Privacy policy

Perch is a no-login Canadian baby-gear price tracker. You can browse public price pages without creating an account.

The public alert form is closed for now. Perch is not collecting alert signups through the website until email delivery and unsubscribe handling are ready.

The product URL lookup compares your input with the published catalogue in your browser. It does not submit the URL. The separate product request form sends information only when you press Send product request.

Product URL checks run in your browser. Perch does not receive the pasted URL or record the lookup result.

Product review emails: if you email Perch, we receive the email address, message text, product URL, and any other information you choose to include.

Price alerts: public alert signups are closed for now. If alert signups open later, this policy should be updated before Perch starts collecting alert emails.

Contact: if you email Perch for support, corrections, privacy questions, or policy questions, we use that information to respond.

When the request form is available, we store the product link or brand and model in Supabase for manual review. We do not automatically visit submitted links. Do not include personal or child information in the product field.

An email address is required to submit a request. We store your address and the date and purpose of your consent in Supabase. The site owner can view requests and email addresses in a private local dashboard. Your request is saved immediately. If we start tracking the product, Resend processes your address to send one product page link after the owner verifies it is live. We do not send rejection emails. Submitting a product request is not newsletter or price-alert consent. Each message includes links to stop this request update, unsubscribe from newsletters, or stop all Perch emails.

The separate, optional newsletter checkbox lets you choose Perch newsletters, deals and affiliate promotions. It starts unchecked. Selecting the checkbox records your marketing choice when you submit the form. We record the consent wording version, source and date. This does not verify ownership of the email address. A new request does not reverse an earlier unsubscribe. The owner can see your marketing preference in the private dashboard. Declining marketing does not prevent a product request.

Vercel processes request submissions and network information to limit abuse. Our database stores keyed network fingerprints, not raw IP addresses, for up to 48 hours plus the daily cleanup interval. Providers may process data outside Canada.

Request subscriptions expire after 90 days. Resolved or cancelled contact links are removed after 30 days unless another active request or marketing permission needs the address. Marketing contacts are kept until you unsubscribe or request deletion. When you unsubscribe, we remove the address and consent details after 30 days plus the cleanup interval unless an active request still needs them. Product suggestions are removed after 180 days. A keyed email fingerprint may be retained to honour a stop request or prevent further mail after a bounce or complaint.

Unsubscribe and stop-email links do not change a preference until you press the button. These pages do not load our page-view analytics. For deletion or access requests, contact hello@perchgear.ca.

Like most websites, Perch and its hosting providers may process basic request metadata such as IP address, user agent, referrer, requested page, timestamps, and security or error logs.

Perch has no accounts or advertising cookies. We do not send search text, pasted product URLs, or shortlist selections as analytics events.

We use Vercel Web Analytics to count visits, page views, and retailer-link clicks. Click events include the catalogue product identifier, store name, and link position on the page. They do not include your email address or the retailer URL. Vercel processes page paths, referrers, approximate location, and browser and device information. We remove query strings and fragments from analytics page URLs. Vercel uses a temporary identifier derived from the request, without analytics cookies; its visitor session is discarded after 24 hours.

We also use Google Analytics to understand visits, approximate country, province or region, and city, browser and device information, and interactions such as scrolling and clicks on public retailer links. Google receives the public link address for an outbound click. Location is estimated from network information and may be inaccurate. Google may process this information outside Canada.

Google Analytics uses first-party cookies with a lifetime of up to 90 days, renewed during use. Google advertising signals and advertising personalization are disabled. Google tracking does not start on product-request or URL-lookup pages, unknown pages, or addresses containing query strings or fragments. Entering one of these pages stops Google tracking until a new page load. Search text, email addresses, and submitted product URLs are not sent to Google Analytics.

Perch uses normal web infrastructure and web assets. Third-party infrastructure may receive request metadata when your browser loads those resources.

When you click a retailer link, you leave Perch and visit that retailer. The retailer can see information normally sent with a web visit.

Some Perch retailer links may include UTM parameters such as source, medium, and campaign so the retailer can identify Perch as the source.

To run the public website, validate product URLs, prevent unsafe or spammy submissions, and show whether a pasted product URL is already tracked.

To respond to emails, privacy questions, support requests, product corrections, and product review requests.

To debug forms, protect the service, improve product coverage, and keep private engine data separate from public product pages.

Perch may use hosting, email, database, security, and infrastructure providers to operate the service.

Perch does not expose the private engine database, raw parser output, review queue, or internal product-matching notes to the browser.

Perch does not sell personal information collected through contact emails or product review requests.

Vercel retains aggregate traffic data according to its Web Analytics service settings.

Google retains analytics reports according to the Google Analytics property settings. Turning off analytics stops future collection; it does not remove earlier reports.

An analytics opt-out preference is saved in local storage. The analytics choice on this page, Do Not Track, and Global Privacy Control apply to both Vercel Web Analytics and Google Analytics. Turning off analytics also removes the Google Analytics cookies set by Perch in this browser.

Other personal information is kept only as long as needed to respond, operate the service, or meet legal and security needs.

If you want to ask about your information, request a correction, or request deletion, use the contact path below.

Some server logs, backups, or security records may not be immediately removable if they are needed for debugging, security, or legal reasons.

Perch is about baby gear, but it is intended for parents, caregivers, and other adults. It is not directed to children.