Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Trade Price Book (tradepricebook.com) is operated by an individual based in the United States (“we”, “us”). For any privacy question or request, email hello@tradepricebook.com.

2. What we collect and why

Messages you send us

If you email us, directly or through the contact form (which only opens your own email app), we receive your email address, your name if you include it, and your message. We use them only to answer you and to keep a record of corrections and requests.

Server logs

Like most websites, our server automatically records each request: IP address, date and time, the page requested, the referring page, your browser's user-agent string and the response status. We use these logs to keep the site running, investigate errors and block abuse. They are deleted automatically after 14 days.

Content delivery and security (Cloudflare)

The site is delivered through Cloudflare, which processes IP addresses and request data to deliver pages quickly and protect the site from attacks. Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary security cookie when it needs to tell people from bots. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Approximate country, to apply the right privacy rules

On pages that can show ads, your browser asks our content delivery network which country your request comes from (derived from your IP address). We use the answer only to decide whether consent is required before ads load. We do not store it.

Calculators, estimates and invoices

Every tool on this site runs in your browser and works without an account. Nothing is saved unless you press Save (see section 15). Otherwise the wages, costs, prices, measurements, customer names, addresses and line items you enter are not transmitted to us, are not stored on our server, and are never added to the address of a page. A PDF or printout you make exists only on your own device.

The estimate and invoice generators offer an optional box, “Remember my business details on this device”. Only if you tick it, your own business name, address, phone, email and default terms are saved in your browser's local storage so the next estimate starts filled in. This box sends nothing to us, and you can delete them with the “Forget my details” button or by clearing this site's data in your browser. Customer details and line items are kept only if you press Save on an estimate (section 15).

The price book builder offers a box, “Save in this browser”. Only if you tick it, the price book you built (your trade, rate and settings, task names, hours, parts costs and notes, and the business name you typed) is saved in your browser's local storage, so it is there the next time you open the builder on this device. This box sends nothing to us; pressing Save is separate (section 15). Untick the box or clear this site's data to delete it. When you follow “Price your tasks at … an hour” from the labor rate calculator, two numbers (your hourly rate and that rate rounded up) are held in this tab's session storage until the price book builder reads them, and are then deleted. The CSV files and PDFs the builder makes are created in your browser and exist only on your device.

Cookies, advertising identifiers and similar technologies

We do not set cookies for analytics or tracking. Our advertising partner, Google, uses cookies and advertising identifiers as described in section 3. Details are in the Cookie Policy.

E-mails about new guides and tools (newsletter)

If you sign up for e-mails about new guides and tools, we keep your e-mail address and a record of your consent. What we keep, why, for how long and who helps us send the e-mails is in section 12.

What we do not collect

We have no comments or payment forms. Accounts exist only as described in section 15; the newsletter sign-up asks only for an e-mail address (section 12). We do not use analytics services at present. If that changes, this policy will be updated first and consent will be requested where the law requires it.

3. Advertising by Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense (publisher ID pub-6552764071336126) to show ads. Specifically:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
• You can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info and, for visitors in Europe, www.youronlinechoices.eu.
• Google explains how it uses data in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Even when ads are not personalized, Google may use cookies or identifiers for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse.

We do not send Google any information that Google could use to identify you personally, such as your name, email address or phone number. None of our page addresses contain personal information, and nothing you type into a tool is ever sent to Google.

When ads load

• EEA, United Kingdom and Switzerland: ads, and the cookies that come with them, load only after you make a choice in a Google-certified consent management platform that uses the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework. Until such a platform is active on this site, no ads are shown to visitors from these regions.
• United States and elsewhere: before ads load, the site checks whether you have opted out of sale or sharing (see section 9) or your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. If so, ads are requested in Google’s restricted data processing mode, which serves only non-personalized ads.

4. Affiliate links

Some links to software, services and tools are affiliate links: if you follow one and later buy, the company may pay us a commission. Each such link is marked where it appears. As an Amazon Associate, Trade Price Book earns from qualifying purchases. When you follow a link to Amazon, Amazon may use cookies to credit the referral, under Amazon's Privacy Notice. We do not send the company anything about you; when you follow the link you are on their site, under their privacy policy, and they may set their own cookies to credit the referral. See the Editorial Policy for how affiliate relationships are kept separate from what we write.

5. Legal bases (EEA, UK and Switzerland)

We process server logs and security data on the basis of our legitimate interest in running a secure, working website. We handle your emails to respond to your request. Advertising cookies rely on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time through the consent tool's privacy settings. E-mails about new guides and tools rely on your consent too; you withdraw it by unsubscribing (section 12).

