Cookies Policy
Effective Date: 8 September 2026
Last Updated: 8 September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how RoofPitchCalculator.org uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
RoofPitchCalculator.org is personally owned and operated by:
Daniel Brooks
Civil Engineer · Founder
RoofPitchCalculator.org
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how we collect, use and protect information.
By using our Website, you can manage non-essential cookies through the cookie consent controls provided to you.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites may store on your browser or device.
They can be used for purposes such as:
- Making a website function correctly
- Remembering your preferences
- Maintaining security
- Measuring website usage
- Understanding how visitors interact with pages
- Remembering cookie-consent choices
Some cookies are set directly by RoofPitchCalculator.org, while others may be set by third-party services used on the Website.
2. Why We Use Cookies
We may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep the Website functioning correctly
- Remember your cookie preferences
- Maintain website security
- Understand how visitors use the Website
- Measure traffic and engagement
- Improve our calculators
- Improve our roofing guides and content
- Diagnose technical problems
- Analyse website performance
- Support third-party services where appropriate
We aim to use only the cookies necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
3. Your Cookie Choices
When you visit RoofPitchCalculator.org, you may be shown a cookie consent notice.
Depending on your location and the options available through our consent system, you may be able to:
- Accept All
- Reject Non-Essential Cookies
- Customise Your Preferences
Where required by applicable law, non-essential cookies such as analytics cookies will not be activated until the appropriate consent has been provided.
Rejecting non-essential cookies should not prevent you from using the core Roof Pitch Calculator or reading our website content.
Essential cookies may still operate because they are required for basic Website functionality, security or remembering your privacy choices.
4. Categories of Cookies We Use
We may use the following categories of cookies.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are required for the Website to operate correctly.
These cookies may support functions such as:
- Website security
- Cookie-consent management
- Remembering whether you accepted or rejected cookies
- Preventing malicious or abusive activity
- Maintaining technical website functionality
- Supporting essential server or website operations
Because these cookies are necessary for the Website to function, they may not require consent in jurisdictions where applicable law permits their use without consent.
You may still be able to block them through your browser, but doing so may cause parts of the Website to stop functioning correctly.
5. Cookie Consent Preference Cookies
Our cookie consent system may store a cookie or similar record to remember the privacy choices you make.
For example, it may remember whether you:
- Accepted cookies
- Rejected non-essential cookies
- Selected particular cookie categories
This prevents the Website from asking you to make the same choice every time you visit.
The exact cookie name may depend on the cookie-consent solution currently used on RoofPitchCalculator.org.
These preference cookies are generally treated as necessary because they are used to remember your privacy choices.
6. Analytics Cookies
RoofPitchCalculator.org uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand how visitors use the Website.
Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
- Traffic source
- Referral source
- Device type
- Browser
- Operating system
- Approximate geographic information
- Website engagement
- Navigation between pages
- Interactions with Website features
We use this information to understand how our Website performs and to improve our calculators, guides and user experience.
Google Analytics information is not intended to tell us your name or directly identify you as an individual.
7. Google Analytics Cookies
Depending on our Google Analytics configuration and your consent choices, cookies may include cookies such as:
_ga
This cookie is commonly used by Google Analytics to distinguish users or browsers for statistical purposes.
It may be retained for a period determined by Google’s configuration and our analytics settings.
_ga_<ID>
Google Analytics 4 may use a property-specific _ga_ cookie to maintain session or analytics information associated with a particular GA4 property.
The exact cookie name depends on the Measurement ID used by RoofPitchCalculator.org.
Google may update the names, purposes or duration of its cookies over time.
For the most current technical information about Google Analytics cookies, users may refer to Google’s own documentation.
8. How We Use Google Analytics Information
We may use GA4 information to understand:
- How many people visit RoofPitchCalculator.org
- Which pages receive the most traffic
- Which calculators visitors use
- Which roofing guides are most useful
- What device types are used
- How visitors move through the Website
- Whether visitors encounter usability issues
- Which traffic sources send visitors to us
- How Website performance changes over time
This information helps us improve the Website.
For example, if analytics show that visitors frequently leave a calculator at a particular step, we may review that area to make it easier to understand or use.
9. Google Search Console
RoofPitchCalculator.org also uses Google Search Console.
Google Search Console helps us understand how the Website performs in Google Search, including information such as:
- Search queries
- Search impressions
- Search clicks
- Average search positions
- Indexing information
- Website crawling issues
- Search performance
- Technical search issues
Connecting RoofPitchCalculator.org to Google Search Console does not ordinarily require us to place Search Console tracking cookies on visitors’ devices.
Google Search Console primarily provides us with information collected through Google’s search systems rather than operating as a visitor-tracking script in the same way as Google Analytics.
10. Functional Cookies
We may use functional cookies where necessary to remember preferences or improve Website functionality.
These could include preferences relating to:
- Interface settings
- Calculator settings
- Unit preferences
- Cookie choices
- Other Website preferences
At present, not every calculator necessarily stores these settings in cookies.
If we introduce additional functionality that uses preference cookies, we may update this policy accordingly.
11. Security and Technical Cookies
Our hosting provider, security tools or Website infrastructure may use cookies or similar technologies for technical and security purposes.
These may help with:
- Detecting malicious traffic
- Preventing spam
- Protecting forms
- Preventing automated abuse
- Maintaining website stability
- Protecting server resources
- Detecting suspicious activity
These technologies may be treated as strictly necessary where they are required to provide or secure the Website.
