Privacy Policy
This policy explains what we collect on pcbuildcalculator.com, what we do with it, and what you can ask us for.
Who operates this site
Pcbuildcalculator.com is operated by MB „Variantai“ (306133252, Dailidžių k. 7, Rūdiškių sen., Trakų r. sav., LT-21177), a company registered in Lithuania. We have no office, branch or subsidiary in the United States. For privacy questions, email info@pcbuildcalculator.com.
What we collect and how long we keep it
Technical usage data: the time of your requests, browser type and approximate location from your IP address.
Outbound click logs, stored with the IP address irreversibly hashed (SHA-256). Nothing else identifying is stored alongside them, so a click log cannot be traced back to a person. We keep them up to 24 months for billing audit.
Partner inquiry form: company name, contact person, email address, phone number - only what the sender types. Kept until the inquiry is handled, plus 12 months. When a partner accepts the partnership agreement we also record the signer's name, the time and the IP address.
Functional settings live in your browser (localStorage), not in cookies: theme, consent choice, the build in progress, and a note that this browser is signed in. That data does not reach our servers unless you save it to an account, and a shared build travels in the link itself (?b=...).
Account data, if you create an account: your email address, the nickname you choose, a hash of your password (never the password itself), your language and market, whether you opted into our newsletter, and what you save in the account - builds, watched products, price alerts, favorites, likes, reviews and comments. Builds you make public, and your reviews and comments, are shown with your nickname. Kept while the account exists; email info@pcbuildcalculator.com from the account's address to have it deleted.
Contact form messages: the name, email address and message you send, forwarded to us by email. Kept until handled, plus 12 months.
Abuse protection: the IP address and time of sign-in, registration and form requests, used only to limit how many are accepted.
How we use it
To run and secure the site; to provide your account and the alerts you set, and to send the emails that go with them (account confirmation, password reset, price and stock alerts, account notices, and our newsletter only if you opted in; every newsletter has an unsubscribe link and can also be switched off in your account settings; alerts have no unsubscribe link and stop once you remove them where you set them - the price-watch button on the product page, a build's price tracking on your profile or the “Price alerts” page - or when your account is deleted; newsletter opens and clicks are counted per campaign rather than per person, and the emails are delivered by Resend, Inc.); to bill partner retailers for outbound clicks; to answer inquiries people send us; and, only if you opt in, to show personalized advertising and to measure site traffic. Traffic measurement uses Vercel Web Analytics, which sets no cookies; like advertising it loads only after you choose “Accept all”.
Selling and sharing
We do not sell personal information and we take no money for it. Partner retailers receive only aggregate click counts with no personal information in them. Hosting is provided by Vercel Inc., and data may be processed in the European Union and the United States. Our database is run by Neon Inc. on servers in the EU (Frankfurt), and emails are delivered by Resend, Inc.; both act only on our instructions.
Advertising is served by Google AdSense and loads only after you choose “Accept all” in the consent banner. Under the California definitions, personalized advertising of that kind can count as “sharing” personal information, so to be plain about it: it is off by default, it runs only if you opt in, and you can switch it off again with “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page, or by clearing your browser data (localStorage) and choosing differently when the banner returns. Google may use cookies to personalize ads; see policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Requests we will honor
The CCPA, as amended by the CPRA, applies to businesses over set thresholds - roughly 25 million dollars in annual revenue, personal information from 100,000 or more California consumers or households, or half of revenue from selling or sharing personal information. We make no claim about whether it covers a company of our size, and we do not ask you to rely on one. We act on the requests below either way.
We will still act on access and deletion requests from any visitor, wherever you live, and we will not charge you or treat you differently for asking. Click logs are keyed to an irreversibly hashed IP address and cannot be tied back to a person, and the technical usage data above is not held against any identifier for you. If you have an account, or wrote to us through the contact or partner form, email info@pcbuildcalculator.com from the same address and we will send you a copy of what we hold or delete it.
Children
The service is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, email info@pcbuildcalculator.com and we will delete it.
Changes
If we update this policy we will post the new version on this page with the date it was updated.