Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 22 August 2026
Last Updated: 22 August 2026
RoofPitchCalculator.org respects your privacy and aims to be transparent about how information is collected and used when you visit our website, use our calculators, submit a contact or feedback form, or interact with our content.
RoofPitchCalculator.org is personally owned and operated by Daniel Brooks, Civil Engineer and Founder.
In this Privacy Policy, references to “we”, “us”, “our” and the “Website” refer to RoofPitchCalculator.org and its owner.
This Privacy Policy explains:
- What information we may collect
- How we use that information
- How Google Analytics 4 is used
- How cookies and similar technologies may be used
- How contact and feedback form information is handled
- When information may be shared with service providers
- Your privacy rights
- How to contact us about privacy matters
By using RoofPitchCalculator.org, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Who Operates RoofPitchCalculator.org?
RoofPitchCalculator.org is personally owned and operated by:
Daniel Brooks
Civil Engineer · Founder
RoofPitchCalculator.org
Email: support@roofpitchcalculator.org
Where applicable under data protection law, Daniel Brooks is responsible for determining how personal information collected through this Website is handled.
2. Information We Collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with RoofPitchCalculator.org.
We may collect information in three main ways:
- Information you voluntarily provide
- Information generated when you use our calculators
- Technical and usage information collected automatically
3. Information You Provide Through Our Contact Form
RoofPitchCalculator.org provides a contact form that visitors can use to communicate with us.
Depending on the information requested by the form, you may provide details such as:
- Your name
- Email address
- Subject of your enquiry
- Message
- Other information you choose to include
We use contact form submissions primarily to:
- Respond to enquiries
- Provide support
- Answer questions about our calculators or content
- Investigate reported website problems
- Respond to business or general communications
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through our contact form unless it is genuinely necessary.
4. Information You Provide Through Our Feedback Form
We also provide a feedback form so visitors can tell us about their experience with our calculators, guides and Website.
Feedback may include information such as:
- Comments about a calculator
- Suggestions for improvements
- Reports of calculation or website problems
- Feature requests
- Comments about usability
- Technical feedback
- Information you voluntarily include in the submission
Where the feedback form asks for contact details, you may also provide information such as your name or email address.
We may use feedback to:
- Improve our calculators
- Correct errors
- Improve website usability
- Develop new tools
- Improve existing guides
- Investigate technical problems
- Understand what visitors find useful
Submitting feedback does not create an engineering, consulting or other professional relationship between you and Daniel Brooks or RoofPitchCalculator.org.
5. Calculator Information
Our calculators may ask you to enter technical measurements such as:
- Roof rise
- Roof run
- Building width
- Roof height
- Ridge height
- Eaves height
- Roof angle
- Rafter length
- Horizontal span
- Roof dimensions
- Unit preferences
- Projected roof area
These values are processed so that the calculator can provide the requested mathematical result.
Calculator fields are designed for technical measurements and numerical values, not personal information.
You should not enter:
- Your name
- Address
- Telephone number
- Email address
- Financial information
- Government identification details
- Medical information
- Other sensitive personal information
into measurement fields unless a particular tool specifically asks for that information.
Calculator inputs and privacy
Our standard roof calculation tools do not require you to create an account.
We do not require your name, email address or other personally identifying information simply to calculate roof pitch.
Some technical information about your interaction with the calculator may nevertheless be measured through analytics technologies, as explained below.
6. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit RoofPitchCalculator.org, certain information may be collected automatically through our website hosting infrastructure, Google Analytics 4, security systems, cookies and similar technologies.
This information may include:
- IP address
- Approximate geographic location
- Browser type
- Browser version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Screen or device characteristics
- Referring website or source
- Pages viewed
- Landing page
- Exit page
- Date and time of visits
- Time spent on pages
- Website interactions
- Links clicked
- Calculator or feature interactions
- General engagement information
- Technical errors
- Website performance information
This information helps us understand how the Website performs and how visitors use our tools.
7. Google Analytics 4
RoofPitchCalculator.org uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to help us understand how visitors use the Website.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google.
GA4 may collect information about your interaction with the Website, including information relating to:
- Pages you visit
- Approximate location
- Device type
- Browser
- Operating system
- Traffic source
- Referral source
- Session activity
- Engagement with pages
- Website events
- General interaction with our calculators or features
Google Analytics may use cookies and other technologies to recognise browsers or devices and measure website usage.
We use analytics information to help us understand questions such as:
- Which calculators are used most frequently?
- Which roofing guides are visited most often?
- How do users reach RoofPitchCalculator.org?
- Which pages are useful to visitors?
- Where are visitors experiencing problems?
- Which devices and browsers are being used?
- Are our calculators functioning as expected?
- Which areas of the Website should we improve?
We primarily use this information for website analytics, performance measurement and improvement.
We do not use Google Analytics to intentionally identify individual visitors by name.
Google may process information collected through Google Analytics in accordance with Google’s own privacy and data-processing practices.
Where applicable law requires consent before analytics cookies or similar technologies are used, we aim to obtain the appropriate consent before activating non-essential analytics technologies.
