This tool is built to be useful first and creepy never. BoxSelector keeps as little about you as it can. It does two things worth being upfront about: it shows adverts through Google AdSense, and it keeps anonymous stats about which gearboxes and ratios people use. The advertising is the part where a third party (Google) uses data for its own purposes, so it is spelled out in full below. Where the law asks for consent, Google's own consent message asks before any advertising cookies are used. The stats never identify you and store nothing on your device, so they do not need a consent bar. The hosting company handles some server data too, and that is covered further down.
What BoxSelector itself collects
- Your tool inputs and selections - tyre size, RPM targets, selected gearboxes, diff ratios, transfer-case choices and custom ratio sets - kept only as anonymous, aggregated stats. Nothing is stored on your device to make this work.
- A coarse country or region label, if the hosting setup supplies one. At the moment it does not. Nothing more precise, and nothing that identifies you.
- These stats exist for one reason: deciding which gearboxes, transfer cases and features to add next.
What BoxSelector does not store
- No IP addresses, user agents, names, account IDs or precise locations are stored in BoxSelector's own stats. To fend off abuse, the server turns your IP address into a salted hash that expires within the hour. It is never saved against anything you did.
- BoxSelector's own stats store nothing on your device and use no identifiers.
- Contact messages contain only what you type into the form - name, email, subject, message - used solely to reply to you.
Advertising (Google AdSense)
- BoxSelector shows adverts through Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies lets Google and its partners serve ads to you based on your visits here and elsewhere on the internet.
- If Google serves ads from other third-party vendors on this site, those vendors may also set cookies. Where Google's consent message is shown, it lists those vendors and lets you choose per purpose and per vendor.
- Where the consent message applies, the ads follow your answer. Turn down personalised advertising and you get non-personalised or limited ads instead.
- Adverts sit around the calculator, not inside it, and never on error pages, search results or the Privacy, Terms and Contact pages.
Turning ads down or off
- You can switch off personalised advertising in Google's Ads Settings at adssettings.google.com.
- You can opt out of many third-party vendors' advertising cookies at aboutads.info/choices and, in the UK and EU, at youronlinechoices.eu.
- Opting out does not make the ads vanish; it just stops them being tailored to you.
Consent, by where you are
- UK, EEA and Switzerland: Google's certified consent message asks before any advertising cookies are set or personalised ads are shown. It is Google's dialog, not ours, which is why it looks like Google.
- US states with their own privacy laws: the same message offers the opt-out from the sale or sharing of your personal information for advertising.
- Everywhere else: ads load straight away, and the opt-outs above apply.
- Changed your mind? Use Privacy & cookie choices in the footer of any page to reopen Google's message where it applies.
Hosting (GoDaddy)
- BoxSelector is hosted by GoDaddy. GoDaddy runs the servers the site lives on, and in doing so processes server data such as IP addresses and request logs on our behalf. In GoDaddy's own terms it acts as a processor here. It handles that data on its customer's instructions or as the law requires, not for its own purposes. The logs are used for security and to keep the site running, not to build a profile of you.
- GoDaddy also adds a small performance script to every page, loaded from img1.wsimg.com. It is part of GoDaddy's Real User Metrics programme and measures things like connection time and page load time. GoDaddy says it collects no user information with it. It is GoDaddy's script, not ours.
- How GoDaddy handles data is set out in GoDaddy's privacy notice (godaddy.com/legal/agreements/privacy-policy).
Who is responsible, your rights, and complaints
- BoxSelector is run under the name BoxSelector, which decides how the data described here is handled. Reach us at boxselector@gmail.com.
- Lawful basis: your consent for advertising cookies (collected by Google's message where the law requires it); our legitimate interest in keeping anonymous stats and keeping the site secure; and, for messages you send, our legitimate interest in replying.
- Under UK GDPR you can ask for a copy of any data held about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, object to processing and withdraw consent whenever you like. Because BoxSelector keeps its own data anonymous and aggregated, there may be nothing tied to you to hand back - but ask and we will tell you straight.
- Google processes advertising data as its own independent controller, under Google's Privacy Policy (policies.google.com/privacy) and Google's advertising page (policies.google.com/technologies/ads). Google may process this data outside the UK and EEA, including in the United States, under its own safeguards.
- If you are unhappy with how your data is handled, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.