Privacy policy

EspressoGoods (https://espressogoods.com) is built to need almost nothing from you. You can search the espresso machine and grinder catalogue, run the machine finder, compare machines, work out the home-versus-café cost and match a grinder without an account, a sign-up or an email address. This page lists every part of the site that handles data, so you can judge it for yourself.

At a glance

• No accounts, no newsletter, no comments, no checkout. We never ask for your name, address or payment details.
• Your machine shortlist is stored in your own browser and never sent to us.
• Share links carry your tool settings in the part of the address after the # sign, which browsers do not send to our server.
• Analytics are not running today. They may be added later; if they are, visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland will be asked first.
• There is no advertising on the site today.
• We do not sell or rent personal data.

What your browser keeps for you

The shortlist remembers the machines you saved between visits. It does this with your browser’s local storage, on your device only, under one key:

• eg-shortlist-v1: the catalogue IDs of the machines you added to your shortlist. Nothing else is in it.

Nothing in local storage is transmitted to us, and we have no copy of your shortlist. It exists in one browser on one device, so a list saved on your phone will not appear on your laptop. To clear it, remove machines from the shortlist yourself or delete the site data for espressogoods.com in your browser settings. Private and incognito windows usually discard it when they close. The finder answers, compare picks, cost inputs and grinder choices you make are not stored at all unless you put them into a share link.

If analytics are switched on in future, one more key will be used, and only for visitors who are shown the consent banner: eg-consent-v1, which records your answer (yes or no) so we do not ask on every page.

Share links

Each tool can copy a link to its current result. The settings are written into the link after the # sign: #find= holds your finder answers, #compare= the machines you are comparing, #cost= the numbers you typed into the cost calculator, and #grind= the machine and budget in the grinder matcher. That part of an address stays in the browser. It is not included in the request your browser sends to our server, so our hosting logs do not record it. Anyone you send the link to can see what it contains, which is the settings you chose and nothing that identifies you. Bear in mind that a cost link includes the prices you entered.

Analytics

No analytics run on EspressoGoods today: no analytics IDs are set, so no analytics scripts load and no analytics cookies are placed. The site is built so that Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity may be added later. If they are, this page will be updated and re-dated first, and the following split will apply.

• Visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland will see a consent banner. Analytics scripts load only after you choose Accept. If you decline or ignore the banner, they do not load.
• Visitors everywhere else, the US included, will be measured without a banner, because their laws do not require prior consent for this kind of measurement. You can opt out by blocking cookies or scripts for this site in your browser, using a content blocker, or installing Google’s opt-out add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

The region is worked out in your browser from its time-zone setting. We do not look up your IP address to decide it. The purpose of analytics would be to see which pages are read and which tools are used, on what kind of device, so we can fix pages that confuse people. Clarity can record interactions such as clicks and scrolling. Google and Microsoft would process that data under their own privacy policies and may set cookies for it.

Leaving for Amazon or a maker’s site

Buy links go to Amazon or to a machine maker’s own site. Once you click, you are on their site, under their cookies and their privacy policy. Amazon uses a cookie to connect a purchase to the link you followed, which is how our commission is counted. Amazon reports qualifying sales to us as totals; we do not receive your name, address or the other items in your order. Prices on our pages are fetched by our server from Amazon’s API ahead of time, so reading them sends nothing to Amazon. Product photos supplied through that API are served from Amazon’s image servers, so when a page shows one, your browser requests the image from Amazon, which receives your IP address and browser details as with any image request.

Fonts and hosting

• Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address and browser details in order to send the font files.
• Hosting is provided by Vercel. Like any web host, it keeps server logs with IP address, browser user agent, the page requested and the time, used for security, debugging and keeping the site running.
• Catalogue data for the tools is served from our own site with the page. Using the finder, compare, cost calculator or grinder matcher does not send your choices to us or to any maker; the calculations run in your browser.

If you email us

If you write to our contact email (being set up; it will appear on this page shortly), we receive your address and your message. We use them only to reply and to act on what you sent, for example to correct a spec. We do not add you to a list, we do not pass your address to makers, and we delete correspondence when it is no longer needed.

No sale of personal data

We do not sell, rent or trade personal data, we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we do not build visitor profiles.

Children

This is a general-audience site about kitchen appliances and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you think a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us and we will delete it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, laws such as the GDPR, the UK GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act give you rights to access, correct or delete personal data and to object to its use. Because there are no accounts, the only personal data we hold directly is email you have sent us, and we will act on any request about it sent to our contact email (being set up; it will appear on this page shortly). Local-storage data is already in your hands, and hosting logs are kept by Vercel under its own retention policy.

Changes

When the site starts or stops using a service that handles data, including switching analytics on or adding advertising, this page is updated and the date at the top changes. Related pages: terms of use, editorial process, contact, about.