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Last updated: April 12, 2026 · Plain English · No legalese tricks

Written for humans. If anything below feels slippery, email us and we'll clarify. We'd rather fix a confusing line than argue about it later.

1. What You're Getting

The AEO Full Audit Report ($497) is a one-time analysis of the website URL you submit at checkout. You get:

  • A page-by-page AEO score breakdown
  • Specific, prioritized fix recommendations generated by our AI engine
  • A Fix Manifest you can paste into Claude Code or ChatGPT for automated implementation
  • A professional PDF delivered to your email within 24 hours

It's yours. Share it with your developer, your team, your agency — whoever's going to implement the fixes.

2. What We Promise (and What We Don't)

We promise the audit will be honest, specific, and based on how AI search engines actually evaluate your site today.

We don't promise traffic jumps, search rankings, revenue lift, or guaranteed AI citations. Nobody selling an audit can honestly promise those — too many variables outside our control (algorithms change, competitors move, your content matters too). Anyone who promises you ranking outcomes is lying. We won't.

What we deliver is the diagnosis and the roadmap. Acting on it is on you (or your developer).

3. Use Your Own Site

Only submit a site you own or have permission to audit. We crawl public pages only — we never touch login-walled content, databases, or private systems. If we detect automation blockers (Cloudflare challenges, robots.txt disallows), we respect them.

4. Refund Policy: No Refunds

The Full Audit Report is a custom digital deliverable. Once we've crawled your site and generated your report, the work is done and the value is transferred — there's no "returning" analysis. So we do not offer refunds.

That said, here's what you actually get instead of a refund promise:

  • We didn't deliver? If your site was unreachable during the audit or something on our end broke the report, email us. We'll re-run it at no cost — no questions, no forms, no week-long wait.
  • Report looks wrong? If a recommendation doesn't apply to your site or seems flat-out incorrect, email us within 90 days and we'll review it. We'll revise the report or issue a credit toward monthly monitoring. We fix our work before we argue about it.
  • Fraud protection. If someone else used your card without permission, work with your bank. We cooperate fully with legitimate chargeback investigations.

The short version: we'd rather you walk away happy than collect a bad review. Tell us when something's off.

5. Your Report Is Yours

You paid for it — it's yours. Share it with your developer, your agency, your team. The only thing you can't do is resell or republish it as though you produced it, because that's not what you bought.

6. Privacy

We collect your email at checkout to deliver the report and send service messages. We don't sell your data. The website content we analyze (your public HTML, metadata, performance metrics) is used only to generate your report. Full details: privacy policy.

7. Email Communication

By buying a report, you agree to receive that report plus occasional service updates by email. You can unsubscribe from marketing messages any time — reply "unsubscribe" to any email from us and you're off the list immediately.

8. Our Liability Is Capped at What You Paid

If something goes wrong and you have a legal claim against us, our total liability is capped at the amount you paid for the specific service in question. We're not liable for indirect damages — lost profits, lost data, business interruption, things like that. We're a small business; we can't insure against the whole world.

9. Changes to These Terms

We may update these terms as the business evolves. When we do, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept the new version. We'll never retroactively change terms for work you've already paid for.

10. Contact

contact@citeddigital.co

Real people answer that email. Usually within a day.

Frequently asked questions about our terms

How does the refund guarantee work?

If your $497 paid AEO audit returns fewer than 5 specific actionable fixes, we refund every dollar — no questions, no hoops, no time limit on requesting it. The audit refuses to run on sites we cannot fully crawl, so the rare cases where we'd hit the refund threshold are caught upfront, not after payment.

Who owns the audit report I receive?

You do. The Fix Manifest, schema blocks, and recommendations are yours to use, modify, share with developers, or hand to another agency. We retain anonymized aggregate data for our research corpus (industry averages, common-issue rates) but never publish anything tied to a specific client without written permission.

Can I cancel the monthly Watch & Update retainer?

Yes, anytime. No cancellation fee, no notice period, no minimum term. Cancel before the next monthly billing cycle and you won't be charged again. You keep access to all the audit reports we've delivered up to that point.

Do you store payment information?

No. Payment processing runs through Stripe; we never see, store, or have access to your card details. Stripe's privacy policy covers payment data.

What if my site gets penalized after I implement a fix from the audit?

Every fix in the report is a standards-based recommendation aligned with Schema.org, Google's documented guidelines, and published AI-search research. We don't recommend gray-hat tactics. That said, if a search engine ever penalizes your site for implementing a Cited Digital recommendation, we'll work with you to identify and reverse the cause at no additional charge.

Do you sublicense or resell my audit data?

No. We never sell, sublicense, or share individual client audit data with third parties.

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References & further reading: Schema.org FAQPage spec · Google Rich Results Test · Google E-E-A-T documentation · Google Search Labs (AI Overviews) · Anthropic