Privacy

Matt's Gearspace is a static reference site. It has no accounts, no sign-up, no comments and no advertising, and it collects as little as it can.

What is stored on your device

The site keeps three small pieces of information in your browser's local storage. None of them is sent to a server.

• Compare selection: the products you have ticked to compare, so the selection survives moving between pages.
• Theme: whether you chose light or dark mode with the toggle in the header.
• Analytics choice: whether you said yes or no to analytics, and when, so you are not asked on every page.

You can clear all three at any time by clearing site data for this site in your browser.

Cookies and analytics

The site sets no cookies of its own. It can use Google Analytics 4 to count page views and a few clicks (links to other sites such as shops and makers, the contact email link, and which products are compared), but only if you have opted in. Until you accept, nothing is requested from Google at all: no tag, no script and no cookies. If you decline, nothing loads and nothing about the site changes.

If you do accept, Google Analytics is configured with Google Signals, advertising features and ad personalisation all switched off, so the data is not used to build an advertising profile of you. Analytics 4 uses your IP address to work out roughly where you are and then discards it; it does not store it. It does set its own cookies to recognise a returning browser. Google is the data processor for that; their privacy policy covers what they do with it.

You can change your mind whenever you like using the analytics link in the footer, which is as easy to use as accepting was. Withdrawing consent stops anything further loading on the next page view; to remove cookies already set, clear site data in your browser.

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, that is treated as a decision to decline and you will not be asked at all. This covers the “do not sell or share my personal information” right under California's CCPA and CPRA. For the record, nothing here is ever sold, and nothing is shared beyond the processors named on this page.

YouTube videos in guides

Some guides have a Listen button that plays a song's official video. Until you press it, nothing is requested from YouTube: not the player and not a thumbnail. Pressing it loads the video from youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, which means your browser then talks to Google, and Google may set cookies once the video plays. Their privacy policy covers that. If you would rather not, each button has a link to watch on YouTube instead.

Newsletter

If you sign up for the weekly new-gear email, your address is stored on dzined.cloud, the platform that sends it, until you unsubscribe. It is used for that email only, never sold or shared, and every issue has a one-click unsubscribe link. Nothing about your signup is kept in your browser.

Search

Search terms and filters are carried in the page URL so that you can bookmark or share a view. They are processed in your browser and by the web server that delivers the page, and are not stored or analysed beyond ordinary server logs.

Hosting and server logs

Like any website, the hosting provider may keep standard access logs (IP address, requested page, browser type, timestamp) for security and operational purposes. These are retained only as long as the provider's own policy dictates.

External links

Product pages link to manufacturers' websites and, under “Where to buy”, to retailers. Those links are plain links with no affiliate tracking, and those sites have their own privacy policies, which this policy does not cover.