Rankshift
Partially CompliantBelgian AI-visibility tracking platform from Rankshift BV in Harelbeke, monitoring brand presence, sentiment and citations across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity for 850+ SEO and marketing teams.
Subject to the US CLOUD Act: a US provider in this tool's processing chain can be compelled to disclose data it holds, including data stored in the EU. The vendor itself is European-owned.
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GDPR Compliance Data
Not independently verified| GDPR Status | Partially Compliant |
| HQ Country | Belgium |
| Ownership | European-owned |
| Foreign Disclosure Exposure | US CLOUD Act / FISA 702 |
| Data Hosting Location | Unknown“No hosting provider or region is ever named for the core product/database anywhere in the privacy policy (rankshift.ai/privacy/, read raw 2026-09-09) or terms (rankshift.ai/terms/, read raw 2026-09-09). Third-party tools are named (PostHog, Google Analytics, Cloudflare, Stripe, HubSpot, Dealfront) without hosting regions stated for any of them either.” |
| EU Servers Available | |
| Data Processing Agreement | Not verified |
| Sub-processor List | Not verified |
| Schrems II Risk | High Risk |
| SCCs in Place | |
| Last Verified | 9 September 2026 |
How we reached this
Belgian legal entity: Rankshift BV, Vaartstraat 10, 8530 Harelbeke, Belgium, named as website operator in the privacy policy, read raw (curl, not WebFetch summary) 2026-09-09. Terms governed by Belgian law, exclusive jurisdiction of the Enterprise Court of Ghent, Kortrijk division, consistent with the Harelbeke address. PARTIAL rather than better: the policy is honest and specific about naming its third-party processors (PostHog, Google Analytics, Cloudflare, Stripe, HubSpot, Dealfront), which is better than many vendors in this directory, but the entire international-transfer treatment is one generic sentence: "As a globally operating company, your data may be processed outside your country of residence. We ensure adequate protections are in place in compliance with GDPR and other applicable laws" — no Standard Contractual Clauses, adequacy decision, or Data Privacy Framework is cited anywhere despite four of the five named processors being US companies. No DPA is mentioned anywhere in either document, and neither publishes a VAT or KBO company registration number. schremsIIRisk is HIGH rather than MEDIUM specifically because multiple US transfers are named explicitly with no safeguard mechanism cited at all, the opposite pattern from Morningscore's DPA in this same category. dataHostingLocation is UNKNOWN because the core product's own hosting is never addressed, only the named third-party tools.
About Rankshift
Tracking Brand Presence Inside AI Answers
Rankshift's product is squarely GEO/AEO: understanding how a brand shows up when someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity a question, rather than classic search-engine rankings.
What It Covers
- AI model tracking across 9 major LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and others)
- Visibility metrics: overall visibility score, share of voice, citation analytics
- Sentiment analysis: positive/negative brand mentions inside AI responses
- Crawler analytics: real-time monitoring of AI bot activity on tracked pages
- Content brief generator and AI writer for GEO-oriented content
- Competitive benchmarking against named competitors
- Unlimited prompts, projects and seats on every tier, scaled instead by daily prompt volume and credits
- MCP and API access, Looker Studio integration
Pricing
Four tiers (Starter, Professional, Business, Enterprise) scaling by prompts tracked per day (150/350/850, custom for Enterprise) and monthly credits, billed in EUR, USD or GBP with a 10% annual discount. A 30-day free trial is offered with no credit card required. Exact prices are not published on the site (shown only after a currency/plan selection), so this listing does not carry a starting price.
The Belgian Entity, and a Genuinely Thin Transfer Section
Operated by Rankshift BV, Vaartstraat 10, 8530 Harelbeke, Belgium. Terms are governed by Belgian law, with the Enterprise Court of Ghent (Kortrijk division) as the exclusive jurisdiction, consistent with the Harelbeke address.
The privacy policy names its third-party processors specifically and honestly: PostHog (SaaS interaction tracking), Google Analytics, Cloudflare, Stripe (payments) and HubSpot (CRM and marketing), alongside Dealfront (already an EU-owned tool in this directory) for B2B lead intelligence. Four of those five are US companies. What the policy does not do is name a legal transfer mechanism for any of them: the entire "International Data Transfers" section reads "As a globally operating company, your data may be processed outside your country of residence. We ensure adequate protections are in place in compliance with GDPR and other applicable laws" — no SCCs, no adequacy decision, no Data Privacy Framework, just the general assertion. No DPA is mentioned anywhere, and neither document publishes a VAT or company registration number.
Where It Fits
For readers comparing European AI-visibility and GEO platforms, see also Morningscore, Finseo, Rankscale and the broader AI Search & GEO category.
Key Features
Pros & Cons
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Rankshift GDPR & data protection: common questions
Is Rankshift GDPR compliant?
Partly. Rankshift meets some of the requirements, with caveats worth reading before you commit. Rankshift is a European company headquartered in Belgium.
Where does Rankshift store data?
Rankshift states: "No hosting provider or region is ever named for the core product/database anywhere in the privacy policy (rankshift.ai/privacy/, read raw 2026-09-09) or terms (rankshift.ai/terms/, read raw 2026-09-09). Third-party tools are named (PostHog, Google Analytics, Cloudflare, Stripe, HubSpot, Dealfront) without hosting regions stated for any of them either.". Data is hosted in a location we have not been able to verify.
Does Rankshift offer a Data Processing Agreement (DPA)?
We could not locate a published DPA for Rankshift. That does not mean one is unavailable. Many vendors provide it on request or inside the account area rather than publishing it. Ask before you sign.
What a DPA has to cover →Is Rankshift a European company?
Yes. Rankshift is headquartered in Belgium and, as far as we can establish, European-owned.
Is Rankshift subject to the US CLOUD Act?
Indirectly. Rankshift itself is European-owned and headquartered in Belgium, so the company is not subject to US jurisdiction. The exposure runs through a US provider in its processing chain, a host, CDN or other sub-processor, which can be compelled to disclose data it holds even when that data sits on EU servers. That is a narrower exposure than a US-owned vendor, and the compliance notes above say which provider it is.
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