Privacy Policy

Summary

US Gas Gauge has no user accounts, no sign-up forms, and no comment system, and it does not ask for your name, email address, or payment details. Information about your visit is collected by Google, which serves advertising (Google AdSense) and measures traffic (Google Analytics) on the site, by our hosting provider’s standard server logs, and, only if you use it, by the trip cost calculator’s route lookup.

Advertising: Google AdSense

The site uses Google AdSense to serve ads. Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure these ads.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
• Other third-party ad vendors or ad networks may also serve ads on the site through Google’s systems and may use their own cookies. A list of these providers is available in Google’s documentation for publishers.

You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google in Google’s Ads Settings. You can opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at optout.aboutads.info or, in Europe, at youronlinechoices.eu. If you opt out, you will still see ads, but they will not be based on your browsing history. Google explains how it uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Traffic measurement: Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages are read. It sets first-party cookies and collects information such as the pages you view, the referring site, your approximate location (derived from your IP address), device type, and browser. We see this only in aggregate reports; we do not use it to identify individual visitors. You can block it with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on or your browser’s cookie settings.

Server logs

Like most websites, the servers that host US Gas Gauge record basic technical information for each request, such as IP address, browser type, the page requested, and the time. These logs are used to operate and secure the site and are not used for advertising. They are kept by the hosting provider under its own retention schedule. The hosting provider’s load balancer also sets a technical cookie used to route requests; it is not used for advertising or analytics.

Trip cost calculator

If you enter a starting point and destination in the trip cost calculator, those place names are sent from our server to OpenStreetMap’s public Nominatim geocoding service and to the OSRM routing service to calculate driving distance. Our server does not store or log the place names: its own log line for each lookup records only whether it succeeded (and the distance found), without the place names or your IP address. As with any web request, the lookup’s address, which contains the place names, may appear in the hosting provider’s request logs under its own retention schedule. If you type the mileage yourself, nothing is sent. OpenStreetMap’s own privacy practices are described in the OSM Foundation privacy policy.

How long data is kept

Google Analytics keeps event data for this site for the retention period set in the site’s Analytics account (Google offers two or fourteen months) and then deletes it. Advertising cookies set by Google expire on the schedules described in Google’s policies. The site itself keeps no visitor accounts or profiles.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland

In these regions, Google’s advertising and analytics tags are set to store nothing on your device unless you consent: until you do, no advertising or analytics cookies are stored, and ads, where shown, are limited to ones that do not use cookies. When Google’s consent message is enabled for the site, consent is requested through it. The legal basis for those cookies is your consent, and once you have made a choice you can change or withdraw it with the “Privacy choices” link at the bottom of every page. You have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal data about you, and to complain to your local data protection authority. Because the site does not hold personal data about visitors itself, requests about advertising and analytics data are handled by Google; you can also write to us at the address below.

Visitors in U.S. states with privacy laws

Some U.S. state laws, including California’s, treat the use of advertising cookies to show ads based on activity on other sites as “sharing” or “targeted advertising.” You can opt out of personalized ads with the “Privacy choices” link at the bottom of every page where it is offered, or through Google’s Ads Settings. We do not sell personal information for money.

Cookies and your choices

The site itself does not set cookies of its own for login, preferences, or tracking. The cookies described above are set by Google. You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings; the site’s prices, charts, and articles work without them.

Sharing and sale of information

We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information, and we do not receive personal information from Google about individual visitors. Information collected by Google through its advertising and analytics tags is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy. We may disclose information if required by law.

Children

The site is a general-audience reference site and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to admin@usgasgauge.com.