Introduction
Welcome to Sleep Cycle Calculator ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This privacy policy applies to our website at sleep-cycle-calculator.blyship.com and all related services, features, and tools offered by Sleep Cycle Calculator.
Information We Collect
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information that you voluntarily provide when using our website:
- Contact information: If you contact us through our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and any message you send us.
- Sleep data: If you use our sleep debt tracker, the sleep hours and dates you enter are stored locally in your browser using localStorage. This data never leaves your device and is not transmitted to our servers.
- Preferences: Your theme preference (light/dark mode) is stored locally in your browser.
Information We Collect Automatically
When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device and usage:
- Log data: IP address, browser type, browser version, pages visited, time and date of visit, time spent on pages, and other diagnostic data.
- Cookies and similar technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and improve your experience. You can control cookies through your browser settings.
- Device information: Device type, operating system, screen resolution, and mobile network information.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain our service: Ensuring our calculator and tools work correctly and are available to you.
- To improve our website: Understanding how users interact with our site helps us improve functionality and user experience.
- To respond to your inquiries: If you contact us, we use your information to respond to your questions or feedback.
- For analytics: We use analytics tools to understand traffic patterns and improve our content.
- For advertising: We display advertisements through Google AdSense to support our free service. Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this or other websites.
- To comply with legal obligations: We may process your information to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. You can also learn more about how Google uses data from our site in Google's partner policy.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on our website, which are sent directly to users' browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Data Storage and Security
Local Storage
Most of the data from our calculator tools (sleep entries, preferences) is stored locally in your browser using HTML5 localStorage. This data never leaves your device and is not transmitted to our servers. You can clear this data at any time by clearing your browser's local storage or using the "Clear Data" option in our tools.
Server-Side Data
We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Data Retention
We retain contact form submissions for as long as necessary to respond to your inquiry and for a reasonable period thereafter for record-keeping purposes. Analytics data is retained in accordance with our analytics providers' policies.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data:
- Right to access: You can request copies of your personal data.
- Right to rectification: You can request that we correct any inaccurate information.
- Right to erasure: You can request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to restrict processing: You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to object to processing: You can object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to data portability: You can request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information on our Contact page. We will respond to valid requests within 30 days.
For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority if you are unhappy with our response to your request.
Children's Privacy
Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us so that we can take steps to remove that information from our records.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- By visiting our Contact page
- By email: privacy@blyship.com