Last updated 11 November 2026

Privacy

CutCalc is a free set of woodworking calculators. This page says what the site does with information. It is written for this site. It is not a template pasted from a generator, and it is not legal advice.

Calculators

The calculators run in your browser. The numbers you type are used to compute a result on that page. They are not sent to CutCalc, not stored in an account, and not added to a database. There are no accounts.

Pages and the host

The pages are static files. Whoever hosts them may keep connection logs, which can include an IP address, the date, and the page requested. That logging is the host’s, and it is described in the host’s own policy. CutCalc does not add an analytics tag.

What is stored on your device

A theme choice, light or dark, is saved in local storage under the key cutcalc-theme if you use the theme button. If you never touch it, the site follows your system setting and does not need to write anything.

If advertising is switched on in the site configuration, an advertising choice is saved under cutcalc-ads-consent. Until you accept, the advertising script is not loaded. Rejecting, or never being asked because ads are off, means no advertising cookie from this site’s tag.

Advertising cookies

Ads are off in the default build. When a valid AdSense publisher ID and ad slot IDs are configured, and you accept, the page loads Google’s ad script. Third parties, including Google, then use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site or other sites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit here and on other sites.

You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google’s Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info. The advertising label on a slot is the only ad the layout reserves space for, and only after you accept.

Europe, the UK, and Switzerland

To serve personalized ads in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, Google requires a consent management platform that Google has certified and that uses the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. From 1 March 2026, new consent strings are expected to be TCF version 2.3. The practical way to meet that, for AdSense, is to publish a European regulations message in AdSense Privacy & messaging. That message is Google’s certified CMP. It is delivered with the ad tag.

The accept button on this site is an extra gate so the ad tag is not loaded before a choice. It is not itself a certified CMP. After you accept, visitors in those regions should still get the certified message if it has been published in AdSense. If it has not, personalized ads there may be limited or unavailable.

Canada

Federal private-sector privacy law in Canada (PIPEDA) expects meaningful consent, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner has said that opt-out consent for online behavioural advertising depends on clear notice and a working opt-out, and that it is not enough for sensitive information. Quebec’s privacy law is stricter about technology that can identify, locate, or profile a person: people have to be told, and those functions are not supposed to be on until they choose them. The Commission d’accès à l’information has warned against banners that make refusal harder than acceptance.

That is why ads, when they exist at all, wait for an equal Accept or Reject choice before any ad script loads. Google’s certified CMP requirement, as Google states it, covers the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland. It is not a Canadian statute. The local choice is here because Canadian visitors, especially in Quebec, should not get tracking cookies just by opening a calculator.

Children

The site is written for adults in a shop. It is not directed at children, and it does not ask for anyone’s age or name.

Contact

Questions about this policy are described on the contact page. CutCalc does not publish a personal email address.