Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what information [Company legal name] ("SkiMatch Studio," "we," "us" or "our") collects when you use skimatchstudio.com and related services (the "Service"), how we use it, and the choices you have.

The short version: you can use every tool without an account. If you create one, we keep your first name, email address and the skis you save. We count visits without cookies and without storing your IP address. We don't sell your information, we don't share your email address with third parties for their own use, and we don't use advertising cookies or trackers.

Information you give us

• Account details: your first name, email address and password when you sign up. Passwords are handled by our sign-in provider and are never visible to us. If you choose Continue with Google, Google shares your name and email address with us.
• Your quiver: the skis you save to My quiver and Under consideration, with any length, season and notes you add.
• Display preferences: settings such as "Show skis for," saved so the site remembers them.
• Messages: your name, email address, topic and message when you use the contact form.

We never ask your gender, age, height or weight for your account. The height, weight, skill and terrain you enter in the tools are used to show your results and are kept in the page address so you can bookmark or share them. They aren't saved to your account.

Information collected automatically

• Visit counts: when you view a page, we record the page address (never the query string), the date, a country worked out from your browser's time zone, a random code for your browser tab session, and a daily visitor code. The visitor code is a one-way scramble of a random key that changes every day, your connection's IP address and your browser type. The daily keys are deleted after a day, and your IP address is never stored. We don't count visits from browsers that send a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal.
• Ad counts: we count how many times each sponsor ad is seen and clicked, by day. These counts aren't linked to you.
• Server logs: our hosting provider keeps short-term technical logs, which can include IP addresses, to run and protect the Service.

Cookies and browser storage

We don't use advertising or analytics cookies, so there's no cookie banner. We use:

• Sign-in cookies set by our sign-in provider, Clerk, to keep you signed in. They're needed for accounts to work.
• A preference cookie, sm_catalog_filter, that remembers your "Show skis for" choice when you aren't signed in.
• Your browser's session storage, for the random tab code described above, and to finish saving a ski or return you to the right page after you sign in. It's cleared when you close the tab.

How we use information

• To run the Service: show your results, keep your quiver, and keep you signed in.
• To answer you when you contact us.
• To understand which pages are used, so we can improve them, and to report total ad views and clicks to sponsors. Sponsors receive totals only, never information about you.
• To keep the Service secure and prevent abuse.
• To meet legal obligations.

We don't sell or rent personal information. We don't share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we don't use it to build advertising profiles. We don't share your email address with sponsors or any other third party for their own use.

If you're in the European Union or the United Kingdom, our legal bases are: performing our contract with you (your account and quiver), our legitimate interests (counting visits without cookies, security, and answering messages), and legal obligations.

Who we share information with

We use a small number of service providers, who handle information only on our instructions:

• Clerk, for sign-in and account management.
• Render, which hosts the site and its database.
• [Email provider], which delivers contact form messages to our support mailbox.
• Google, if you choose Continue with Google. Our fonts are also loaded from Google Fonts, which sends your IP address to Google when a page loads. Videos in the Ski guide load from YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode only when you press play, after which YouTube's privacy policy applies.

We may also share information if the law requires it, to protect the rights and safety of our riders or others, or as part of a sale or reorganization of the business, in which case this policy continues to apply to your information.

Sponsor ads and links

Sponsor ads are served by SkiMatch Studio itself, not by an ad network. Clicking an ad passes through our site so we can count the click, then takes you to the sponsor's website, where the sponsor's own privacy policy applies.

How long we keep information

• Account details and your quiver: until you delete your account. Then they're deleted within 30 days, apart from backups, which are overwritten on a regular cycle.
• Contact messages: 12 months.
• Visit counts: up to 400 days. The daily keys behind the visitor code: one day.
• Ad counts: as daily totals, with nothing linked to a person.

Your choices and rights

• You can see and change your name and saved skis in your account, and delete your account at any time.
• You can ask us for a copy of your information, to correct it, or to delete it, by writing to support@skimatchstudio.com. We'll answer within 30 days, or sooner where the law requires it. We may need to confirm it's you first.
• Depending on where you live, including California and other US states, the European Union and the United Kingdom, you may also have the right to object to or limit how we use your information, to move it to another service, and to complain to your local data protection authority. We won't treat you differently for using any of these rights.
• We honor Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals by not counting your visits.

Children

The Service isn't directed to children, and accounts are for people 16 and older. We don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you think a child has given us information, write to support@skimatchstudio.com and we'll delete it.

Security

We use encryption in transit (HTTPS), keep passwords with our sign-in provider, limit who can access our systems, and keep only what we need. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong, unique password.

Where information is stored

The Service is run from [the United States]. If you use it from elsewhere, your information is transferred to and stored in [the United States]. Where the law requires it, we rely on appropriate safeguards for these transfers, such as standard contractual clauses.

Changes to this policy

When we make a material change, we'll update the date on this page and, for account holders, let you know by email or on the site before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions or requests about your privacy? Write to support@skimatchstudio.com.

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