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Privacy policy

benchr has no accounts, no signup forms, and no tracking pixels of its own. The site is funded by Google AdSense ads. Here's everything the site touches — including the ad cookies — and how to opt out of the parts run by third parties.

· Policy URL: benchr.org/privacy

What benchr itself collects

Nothing that identifies you. The site is static HTML with no accounts, no comment system, no newsletter form, and no first-party analytics script. benchr's own code sets no tracking cookies and builds no profiles of readers. The one exception on the page is advertising: pages that carry ads load Google AdSense, which sets its own cookies — covered in the Advertising section below.

What's stored in your browser

A few preferences live in your browser's localStorage and never leave your device: your light/dark theme choice (benchr-theme), and the style options you pick in the share-image export panel. A small benchr-theme cookie may mirror the theme choice so pages render in the right mode before scripts load. Clearing your browser storage removes all of it. None of this is sent to us. On pages that carry ads, Google's advertising script may additionally set cookies of its own (for example __gads and __gpi) — see Advertising. Clearing your cookies removes those too.

Third-party services the pages load

Some page resources come from third-party servers, which receive your IP address and standard request headers when your browser fetches them:

  • Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / fonts.gstatic.com) — serves the site's typefaces. See Google's privacy policy.
  • CDN scripts (cdn.jsdelivr.net, cdnjs.cloudflare.com) — a small number of pages load an animation library or, only when you click a download button, the image-export libraries from a CDN.
  • Google AdSense (pagead2.googlesyndication.com and related Google advertising domains) — serves the ads that fund the site. It receives your IP address, user agent and the page URL, and uses cookies as described in the Advertising section below.
  • Google Firebase (Firestore) (firestore.googleapis.com) — the homepage fetches its small “Latest from X” card strip from a read-only Firestore collection. The request carries your IP address and standard headers; nothing about you is stored.

Advertising

benchr is funded by advertising served through Google AdSense. Most article and tool pages load Google's ad script; this page, the terms page, and the homepages don't. Because the ads are Google-served, the following applies:

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or to other websites.
  • Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet. On this domain those cookies typically include __gads and __gpi; Google's own domains may also set cookies such as the DoubleClick IDE cookie.
  • You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings, and opt out of some other vendors' advertising cookies at aboutads.info/choices.
  • Visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland see a consent message (Google's certified consent management platform) before any advertising cookies or personal data are used for ads. Declining limits ads to non-personalised ones, and the choice can be changed or withdrawn at any time via the privacy link shown with the message.
  • How Google uses information from sites that use its services is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Hosting and server logs

benchr is served by its hosting provider, which keeps standard, short-lived server logs (IP address, user agent, requested URL) for security and operations, like effectively every website. We don't combine these logs with any other data, because we have no other data.

Security

Reasonable security measures are used to protect the site and its infrastructure, but no method of transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Security reports are welcome at the address published in our security.txt.

Your rights

benchr does not maintain user accounts or personal profiles. Most information described in this policy either remains on your device or is processed by the third-party services listed above, each of which has its own controls linked in this policy. If you'd like to exercise a privacy right available under the laws of your region, or believe something on this page is inaccurate, email security@benchr.org and we'll respond. Visitors in the EEA and UK can also change or withdraw their advertising-consent choice at any time, as described in the Advertising section.

Policy URL

The canonical location of this policy is https://benchr.org/privacy. If you're reading a copy anywhere else, check that address for the current version.

Changes to this policy

If the site ever adds a service that changes what's collected — analytics, a newsletter, anything — this page will be updated first and the effective date above will change. The page history is tracked like every other benchr page.