Calculations and filters stay in the browser.
Calculator inputs, searches, and filters are not submitted to PepGrades. The calculator does arithmetic from the values a visitor enters and does not save those values.
Saved price watches stay on your device.
If you save a comparison, this browser stores its product label and target package price. PepGrades does not receive that saved list. You can remove a watch on the comparison page or clear it through your browser's site-data settings. These watches check the prices shown when you visit; they do not send email or background notifications.
Page views are counted anonymously.
After a page has been visible for one second, the browser sends one small request to pepgrades.com itself, not to an analytics company. It contains the page path; on a comparison page, the comparison basis; the host name of an external site that linked to the page, such as google.com, never the full address; a screen-size class (mobile, tablet, or desktop); and whether the browser reports that it is automated. PepGrades adds the country its host derives from the request and records the time. Views from automated browsers and known crawlers are discarded. No cookie, browser storage, IP address, user-agent string, other query text, or visitor identifier is stored, so the counts cannot follow a person from page to page or visit to visit. The user-agent string is checked only to drop known crawlers, and the country comes from Cloudflare's own lookup of the request; neither the user-agent nor the IP address is kept.
Vendor-link clicks are counted the same way.
When a visitor follows a vendor link, PepGrades records the vendor, the comparison basis, the PepGrades page that held the link, the time, and three standard browser request labels (Sec-Fetch-Site, Sec-Fetch-User, and Sec-Fetch-Mode) that indicate whether a person clicked the link on this site. Those labels are used only to separate real clicks from automated requests. Known crawlers are not counted. No cookie, IP address, user-agent string, or visitor identifier is added to or stored with the click.
Affiliate attribution begins after the redirect.
A clearly disclosed affiliate link can send a vendor-provided referral parameter to that vendor. The vendor may then process the visit under its own privacy policy. PepGrades does not receive the visitor's vendor account or payment details.
Our host processes requests for us.
Cloudflare hosts PepGrades and processes every request on its behalf, including ordinary request data such as IP address, browser details, requested path, timestamps, and security signals, to deliver the site and protect it. The anonymous page-view and click counts described above are stored with Cloudflare's Workers Analytics Engine and reviewed only as totals.
Later features require a new decision.
Visitor accounts, newsletters, advertising, contact forms, third-party analytics, or other data-collecting features require separate approval and an updated privacy explanation before activation.