Privacy Policy

What we collect

Blind Spec is operated by Merchant Dash LLC. We collect usage information about which pages are read, and the email address you give us if you subscribe to the newsletter or send a message. We do not sell personal data.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand aggregate traffic, which guides and tools are useful, and where readers arrive from. Analytics may use browser identifiers and cookies to distinguish visits.

Window planner & measuring notes

The window planner and measuring worksheet work without an account or email address. Room choices, opening names, raw readings and seller-review notes stay on the current page unless you choose to save or download them. Save on this device keeps a copy in this browser until you remove it or clear browser data. The worksheet keeps one saved copy; saving again replaces it. Remove saved worksheet removes only that worksheet’s saved copy and leaves the notes currently open on the page. Downloading creates a file on your device. The measuring tool does not send your names, readings or notes to our server or analytics.

We measure tool starts, completed plans, save or print requests, guide visits and affiliate clicks. Planner events can include broad choices such as room type, light goal, installation preference and recommended category. These events do not include your measurements, window count, email address or downloaded plan contents. Analytics availability depends on your browser and privacy settings.

Blind Spec planning in ChatGPT

The planner uses seven preferences: room, light goal, privacy, installation, controls, budget priority and number of openings. The connection may also include technical metadata supplied by the host. The planner computes guidance from the seven preferences without an account. Our application does not save these inputs to a database or write them to application logs. They are held in memory while the request is processed.

OpenAI processes your conversation under its own policies. The card may keep your confirmed preferences and checklist statuses with that widget in ChatGPT and share them as context for a follow-up, but card retention is not guaranteed. Checklist statuses are self-reported notes, not verified fit or a Blind Spec account record. They are not carried to the website. The card does not send measurements, addresses or free-text notes through that update. You can edit the choices in the app or stop using it without creating a Blind Spec account. The app does not include advertising or analytics scripts.

Vercel hosts the planner endpoint and processes technical request information to deliver, secure and troubleshoot the service. This can include request times, requested paths, response status, network addresses and diagnostic errors. These hosting records are separate from the planner inputs that our application does not save to a database or application logs. The project currently uses Vercel Pro without Observability Plus. Vercel documents a one-day retention window for these standard runtime logs. No Vercel log drain is configured for this project. This runtime-log window does not establish how long Vercel keeps separate security or operational records under its Privacy Notice. The app does not provide a control that deletes those records. For questions or requests about this processing, contact support@merchant-dash.com.

If you choose to continue on our website, a link carries your plan in its fragment, the part after the hash sign. That fragment is not sent in the web request. The page reads it into memory and removes it from the address before initializing our analytics. The link also identifies the referring app through ordinary campaign tags. Website analytics and affiliate policies then apply. The plan is saved on your device only if you choose Save on this device.

Affiliate links & cookies

When you click a vendor link, a small attribution cookie may record that the referral came from us so we are credited for any resulting purchase, at no cost to you. Vendors set their own cookies under their own policies once you land on their sites. See our editorial standards for how affiliate revenue does and does not affect our verdicts.

If you arrive from an advertisement we run, for example on ChatGPT, the landing address carries that ad platform's click identifier. We keep it in a first-party cookie for up to 90 days and may report it back to the same platform, with the time you clicked a vendor link and whether a purchase was later credited to us, so the ad can be counted. No name, email address or IP address goes with it. Readers who do not arrive from an ad are not measured this way.

Newsletter & messages

If you joined our newsletter interest list, we store your email for future newsletter updates. Email delivery is not yet available. You can request removal through our contact page. Messages you send through the contact form are used only to reply to you.

Contact

Questions about your data? Email support@merchant-dash.com or use the contact page.