Privacy Policy

1. Scope of This Privacy Policy

This policy applies to TDEECalculator.tools and the pages and features operated under the TDEECalculator.tools domain. It does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites, services, advertisers, or organizations that you may reach through links from this site.

2. Information You Enter Into the Calculator

The calculator may ask for information such as age, sex, height, weight, activity level, and other optional calculator inputs. These values are used to generate the estimates and results requested by you.

You do not need to create an account to use the calculator. Calculator inputs should not be treated as a substitute for medical records or as a secure place to store health information. Please do not enter names, email addresses, medical-record numbers, or other information that directly identifies you into calculator fields.

3. Information Collected Automatically

Like most websites, TDEECalculator.tools and services used by the site may automatically receive technical and usage information when you visit. This can include information such as:

• IP address;
• browser and device type;
• operating system;
• pages viewed and approximate visit times;
• referring or exit pages;
• general geographic information derived from an IP address;
• interactions with pages or site features; and
• cookies, web beacons, and similar identifiers where applicable.

The exact information available to us depends on the services enabled on the site, your browser and device settings, your location, and the consent choices available to you.

4. Google Analytics

TDEECalculator.tools uses Google Analytics to help us understand how the website is used. Google Analytics may collect and process information about visits and interactions with the site, including device and browser information, approximate location information, page activity, and other usage data.

We use analytics information to evaluate site performance, understand which pages are useful, identify technical problems, and improve the website. Analytics reports generally provide aggregated or pseudonymous usage information rather than information intended to directly identify a visitor.

Google explains how it uses information from sites and apps that use its services in its privacy documentation. You can learn more through How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Google also provides a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for supported browsers.

5. Google AdSense and Advertising

TDEECalculator.tools may use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Advertising technologies may involve cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers used for purposes such as delivering ads, measuring advertising performance, limiting how often an ad is shown, preventing fraud and abuse, and, where permitted, personalizing advertising.

You can manage personalized advertising choices through Google Ads Settings. You may also be able to opt out of some participating third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising through YourAdChoices.

Google-certified third-party vendors or ad networks may also participate in ad delivery through Google advertising services. Their use of information is governed by their own privacy policies and applicable advertising controls.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small data files stored by a browser or device. Cookies and similar technologies can support essential site functions, remember settings, measure website usage, help prevent abuse, and support advertising.

Cookies may be set by TDEECalculator.tools or by third-party services used on the site. For example, Google Analytics and Google advertising services may use cookies or similar technologies according to the configuration of those services, applicable law, and your consent choices.

Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies through browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect website functionality. Where required, additional consent controls may also be presented on the site.

7. Consent and Visitors in the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

Visitors in some regions may be shown a consent message that provides choices regarding cookies, analytics, advertising, personalization, and related processing. Where consent is legally required, applicable technologies should be used in accordance with the choices communicated through the site's consent mechanism.

Google imposes additional consent requirements on publishers serving ads to users in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. The site may therefore use a Google-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP) where required for Google advertising services.

Consent choices can affect whether advertising is personalized and whether certain measurement or storage technologies are available.

8. Information You Send to Us

If you contact us, we may receive information that you voluntarily provide, such as your name, email address, message, and any other information you choose to include. We use that information to respond to your inquiry, investigate reported problems, maintain records when reasonably necessary, and protect the site from misuse.

Please do not send sensitive medical information through the contact form or email. TDEECalculator.tools is an informational calculator website, not a healthcare provider or medical-record service.

9. How We Use Information

Depending on the information and services involved, information may be used to:

• operate and maintain the website and calculator;
• provide the results or features you request;
• understand traffic and site usage;
• improve content, usability, and technical performance;
• display and measure advertising;
• detect fraud, abuse, security incidents, or technical problems;
• respond to questions, feedback, and correction requests; and
• comply with applicable legal obligations.

10. How Information May Be Shared

Information may be processed by service providers that help operate, host, secure, analyze, communicate through, or monetize the website, including hosting, email-delivery, analytics, and advertising providers. This can include analytics, hosting, advertising, and related technology providers.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, legal process, or enforceable governmental requests; protect the security or rights of the site, its users, or others; investigate fraud or abuse; or in connection with a business transfer such as a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets.

We do not ask visitors to provide personally identifying information in order to calculate TDEE, and we do not intentionally pass information such as names or email addresses to Google through calculator fields.

11. Data Retention

Different categories of information may be retained for different periods. Contact messages may be retained as reasonably necessary to respond to a request, maintain business records, resolve disputes, or protect the site. Analytics and advertising data may be retained according to our settings and the policies and controls of the applicable service provider.

We aim to retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, subject to legal, security, operational, and service-provider requirements.

12. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live and subject to applicable law, you may have rights concerning certain personal information. These may include rights to request access, correction, deletion, or information about processing, and in some jurisdictions rights relating to targeted advertising or the sale or sharing of personal information.

You may also have choices available directly through your browser, device, Google Ads Settings, a consent-management interface displayed on the site, or other industry opt-out tools.

To submit a privacy-related request concerning information controlled by TDEECalculator.tools, use our contact page. We may need enough information to understand and appropriately respond to the request. Rights and exceptions vary by jurisdiction.

13. Do Not Track and Browser Privacy Signals

Browsers and devices may offer privacy signals or settings such as "Do Not Track." There is not one universally applied standard for every such signal. Where a particular privacy signal must be recognized under applicable law, we intend to handle it as required.

14. Children's Privacy

TDEECalculator.tools is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so the matter can be reviewed and appropriate action can be taken.

15. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect the website and information under our control. No website, network, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, so we cannot promise absolute security.

16. Third-Party Links

The site may link to research papers, government resources, reference materials, advertisers, or other third-party websites. A link does not make TDEECalculator.tools responsible for another website's privacy practices. Review the privacy policy of a third-party service before providing information to it.

17. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when the website, calculator, analytics configuration, advertising services, legal requirements, or our privacy practices change. When we make changes, the "Last updated" date at the top of this page will be revised.

Material changes should be reflected in this policy so that it continues to describe the website's actual practices rather than merely remaining a static legal page.

18. Contact Us About Privacy

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, a privacy request, or a concern about how information is handled on TDEECalculator.tools, please contact us through the site's contact page.