8. Cookies and Similar Technologies
RoofPitchCalculator.org may use cookies and similar technologies.
A cookie is a small data file that a website may store on your browser or device.
Different cookies may serve different purposes.
Essential Cookies
These may be necessary for:
- Website security
- Technical functionality
- Remembering certain essential settings
- Maintaining website stability
- Preventing abuse
Some essential cookies may operate without requiring separate consent where permitted by law.
Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics 4 may use cookies or similar technologies to help measure how visitors use RoofPitchCalculator.org.
Analytics information helps us improve:
- Calculators
- Website navigation
- Page performance
- Content
- User experience
Preference Cookies
Where applicable, cookies may be used to remember preferences such as:
- Consent choices
- Interface preferences
- Certain Website settings
Advertising Cookies
If advertising is introduced in the future, advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies where permitted by law and subject to applicable consent requirements.
You can learn more about the cookies used by this Website in our:
Cookie Policy/cookie-policy/
9. Managing Cookies
Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
- Block cookies
- Delete existing cookies
- Prevent third-party cookies
- Receive warnings before cookies are stored
- Clear website data
- Adjust privacy settings
Blocking certain cookies may affect some Website functionality.
Where we provide a cookie consent interface, you may also be able to manage certain non-essential cookies directly through that interface.
10. How We Use Information
Information collected through RoofPitchCalculator.org may be used to:
- Operate the Website
- Provide our calculators
- Respond to contact form submissions
- Respond to feedback
- Investigate reported problems
- Improve calculator functionality
- Develop new calculators
- Improve existing calculators
- Improve our roofing guides
- Understand website usage
- Analyse visitor behaviour in aggregate
- Measure Website performance
- Diagnose technical errors
- Improve website speed
- Improve usability
- Maintain security
- Prevent spam
- Detect abuse
- Protect against malicious activity
- Maintain technical infrastructure
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
- Protect our legal rights
We may also use aggregated or anonymised information to better understand how our Website is used.
11. Contact and Feedback Communications
If you contact us or submit feedback, we may use the contact information you provide to respond to you.
For example, if you report an issue with the Roof Pitch Calculator and provide an email address, we may contact you to:
- Ask for clarification
- Confirm that the issue has been investigated
- Request additional technical information
- Tell you that a problem has been corrected
We do not require you to provide contact details simply to use our standard calculators.
12. Legal Bases for Processing
Where applicable data protection law requires us to identify a legal basis for processing personal information, we may rely on one or more of the following.
Consent
We may rely on consent for activities such as:
- Certain analytics cookies
- Non-essential cookies
- Certain advertising technologies
- Optional communications
Where processing is based on consent, you may generally withdraw that consent.
Legitimate Interests
We may process limited information where reasonably necessary for legitimate purposes such as:
- Operating the Website
- Improving our calculators
- Understanding Website usage
- Maintaining security
- Preventing fraud or abuse
- Responding to visitors
- Improving Website performance
Responding to Your Request
If you contact us or submit a support request, processing may be necessary in order to respond to the request that you initiated.
Legal Obligations
We may process or retain information where necessary to comply with:
- Applicable law
- Regulation
- Court orders
- Lawful governmental requests
- Other legal obligations
The applicable legal basis will depend on the type of information and the circumstances in which it is processed.
13. Third-Party Service Providers
We may use third-party companies and services to operate RoofPitchCalculator.org.
These may include providers of:
- Web hosting
- Domain infrastructure
- Website security
- Content delivery
- Analytics
- Email delivery
- Contact form processing
- Spam prevention
- Performance monitoring
- Consent management
- Backup services
- Advertising, if introduced in the future
These providers may process information where reasonably necessary to provide their services.
One such provider is Google, through our use of Google Analytics 4.
Third-party providers may have their own privacy policies and data-processing practices.
14. Sharing of Personal Information
We do not intend to publicly disclose information submitted through our contact or feedback forms without an appropriate reason or permission.
We may disclose information to third parties where reasonably necessary to:
- Operate the Website
- Provide technical services
- Maintain Website security
- Investigate fraud or abuse
- Comply with applicable law
- Respond to lawful legal requests
- Protect our rights
- Protect the safety of users or others
- Prevent malicious activity
We may also disclose information in connection with a future transfer of Website ownership or business assets where legally appropriate.
15. Sale of Personal Information
We do not sell personal information for monetary consideration as part of our normal Website operations.
If our data practices materially change in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated accordingly.
Where applicable privacy laws provide rights relating to the sale or sharing of personal information, we will endeavour to provide the required notices and choices.
16. Advertising
RoofPitchCalculator.org may introduce advertising in the future.
If advertising services are used, advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:
- Displaying advertisements
- Measuring advertising performance
- Limiting repeated advertisements
- Detecting invalid traffic
- Understanding advertising interactions
- Personalising advertising where legally permitted
Where applicable law requires consent for personalised advertising or advertising cookies, appropriate consent choices will be provided.
