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Protect your privacy on your branded site

⏱ 15 min👤 For resellers🖼 6 stepsUpdated Nov 2026

This guide shows you how to keep personal contact details off your hosting business pages. Customers should see your brand — a support address on your domain, and a business name — not a personal mailbox or a personal phone number.

Before you start

  • A branded support address, such as support@yourbrand.com. If you still need one, see Create a branded support email.
  • Access to your storefront, contact page, footer, domain settings and reseller panel contact fields.
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Our team can check the public pages, the panel contacts and domain privacy as a paid service — contact support@unitward.com.

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Step 1Decide what the public should see

Treat anything on your store, in order emails, or in the domain’s public contact record as public. Do not publish:

  • A personal mailbox on another domain
  • A personal mobile or home phone number, unless you truly want customers to call it
  • A home address, if a business or postal address exists

Use support@yourbrand.com (and other addresses on your domain) everywhere a contact is required.

A simple rule: publish support@yourbrand.com, not a personal mailbox or personal phone.
A simple rule: publish support@yourbrand.com, not a personal mailbox or personal phone.
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Step 2Check the contact page

Open your Contact Us page on the storefront. Replace any personal email or phone with the branded address. If the page has a form, confirm the notification goes to support@yourbrand.com (or is forwarded there), not to a personal mailbox.

A contact page that shows only support@yourbrand.com.
A contact page that shows only support@yourbrand.com.
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Step 3Check the footer, header and about text

Look at the header, the footer, the about page, and any “call us” or “write to us” line in the store. Those are easy to forget after you change the main contact page. Use your business name and the branded address only.

A store footer with the business name and support@yourbrand.com, and no personal details.
A store footer with the business name and support@yourbrand.com, and no personal details.
Tip:Open the site in a private window, and search the page for an @ sign, to catch an address you missed.
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Step 4Turn on WHOIS privacy for your domain

The public domain record (WHOIS) can show a registrant email, phone and address. If your registrar or panel offers privacy protection (sometimes called WHOIS privacy or Privacy Protect), turn it on for yourbrand.com and for any other domain that should stay private.

If privacy is not available for that extension, use a business contact on the domain record, not a personal one, whenever the registrar lets you edit it.

Domain privacy protection turned on so the public record does not show personal contacts.
Domain privacy protection turned on so the public record does not show personal contacts.
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Step 5Update signatures and panel contact fields

In your reseller panel, review any fields for support, billing, sales or abuse contacts, and any email signature. Set them to addresses on your domain. Then send yourself a test order or a test message and read the footer of the email.

Also check auto-replies and forms on your store. The goal is the same everywhere: customers should not find a personal mailbox or a personal phone number.

An email signature that lists only the business name and support@yourbrand.com.
An email signature that lists only the business name and support@yourbrand.com.
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Step 6Do a final sweep

  • Contact page, footer, header and about text show only branded details.
  • Panel contact fields and email signatures use support@yourbrand.com or another address on your domain.
  • WHOIS privacy is on, or the public domain record uses a business contact.
  • A test email to customers shows the brand address, not a personal one.

This check sits alongside the final check in Run your hosting business fully under your own brand.

The privacy checklist: contact page, footer, WHOIS and signatures all show only the brand.
The privacy checklist: contact page, footer, WHOIS and signatures all show only the brand.

✅ Only your brand is public

A visitor should be able to contact you only through addresses and numbers you chose to publish under your brand. If you find a personal detail you cannot change, write to support@unitward.com.

Prefer we review the site for you?

Our team can check the public pages, the panel contacts and domain privacy as a paid service — contact support@unitward.com.

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