6. Who we share information with

• Hosting: Hetzner Online GmbH, which runs our server in Nuremberg, Germany.
• Content delivery and security: Cloudflare, Inc.
• Email: messages to our address pass through Cloudflare Email Routing and are forwarded to our mailbox at Google (Gmail), where they are stored. Replies to our e-mails about new pages arrive there too.
• Advertising: Google and its advertising partners, as described in section 3.
• E-mails about new guides and tools: Amazon Web Services (Amazon SES) delivers them; Cloudflare Turnstile checks that the sign-up form is used by a person (section 12).
• Sign-in e-mails: Amazon Web Services (Amazon SES) delivers them; Cloudflare Turnstile checks that the sign-in form is used by a person (section 15).
• Legal reasons: when the law requires it, or to protect the rights and safety of users or the site.

We do not sell personal information for money.

7. How long we keep information

• Server access logs: 14 days, then deleted automatically.
• Emails: as long as needed to handle your message and any follow-up, and no longer than 24 months after our last exchange, unless we need to keep a record of a legal request such as a copyright notice.
• Tool entries: not kept by us unless you press Save; saved items follow section 15.
• Business details you choose to remember in the estimate and invoice generators: in your own browser until you remove them.
• Advertising data held by Google: under Google's own retention policies. Your privacy choices stored in your browser stay until you clear them.
• Newsletter: until you unsubscribe; the details are in section 12.

8. Your choices and rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it. Email hello@tradepricebook.com. We may ask you to confirm the request from the email address involved, so that we don't disclose or delete someone else's information. We answer within one month, or within the period the law that applies to you allows.

If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, you also have the right to restrict or object to processing, to data portability, to withdraw consent at any time, and to complain to your local data protection authority.

For ads specifically, use Google Ads Settings, the opt-out pages listed in section 3, or your browser's cookie settings.

9. California privacy rights (CCPA/CPRA) and other U.S. states

This section applies to California residents and describes our practices over the last 12 months. Whether or not these laws apply to a site of this size, we honor the requests described here from any U.S. visitor.

Categories of personal information we collect

We do not collect sensitive personal information, as California law defines it, through the site. What you enter into the tools is not collected at all.

Selling and sharing

We do not sell personal information for money. When Google and its partners show ads, identifiers and internet activity are disclosed to them. Where that disclosure is used for cross-context behavioral advertising, California law can treat it as “sharing” of personal information, and in some interpretations as a “sale”. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16.

Your rights

• Right to know what personal information we collected about you, its sources, purposes and the categories of recipients.
• Right to delete personal information we collected from you.
• Right to correct inaccurate personal information.
• Right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.
• Right to non-discrimination. We will not deny you service, charge you differently or give you a different quality of service because you used any of these rights.

How to make a request

• To opt out of sale or sharing in this browser, use the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information page. We also treat a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser as an opt-out.
• For any other request, email hello@tradepricebook.com with the subject “California privacy request” (or the name of your state). We will confirm receipt within 10 business days and respond within 45 days, or tell you if we need up to 45 more days.
• Authorized agents: an authorized agent may submit a request for you if they provide your signed written permission, and we may ask you to confirm your identity with us directly.

Residents of other U.S. states with consumer privacy laws can use the same email address for the same requests. If we decline a request, you may appeal by replying to our decision, and we will review it and answer in writing.

10. Children

Trade Price Book is a general-audience site written for adults who run or work in trade businesses. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (COPPA). If you believe a child has sent us personal information, email hello@tradepricebook.com and we will delete it.

11. Security and international transfers

The site is served only over HTTPS, and we keep the information we hold to a minimum. Our server is in Germany and some of our providers are in the United States, so information may be processed outside the country where you live.

12. Newsletter: e-mails about new guides and tools

If you ask for it, Trade Price Book sends you an e-mail when something new is published on tradepricebook.com: at most one e-mail a day, only about new guides and tools. Nothing is sent until you confirm with the button in the first e-mail we send you.

What we keep

• Your e-mail address and whether your subscription is waiting for confirmation, active or ended.
• A record of your consent: when you asked and when you confirmed, the page you signed up on, which version of the sign-up wording you saw, and a one-way scrambled (“salted hash”) form of your IP address. We do not store the IP address itself.
• A log of the e-mails we sent you (date and a message number) and whether they could be delivered.
• Addresses are looked up through a keyed, one-way scrambled form, so our logs and database copies do not show who subscribed.
• If you unsubscribe: that scrambled form, so you get no more e-mails from Trade Price Book. You can come back only by confirming again yourself, with the button in a new confirmation e-mail (we send at most one such e-mail per 30 days after an unsubscribe), or while signed in to your account on tradepricebook.com (section 15).
• If someone else entered your address: every confirmation e-mail has a second button, “It wasn't me — don't e-mail me again”. It blocks the address (and its +tag variants) on all our sites for good.
• If an e-mail to the address bounces or someone marks one as spam: the same scrambled form, so the address is never e-mailed again by any of our sites.
• If you subscribe through your account on tradepricebook.com, we record that your address was already confirmed by your sign-in code instead of sending a confirmation e-mail.

