Privacy
Privacy policy
ManualAnswers is a public manual search and reference site. The site is designed to work without requiring an account. Information you choose to send for corrections, source submissions, or email contact is used to review and improve the manual corpus.
Privacy scope
Privacy workflow proof
ManualAnswers privacy coverage follows the actual product surfaces: search, live suggestions, manual finder links, requests, uploads, corrections, public catalogs, and generated review candidates.
- Search and suggestions
Search terms, live suggestions, page requests, and product-finder URLs can appear in ordinary server, hosting, analytics, or anti-abuse logs.
- Uploads and source submissions
Submitted files, source URLs, brand/model details, notes, and email context are used for manual review, attribution, and corpus improvement.
- Requests and corrections
Missing-manual requests, correction messages, attribution updates, removals, and DMCA reviews can include contact and ownership context you provide.
- Public catalogs
Reviewed manual, answer, troubleshooting, part, and source/download metadata can be published through public pages and machine-readable exports.
- Generated review candidates
Generated drafts or extracted records can be retained for review, but public indexing is controlled by source and review status.
Information handled by the site
- Search
Queries and page requests
Search queries, live suggestion requests, manual-finder inputs, and page requests may appear in ordinary server, hosting, analytics, security, or debugging logs.
- Submissions
Sources, uploads, and requests
Source submissions can include brand names, model numbers, URLs, notes, uploaded file context, product listing text, and the email address you use to send them.
- Corrections
Ownership and review context
Correction, attribution, removal, and DMCA messages can include contact details and source ownership context that you provide.
- Public sources
External sites have their own policies
Public pages may link to manufacturer, retailer, parts, PDF, or support sites that have their own privacy policies and tracking practices.
How information is used
- Operate
Search and route support pages
Information is used to operate search, model pages, manual pages, source-backed answers, error-code pages, troubleshooting guides, and part references.
- Review
Improve the manual corpus
Submitted manuals, source URLs, product links, corrections, attribution requests, and takedown requests are reviewed to improve source quality and public routes.
- Protect
Diagnose errors and reduce spam
Logs and submitted context can be used to diagnose errors, reduce spam or abuse, and understand which manual content needs better coverage.
- Respond
Email and mailto workflows
Contact details you provide are used to respond to messages sent by email or through mailto submission, correction, request, and upload workflows.
Accounts, cookies, and payments
ManualAnswers does not require public reader accounts and does not collect payment information. The public site may use ordinary browser storage, cookies, or hosting logs where required by the CMS, search UI, security controls, or deployment platform.
Contact
For privacy, correction, or removal questions, email kristian@manualanswers.com.
Data retention
Manual source submissions and correction messages may be retained as long as needed to review sources, improve public pages, handle disputes, or maintain a citation trail. You can request review or deletion of information you submitted by contacting the address above.