Privacy

This page describes how the site works today. It will be updated before anything described here changes.

What we collect

The only personal information we ask for is an email address, and only if you sign up for Price Watch or the Par 3 Gear Brief. The site has no accounts, no comment system and no contact form.

Cookies and tracking

• The site sets no cookies. It keeps three small things in your browser: My Lab, only when you ask it to, and the list of Golf Lab tools whose guide you have closed (both below), and, for this tab only, one word for where your visit started (see Links to retailers).
• It runs no advertising scripts and loads no third-party fonts or embedded content. Fonts and images are served from our own site.
• It counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. This is the one third-party script on the site.

Visitor statistics

To see which pages are read, we use Cloudflare Web Analytics. A small script from Cloudflare measures each page view: the page address, the site you came from, your browser and device type, your country, and how quickly the page loaded. We see these only as totals across all visitors.

Cloudflare says the service “does not use any client-side state, such as cookies or localStorage, to collect usage metrics”, and that it does not “fingerprint” individuals “via their IP address, User Agent string, or any other data for the purpose of displaying analytics.” Cloudflare’s own privacy policy covers how it handles the request itself.

If you block the script, the site works exactly the same.

Hosting

The site is served by a commercial web hosting provider. Like any web host, it receives the technical information your browser sends with each request, such as your IP address and browser type, and may keep it in standard server logs in order to deliver pages and protect the service. We do not use that information to identify visitors.

Links to retailers

Retailer links pass through a redirect on our own site before sending you to the retailer. We do not record these clicks ourselves. Once you arrive at a retailer’s site, that retailer’s own privacy policy applies.

Where the link is an affiliate link, it tells the affiliate network a short label: which of our pages and which spot on it the link was on, and one word for where your visit started, such as “google”, “reddit” or “email” (taken from the link you arrived by or the site you came from). That word is kept in your browser’s session storage for this tab only and is gone when you close it. The network shows us these labels only as totals of clicks and sales, so we can see which pages and channels are useful. The label never contains anything that identifies you.

An affiliate link goes from our redirect to an affiliate network (Awin, CJ and Impact) and then to the retailer. The network may set its own cookie to record that the visit came from Par 3 Gear, and its own privacy policy covers that. The links that do this are labeled “Affiliate link”, and the programs are listed on the affiliate disclosure page.

Price Watch

Price Watch emails you when a product’s price drops at a store we check. It is off until you sign up on a product page.

• What you give. Your email address, the product, whether you want the new or used price, and an optional target price.
• Where it goes. The form sends these to our Price Watch service, which runs on Cloudflare Workers. It passes your email address to Kit, the email service we use, and keeps only Kit’s number for you with the product, condition and target price. Kit keeps your email address, the page you signed up from, and a label for each product you watch.
• Confirming. Kit emails you once to confirm. You get no price emails until you confirm.
• What we send. An email when a watched price drops below your target, or by at least 5% and $10, from info@par3gear.com. Kit records whether each email is opened and which links are clicked, as most email services do. We do not sell or share your address.
• Stopping. Every email has a link to stop watching that product, and Kit’s unsubscribe link, which stops every email from us.

The Par 3 Gear Brief

The Brief is our occasional email on golf gear and prices. It is off until you sign up, for example on the Black Friday price tracker.

• What you give. Your email address.
• Where it goes. The form sends it to the same service as Price Watch, which passes it to Kit, the email service we use. Kit keeps your email address, the page you signed up from, and a label for what you signed up for (such as the Black Friday results), so that an email about it goes only to people who asked.
• Confirming. Kit emails you a link to confirm. Nothing is sent until you do.
• Leaving. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link.
• What we never do. Sell or share your address, or add you to the Brief because you used Price Watch.

Find My Gear

The category you choose on the homepage is used in your browser to filter the list of products. It is not stored and not sent to us beyond the page address itself.

Golf Lab: My Lab

My Lab keeps the Golf Lab numbers you choose to save: your clubs, the carry you entered for each and where it came from, any lofts, models and launch numbers saved with a club, a club’s carry and sideways spread from a Shot Pattern Lab session, the gap band you set, your wedge card from the Wedge Matrix and the band you flag its gaps against, your handicap band and whether your estimates start from men’s or women’s averages, your usual miss, your home course’s altitude and green speed, and the settings of a practice plan you save (sessions a week, minutes a session, weeks, the first day and the time). It holds no name, email address, age or location.

• Only when you press Save. The Golf Lab tools work without saving anything. My Lab is written only when you press “Save to My Lab”, “Save as my bag” or “Save changes”, or confirm an import.
• Only on this device. It is kept in this browser’s local storage, under the key p3g.mylab.v1. Another browser or device does not see it, but anyone using this browser can.
• Never sent. My Lab is not sent to Par 3 Gear or to anyone else. A share link you copy holds only the numbers on that tool’s screen, such as club names, lofts and carries, in the part of the address after the “#”, which browsers do not send to the server. A practice plan’s calendar file is made in your browser and saved to your device; nothing is uploaded.
• Closed guides. When you close a Golf Lab tool’s “What this answers” guide, the tool’s name is kept in this browser’s local storage, under the key p3g.guide.seen, so the guide stays closed on your next visit.
• How to clear it. Press “Clear My Lab” on the My Lab page, or clear this site’s data in your browser’s settings. You can download it as a file first.

Golf Lab: Fitting Prep

The Fitting Prep Report is put together in your browser from My Lab, if you saved it, and the answers you pick. Nothing is sent. The page address holds the club type and your answers, such as your budget and usual miss, so a link you copy reopens them. Like any page address, it reaches our host and visitor statistics. Your carries, handicap band and hand are never in it.

What will change, and how you will know

We may add:

• a record of clicks on retailer links, without personal details, so we can tell which links are used and which are broken,
• an email sign-up for The Par 3 Gear Brief.

This page will describe each of these before it is switched on.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent using the details on the contact page.