Last Updated: November 4, 2026
Welcome to WattTriage ([https://watttriage.com](https://watttriage.com), referred to as “the Site,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We provide technical troubleshooting guides, emergency power tutorials, and equipment reviews. We respect your personal privacy and are committed to protecting it through transparent data practices.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.
1. Information We Collect
A. Information You Voluntarily Provide
We collect personal information that you intentionally provide to us when you:
- Submit a Contact Form: When you reach out via our contact page, we collect your name, email address, and the contents of your message.
- Leave a Comment: If you post a comment on a guide, WordPress may collect your name, email address, website, and IP address to help detect spam.
- Subscribe to Communications: If you sign up for updates, guides, or newsletters, we collect your email address.
B. Information Collected Automatically
When you navigate the Site, certain non-identifying technical data is automatically logged by our web servers, caching solutions, and analytics tools:
- Log & Device Data: Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and timestamps.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and local storage to remember user preferences, ensure site security, analyze traffic trends, and track outbound affiliate link referrals.
2. How We Use Your Information
We process collected information for legitimate operational purposes, including to:
- Deliver, maintain, and optimize our troubleshooting content and website architecture.
- Monitor site performance, detect security vulnerabilities, prevent spam, and optimize server caching.
- Respond directly to your inquiries, technical questions, or editorial feedback.
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms of use.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for their own commercial marketing purposes.
3. Affiliate & Third-Party Disclosure (FTC Compliance)
WattTriage participates in affiliate marketing programs, which are designed to provide a means for websites to earn advertising fees by linking to relevant tools, replacement parts, and emergency power equipment.
- When you click an affiliate link on our site and make a purchase, the merchant places a tracking cookie on your browser to credit WattTriage with a small commission at no additional cost to you.
- Third-party affiliate partners may include Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, Home Depot, Northern Tool, or specialized small-engine and generator parts retailers.
- These third-party retailers maintain their own distinct privacy policies and cookie tracking protocols. We encourage you to review their respective policies upon navigating to their platforms.
4. Third-Party Services & Analytics
We may partner with vetted third-party service providers to help manage and monitor our site:
- Website Analytics: We use tools such as Google Analytics to measure site traffic and audience engagement. These services collect aggregated, anonymized browsing information using cookies.
- Content Delivery & Security: We may utilize platforms like Cloudflare or QUIC.cloud to cache static content, mitigate DDoS attacks, and accelerate page load speeds globally.
- Embedded Content & External Links: Our articles may feature links to OEM technical documentation, service manuals, or external videos. Interacting with embedded external content behaves identically to visiting those third-party sites directly.
5. Cookie Management & Opt-Outs
Most web browsers accept cookies by default. You have the right to disable or delete cookies at any time via your browser settings:
- You can configure your browser to block all cookies or alert you when a cookie is being sent.
- You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites by installing the official Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
- Please note that disabling essential cookies may impact certain site functionality, such as comment forms or theme preferences.
6. Data Retention
- Contact Submissions: Information submitted via contact forms is retained only as long as necessary to resolve your inquiry and maintain customer service records.
- Comments: If you leave an approved comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
- Analytics Data: Non-identifiable web traffic logs and aggregate analytics data are retained in accordance with our analytics providers’ standard data retention cycles (typically 14 months).
7. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction (such as California under the CCPA/CPRA, or the European Economic Area/UK under the GDPR), you may have specific rights regarding your personal information:
- Right to Know/Access: Request details regarding the categories and specific pieces of personal data we have collected about you.
- Right to Correction: Request updates or corrections to any inaccurate personal information.
- Right to Deletion: Request the deletion of personal data we maintain about you, subject to legal exceptions (such as resolving disputes or complying with statutory requirements).
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will never deny services, charge different rates, or provide lower quality content because you exercised your statutory privacy rights.
To submit a request regarding your data, contact us using the details in Section 10 below.
8. Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA)
WattTriage is an adult technical resource directed at homeowners, DIY mechanics, and equipment operators. We do not knowingly market to or collect personal information from children under the age of 13 (or under 16 where required by local law). If we discover that a child has submitted personal data to us, we will promptly delete it from our servers.
9. Updates to This Policy
We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect site enhancements, new affiliate relationships, or legal regulatory requirements. When updates are published, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. Continued use of WattTriage following posted changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms.