Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 16, 2026

This policy describes how Tool Bench Data (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses and protects information when you visit https://toolbenchdata.com (the “Site”). By using the Site you consent to the practices set out below.

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide

If you email us or use a contact form, we collect what you choose to send — typically a name, an email address and your message. We use it to answer you and to keep a record of specification corrections.

Information collected automatically

When you browse the Site we may collect technical and usage data, including:

• Browser type and version
• Device type and operating system
• Pages viewed and time spent on each
• Referring and exit pages
• Approximate location derived from IP address
• Interaction data such as scroll depth or link clicks, where analytics are enabled

This helps us see which comparisons readers actually use, which shapes what gets expanded next.

2. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and comparable technologies for three purposes:

• Essential cookies: required for the Site to function.
• Analytics cookies: to measure traffic and content performance in aggregate.
• Affiliate cookies: set by partner retailer platforms when you follow a product link, and managed by the affiliate network rather than by Tool Bench Data.

You can control cookies through your browser settings or a privacy extension. Blocking some categories may reduce functionality or prevent analytics from recording your visit.

3. How We Use Information

• To operate and maintain the Site and its content
• To respond to enquiries and process specification corrections
• To analyze traffic and content performance in aggregate
• To decide which tool categories and specification fields to expand
• To detect and prevent abuse, fraud or technical faults
• To meet applicable legal obligations

We do not sell your personal information for direct monetary compensation.

4. Third-Party Services

Tool Bench Data relies on third-party services including analytics providers, hosting and content delivery infrastructure, and retailer affiliate networks such as the Amazon Associates Program. Each processes data under its own privacy policy. When you follow an external link to a retailer or a manufacturer’s specification page, that destination is governed by its own policy, not this one.

5. Affiliate Link Transparency

Some links on the Site are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, we may receive commission. Attribution generally relies on cookies or similar identifiers set and managed by the partner platform rather than by us, so we see aggregate performance but not who you are. Our commercial arrangements are set out on the disclosure page and our editorial standards on about.

6. Legal Bases for Processing (GDPR and Similar)

• Consent: for optional analytics and cookies where applicable law requires it
• Legitimate interests: for site improvement, security and operational continuity
• Contractual necessity: for responding to enquiries you send us
• Legal obligations: for recordkeeping and compliance where required

If you are in the EEA, the UK or a comparable jurisdiction, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or port your personal data, or to object to certain processing.

7. Data Retention

• Correspondence: kept while the exchange is active, and afterwards only where it documents a published correction
• Analytics data: per the configured settings of the analytics tool in use
• Security logs: a short defined period, for abuse prevention and reliability monitoring

8. Data Sharing

We may share data with service providers who help operate the Site — hosting, analytics and security vendors — subject to appropriate safeguards. We do not sell your data. We may disclose information where required by law, to protect the rights and safety of users or others, or in connection with a business transfer.

9. International Transfers

Your information may be processed in countries other than your own. Where applicable law requires it, we rely on safeguards such as standard contractual clauses for cross-border transfers.

10. Security

We apply reasonable technical and organizational safeguards against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction. No online system is entirely risk-free and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. Children’s Privacy

The Site is not intended for children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has submitted personal data here, contact us so we can remove it.

12. Your Privacy Choices

• Manage cookies through your browser settings or a privacy extension
• Use tracking protection to limit third-party collection
• Ask us to access, correct or delete personal data you sent us directly

To exercise these rights, write to editorial@toolbenchdata.com or use the contact page.

13. Policy Updates

We may revise this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected in the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, by notice on the Site. Continued use after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.