Privacy Policy
Reviewed: August 18, 2026
Last updated: August 18, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Rock Calculator ("Rock Calculator," "we," "our," or "us") collects, uses, discloses, and protects information when you visit https://rockcalculator.net/, use our calculators and tools, submit a message, or otherwise interact with our website.
By accessing or using Rock Calculator, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the practices described here, please discontinue use of the website.
1. Who We Are
Rock Calculator is an informational website focused on rock, gravel, sand, stone, limestone, river rock, pea gravel, crushed stone, granite, and landscaping calculators. Our tools and guides are designed to help users estimate material quantity, volume, weight, coverage, bags, and cost for construction, landscaping, and DIY projects.
For privacy questions, rights requests, corrections, or general inquiries, you may contact us at contact@rockcalculator.net or through our Contact Us page.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information you provide directly to us and certain information automatically when you use the website.
Information You Provide
You may voluntarily provide information such as:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Message content submitted through email or contact forms
- Suggestions, feedback, correction requests, or support details
- Any screenshots, files, or other materials you voluntarily send to us
Information Collected Automatically
Depending on your device, browser, cookie settings, location, and the tools enabled on the website, we may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, including:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Operating system and device type
- Language settings
- Approximate location based on technical data
- Referring page or website
- Pages visited and time spent on pages
- Clicks, interactions, calculator usage events, and diagnostic data
- Security logs used to protect the website from spam, abuse, or unauthorized activity
When analytics, advertising, embedded content, anti-spam tools, or social features are enabled, those services may collect additional technical data such as cookies, pixels, local storage identifiers, device identifiers, and usage events. Some of this information may be considered personal data under applicable privacy laws.
3. How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve Rock Calculator
- Provide and improve calculators, guides, examples, and related content
- Respond to messages, support requests, corrections, suggestions, or legal notices
- Analyze website traffic, performance, and user experience
- Understand which calculators and pages are most useful to visitors
- Detect and prevent spam, fraud, abuse, security threats, and technical issues
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our policies
- Support monetization features such as advertising, where enabled
Where required by law, we rely on appropriate legal bases for processing personal data. These may include your consent, our legitimate interests in operating and securing the website, compliance with legal obligations, and steps taken at your request before responding to an inquiry.
4. Cookies, Analytics, and Similar Technologies
Rock Calculator may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies. These technologies may be used to:
- Remember user preferences and settings
- Measure traffic and content performance
- Support analytics and understand site usage
- Improve calculator functionality and user experience
- Maintain website security and prevent abuse
- Support advertising, ad measurement, and related services
Cookies are small files stored on your device. Some cookies are necessary for basic website functionality, while others may be used for analytics, advertising, personalization, or performance measurement.
You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality, preferences, analytics, or advertising features.
5. Google Analytics
We may use Google Analytics or similar analytics tools to understand how visitors use Rock Calculator, which pages are most helpful, and how we can improve our calculators, content, speed, layout, and user experience.
Analytics tools may collect technical and usage data such as page views, session duration, browser information, device details, referral sources, approximate location, and interaction events.
You may manage analytics cookies through your browser settings or through any cookie consent tools made available on the website, where applicable.
6. Google AdSense and Advertising
Rock Calculator may use Google AdSense and other third-party advertising services to display ads. These advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device information, and similar technologies to serve ads, measure ad performance, prevent fraud, and improve ad relevance.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to Rock Calculator and/or other websites on the internet.
- Advertising cookies may be used for personalized ads, non-personalized ads, frequency capping, ad reporting, and fraud prevention.
- Third-party ad networks may also use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies to deliver ads and measure ad effectiveness.
- You can manage personalized ad settings through Google's ad settings and other applicable privacy controls.
You can learn more about how Google uses cookies by visiting: Google's cookie information page .
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting: Google Ads Settings . You may also visit aboutads.info for additional information about opting out of interest-based advertising from participating companies.
7. Consent for Users in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, non-essential cookies and certain advertising or measurement technologies may require your consent. Where required, we may ask for your consent through a cookie banner or consent management tool before placing non-essential cookies on your device.
You may be able to accept, reject, or manage certain cookie categories, including analytics and advertising cookies. If personalized ads are not allowed or consent is not provided, you may still see ads, but they may be less personalized or based on contextual information.
8. Third-Party Services and Partners
We may use third-party service providers to help operate, secure, analyze, improve, or monetize the website. These providers may include hosting services, analytics tools, advertising networks, anti-spam services, form processing tools, security providers, and technical support tools.
These third parties may process information according to their own privacy policies and terms. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party services you interact with.
9. How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information in the ordinary sense of selling a contact list for money. However, we may share information with service providers and partners that help us operate the site, such as hosting providers, analytics providers, advertising partners, security tools, anti-spam services, communication tools, or professional advisers.
We may also disclose information when required by law, to respond to lawful requests, to protect our rights or users, to investigate abuse or security issues, or as part of a business transfer such as a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of assets.
10. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. This may include maintaining records, responding to requests, improving the website, enforcing our policies, complying with legal obligations, and resolving disputes.
Security logs, analytics data, contact form submissions, and email communications may be retained for different periods depending on operational needs, legal requirements, and the settings of the tools we use.
11. Your Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have rights under applicable privacy laws. These rights may include the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate or outdated information
- Request deletion of personal information
- Object to or restrict certain processing
- Request a portable copy of information you provided, where applicable
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Appeal a rights decision or lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
To exercise a privacy right, please contact us at contact@rockcalculator.net and include enough information for us to identify your request and the records you want reviewed. We may request reasonable identity verification before completing certain requests.
12. California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you may have rights under applicable California privacy laws, including rights relating to access, deletion, correction, and certain opt-out choices. Where required by law, we will respond to verified requests in accordance with applicable law.
If you believe certain advertising or analytics activities may be considered a "sale" or "sharing" under applicable California privacy laws, you may contact us to ask about available choices.
13. International Data Transfers
Our website and service providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live. When this happens, your information may be transferred to jurisdictions with different data-protection rules.
Where applicable, we rely on appropriate safeguards required by law for such transfers.
14. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
However, no method of internet transmission or electronic storage is completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
15. Children's Privacy
Rock Calculator is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under that age.
If you believe a child has provided personal data to us, please contact us at contact@rockcalculator.net so we can review and remove it where appropriate.
16. Third-Party Links and Embedded Content
Our pages may contain links to third-party websites, videos, social platforms, tools, resources, or embedded content that we do not control. Those third parties may collect information according to their own privacy policies.
We are not responsible for the privacy, security, or content practices of third-party services. We encourage you to review their policies before interacting with them.
17. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers may send "Do Not Track" signals. Because there is no uniform industry standard for responding to these signals, our website may not respond to them in a specific way. You can still control cookies and tracking technologies through your browser settings and any consent tools available on the website.
18. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the website, technology, applicable law, advertising tools, analytics tools, or our data practices. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.
Your continued use of Rock Calculator after an update takes effect means you accept the revised policy to the extent permitted by law.
19. Contact Us
Privacy questions, rights requests, complaints, corrections, and general contact inquiries may be sent to us at:
Email: contact@rockcalculator.net
Website: https://rockcalculator.net/
Contact Page: https://rockcalculator.net/contact-us/