Analytics and cookie choices
We use two measurement services to see which pages and tools people use: Plausible Analytics (Plausible Insights OÜ, European Union) and Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC, United States). They receive page-view information and a small set of actions, such as running the path checker, reaching an answer, exporting a budget or following a link to a retailer.
These requests include browser and connection information, including your IP address. We send each service a page address without its query string or fragment, and we send Google no referring address.
Plausible measures visits without cookies and without any identifier that follows you between sites. We send it a page address without its query string or fragment. It also receives the referring page address when your browser provides one.
Your budget amounts, desk measurements, audio settings and contact fields are never included in what we send. When you start the mic test, play your first clip or finish a before-and-after report, we count that action. We never send your audio, mic name, microphone ID, levels or the notes you type.
Plausible counts every visit without cookies. It may receive browser and device information and a referring page.
Google Analytics is run by Google, which receives the page address, the actions we measure on this site and browser and device information, and sets cookies that tell repeat visits apart. Its advertising features are off.
In the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and whenever we cannot tell which country a visit comes from, Google Analytics loads only after you choose Accept on the bar at the bottom of the page. Decline loads nothing from Google. Your choice is kept in this browser for six months, then the bar asks again.
Elsewhere, Google Analytics loads with each page unless you choose Decline. Cloudflare, which delivers our pages, tells your browser which country the visit comes from.
Wherever you are, Cookie choices at the bottom of any page, or the button below, changes your choice. Decline stops Google Analytics on this site in this browser and deletes its analytics cookies. If analytics was running, the page reloads to apply your choice. Decline holds on every page; outside the countries above it is kept until you change it.
Who else receives data, and why
Google LLC (Google Analytics 4) for page and action measurement. Google's privacy policy is at policies.google.com/privacy.
Plausible Insights OÜ for cookie-free page measurement, hosted in the European Union.
Amazon.com Services LLC, when your browser loads a product photograph from Amazon's image service or you follow a link to an Amazon listing. Amazon receives the connection information needed to serve the image or the page, including your IP address, and applies its own privacy notice and cookies once you arrive.
If a display advertising network is added to this site in future, this page will name it and describe what it receives before the first advertisement is served.
If you are in the EEA or the UK
Plausible’s cookie-free measurement runs on our legitimate interest in understanding which pages and tools are used. Google Analytics runs only with your consent, which you give or refuse on the cookie bar and can withdraw at any time under Cookie choices; its advertising features are off. We do not sell or share personal information, and we run no profiling or automated decision-making.
You can ask what we hold, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, or object to measurement. Use the contact page. Because we hold no account for you, a request usually has to be matched to a specific page visit and time before we can act on it.
Measurement data is retained by Google for 14 months and by Plausible in aggregate form without an expiry.
Your tool inputs
Calculators run in your browser. Measurements and budget amounts are not saved or sent. A shared checker link includes only selected product and platform options.
The mic test asks for microphone access only after you start it. Live audio and recordings stay in this tab’s memory; nothing is uploaded. A recording is saved only if you choose Download recording, and then only to your own device. Stop turns the microphone off. Clear, a new test, changing the mic or leaving the page discards the recording. Moving to another tab stops capture and clears an unfinished recording. Hear yourself sends your voice only to your own headphones, and clips kept as mic A and mic B for comparison stay in the tab like any other recording. A before-and-after case (two tests side by side, with any notes you type and, if you choose, their clips) stays in the tab too; only if you tick Keep this case on this device is it saved, in your browser’s own storage on your device, until you delete it there or clear this site’s data. Its report is printed or downloaded only when you choose to. The headphone test, tone generator, delay test and voice recorder work the same way: sound is made and measured in the tab, the delay test uses the microphone only while it runs, and the voice recorder saves a file only when you download it. You can remove microphone permission in your browser’s site settings.
Retailer and manufacturer links
Amazon links carry our affiliate tracking id so a sale can be attributed to this site. They carry nothing about you, your budget or your measurements. Manufacturer links are ordinary untagged links and open their own websites, which have separate privacy policies. There are no advertising pixels on this site.
Product photographs
When a product photo is available, your browser loads it from Amazon's image service and the photo is itself a link to the Amazon listing. Amazon receives the connection information needed to deliver it, including your IP address. Nothing you enter into a tool on this site is attached to these image requests.
Contact form
The contact form sends your message, your reply address, your name if you give one, and any page or source you add through Cloudflare, which runs an automatic security check that never asks you to solve anything. We keep each message in our contact inbox at Cloudflare for 12 months, then it is deleted automatically, and a copy goes to a private Discord channel our team reads.
We use your reply address only to answer you. To see or delete a message you sent, use the same form and we will delete both copies. Please do not include passwords, keys or private documents.
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