Privacy Policy
Browse Without an Account
You can browse and compare products without signing in. We collect limited usage data, including retailer-link clicks, to understand which comparisons are useful and to run the site.
What We Don't Do
- No account required to browse or compare products
- No analytics cookies
- No newsletter email collection unless you explicitly subscribe
- No data sold to third parties
- No analytics that identify you personally
What We Do Collect
We use the following information for the features you choose:
- Local storage: Your "New vs Refurbished" preference (stored only on your device)
- Weekly digest: If you subscribe, we store your email so we can send the editorial roundup
- Watchlist: If you sign in and save a product, we store that saved-product choice for your account
How We Use Data
This includes the analytics used when you follow a retailer link.
| Data | Why | Who else sees it | Kept |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email address | Only if you subscribe to the weekly digest | Our email provider, to deliver it | Until you ask us to delete it |
| Google account name and email, and the products you save | Only if you sign in, so your watchlist follows you between devices | Google, which handles the sign-in itself | Until you ask us to delete it |
| Browser-only preferences and session values | To remember your display choices and support the site's session-level features | Nobody. It stays in your browser and never reaches us | Until you clear your browser storage |
| Pages viewed, referring site, approximate region, device and browser type | Aggregate traffic measurement | Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless | Aggregate only, never tied to you |
| Retailer-link click time, source page, product, retailer, destination, link label and placement, and displayed price when available | To measure useful comparisons and understand retailer referrals | Our click services hosted by Fly.io and Vercel, with dashboard storage at Upstash. The retailer handles your visit under its own policy | API click records and an older click summary have no automatic expiry. New dashboard daily records expire after up to 400 days. Click data is not linked to your account |
| Server logs, including IP address | To run and secure the site | Our hosting provider | Short-term, per the host's retention |
Our click dashboard receives the retailer URL to classify the link, but stores its host and path without query parameters or affiliate tags. We do not include your email, account ID, or browser-only analytics session ID in click records.
No passwords, because Google handles sign-in and never shares one with us, and no payment details, because we sell nothing directly. We don't sell, rent, or trade any of it.
Deleting Your Data
Two different things, so we'll be precise about which is which:
- Stopping the emails. The unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email marks your subscription inactive. You stop hearing from us immediately, but the record stays in our database.
- Deleting the record. Email privacy@theresmac.com and we will erase it. This covers your subscriber record, your saved watchlist, and your account.
Deletion requests are handled by hand, so allow up to 30 days. Send the request from the address you signed up or signed in with so we can match it to the right record, and we'll confirm once it's done.
You can also remove individual saved products from your watchlist yourself at any time, which deletes those rows straight away.
Affiliate Disclosure
TheresMac participates in affiliate programs (Amazon Associates, eBay Partner Network). When you click a retailer link and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.
This doesn't affect which products we show or how we rank them. We show the best prices regardless of affiliate relationships.
Third-Party Links
We link to retailer websites (Apple, Amazon, B&H, etc.). These sites have their own privacy policies. We don't control how they handle your data.
Changes
If we ever change this policy, we'll post the update here. But our core principle won't change: minimal data, maximum privacy.
Contact
Questions? Contact us at privacy@theresmac.com
Last updated: September 24, 2026