Information stored on your device
Optional learning-path progress is saved in this browser. Use the step buttons to change it, or clear this site’s browser data to remove it.
The Setup Builder and Checklist Builder can store your selected services, budget, equipment choices, checklist progress, and notes in browser storage. We do not send these saved records to a server. They remain until you delete them or clear browser data. Clearing a form and deleting its saved copy are separate actions in the tools.
The site also stores an analytics choice when you save one. If browser storage is blocked or full, a tool shows that it could not save. An analytics choice can still apply for that visit.
Planning links and customer documents
When you move between setup, pricing, and payback tools, numeric planning values can appear in the page address. This lets the next tool receive the figures. That address can appear in browser history and hosting logs. These links exclude customer names and contact details.
The service menu and quote builder keeps document fields in the current page memory. It does not send them to our server, include them in analytics, or save them automatically. Copying, downloading, and printing a document puts a copy where you choose. Leaving or reloading the page clears the document fields.
Analytics
We use PostHog to count page views, tool use, and product link clicks without cookies. In this cookieless mode, analytics sets no cookies and keeps nothing in browser storage. Events leave out query strings, fragments, and ad campaign tags from page addresses. PostHog makes an anonymous visitor ID on its servers from a hash of your IP address, browser details, and a secret value that changes every day. It uses that ID to tell visits apart within a day. The IP address is not stored with the event. Cookieless counts run unless you turn them off in Cookie settings. They also stay off when your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal. PostHog also receives a short error report (error message and code location) when a page script fails. PostHog describes its processing in its privacy policy.
Google Analytics runs only after you allow analytics cookies. The tools work when you decline. Google Analytics can use cookies to distinguish visits and process browser and device details.
Analytics events can include the page path, page title, tool name, calculation action, selected budget, and product source link. Some tool events also send the figures you calculated: hours, hourly pay target, and minimum price (pricing); profit per job, monthly operating profit, whether startup cost is recovered, and jobs to recover it (break-even); total cost and job count (cost per detail); container size, strength, and label format (dilution); whether you entered a payload limit (water tank); and checklist items complete and total. Setup events send the mode, budget, and counts of services, owned items, and buy-now items. Paid-link clicks send the product name, retailer, Amazon product number, and the site name of the link. Page addresses exclude query strings and fragments. Customer details, checklist notes, and complete saved records are excluded. Automatic interaction capture, session recording, and advertising personalization are off. Use Cookie settings in the footer to refuse Google Analytics cookies, or to turn off all analytics events. Google describes its processing in its privacy policy.
Hosting and technical logs
Cloudflare hosts the site. It uses Cloudflare Workers to serve pages, an R2 storage bucket as a page cache, Cloudflare Images to resize images, and network error logging to report failed connections. Delivering and protecting the site can involve ordinary request information, including an IP address, browser details, page address, and request time. Cloudflare describes its data practices in its privacy policy. This technical processing is separate from optional product analytics.
Cloudflare Web Analytics is currently enabled. It uses a cookieless beacon that runs whatever you choose in Cookie settings. It collects the page path (without the query string), referrer, browser, device, and page load timings. Cookie settings do not turn it off.
External links
When you open a manufacturer, retailer, or other external link, that site receives an ordinary web request. Its own privacy policy applies. We do not control its cookies or other data collection.
Amazon paid links include a public tracking ID that identifies Detail Compass. Amazon uses the link to attribute qualifying purchases and may use cookies under its own privacy policy. These links do not include your calculator inputs, saved plans, or checklist notes.
Your choices
- Use every core tool without an account.
- Refuse analytics cookies, or turn off all analytics in Cookie settings.
- Delete saved work in each tool or clear browser site data.
- Keep sensitive customer and payment information out of saved checklist notes. Use only the details needed for a quote, and store exported documents with care.
Changes to this notice
Detail Compass does not currently offer accounts, checkout, email subscriptions, advertising trackers, or cloud storage for plans. This notice will be updated before new data collection is introduced.