Advertising relationships do not determine:
- Calculator formulas
- Calculator results
- Engineering explanations
- Editorial conclusions
- Roofing guidance
Our calculator outputs are not adjusted based on advertisers.
17. Affiliate Links
RoofPitchCalculator.org may occasionally link to third-party websites, products, tools or services.
If we introduce affiliate relationships in the future, certain links may allow us to receive a commission when a visitor completes a qualifying transaction.
Where applicable, affiliate relationships will be disclosed clearly.
Third-party affiliate providers may use cookies or tracking technologies according to their own policies.
18. External Websites
RoofPitchCalculator.org may contain links to external websites.
Once you leave RoofPitchCalculator.org, the privacy practices of the external website apply.
We do not control and are not responsible for the:
- Privacy practices
- Security
- Content
- Cookies
- Data collection
- Terms
of third-party websites.
We encourage you to review their policies before providing personal information.
19. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
This may include retaining information where necessary to:
- Respond to enquiries
- Handle feedback
- Maintain records
- Investigate technical issues
- Maintain security
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce our Terms of Use
- Meet legal requirements
Different categories of information may be retained for different periods.
Information collected through third-party services such as Google Analytics may also be subject to retention settings and policies associated with those services.
Aggregated or anonymised data may be retained for longer where it no longer identifies an individual.
20. Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to help protect information against:
- Unauthorised access
- Accidental loss
- Misuse
- Alteration
- Unauthorised disclosure
- Destruction
However, no website, server, internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should avoid submitting information through our forms that is unnecessarily confidential or sensitive.
21. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, applicable privacy law may give you rights relating to your personal information.
These may include the right to:
- Request access to information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of certain information
- Object to certain processing
- Restrict certain processing
- Withdraw consent
- Request a portable copy of certain information
- Opt out of certain data uses
- Lodge a complaint with an applicable data-protection authority
Privacy rights are subject to applicable legal conditions and exceptions.
To make a request, contact:
support@roofpitchcalculator.org
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.
22. United States Privacy Rights
Visitors living in certain US states may have additional rights under applicable state privacy laws.
Depending on the law and whether it applies to our Website, these rights may include:
- Access to certain personal information
- Correction of inaccurate information
- Deletion of information
- Data portability
- Opting out of certain forms of targeted advertising
- Opting out of certain sales or sharing of personal information
- Appealing certain privacy decisions
We will endeavour to honour applicable privacy rights where legally required.
You may contact:
support@roofpitchcalculator.org
to submit a privacy request.
23. European Economic Area and United Kingdom Visitors
Visitors from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and jurisdictions with similar privacy laws may have additional rights relating to personal data.
Where applicable, these can include:
- Access
- Correction
- Erasure
- Restriction
- Objection
- Portability
- Withdrawal of consent
Where consent is legally required before setting non-essential analytics or advertising cookies, we aim to obtain consent before using those technologies.
You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data-protection authority in your country.
24. International Data Processing
RoofPitchCalculator.org can be accessed internationally.
Some service providers we use may process information in countries different from the country where you live.
For example, analytics, hosting or infrastructure providers may operate internationally.
Where applicable law requires safeguards for international data transfers, appropriate measures may be used.
25. Children’s Privacy
RoofPitchCalculator.org provides general calculation and educational resources and is not specifically directed towards children.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children in circumstances where parental permission would legally be required.
If you believe that a child has submitted personal information through our Website inappropriately, contact:
support@roofpitchcalculator.org
We will review the matter and take appropriate action.
26. Do Not Track and Privacy Signals
Some browsers and devices provide privacy preference or “Do Not Track” mechanisms.
Because technical standards for these mechanisms can vary, the Website may not respond identically to every browser-based signal.
Where applicable law requires recognition of a supported privacy preference mechanism, we will endeavour to comply with those requirements.
27. Calculator Results Are Not Used to Profile You
Technical measurements entered into our roof calculators are intended to calculate roof geometry.
We do not intend to use measurements such as:
- Roof rise
- Roof run
- Roof pitch
- Rafter length
- Building width
- Roof angle
to create a personal profile about you.
Calculator measurements should not normally contain personally identifying information.
28. Privacy and Calculator Limitations
The Privacy Policy explains how information is handled.
It does not govern the technical reliability or appropriate real-world use of calculator outputs.
Roof calculations depend on:
- Measurements entered by the user
- Correct identification of rise and run
- Correct roof geometry
- Correct roof type
- Correct measurement reference points
- Appropriate interpretation of the results
For important information about calculator limitations, professional advice, structural decisions and responsibility for measurements, please read our:
Disclaimer/disclaimer/
29. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
Changes may be made because of:
- New calculators
- New Website features
- New third-party services
- Changes to Google Analytics configuration
- Changes to cookie practices
- Introduction of advertising
- Changes to our forms
- Changes in privacy law
- Changes to the way information is processed
When we make changes, we will update the Last Updated date shown at the top of this page.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
30. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices or personal information associated with your interaction with RoofPitchCalculator.org, please contact:
Daniel Brooks
Civil Engineer · Founder
RoofPitchCalculator.org