🍪 Summary of Cookie Usage
We use minimal cookies and local browser storage strictly to remember your preferences (such as Metric versus Imperial units), analyze aggregated site performance, and support Google AdSense advertising.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work efficiently, provide customized features, and deliver reporting information.
Similar technologies include web storage (such as HTML5 localStorage and sessionStorage), which allow websites to store data directly inside your web browser client.
2. How We Use Cookies and Local Storage
FreeTDEECalculator.app uses cookies and storage technologies for three specific functional purposes:
A. Essential and Functional Preferences
We use browser local storage so that your chosen measurement system (Imperial units such as pounds and feet/inches vs. Metric units such as kilograms and centimeters) remains saved across visits. This prevents you from having to toggle your preferred units every time you calculate your TDEE, BMR, or calorie deficit. These functional preferences do not contain personal health records.
B. Performance and Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect aggregated, non-personally identifiable statistics about visitor traffic, such as page views, device types, screen resolutions, and average calculation duration. This data helps our engineering team optimize page speed, resolve technical bugs, and refine user interface usability.
C. Advertising Cookies
To maintain FreeTDEECalculator.app as a 100% free tool without paid subscription walls, we partner with third-party advertising networks, primarily Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other sites across the internet.
3. Third-Party Advertising and Google AdSense
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads.
4. How to Control and Disable Cookies
You have full control over your cookie preferences. You can configure your browser to accept or reject cookies, delete existing cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set:
- Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Third-party cookies.
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
- Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data.
- Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and Site Permissions > Manage and delete cookies.
In addition, you can opt out of targeted advertising from participating industry members through:
- Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): https://optout.aboutads.info/
- Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): https://optout.networkadvertising.org/
5. Impact of Disabling Cookies
If you choose to disable cookies or clear local storage, all calculation tools on FreeTDEECalculator.app will remain 100% accessible and functional. However, preferences such as your active unit toggle (Metric vs Imperial) may reset to default upon reloading the page.
6. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in legal requirements or operational practices. The updated version will be indicated by an updated Effective Date at the top of this page.
7. Contact Information
If you have any questions or feedback regarding our use of cookies, please reach out to our team:
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact Form: Contact Us Page