Last updated: August 2026.
Status note, August 2026 — please read this first, because it changes how the rest of the page applies. This site is new and is not yet running advertising or analytics. No advertising cookies, no analytics cookies and no consent platform are loaded today; the only cookies set are the essential ones in the table below. The advertising, analytics and consent sections below describe what will happen when those services are switched on, and they are published in advance so the terms are visible before anything changes rather than after. This note is dated, and it comes down on the day advertising begins.
This policy explains what information Still Worth Starting collects when you visit, what our advertising and analytics partners collect, and what you can do about it.
It is written to describe what this site actually does. Where something is done by a third party rather than by us — which is true of most of the data collection on this site — it says so and names them.
Who runs this site
Still Worth Starting (stillworthstarting.com) is published by WoozKa Holdings LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company, based in the United States.
For any privacy question or request: hello@stillworthstarting.com.
The short version
- You do not need an account, and we do not sell products, so we hold very little about you directly.
- Once advertising and analytics are switched on, the information that is collected about you here will be collected mostly by Google, for advertising and analytics, using cookies and similar technologies. Neither is running yet — see the status note above.
- Personalized advertising can be turned off, and if you are in the UK or EEA you will be asked before it is turned on at all.
- If you email us, we have your email address, because that is how email works.
What we collect directly
Contact messages. If you email us — or use the contact form, once it is available — we receive whatever you send — typically your name, your email address, and your message. The form, when it is built, will also record the page you were on (so a correction can be traced to the figure it is about) and the fact that you ticked the consent box. It asks for nothing else, and it accepts no file attachments. It is used to reply to you and to act on corrections. We keep correspondence while it is useful and delete it when it is not. We do not add you to a mailing list; there isn’t one.
Server logs. Like effectively every website, our host records standard technical information when a page is requested: IP address, browser and device type, the page requested, referring page, and timestamp. These are used for security, abuse prevention, and diagnosing faults. The site is hosted by Bluehost, and it is Bluehost that receives and logs those requests. Cloudflare provides this domain’s DNS only. It answers the address lookup your browser makes before the request is sent, and it does not sit in front of the site today, so it does not receive or log the pages you read — see Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
Calculator inputs stay in your browser. The repair-or-replace calculator on this site does its arithmetic locally, in the page. The machine class, quote, age and hour-meter figures you type into it are not transmitted to us and are not stored anywhere. Reload the page and they are gone.
Nothing sensitive, ever. This site has no reason to ask for financial details, government identifiers, or health information, and never will. If a page on this site appears to be asking you for any of those, it has been compromised — please tell us.
Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files stored by your browser. This site involves three kinds:
| Purpose | Set by | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | This site | Security, keeping the site available, and remembering your privacy choices. The site cannot function without these. |
| Analytics | Google Analytics | Aggregate measurement — how many people read a page, which pages they arrive from. Not in use yet. |
| Advertising | Google and its advertising partners | Serving ads, limiting how often you see the same one, and measuring whether ads worked. Not in use yet. |
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time. Blocking essential cookies may break parts of the site; blocking advertising cookies will not — you will simply see less relevant ads.
Advertising
This site is intended to be supported by display advertising, principally Google AdSense. That is how it is meant to be paid for, and it is the reason most of the data collection described on this page will happen. No advertising is running here today — see the status note at the top. The disclosures below are published in advance, and they describe what applies from the day it is switched on.
Google requires publishers using AdSense to tell you the following:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings (now presented as My Ad Center).
- Alternatively, you can opt out of personalized advertising from many participating vendors at www.aboutads.info/choices, or, in Europe, at Your Online Choices.
How Google handles data from sites that use its services is described in Google’s own policy on partner sites and its general Privacy Policy.
Opting out of personalized advertising does not remove advertising. You will still see ads; they will be chosen without using your browsing history.
One thing worth stating plainly, because many privacy policies obscure it. Serving personalized ads involves sharing online identifiers — such as cookie IDs, device identifiers and IP address — with advertising partners. Several US state privacy laws define that kind of sharing as a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information, even though no money changes hands for your data and we receive none. Rather than claim we “never sell your data,” which would depend on a narrow reading of those words, we would rather tell you what happens and how to stop it: use the opt-out links above, or the consent controls described below.
If you are in the UK or the EEA
Google requires publishers serving personalized ads to users in the EEA and UK to use a Google-certified consent management platform integrated with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, a requirement in force since January 16, 2024. This site will use one from the day personalized advertising is enabled here. Advertising is not running yet, so no consent platform is loaded today.
In practice, once advertising is enabled: you will be asked for consent before any advertising or analytics cookie is set, you can decline, and you can change your mind later through the same consent controls (usually a link or icon in the site footer). Declining leaves you with non-personalized advertising rather than no site.
Your rights. Under the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR you can ask us to confirm what personal data we hold about you, to give you a copy, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict or object to how it is used, and to withdraw consent at any time. Where we rely on consent — which is the basis for advertising and analytics cookies — withdrawing it is as easy as giving it.
Some of these requests we can act on directly. Others concern data held by Google rather than by us, in which case we will tell you so and point you to the right controls, rather than pretend to a power we do not have.
You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority — in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office.
If you are in California or another US state with a privacy law
Laws including the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the CPRA) give residents rights to know what personal information is collected, to have it deleted, to correct it, and to opt out of its sale or sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising.
A candid note on whether that law applies to us. The CCPA reaches a business that meets any one of three thresholds: more than $25 million in annual gross revenue; or buying, selling or sharing the personal information of 100,000 or more consumers or households in a year; or drawing 50% or more of its annual revenue from selling or sharing personal information.
Two of those are tests of size, and a site this small is nowhere near either one. The third is not a size test — it asks where the money comes from, and it has no floor underneath it. This site is intended to be funded by display advertising, none of which is running yet, and the Advertising section above says plainly that personalized ads involve the kind of sharing those laws are written about. Whether that makes a small ad-supported blog a “business” under the statute is genuinely arguable. It is not a question we are going to settle in our own favor on our own privacy policy.
So we are not claiming an exemption, and you do not need us to have one. We will honor these requests from any visitor, in any state, whether or not the law requires it of us. Email hello@stillworthstarting.com.
To opt out of personalized advertising, the fastest route is the opt-out links in the Advertising section above. Where your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, the consent tooling will treat it as an opt-out request once that tooling is in place. Until advertising begins there is nothing to opt out of.
Analytics
Google Analytics is not running on this site yet — see the status note at the top. When it is, it will be used to understand which pages are read and which are not. It tells us that a page was read 400 times last week; it does not tell us who you are, and we do not attempt to identify individual visitors.
You can opt out of Google Analytics across all sites with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Links to other sites
This site links out constantly and deliberately — to manufacturer service documentation, parts catalogs, federal regulations, climate datasets and published shop price lists — because showing where a figure came from is the entire point of the site. Those sites have their own privacy policies and we have no control over them. A link is not an endorsement of anyone’s data practices.
Children
This site is intended for adults making decisions about outdoor power equipment. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has provided us information, email us and we will delete it.
Security, and its limits
We use HTTPS across the site, keep the platform updated, and limit the data we hold directly so there is little to lose. But no website can promise perfect security, and we are not going to be the first to claim it.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes materially — a new advertising partner, a new category of data — the “last updated” date above changes and the change is described here rather than made quietly. Continued use of the site after a change means the updated policy applies.
Contact
Questions, requests, or complaints about privacy: hello@stillworthstarting.com.
We aim to respond within a few days, and within any timeframe the applicable law requires.