, or similar threats.

To provide these features, CounterNest may submit monitored URLs to third-party security reputation services.

For example, CounterNest may use Google’s Web Risk services to check URLs against supported threat information.

These services operate under their own privacy policies and terms.

Security reputation results are informational and should not be treated as a guarantee that a website is safe, unsafe, compromised, or free from malicious content.

4. Email Addresses and Alerts

Providing an email address for monitoring alerts is optional unless otherwise stated.

If you provide an email address, we may use it to:

• Verify your notification request
• Send website downtime alerts
• Send website recovery alerts
• Send security or deceptive-site alerts
• Notify you when a previously detected warning is removed
• Send important service-related communications

We do not intend to use monitoring email addresses for unrelated marketing without appropriate permission.

You may stop monitoring alerts by disabling the relevant monitor or notification option where available.

5. Browser and iPhone Notifications

CounterNest may offer browser-based push notifications.

If you choose to enable notifications, your browser or device may provide CounterNest with a push subscription containing technical information such as:

• Push service endpoint
• Public encryption key
• Authentication information
• Associated monitor identifier

This information is necessary to deliver notifications to your browser or device.

Push notifications require your permission. You can revoke notification permission through your browser or device settings.

On supported Apple devices, web push functionality may require CounterNest to be added to the device’s Home Screen and notification permission to be granted.

6. Cookies, Local Storage and Similar Technologies

CounterNest and websites using CounterNest services may use cookies, browser local storage, or similar technologies where necessary to provide functionality.

For example, CounterNest’s visitor counter may use a browser identifier stored locally to help distinguish one browser from another and maintain an accurate online visitor count.

These technologies may also be used for:

• Maintaining visitor presence
• Preventing unnecessary duplicate counting
• Remembering preferences
• Supporting monitoring management
• Maintaining security
• Improving service performance

Website owners using CounterNest are responsible for determining whether their use of CounterNest requires cookie notices, consent mechanisms, or other disclosures under laws applicable to them and their visitors.

7. How We Use Information

We may use information processed through CounterNest to:

• Provide real-time website visitor counters
• Calculate online visitor statistics
• Display active website pages
• Generate traffic statistics and reports
• Identify referral sources
• Provide approximate geographic statistics
• Monitor website uptime
• Measure website response times
• Detect and record downtime
• Monitor supported website security reputation signals
• Create and maintain incident histories
• Send requested alerts
• Operate and secure CounterNest
• Diagnose technical problems
• Prevent abuse and misuse
• Improve our services
• Comply with applicable legal obligations

We do not sell personal information to advertisers.

8. Information Sharing

We may share limited information with service providers when necessary to operate CounterNest.

These providers may include companies that provide:

• Website hosting and infrastructure
• Email delivery
• Security reputation information
• Push notification infrastructure
• Content delivery
• Error monitoring
• Analytics
• Abuse prevention

Service providers may process information only as necessary to provide their respective services and subject to their own applicable terms and privacy obligations.

We may also disclose information where reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, legal process, enforce our terms, investigate abuse, protect CounterNest, or protect the rights and safety of users and others.

9. Third-Party Websites

CounterNest monitors and analyzes websites that are not owned or operated by CounterNest.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, availability, or policies of those third-party websites.

A link from CounterNest to another website does not mean that CounterNest endorses that website.

10. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate CounterNest, provide requested services, maintain monitoring history, prevent abuse, resolve disputes, comply with legal requirements, and maintain platform security.

Different types of information may have different retention periods.

For example, detailed visitor activity may be retained for a shorter period than aggregated traffic statistics or monitoring incident history.

We may delete or aggregate older information when detailed information is no longer necessary.

11. Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect information processed by CounterNest.

These measures may include access controls, secure connections, private management tokens, verification mechanisms, encryption used by web push systems, and other security measures.

However, no website, server, database, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Users should therefore protect private CounterNest management links and avoid sharing them publicly.

12. Website Owners Using CounterNest

If you install CounterNest on your website, you are responsible for your own website’s compliance with applicable privacy and data-protection requirements.

Depending on your location and your visitors’ locations, this may include obligations relating to:

• Privacy notices
• Cookies and similar technologies
• Consent
• Analytics disclosures
• Data-processing agreements
• User rights
• International data transfers

Installing CounterNest does not automatically make a website compliant with any particular privacy law.

13. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, applicable law may give you rights concerning your personal information.

These rights may include the ability to request:

• Access to personal information
• Correction of inaccurate information
• Deletion of certain information
• Restriction of certain processing
• Objection to certain processing
• Portability of certain information
• Withdrawal of consent where processing relies on consent

Some rights are subject to exceptions and verification requirements.

If CounterNest cannot reasonably identify information as belonging to you, we may need additional information to process a request.

14. Children’s Privacy

CounterNest is not designed to knowingly collect personal information from children who are below the minimum age permitted to independently consent to the processing of their personal information under applicable law.

If we become aware that information has been collected from a child in circumstances where parental or guardian consent was legally required, we may take reasonable steps to delete it.

15. International Processing

CounterNest may use infrastructure and service providers located in different countries.

As a result, information may be processed or stored outside the country in which you live.

Where required, we take reasonable steps to use appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information.

16. Do Not Track and Privacy Controls

Browsers and devices may provide privacy controls such as cookie restrictions, notification permissions, and local-storage controls.

Blocking certain technologies may affect the functionality or accuracy of CounterNest features.

CounterNest may update its handling of browser privacy signals as applicable standards and legal requirements evolve.

17. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as CounterNest develops, our services change, or legal and regulatory requirements evolve.

When material changes are made, we may update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page and provide additional notice where appropriate.

Continued use of CounterNest after an updated policy becomes effective is subject to the revised policy, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

18. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, CounterNest’s privacy practices, or a privacy-related request, please contact us through the contact information provided on the CounterNest website.

CounterNest
Website Analytics, Uptime & Security Monitoring

Website: counternest.com