Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 7, 2026

Welcome to BottleneckCalculators.io.

This Privacy Policy explains how BottleneckCalculators.io (“we,” “us,” or “our”) may collect, use, store, and share information when you visit or interact with our website.

By using BottleneckCalculators.io, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We May Collect

The information collected through BottleneckCalculators.io depends on how you use the website.

Information You Provide Voluntarily

You may provide personal information when you:

  • Contact us through a contact form
  • Send us feedback
  • Report a calculator issue
  • Submit a correction or suggestion
  • Communicate with us regarding business inquiries

This information may include:

  • Your name
  • Email address
  • Subject of your inquiry
  • Message content
  • Any information you voluntarily include in your communication

Please avoid sending sensitive personal information through our contact forms.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit BottleneckCalculators.io, certain information may be collected automatically through server logs, cookies, analytics technologies, advertising technologies, and similar tools.

This may include:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Screen or device information
  • Pages visited
  • Date and time of visits
  • Referring website or source
  • Approximate geographic region
  • Interaction with website content
  • Interaction with advertisements
  • Cookie or device identifiers

This information may be used to operate, secure, analyze, improve, and monetize the website.

2. How We Use Information

We may use information collected through BottleneckCalculators.io to:

  • Operate and maintain the website
  • Provide our calculators and other tools
  • Improve website functionality
  • Understand how visitors use our website
  • Diagnose technical issues
  • Improve articles and calculators
  • Respond to contact requests
  • Prevent fraud, abuse, and security threats
  • Measure website traffic and performance
  • Display and measure advertisements
  • Comply with applicable laws
  • Protect our rights and website

We do not ask visitors to create an account simply to use our public CPU and GPU bottleneck calculators unless a specific feature states otherwise.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

BottleneckCalculators.io and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, web beacons, local storage, and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files or pieces of information stored on or accessed from your browser or device.

They may be used for purposes such as:

  • Remembering user preferences
  • Website functionality
  • Security
  • Analytics
  • Traffic measurement
  • Advertising
  • Measuring advertisement performance
  • Limiting how often advertisements are shown
  • Providing interest-based advertising where permitted

Some cookies may be essential for the website to function.

Other cookies, including certain analytics and advertising cookies, may depend on your consent or privacy choices where required by applicable law.

You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect some website features.

4. Advertising

BottleneckCalculators.io is supported in part by advertising.

Advertising providers and their partners may use cookies, pixels, IP addresses, device identifiers, and similar technologies to:

  • Serve advertisements
  • Measure advertising effectiveness
  • Prevent fraud
  • Limit repeated advertisements
  • Understand interactions with advertisements
  • Deliver personalized or interest-based advertising where legally permitted

Third-party advertising companies may place or read cookies on your browser or use similar technologies as part of serving advertisements on this website.

Where required, visitors may be provided with privacy controls allowing them to manage personalized advertising or related data processing.

5. Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

IMPORTANT PUBLISHING STEP: BottleneckCalculators.io uses or may use Mediavine services for programmatic advertising.

Mediavine requires publishers using its programmatic advertising services to include its exact current required privacy-policy disclosure, including the heading/version number supplied by Mediavine.

When publishing this Privacy Policy, insert the official Mediavine-required advertising disclosure in this section exactly as provided in your Mediavine Dashboard or Mediavine’s official Privacy Policy Language page.

Do not remove or rewrite Mediavine’s required version heading if your Mediavine Dashboard requires the exact wording.

Mediavine and its advertising partners may use first-party and third-party cookies, tags, pixels, device information, browser information, IP addresses, advertising identifiers, interaction data, referral information, approximate location information, and similar data for advertising and measurement purposes.

Depending on applicable law and your location, you may be provided with controls such as:

  • Update Privacy Settings
  • Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
  • Other consent or privacy-choice controls

Use the privacy controls displayed on BottleneckCalculators.io to manage eligible advertising preferences.

6. Analytics and Website Measurement

We may use analytics and performance services to understand how visitors interact with BottleneckCalculators.io.

Analytics information may include:

  • Pages viewed
  • Time spent on pages
  • Referring sources
  • Device type
  • Browser information
  • General traffic patterns
  • Approximate location
  • Website interactions

We use this information to improve our calculators, content, website performance, navigation, and user experience.

Where legally required, non-essential analytics technologies may be activated only after receiving appropriate consent.

7. Third-Party Service Providers

We may use third-party companies and service providers to help operate BottleneckCalculators.io.

These providers may include services related to:

  • Website hosting
  • Content delivery
  • Security
  • Advertising
  • Analytics
  • Spam prevention
  • Contact forms
  • Email delivery
  • Website performance
  • Technical infrastructure

These providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and contractual responsibilities.

We do not control the independent privacy practices of third-party websites or services.

8. Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

We do not directly sell personal information to visitors in exchange for money.

