Free No-Storage PII Scanner
piisafe.eu is a free website PII scanner designed for privacy officers, developers, and compliance teams. Detect 58 entity types (SSN, IBAN, credit cards) across 48 languages. Scan results are held in memory only and never stored — they are deleted automatically within 35 minutes of your scan ending.
Personal data is defined as any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 — the GDPR, in force across the EU since 25 May 2018. Article 83(5) sets the upper fine band at €20 million or 4% of worldwide annual turnover; Article 83(4) sets the lower band at €10 million or 2%. One scan covers at most 1,000 pages, and each call to the detection API takes at most 50,000 characters.
Is Your Website Leaking Personal Data?
Every day, websites accidentally expose customer data through:
- Email addresses in HTML comments and source code
- Phone numbers in JavaScript files and error logs
- Home addresses in unprotected API responses
- Credit card numbers in debug logs and test data
- SSNs and national IDs in legacy database exports
Average data breach cost: €4.45 million. Don't become a statistic.
Comprehensive PII Detection
Exact pattern recognisers plus an NLP recogniser, across 58 entity types
Website Scanning
Crawl entire websites or specific pages. Automatic sitemap parsing and page discovery.
- Sitemap.xml integration
- Recursive page discovery
- Custom URL selection
48 Languages
Language-specific patterns for accurate regional detection (IBAN, tax IDs, phone formats).
- IBANs, UK NI numbers
- US SSN, credit cards
- Regional phone formats
Zero Storage
All processing in-memory. Nothing written to a database, disk or log. No scan data stored on servers.
- Privacy by design
- GDPR compliant
- German infrastructure
Deterministic Detection
Exact pattern recognisers for formatted identifiers, an NLP recogniser for names and places—both reproducible across scans, critical for compliance audits.
- Consistent results
- Audit-ready reports
- Exact matches for formatted IDs
Risk Grading (A-F)
Automatic compliance scoring based on PII exposure volume and sensitivity.
- GDPR risk assessment
- Severity classification
- Actionable recommendations
Export Options
Download results as HTML, JSON, or CSV for documentation and reporting.
- HTML reports with styling
- JSON for automation
- CSV for spreadsheets
Why Choose piisafe.eu?
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How It Works
Four simple steps to comprehensive PII detection
Authenticate
Enter your anonym.legal API key (plans from €3/month at anonym.legal).
Configure
Select entity preset (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS), language, and detection threshold.
Target
Enter website URL. Scanner discovers pages and shows estimated cost.
Analyze
Real-time progress, live findings, risk grade, and export options.
Hetzner data centres, Germany
German infrastructure, EU data residency
Reproducible results for compliance
In-memory processing only
Use Cases
When to use piisafe.eu
Pre-Launch Audit
Scan staging environments before production deployment to catch exposed PII in test data, sample records, or debug logs.
Compliance Verification
Regular scans to verify GDPR, CCPA, or HIPAA compliance. Export reports for auditors and regulators.
Vendor Assessment
Evaluate third-party websites and APIs for PII handling before integration or data sharing agreements.
Incident Response
After a breach or leak, quickly assess scope of exposed PII for notification and remediation planning.
Developer Testing
Integration with CI/CD pipelines to automatically scan documentation, examples, and API responses.
Privacy Impact Assessment
Identify PII processing activities as part of DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment) requirements.
Is piisafe.eu Right For You?
Honest assessment of when to use our tool — and when not to
✓ Best For
- Pre-launch website audits
- GDPR/HIPAA compliance checks
- Quick PII exposure assessments
- Vendor/third-party risk evaluation
- Teams needing audit-ready reports
- EU data residency requirements
✗ Not Ideal For
- Database-level PII discovery
- Custom entity pattern development
- On-premise deployment needs
- Sites requiring authentication to scan
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about piisafe.eu
What is piisafe.eu?
piisafe.eu is a free website PII scanner that detects 58 types of exposed personal information using exact pattern recognisers plus an NLP recogniser. It is powered by the anonym.legal API and provides GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and CCPA compliance scoring with A-F risk grading.
How much does piisafe.eu cost?
piisafe.eu itself is free and needs no account. PII detection runs through the anonym.legal API, so you need an anonym.legal API key (from €3/month). You can start 20 scans per hour per IP and scan up to 1,000 pages per scan.
What types of PII can piisafe.eu detect?
piisafe.eu detects 58 entity types via the anonym.legal API, including names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, IBANs, credit cards, SSNs, passport and driving-licence numbers, medical record numbers and more, across 48 languages.
Does piisafe.eu store my scan data?
No. All scan processing is done in memory and nothing is written to a database, disk or log. Finished sessions are deleted automatically within 35 minutes, after which no record remains on our infrastructure.
Which regulations does piisafe.eu support?
piisafe.eu supports GDPR (EU), HIPAA (US healthcare), PCI-DSS (payment cards), CCPA (California), and many regional privacy regulations through customizable entity presets.
Which detection engine does piisafe.eu use?
anonym.legal (from €3/month) - ML + regex hybrid detection across 48 languages, with image OCR support.
Where is my data processed?
All data is processed in Germany (Hetzner infrastructure). piisafe.eu is fully GDPR compliant with no third-country data transfers.
Can I use piisafe.eu for compliance audits?
Yes. Exact pattern recognisers for formatted identifiers plus an NLP model with fixed settings produce reproducible results—ideal for compliance documentation. Export results as HTML, JSON, or CSV.
Token-Based Pricing
Pay only for what you scan — no hidden fees, no subscriptions required
The Scanner
The piisafe.eu tool is free — detection runs on your anonym.legal API key
- 20 scans per hour per IP
- Up to 1,000 pages per scan
- 58 entity types
- HTML/JSON/CSV export
- No account required
anonym.legal
Entry-level cloud platform
- Chrome extension
- 58 entity types
- Document upload
- Batch processing
- Email support
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