Analytics and cookie choices
We use Plausible and Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages and tools people use. They receive page-view information and general actions, such as using a calculator, opening a result or downloading a file.
These requests include browser and connection information, including your IP address. We send Google a page address without its query string, fragment or referring address.
Plausible measures visits without cookies and can report time spent and scrolling. We send it a page address without its query string or fragment. It also receives the referring page address when your browser provides one.
Prices you enter, measured doses, search text, pasted ingredient lists and observation notes are not included in the action information we send.
Plausible counts every visit without cookies. It may receive browser and device information and a referring page.
Google Analytics is run by Google, which receives the page address, the actions we measure on this site and browser and device information, and sets cookies that tell repeat visits apart. Its advertising features are off.
In the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and whenever we cannot tell which country a visit comes from, Google Analytics loads only after you choose Accept on the bar at the bottom of the page. Decline loads nothing from Google. Your choice is kept in this browser for six months, then the bar asks again.
Elsewhere, Google Analytics loads with each page unless you choose Decline. Cloudflare, which delivers our pages, tells your browser which country the visit comes from.
Wherever you are, Cookie choices at the bottom of any page, or the button below, changes your choice. Decline stops Google Analytics on this site in this browser and deletes its analytics cookies. If analytics was running, the page reloads to apply your choice. Decline holds on every page; outside the countries above it is kept until you change it.
If you are in the EU, the EEA or the UK
Plausible’s cookie-free count of which products and guides are useful rests on our legitimate interests.
Our measurement, hosting and contact providers sit outside the EEA. Google LLC (Google Analytics), Amazon (product photographs and product links) and our own Plausible instance receive connection information, including your IP address, when a page or an image loads. Cloudflare and Discord hold the reports sent through our contact form. Standard contractual clauses cover the transfers our providers operate under.
You can request access to, deletion of, or object to processing of personal information. The site has no account or mailing list, and personal tool entries are not uploaded. Send a request through our contact form and choose “Privacy or rights request”.
The other companies involved
Cloudflare routes and protects the domain, runs the security check on our contact form and keeps the reports sent through it. Discord holds a copy of each report in a private channel our team reads. Plausible Analytics, our own instance, measures page visits. Amazon serves product photographs at page load and receives the request when one is displayed, and records the referral when you follow one of our product links, which is how the site is funded.
Nobody else is involved: there is no advertising network, no mailing list, no comment system and no embedded video. Following any product or source link opens a site with its own privacy practices, and no purchase is processed here.
Your tools, labels and notes
There is no account or server-side routine history. What a tool keeps stays in your own browser, as described above. Printing uses your browser print dialog. Product comparison links can carry public product identifiers in their URL; do not put personal information in a shared URL.
A routine link you choose to copy includes selected products, enabled steps, the two color-service settings, and what you want to change this wash and today’s conditions if you chose them. Opening that link restores those choices. Prices and measured amounts are not included in routine links.
The ingredient checker compares text locally. Your pasted list and observation-log notes are not uploaded, added to a shared link or included in analytics events.
When you visit a shop
A retailer link takes you to that retailer, whose privacy and cookie policies then apply. Amazon product links carry this site’s affiliate identifier. Authorized product photos load from Amazon image servers; those requests expose normal connection information such as an IP address. Photos are omitted when the image information is missing or expired.
Contact requests
The contact form sends your report to our contact inbox at Cloudflare: the reason you choose, your name if you give one, your reply address, the summary, the details and any page or source link you add. Cloudflare runs an automatic security check that never asks you to solve anything, and it sees your IP address while doing so. To stop repeat sending, we keep a scrambled form of your IP address and reply address for two hours, never the addresses themselves.
We keep each report for 12 months, then it is deleted automatically, and a copy goes to a private Discord channel our team reads. We use your reply address only to answer you. To see or delete a report you sent, ask through the same form and we will delete both copies.
Do not put medical records, passwords, payment information or other sensitive details into a report, a site tool or a shared link.
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