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AIHostCompare is a comparison site you can use without an account. This policy explains which personal data is involved, why, on what legal basis, for how long, who else handles it, and what you can ask of us.

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The short version

  • There are no accounts, sign-up forms or comments. The only commercial content is affiliate links to DigitalOcean (through the Awin network) and the DigitalOcean logo, linked the same way, disclosed under each page's heading. There is no ad network, no third-party ad code and no advertising cookie set by this site.
  • We use no tracking or advertising cookies and no fingerprinting. The site's own code sets no cookies at all; a few strictly functional settings are kept in your browser's storage (see “Cookies and your browser's storage”).
  • Page views and a few product events are counted with PostHog, without cookies and without a visitor profile.
  • Our hosting provider, Vercel, processes technical request data to deliver pages and keep the site secure. This involves a transfer to the United States, under the safeguards described below.
  • If you email us or use the contact form, we use your message to reply, to act on it and to keep a record of the conversation. A contact-form message is passed straight on to our mailbox; this website keeps no copy and no contact-form database. Our mailbox is hosted by Zoho in its EU data center region.

Who is responsible

The controller for the processing described here is the Dutch sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak) trading as Loadiqo and, for this website, as AIHostCompare, registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KVK) under number 97416770. The owner's name, the business address and the VAT number are in the legal notice.

Contact us about privacy at contact@aihostcompare.com, or use the contact form with the topic “Privacy / GDPR request”. We have not appointed a data protection officer; write to us this way for anything about your personal data.

What we process, why, and on what legal basis

Delivering pages and keeping the site secure

Personal data
IP address; the address requested, including its query parameters (such as filter or tool settings you share in a link); time; browser user agent; referring page; the country our hosting provider derives from the IP address
Purpose
Deliver pages, protect the site against abuse and attacks, find and fix errors
Legal basis (GDPR)
Article 6(1)(f): our legitimate interest in a working and secure website
How long
For a limited period set by Vercel: how long its request logs are kept depends on the hosting plan (we use Pro) and on whether its optional Observability Plus feature is enabled for the project, as described in Vercel's runtime logs documentation (opens in a new tab). We do not export, copy or keep these logs ourselves. Vercel may keep security data longer under its own terms.

Default currency (EUR or USD)

Personal data
The country code our hosting provider derives from your IP address; your browser's language setting
Purpose
Show prices in euros or US dollars by default, once per browser tab, unless you chose a currency
Legal basis (GDPR)
Article 6(1)(f): our legitimate interest in showing prices in a familiar currency
How long
Used for that one answer only. Our code does not store or log the country, and it never changes prices, providers or rankings.

Contact messages, emails, questions and correction reports

Personal data
Your email address; the topic you choose; your message; the time you sent it; your name, if you give it; the page or source URL, if you add one; and any other information you choose to include, such as attachments and sources you send by email
Purpose
Reply to you, handle your request, investigate and correct the data concerned, keep the necessary record of the correspondence, and protect the contact form against automated abuse
Legal basis (GDPR)
Article 6(1)(f): our legitimate interest in answering messages, keeping the data accurate and keeping the contact form free of automated abuse. Requests about your privacy rights: Article 6(1)(c), our legal obligation to handle them.
How long
Deleted no later than 12 months after the correspondence is no longer needed for the purpose you wrote for, unless a statutory retention duty, a legal claim, a pending dispute or another demonstrable legal necessity requires us to keep it longer. The public corrections log contains no personal data.
How it reaches us
A message sent with the contact form goes from your browser to this website's server function at Vercel, which passes it on to our Zoho Mail mailbox as an email (your address is set as the reply address). The website keeps no copy and no contact-form database, and logs none of what you wrote. To stop automated abuse, the server function counts the requests from each IP address over a 10-minute window. It keeps only a salted one-way hash of the address (the random salt never leaves the server's memory), in memory only, and drops it once the window has passed, at the latest on a later request or when the server instance stops. So that a double click sends only once, it also remembers a random form id and a one-way fingerprint of the message for 10 minutes. Nothing of this is written to disk or logged.

You do not have to give us any personal data to use the site; writing to us is optional. The contact form asks for your email address, a topic and your message; your name and a page or source URL are optional. We make no decisions about you by automated means and do not profile visitors.

Filters and calculators run in your browser. What reaches our server are ordinary requests: page loads (including any filter, tool or advisor settings in a link you open, since these live in the page address so you can share them), the provider data the comparison and the advisor load, and the currency lookup described above. Fonts and images are served from this site, so loading a page contacts no third-party font, media or advertising service.

Hosting provider and other recipients

We do not sell personal data and share none with advertisers or data brokers.