We ask only for your e-mail address.

Why

To send the e-mails you asked for, to be able to show that you asked for them, and to stop people from signing up addresses that are not theirs or flooding the form (that is what the scrambled IP address is used for). We rely on your consent; you can withdraw it at any time.

How long

• Never confirmed: the request is deleted after 30 days.
• Active subscription: until you unsubscribe.
• After you unsubscribe (or the address bounces or is reported as spam): the address itself is deleted within 30 days. The scrambled form stays, so we know not to e-mail it. The consent record is kept for 3 years after that, as proof of what you agreed to, then deleted.
• The log of sent e-mails is deleted after 6 months.
• Our daily backup copies of the list are kept for 14 days.

Who helps us

• Amazon Web Services (Amazon SES) delivers the e-mails for us.
• Cloudflare (Turnstile) checks that the sign-up form is used by a person and not a bot. It loads when the form comes into view and looks at technical information from your browser. It does not see what you type. See Cloudflare's Turnstile privacy addendum.

The list lives in a database on our own server. We never sell it, share it or use it for advertising. Our e-mails contain no tracking pixels and no tracked links: we do not know whether you open them or what you click.

How to unsubscribe

Every e-mail about new guides and tools has an “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom: it opens a page where one button ends your subscription. Most mail apps also show an “Unsubscribe” button next to our address, which works with one click. You can also reply to any of our e-mails or write to hello@tradepricebook.com and we will take you off the list. If you never confirm the first e-mail, you are not subscribed and nothing else is sent.

Questions, or a request to see or delete what we keep about you: hello@tradepricebook.com.

13. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page. Significant changes will be noted on the home page for at least 30 days.

14. Contact

Trade Price Book, operated by an individual based in the United States. Email: hello@tradepricebook.com.

15. Optional saving and accounts

The calculators run in your browser and work without an account. Nothing is saved unless you press “Save and open on another device”. Saving is optional.

What we collect if you save

• Your email address, to send you a 6-digit sign-in code. There is no password.
• Saved content: the inputs and result of the calculation you chose to save, with a name you can change. For a saved estimate this can include the business and customer details you typed into it, so leave out anything you do not want kept. Nothing is saved unless you press Save.
• Your marketing choice, if you make one (see below).

Strictly necessary cookies

When you ask for a code and after you enter it, account.tradepricebook.com sets strictly necessary cookies that protect the sign-in and keep you signed in on that device (see the Cookie Policy). They are not used for advertising, analytics or tracking, and they are not set if you never ask for a code.

Who helps us

The accounts database is on our own server (section 11). Sign-in codes and account deletion links are delivered by Amazon Web Services (Amazon SES), which acts as our processor. Cloudflare Turnstile checks that the sign-in form is used by a person, in the same way as the sign-up form in section 12. Updates you opt into are the e-mails about new guides and tools in section 12.

Marketing emails: optional consent

The sign-in step offers one optional, unchecked box: “E-mail me when Trade Price Book publishes something new. Unsubscribe any time.” You can save without ticking it. If you tick it we record that you agreed, with the time, where you agreed (for example the save dialog or My Saved) and the version of the wording you saw. Every update email has an unsubscribe link, and you can turn updates on or off in My Saved at any time; each change is recorded the same way. Withdrawing consent does not affect your saved items. We do not share your email with other sites.

How long we keep it

• Saved items and your account: until you delete them, or until 24 months after your last sign-in, whichever comes first. Removing an inactive account does not end any e-mail updates you subscribed to; those follow section 12.
• Sign-in codes: 10 minutes, and each works once.
• Your marketing choice: while your account exists, and for e-mail updates as section 12 describes. If you delete your account it is removed; if you had ever agreed to updates, only a keyed, one-way scrambled form of your address stays, so that we do not e-mail you again.
• Security records: we limit sign-in attempts using a keyed, one-way scrambled form of your IP address, and keep a log of account events, without your email address, for 12 months.

Deleting and exporting

In My Saved you can rename or delete any saved item, download your own records as a JSON file, delete your account (we email you a link to confirm; this removes your email, saved items and consent record and ends e-mail updates), and sign out. You can also email hello@tradepricebook.com; we answer as described in section 8. Copies in our encrypted backups are deleted within 35 days.

Legal basis (EEA, UK and Switzerland)

We keep your email and saved items to provide the saving feature you asked for. We send marketing email only on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.