Privacy Policy

The short version: we collect as little as possible, we never sell your data, and we don't track you with advertising cookies. Here are the specifics.

Last updated 2026-07-30.

What we collect

• Your email address — only if you choose to join our list. That's the one piece of personal information we ask for.
• Basic technical logs — like most websites, our host (Cloudflare) processes standard request data such as IP address and browser type to keep the site secure and to rate-limit abuse. We don't use this to build a profile of you.
• No advertising or tracking cookies. The site runs no third-party analytics or ad scripts, so there are no tracking cookies to consent to.

How we use it

• Your email is used to send you the guide you asked for and occasional helpful gear emails. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
• Technical logs are used only for security, abuse prevention, and keeping the site running.

Who we share it with

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with the service providers that make the site work:

• MailerLite — stores your email and sends our newsletter on our behalf.
• Cloudflare — hosts the site and provides security.
• Amazon — when you click an affiliate link, you go to Amazon, whose own privacy policy then applies. We never see your Amazon purchases individually.
• Ad measurement (only if enabled): if we ever run ads, we may share a one-way, non-reversible hash of a subscriber's email with the ad platform (for example Meta) purely to measure whether an ad worked. This is a scrambled value, never your actual address, and it is not used to sell your data.

Your choices and rights

• Unsubscribe anytime — every email includes an unsubscribe link, and it takes effect immediately.
• Access or delete your data — email hello@thegearowl.com and we'll show you what we have or delete it, no questions asked.

Children

The Gear Owl is intended for adults and is not directed to children under 16. We don't knowingly collect information from children.

Affiliate links

We earn commissions from qualifying purchases made through our links, at no extra cost to you. See our full affiliate disclosure. It never changes which products we recommend.

Changes

If we update this policy, we'll change the date at the top. Material changes will be noted clearly.

Contact

Questions about your privacy? Email hello@thegearowl.com and a real person will answer.