International transfers

Vercel is a US company whose primary processing facilities are in the United States. The site's server functions run in Vercel's Washington, D.C. (USA) region, and pages can be served from Vercel locations worldwide, including in the EU. The request data described above is therefore transferred to the United States, and so is a message you send with the contact form, which that server function passes on to our mailbox.

Safeguards: Vercel participates in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, for which the European Commission adopted an adequacy decision on 10 July 2023, and its Data Processing Addendum incorporates the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Commission Decision (EU) 2021/914). Email us for a copy of the safeguards that apply.

Emails and contact-form messages you send us are stored in Zoho's EU region. According to Zoho, employees of its Indian group company, Zoho Corporation Private Limited, may in rare cases access that data from India to provide technical support, without the data being moved out of the EU; Zoho bases this on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and supplementary measures from a transfer impact assessment.

PostHog stores analytics data in its EU cloud (Frankfurt, Germany). PostHog, Inc. is a US company, and its data processing agreement allows processing outside the EU, including in the United States, for example when its staff provide support; traffic to PostHog also passes through Cloudflare's worldwide network. Safeguards: PostHog participates in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and its data processing agreement incorporates the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Commission Decision (EU) 2021/914).

Cookies and your browser's storage

We use no tracking or advertising cookies, no fingerprinting and no similar technique to recognise you across days or sites (the cookie-free analytics described above links visits within one day only), and the site's own code sets no cookies. It keeps only the strictly functional items below in your browser's storage. They serve features you use, are never sent to us or anyone else and do not identify you, so they need no consent.

aihc.currency

Where
Local storage
What for
Remembers the currency you chose with the currency control, so the next visit shows prices the same way. Example: {"v":1,"currency":"EUR","savedAt":"…"}
How long
Used for up to 180 days, then deleted on your next visit; choosing Auto deletes it at once
When
Only when you choose EUR or USD

aihc.currency-auto

Where
Session storage
What for
Keeps the default currency (EUR or USD) for this tab, so prices do not switch currency halfway through a page flow. Example: {"v":1,"currency":"EUR","basis":"country"}
How long
Until the tab is closed
When
On the first page view in a tab, when no choice is saved

ahc:advisor-answers

Where
Session storage
What for
Keeps your answers in the hosting advisor for this tab, so going back to it does not lose them. Example: ?v=1&goal=assistant&…
How long
Until the tab is closed
When
When you answer the advisor's questions or open an advisor link that contains answers

aihc:compare-focus-title

Where
Session storage
What for
Moves keyboard focus to the comparison title after you add or swap a provider (accessibility). Example: a timestamp
How long
Removed by the next comparison page you open and ignored after 15 seconds; otherwise until the tab is closed
When
Only when you change a comparison

aihc.locale

Where
Local storage
What for
Remembers the language you chose (English or Dutch) through the language switcher or the language suggestion, so the suggestion does not come back. It never redirects you: the address you open decides the language. Example: {"v":1,"locale":"nl","savedAt":"…"}
How long
Until you clear your browser data
When
Only when you choose a language

aihc.locale-suggestion

Where
Local storage
What for
Remembers that you closed or accepted the one-line suggestion that the site is also available in Dutch, so it is not shown again. Example: {"v":1,"state":"dismissed","savedAt":"…"}
How long
Until you clear your browser data
When
Only when you close or accept the suggestion

You can remove these items at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser. If your browser blocks storage, the site still works and a currency choice lasts for the open page.

Analytics

We use PostHog, with data stored in PostHog's EU cloud, to understand which pages and tools are useful. It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. It records the page address without query parameters or fragments, the referring site (its domain only), campaign tags in the link (utm_source and similar), browser, operating system, device type, screen and window size, browser language and time zone, and the product events this site defines, such as a click on a provider link with the provider and where the link was placed. Never your answers in the hosting advisor, text you type, or your email address.

To count visitors without a cookie, PostHog computes an identifier on its servers from a hash of the day, your IP address, your browser's user agent and our domain. Visits on the same day can therefore be counted as one visitor; the hash changes every day, so you are not recognised across days or on other sites. The IP address is not stored and no profile of you is built. A Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal from your browser switches it off. PostHog processes this data on our behalf under its data processing agreement. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in improving the site (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). On our plan, events are available to us for one year; older events can no longer be viewed or queried, but PostHog does not guarantee that they are deleted at that point. They contain no IP address and no identifier that lasts longer than a day. When we stop using PostHog, we instruct it to delete our data, as its data processing agreement provides.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask for access to your personal data, correction, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability, and you can object at any time to processing based on our legitimate interests. Email contact@aihostcompare.com or use the contact form. We answer within one month; for complex requests this can be extended by two further months, and we will tell you if it is. We may ask for information to confirm that a request comes from you.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority: in the Netherlands the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (opens in a new tab), or the authority in the EU country where you live or work or where you believe your rights were infringed.

Changes to this policy are published on this page with a new date.