Who operates this site
HomeGymCave.com is operated by Cozy River Studios. Questions about this policy, or about data held about you, can be sent through the contact page and will be answered by a person rather than an automated system.
What information do we collect?
We collect two categories of information, and one of them only exists if you deliberately send it.
Information collected automatically. Like almost every website, our hosting and analytics layers record standard technical information when a page loads: the page requested, the referring page, the approximate geographic region derived from your IP address, your browser and operating system, screen size, and the time of the request. Our analytics provider assigns a randomly generated identifier so that repeat visits from the same browser can be recognised as one session rather than several. None of this identifies you by name.
Information you provide. If you use the contact form, we receive whatever you type into it, including your email address, so that we can reply. We use that only to answer you. We do not add contact form senders to any mailing list.
What do the calculators do with my numbers?
Nothing leaves your device. Every calculator on this site, including the ceiling height calculator, the gym space planner, the plate loading calculator and the one-rep max calculator, is plain JavaScript that runs in your browser. The room dimensions, body weights and lift numbers you enter are computed locally and are never transmitted to a server, stored in a database, or seen by us. Refresh the page and they are gone.
How do we use cookies and analytics?
Google Analytics 4. We use GA4 to understand which pages people read, how they arrive, and which pages fail to answer the question they came with. GA4 sets cookies in your browser containing a randomly generated identifier. We have configured it to record page views and outbound affiliate link clicks. We do not use it to build advertising audiences, and we do not have access to your name, email address or precise location through it. Google's own handling of this data is described in the Google Privacy Policy at policies.google.com/privacy, and you can opt out across all sites using the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Amazon Associates. Product links on this site carry an Amazon Associates tracking tag. When you click one, Amazon may set a cookie so that a purchase made within their attribution window is credited to us. Amazon tells us aggregate figures such as how many units of a product were ordered through our links. Amazon does not tell us who you are, what else you bought, or your address. Amazon's data practices are governed by their own privacy notice, not by this one. Full details are on our affiliate disclosure page.
What we do not run. We do not run advertising networks, retargeting pixels, social media tracking pixels, session recording, heat mapping, or A/B testing tools that profile individuals. If that changes, this page changes with it and the last updated date at the top moves.
Do we sell or share personal information?
No. We do not sell personal information, we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, and we do not trade mailing lists. The only third parties that receive anything are the service providers named above, which process data on our behalf in order to make the site work, plus our hosting provider, which necessarily sees the request that delivers a page to you. We may disclose information if legally required to do so by a valid legal process, and we would treat that as an exception rather than routine.
How long is information kept?
Analytics data is retained according to the retention window configured in Google Analytics, after which Google deletes user-level and event-level records. Contact form messages are kept in an email inbox for as long as needed to handle the correspondence and any follow-up, and you can ask us to delete yours at any time. We do not keep a customer database, because we do not sell anything directly.
What choices and rights do you have?
- Block cookies. Every major browser can block or delete cookies, either entirely or per site. Blocking ours does not break any calculator or page on this site.
- Send a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal. We do not run behavioural advertising, so there is nothing for these signals to switch off here, but they will still apply to third parties that honour them.
- Opt out of Google Analytics using the browser add-on linked above, or by blocking the googletagmanager.com domain.
- Request access or deletion. If you are in a jurisdiction that grants rights of access, correction, deletion, portability or objection, including the EU and UK under the GDPR and California under the CCPA and CPRA, contact us and we will act on the request within the time the applicable law allows. Because we hold almost nothing that identifies an individual, in most cases the honest answer will be that we have no record of you at all.
Children
This site is written for adults building home gyms and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information through the contact form, tell us and we will delete it.
International visitors
This site is operated from the United States and the service providers described above process data in the United States and elsewhere. If you visit from outside the United States, you are sending information to a jurisdiction whose data protection rules may differ from your own. Continuing to use the site indicates you understand that.
Changes to this policy
We update this page when what we actually do changes, and we move the last updated date at the top when we do. Material changes will be described in plain language rather than buried in a redefinition. Your continued use of the site after a change means you accept the updated policy.
See also our terms of service, our affiliate disclosure and our safety disclaimer, which together with this policy govern your use of HomeGymCave.com.