Privacy Policy

How GeniesMag Calculators handles information when you use our free construction calculators.

Last Updated: October 18, 2026

At GeniesMag Calculators, accessible at https://geniesmag.com, we respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you use our website and free construction calculators, such as our concrete, brick, flooring, roofing, drywall, paint, lumber, and gravel estimators, how that information is used, when it may be shared, and the choices you have.

By using our website, you acknowledge the practices described in this policy.

Privacy at a Glance

No signup required. You can use every calculator without creating an account.
Your project numbers stay in your browser. Most calculators process dimensions, quantities, and material specs locally on your device. We do not store them on our servers.
We don’t sell your personal information.
We show ads. Advertising partners, including Google AdSense and Adsterra, may use cookies. You can manage your ad preferences.

1. Who We Are

GeniesMag Calculators operates https://geniesmag.com. The site provides free online construction calculators and step-by-step guides that help homeowners, contractors, DIYers, and students estimate building materials, measure areas and volumes, and plan project costs.

For privacy questions, please reach us through our Contact page.

2. Information We Collect

Information You Provide

We collect personal information only when you choose to give it to us, for example when you:

Leave a comment on a calculator or guide.
Contact us to report a formula error, request a new calculator, or ask a question.
Reach out about partnerships, advertising, or embedding our tools.

This may include your name, email address, website URL, and the content of your message.

Automatically Collected Information

When you visit our website, technical information may be collected automatically by our hosting provider, WordPress, security and spam-protection tools, analytics services, and advertising partners. This can include your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, pages and calculators visited, referring URLs, approximate location derived from your IP address, and visit timestamps.

3. Calculator Inputs and Results

Our construction calculators ask for project details such as:

Dimensions (length, width, height, depth, thickness, slope or pitch).
Quantities, spacing, and waste or overage percentages.
Material specifications (bag sizes, brick or tile sizes, lumber grades, coverage rates).
Unit prices you enter to estimate project costs.

How these inputs are handled: Our calculators are designed to run in your web browser. The values you enter are processed locally on your device to produce results and are not sent to or stored on our servers. When you close or refresh the page, the values are generally cleared.

Result Features

Copy, Print, and Download as Image: These features create the output on your device. We do not receive a copy.
Share: If you share a calculator or result, the link or content goes to the app or platform you choose, which handles it under its own privacy policy.
Saved preferences: Some tools may remember settings, such as imperial or metric units, using your browser’s local storage. You can clear these through your browser settings.

Calculator fields are meant for measurements and project figures only. Please do not enter personal, financial, or other sensitive information into calculator fields.

4. How We Use Information

We may use collected information to:

Operate, maintain, and improve our calculators and guides.
Understand which construction tools are most useful and which new calculators to build.
Respond to questions, corrections, and calculator requests.
Manage and moderate comments.
Detect spam, fraud, abuse, and security threats.
Monitor errors, page speed, and mobile usability.
Display advertising that keeps our calculators free.
Comply with legal obligations.

We aim to collect no more personal information than is reasonably necessary for these purposes.

5. Comments

When you leave a comment, we collect the information in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user-agent string, to help detect spam. Comments may be checked by an automated spam-detection service.

An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible publicly alongside it.

If you upload images, such as a photo of your project, remove embedded location data (EXIF GPS) first. Visitors may be able to download images and extract that data.

Please do not include your home address, phone number, or other sensitive details in public comments.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small files stored in your browser. We and our partners use them for the following purposes:

Type	Purpose	Typical Duration
Essential	Site security, spam protection, and core functionality	Session to 1 year
Preference	Remembering calculator settings, such as unit system	Until cleared
Comment	Saving your name, email, and website if you choose to	1 year
Analytics	Measuring traffic and understanding how calculators are used	Varies by provider
Advertising	Serving ads, limiting repeats, measuring performance, and personalizing ads where permitted	Varies by provider

Site administrators who log in to WordPress also receive standard login and editing cookies. These are not set for regular visitors.

You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how the site works. Where required by law, such as in the EEA, the UK, and certain US states, we will ask for your consent before setting non-essential cookies.

7. Advertising and Affiliate Links

Advertising revenue allows us to keep every calculator free with no signup. We work with third-party advertising networks, including Google AdSense and Adsterra.

Google AdSense

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to our site and other sites on the internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising through Google My Ad Center. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info.
Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Other Ad Networks

Adsterra and other partners may use cookies, pixels, IP addresses, and device information to deliver and measure ads and to prevent fraud, under their own privacy policies.

Affiliate Links

Some guides may contain affiliate links to construction tools, materials, or equipment. If you click such a link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The retailer may use cookies to track the referral. Affiliate relationships never change calculator formulas or results.

8. Embedded Content and Shared Tools

Our guides may include embedded content, such as videos, images, or maps from other websites. Embedded content behaves as if you visited the other website directly. Those sites may collect data, use cookies, and track your interaction with the content under their own privacy policies.

If another website embeds a GeniesMag calculator, that website’s own privacy policy also applies to your visit there.

We do not sell personal information. We may share information only in limited cases:

With hosting, security, spam-detection, analytics, and other providers that help run the site.
With advertising partners, as described above.
When needed to protect our website, users, rights, or property.
When required by law, legal process, or a valid government request.
In connection with a merger, sale, or restructuring, where legally permitted.

We expect service providers that handle personal information on our behalf to use it only for appropriate purposes and in line with applicable law.

10. Data Retention

Calculator inputs: Not stored on our servers. Any preferences saved in your browser remain until you clear them.
Comments: Comments and their metadata may be kept indefinitely so follow-up comments can be approved automatically.
Contact messages: Kept as long as needed to respond and handle follow-ups.
Technical and security logs: Kept for periods appropriate to security and troubleshooting needs.

11. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, including under the GDPR, UK GDPR, or US state privacy laws such as the CCPA/CPRA, you may have the right to:

Access the personal information we hold about you.
Receive a copy in a portable format.
Correct inaccurate information.
Request deletion, subject to legal exceptions.
Object to or restrict certain processing.
Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent.
Opt out of targeted advertising or the “sharing” of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

If you have left comments, you can request an export or deletion of the personal data we hold about you. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request. To exercise any right, please use our Contact page.

12. Children’s Privacy

GeniesMag offers general-audience construction calculators and educational guides. The site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided personal information through a comment or message, please contact us and we will remove it.

13. Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information, including HTTPS encryption, security monitoring, and spam protection. No online transmission or storage method is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

14. International Data Transfers

Our website and its service providers may process or store information in countries other than your own, where privacy laws may differ. Where required, appropriate safeguards are used for these transfers.

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as we add calculators or features, change service providers, or respond to new legal requirements. Updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.

16. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or your privacy rights, please get in touch. We review privacy inquiries and respond as required under applicable law.