Terms

1. The licence

ClickSheriff is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later, the same licence as WordPress itself. You may use it on any number of sites, read its source, modify it, and redistribute it under the same licence. The full text ships inside the plugin.

2. No warranty

The software is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind, as stated in the GPL. Install it on a site you can take a backup of. Version 4.2.0 is a new release: it has been tested on a WordPress installation, not yet across a wide range of live sites.

3. What ClickSheriff promises — and what it does not

It does:

• record visits arriving from a Google Ads click on a WordPress landing page;
• report whether that measurement is actually working before reporting anything else;
• score those visits and show the reasoning, including evidence against its own findings.

It does not, and we will not claim otherwise:

• Prove fraud. A finding is a repeated pattern in your own measured traffic. It is not proof that a person acted in bad faith, and it should not be presented to anyone as if it were.
• Stop clicks. It never hides, redirects or turns away a visitor, and it cannot un-charge a click that already happened.
• Recover money. Google operates its own invalid-traffic filtering and decides on credits itself. ClickSheriff can export per-click data to support a request you make. Whether Google grants anything is entirely Google's decision, and we have no influence over it.
• See everything. Google filters a large share of invalid traffic before you are billed. What this tool measures is what survived that filter and reached your site — a smaller number, and a checkable one.
• Cover other platforms. The supported scope is Google Search traffic to a WordPress landing page. Microsoft-tagged visits may be recorded as experimental data and do not affect the verdict.

4. Decisions are yours

The plugin never changes anything in your Google Ads account. It can suggest an address for exclusion; only an administrator signed in to your WordPress site can approve one, and the approval is recorded. If you then act on that in Google Ads, the consequences of that action — including excluding an address that turns out to belong to a customer — are yours. Excluding an address affects future ad serving only.

5. Free and Pro

Free is free, permanently, with no account and no card. It includes the complete detection engine, the measurement verdict, masked addresses and 30 days of dashboard history.

Pro adds full addresses, 90 days of history, evidence cards, exports, alerts and the review workflow. Pro is not currently on sale. There is no checkout and no automatic licence delivery, so no payment is being taken and no purchase terms apply yet. When that changes, this page will state the price, the refund terms and the renewal terms before anything is sold.

6. Support

Support is by email at [email protected]. We are a small team, so treat it as best-effort rather than a service-level guarantee. Include your WordPress and PHP versions and what the Setup screen shows; that is usually enough for a useful first reply.

7. Your responsibilities

• The plugin records IP addresses and browsing behaviour of your visitors. Your own privacy notice has to cover that. See the privacy page for exactly what is stored.
• Give it enough data before concluding anything. Below roughly 30 paid visits across 7 days the tool tells you it is still learning — that is not a formality.
• Keep backups. It is a database-writing plugin on your site, like any other.

8. Changes

These terms may change as the product does — in particular when Pro becomes purchasable. The "last updated" date at the top always reflects the current version, and material changes will be described in the plugin's changelog rather than applied silently.

9. Who we are

ClickSheriff is built and published by SeoPort, a web and search agency based in Ukraine (seoport.com.ua). Contact: [email protected].

Describes ClickSheriff 4.2.0.