Privacy Policy
This page is a draft for review. It is not legal advice. Auburnbusiness.com (Keith) should review it, and should consider having a lawyer review it, before it is published. Laws vary, and this text may need to change when ads or affiliate links actually go live.
Effective date: November 12, 2026 (America/Chicago). Update this date when the page is published or materially revised.
This privacy policy describes how Auburnbusiness.com (“we,” “us”) handles information on sourdoughstartercalculator.com (the “site”).
Publisher: Auburnbusiness.com
6100 Kitt Lane NW, Apt 1013
Huntsville, AL 35806
United States
Email: jkeith@auburnbusiness.com
The calculator does not collect your formulas
The feeding-ratio and true-hydration calculator runs entirely in your browser. The numbers you type are not sent to our servers, not stored by us, and not used for advertising. If you reload the page, those numbers are gone.
Information we collect when you contact us
If you use the contact form or email jkeith@auburnbusiness.com, we receive the information you choose to send. The form is designed to collect your name, email address, and message. We use that information to read the message and reply. We do not use the contact form as a marketing list, and we do not sell that information.
Email and form messages are ordinary correspondence. We keep them long enough to respond and to keep a record of the conversation, then we may delete them or retain them as we would any other business email. If you want a message deleted, email us at the address above and we will do what we reasonably can.
Do not send sensitive personal information (for example, a Social Security number or a payment card number) through the form. This site does not take payments.
Hosting and technical data
The site is hosted by Hostinger. The domain’s DNS is managed at Cloudflare. Like most hosts and DNS providers, they may process technical information that is created when your browser requests the site — for example, IP address, browser type, the pages requested, and the time of the request — in order to deliver the site, keep it secure, and diagnose problems.
We do not control Hostinger’s or Cloudflare’s own systems. Their handling of information is described in their own policies. You can find Hostinger’s privacy policy on hostinger.com and Cloudflare’s privacy policy on cloudflare.com.
Until we add advertising or analytics, we do not intentionally place marketing cookies of our own. The site may still use cookies or similar technology that are strictly necessary for hosting, security, or the contact form (for example, a spam-protection token).
Future Google AdSense cookies and ads
This site does not display Google AdSense ads at launch. If we later apply for and are approved to use Google AdSense, we will use this section, and we will update the effective date.
Google’s AdSense help on required content states that a publisher’s privacy policy should include the following (quoted here so the notice stays aligned with Google’s requirements):
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Source: Required content – Google AdSense Help.
Google’s publisher privacy disclosures also require a policy that clearly describes data collection, sharing, and use that takes place because of Google products, including cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers, and that third parties may place and read cookies or use web beacons or IP addresses as a result of ad serving. Google offers a link to How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. Source: Privacy disclosures – Publisher Policies Help.
If other ad vendors later serve ads on this site, we will name them here and point to their opt-out information, or to www.aboutads.info, as Google’s required-content page describes.
If we show ads to users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we will also need a consent mechanism that meets Google’s EU user consent policy. That mechanism is not in place at launch because ads are not yet running.
Amazon Associates
This site is not yet enrolled in the Amazon Associates Program. If we later join the program and place links to Amazon, those links may include tracking that Amazon uses to attribute a purchase and pay a commission. Amazon’s handling of information is described in Amazon’s privacy notice. Our affiliate disclosure will apply once those links are live.
How we share information
We share contact-form and email messages with the inbox they are delivered to (jkeith@auburnbusiness.com). Hostinger, Cloudflare, our email provider, and — if and when they are enabled — Google and Amazon may process information as described above in order to provide their services. We may also disclose information if we believe we are required to do so by law, or to protect the site and our rights.
We do not sell your personal information.
Children
The site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Links to other sites
Guides on this site may later link to other websites, including Amazon. Their privacy practices are their own.
Changes
We may update this policy. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top of this page. If we begin using AdSense or Amazon Associates, we will treat that as a material change and update this policy before or at the time those features go live.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent to jkeith@auburnbusiness.com or by mail to the address above, or through the contact form.