However, certain advertising or analytics activities involving identifiers, cookies, or information shared with advertising partners may be legally considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising under some U.S. state privacy laws.

Where applicable, eligible users may have the right to opt out of these activities.

If a Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information or similar privacy link is displayed on BottleneckCalculators.io, you may use that control to exercise applicable opt-out rights.

We also aim to honor legally recognized browser-based privacy signals where required by applicable law and supported by our systems and service providers.

9. U.S. State Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and whether a particular privacy law applies to BottleneckCalculators.io, you may have rights regarding your personal information.

These rights may include the right to:

  • Know what personal information is collected
  • Request access to personal information
  • Request deletion
  • Request correction
  • Obtain a portable copy of certain information
  • Opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information
  • Opt out of certain targeted advertising
  • Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable
  • Receive equal service without discrimination for exercising privacy rights

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions.

You can contact us through our Contact Us page to make a privacy request relating directly to information controlled by BottleneckCalculators.io.

Advertising-related choices may also be available through privacy links or consent tools displayed on the website.

10. California Privacy Rights

If California privacy law applies to you and to BottleneckCalculators.io, you may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act and related amendments.

Depending on eligibility, these may include rights to:

  • Know what personal information is collected
  • Know how information is used or disclosed
  • Request deletion
  • Request correction
  • Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information
  • Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable
  • Receive non-discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights

Advertising technology may constitute “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising under California law even when no money is exchanged for your personal information.

Eligible users should use any Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link displayed on the website or contact us for applicable requests.

11. EEA, EU, and UK Privacy Rights

Visitors located in the European Economic Area, European Union, or United Kingdom may have additional rights under applicable data-protection laws.

Depending on the circumstances, these may include the right to:

  • Access personal data
  • Correct inaccurate data
  • Request deletion
  • Restrict certain processing
  • Object to certain processing
  • Request data portability
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
  • Complain to an appropriate data-protection authority

Where applicable, personal information may be processed based on legal grounds such as consent, legitimate interests, legal obligations, or the need to provide a requested service.

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that was lawful before consent was withdrawn.

Privacy or cookie settings displayed on the website may allow eligible visitors to update their choices.

12. International Data Transfers

BottleneckCalculators.io may use service providers located in different countries.

As a result, information may be processed or stored outside the country where you live.

Where required by applicable law, service providers may use appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information.

13. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including:

  • Responding to inquiries
  • Maintaining website security
  • Resolving disputes
  • Meeting legal requirements
  • Preventing abuse
  • Maintaining appropriate business records

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the service provider involved.

Advertising, analytics, and infrastructure providers may apply their own retention periods according to their privacy policies and legal obligations.

14. Data Security

We take reasonable steps to protect information associated with BottleneckCalculators.io.

However, no internet transmission, website, server, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Users should therefore avoid submitting confidential, financial, medical, password, or other highly sensitive information through general website contact forms.

15. Children’s Privacy

BottleneckCalculators.io is a general-audience website about computer hardware, gaming PCs, CPUs, GPUs, and technology.

The website is not designed or directed specifically toward children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children under 13 through our general website features.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.

16. External Links

Our articles may contain links to third-party websites, manufacturers, retailers, benchmark sources, software providers, or other external resources.

Once you leave BottleneckCalculators.io, the privacy practices of the destination website apply.

We are not responsible for the privacy policies, security, content, or data practices of external websites.

You should review the privacy policy of any third-party service you use.

17. Affiliate Links

BottleneckCalculators.io may use affiliate links now or in the future.

If you click an affiliate link, a third-party merchant or affiliate network may use cookies or tracking technologies to identify referrals and determine whether a qualifying purchase occurred.

If affiliate relationships are used, they may also be disclosed separately where appropriate.

Using an affiliate link generally does not change the price you pay unless specifically stated otherwise.

18. Calculator Information

Our CPU, GPU, RAM, VRAM, and bottleneck calculators may process selections you enter in order to generate results.

Examples may include:

  • CPU model
  • GPU model
  • Resolution
  • Workload selection
  • Hardware preferences

These hardware selections are generally technical inputs rather than information intended to identify you personally.

However, standard server, analytics, security, and advertising information may still be collected when you use calculator pages.

19. Do Not Track

Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” setting.

There is not a single universally applied standard for responding to all Do Not Track signals.

Where applicable law requires recognition of a specific legally recognized opt-out mechanism or privacy signal, we and our service providers may respond according to applicable requirements and technical support.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect:

  • Changes to the website
  • New calculators or features
  • Changes to advertising services
  • Changes to analytics services
  • Legal or regulatory developments
  • Changes to third-party service providers

When changes are made, the Last Updated date at the top of this page may be revised.

Visitors are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

21. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to make an applicable privacy request, please contact us through the Contact Us page on BottleneckCalculators.io.

When making a privacy request, please provide enough information for us to understand and respond to your request.

We may need to verify certain requests before taking action where required or permitted by law.

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