12. Contact Form and Feedback Form
RoofPitchCalculator.org includes both:
- A contact form
- A feedback form
The forms themselves may use essential technical mechanisms for purposes such as:
- Form submission
- Spam protection
- Security
- Validation
- Preventing automated abuse
If we later integrate a third-party anti-spam, CAPTCHA or similar service that uses additional cookies, we may update this Cookie Policy and our consent settings accordingly.
Information submitted through these forms is handled as explained in our Privacy Policy.
13. Cookies We Do Not Currently Use for Account Login
You do not need to create an account to use our standard Roof Pitch Calculator.
Therefore, ordinary visitors are not required to receive login or account-session cookies simply to calculate roof pitch.
Administrative cookies used by the website owner or authorised Website administrators may exist separately from cookies used by ordinary public visitors.
14. Advertising Cookies
At the time of publication, this policy does not assume that advertising cookies are actively being used unless advertising services have been enabled on the Website.
If RoofPitchCalculator.org introduces services such as display advertising in the future, advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies to:
- Display advertisements
- Measure ad performance
- Prevent excessive repetition
- Detect invalid traffic
- Measure conversions
- Personalise advertising where legally permitted
Where consent is required, advertising cookies will be placed only in accordance with the visitor’s consent choices.
This Cookie Policy will be updated if our advertising practices materially change.
15. Affiliate Tracking Cookies
RoofPitchCalculator.org may link to third-party websites, products or services.
If affiliate links are introduced in the future, third-party providers may use cookies to identify whether a purchase or other qualifying action originated from our Website.
Where applicable, affiliate relationships will be disclosed appropriately.
16. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
Cookies may be classified as either first-party or third-party.
First-Party Cookies
These are cookies associated directly with RoofPitchCalculator.org.
They may be used for:
- Consent preferences
- Essential functionality
- Security
- Website settings
Third-Party Cookies
These are cookies or technologies provided by an external service.
For example, Google Analytics may use Google-related technologies to provide analytics services.
Third-party providers are responsible for their own privacy and cookie practices.
17. Session and Persistent Cookies
Cookies can also be classified according to how long they remain on your device.
Session Cookies
Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser.
They may be used for temporary website functionality.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
These may be used to remember:
- Cookie preferences
- Analytics identifiers
- Website settings
The exact retention period depends on the particular cookie and service.
18. Current Cookie Summary
The following table describes the main types of cookies we expect to use.
| Cookie / Technology | Provider | Purpose | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consent preference cookie | RoofPitchCalculator.org / consent provider | Remembers whether you accepted, rejected or customised cookies | Strictly Necessary |
_ga |
Google Analytics | Helps distinguish browsers/users for analytics purposes | Analytics |
_ga_<ID> |
Google Analytics 4 | Helps maintain analytics/session information for the GA4 property | Analytics |
| Security/technical cookies, where used | Website infrastructure/security provider | Helps secure and operate the Website | Strictly Necessary |
| Form-related technical storage, where used | RoofPitchCalculator.org / form provider | Supports contact and feedback form functionality | Strictly Necessary |
The exact cookie names can vary depending on configuration, service-provider updates and Website changes.
We may update this table as our Website changes.
19. How to Change Your Cookie Preferences
You can manage your cookie choices through our Website’s cookie consent controls.
Where available, you can:
- Accept all cookies
- Reject non-essential cookies
- Choose particular categories
If you change your mind later, you may be able to reopen the cookie preference controls from the Website’s cookie settings or consent link.
Where technically available, changing your preference may affect future cookie use but may not automatically remove every cookie previously stored on your device.
You can also delete cookies through your browser.
20. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most modern browsers allow you to control cookies.
You can usually:
- View stored cookies
- Delete cookies
- Block all cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Allow cookies only from selected websites
- Receive alerts before cookies are stored
The exact settings depend on your browser.
Blocking all cookies may affect the functionality of some websites, including certain parts of RoofPitchCalculator.org.
21. Withdrawing Consent
Where our use of a cookie or similar technology depends on your consent, you may withdraw your consent.
You can do this through our cookie preference controls where available.
Withdrawing consent does not make previous lawful processing invalid, but it may prevent future use of the relevant non-essential technologies.
22. Google Analytics and Your Choices
If you reject analytics cookies through our consent system, we aim to prevent non-essential Google Analytics tracking from being activated where consent is required.
You may also use browser settings or privacy tools to limit analytics tracking.
Google may also provide its own tools or browser extensions for limiting Google Analytics measurement.
23. International Visitors
Cookie and privacy rules vary between countries and regions.
Visitors from jurisdictions such as the European Economic Area and United Kingdom may be given consent controls before certain non-essential cookies are activated.
Visitors from certain US states may also have additional privacy rights regarding particular tracking or advertising practices.
For more information about privacy rights, please see our:
Privacy Policy/privacy-policy/
24. Do Not Track and Browser Privacy Signals
Some browsers provide “Do Not Track” or other privacy preference mechanisms.
There is not one universally applied standard governing every such signal.
Where applicable law requires us to recognise a supported privacy preference mechanism, we aim to comply with that requirement.
25. External Websites
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites.
Those websites may use their own cookies.
Once you leave RoofPitchCalculator.org, this Cookie Policy no longer governs cookies placed by another website.
You should review the relevant third party’s privacy and cookie policies if you want to understand their practices.
26. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.
This may happen if we:
- Add or remove Website services
- Change our cookie consent platform
- Change our Google Analytics configuration
- Introduce advertising
- Introduce affiliate services
- Change Website functionality
- Introduce new third-party tools
- Change our privacy practices
- Need to respond to changes in applicable law
When changes are made, the Last Updated date at the top of this page will be revised.
27. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies on RoofPitchCalculator.org, please contact:
Daniel Brooks
Civil Engineer · Founder
RoofPitchCalculator.org