Privacy Policy

Privacy First

I respect your privacy and use as little data as possible to provide you with the best service I can.

GDPR Compliance

Although this website is hosted in the United States, I respect and uphold GDPR rights for visitors from the European Economic Area and the UK. I process minimal personal data. My legal bases are: consent for the storage price digest emails (you actively subscribe and confirm via double opt-in, and you can withdraw consent at any time by unsubscribing), and legitimate interest for basic analytics. If you are located in the EU/EEA or UK, you have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data. To exercise these rights, please contact me at legal@pricepergig.com. See “Where Your Data Is Stored” below for details of the international transfer involved in US hosting.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, you have certain rights under the CCPA:

• Right to Know: You can request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information I have collected about you.
• Right to Delete: You can request deletion of your personal information.
• Right to Opt-Out: You can opt out of the “sale” of your personal information. Note: Affiliate tracking (described below) may constitute a “sale” under CCPA because I share data with third-party affiliate networks.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: I will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact me at legal@pricepergig.com with your request.

Email Collection

Your email address is collected, with your consent, to provide the storage price digest emails. Subscription is double opt-in: nothing is sent until you click the confirmation link I email you, and I record the signup and confirmation times as the record of your consent. I store only your email address and your digest preferences (drive categories, stores, days, times, timezone and language) — no tracking pixels, and no open or click tracking. Your email address will not be shared with third parties.

Digest emails contain affiliate links to retailers such as eBay, Amazon and others (see “Affiliate Tracking and Cookies” below) — clicking one takes you to the retailer and may earn me a commission at no cost to you.

Every digest includes a one-click unsubscribe link, which takes effect immediately. Additionally, by using the ‘Delete My Data’ link, you will completely and permanently remove your records from my system.

Website Analytics

I use PostHog for website analytics to understand how visitors use the site so I can improve your experience. I use memory-based storage rather than persistent cookies for analytics.

Affiliate Tracking and Cookies

When you click on product links on this website or in my digest emails, you may be redirected through affiliate networks. These networks use cookies to track purchases and attribute commissions to me. The affiliate networks I work with include:

• Amazon Associates: Amazon Privacy Notice
• eBay Partner Network: eBay Privacy Notice
• Rakuten Advertising: Rakuten Privacy Policy

These third-party cookies:

• Track when you click a link from my site to a retailer
• Remember this click for a period (typically 24 hours to 30 days, depending on the retailer)
• Attribute any purchase you make to my referral if completed within that window

This tracking enables me to earn commissions that help keep this site running.

Reddit Ads Pixel (US Visitors From My Reddit Ads Only)

I sometimes advertise PricePerGig on Reddit. To see which of those ads lead people to a useful deal, I use Reddit’s advertising pixel, but only for a narrow group of visitors:

• It loads only when you arrive by clicking one of my Reddit ads, and only if your device’s time zone is in the Americas. My Reddit ads run in the United States only.
• It doesn’t load for other visitors, and the time-zone check keeps it off for visitors in the UK and EU.
• It never loads if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. I treat GPC as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.

When it does load, the pixel tells Reddit that you visited a page (including the page’s address and title) and, if you click through to an amazon.com product, that you did so. It never tells Reddit what you buy; I don’t know that myself. Reddit uses this to report ad performance to me and may use it to show my ads to people who have visited the site. The pixel stores two first-party cookies on this site, each lasting about 90 days: _rdt_uuid, a random ID for your browser, and _rdt_cid, the ID of the Reddit ad click that brought you here. Reddit’s handling of this data is covered by the Reddit Privacy Policy.

To opt out, turn on Global Privacy Control in your browser, use an ad or tracker blocker, or change your ad preferences in your Reddit account settings.

Separately, for every visitor who arrives from one of my Reddit ads, wherever they are and whether or not the pixel loads, amazon.com links carry a separate Amazon Associates tracking ID for each of my Reddit ad groups, so Amazon’s reports show which ads lead to sales. The only thing this stores on your device is a note in your browser’s session storage that you arrived from a Reddit ad, which is cleared when you close the tab.

Interest-Based Advertising

Apart from the Reddit ads pixel described above, which runs only for US visitors who arrive from one of my Reddit ads, I do not use behavioral targeting or interest-based advertising. The affiliate tracking described above is solely for purchase attribution (determining if you bought something after clicking my link) and does not involve building profiles of your interests or displaying targeted advertisements based on your browsing history.

How to Opt Out

If you prefer not to be tracked by affiliate cookies:

1. Browser Settings: You can configure your browser to block third-party cookies. Note that this may affect functionality on some retailer websites.
2. Private/Incognito Mode: Browsing in private mode prevents cookies from being stored.
3. Do Not Track: While I honor Do Not Track signals for my analytics, affiliate networks may not.
4. Contact Me: If you have concerns about data collection, please reach out to legal@pricepergig.com.

Please note that opting out of affiliate tracking does not affect the prices you pay at retailers.

Where Your Data Is Stored

My website and its database — including the digest subscriber list — run on a server I rent from netcup GmbH, Daimlerstraße 25, 76185 Karlsruhe, Germany, who process the data only on my instructions under a data processing agreement made under Article 28 of the GDPR. The server itself sits in netcup’s ISO 27001/27701-certified data centre in Manassas, Virginia, USA, but the data remains under the control of netcup’s German company throughout: netcup engages no US company as a sub-processor, and the UK Government recognises the EU (including Germany) as providing adequate data protection. The data processing agreement applies full GDPR-standard safeguards to the data wherever the server is physically located, and any transfer to a sub-processor outside the UK or EU could only happen with appropriate safeguards under that agreement.

Data Retention

• Analytics data: Retained for 12 months
• Email subscriptions: Retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion
• Affiliate tracking: Controlled by third-party networks (see their privacy policies linked above)
• Reddit ads pixel cookies (_rdt_uuid and _rdt_cid, US visitors from my Reddit ads only): about 90 days on your device; Reddit’s own retention is covered by its privacy policy

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or wish to exercise your data rights, please contact me at legal@pricepergig.com.