Privacy

There is no login and no user account. GadgetGauge does not need the seller's identity to help you evaluate a listing, and it does not intentionally request, store, log, analyze, or place in a URL: IMEI, serial number, seller name, phone number, exact meeting address, marketplace login, payment credentials, or unnecessary location information.

Nothing is sent while you type or paste. When you explicitly select “Read this listing,” we send the link to Diffbot, a third-party page-reading service, so it can read the public page and return possible model, storage, and asking-price details. This does not verify the ad or the seller. You must review and confirm every suggestion before it becomes part of a check.

We do not permanently save the raw listing link or Diffbot's page content, and we do not include either one in your result, analytics, result URL, or shared summary. eBay links are not sent to Diffbot; paste the ad text or enter its details manually instead.

Pasted ad text stays in temporary browser memory while you complete the form. It is never sent to Diffbot or the deal-check API and is not permanently saved. If a suggestion is drawn from it (asking price, model, or storage), only that structured, editable suggestion is kept — the raw text is discarded from application state as soon as practical after you confirm the fields.

If pasted text appears to contain an email address, phone number, street address, or other long identifier, GadgetGauge warns you and asks you to remove it before continuing.

Some comparison ranges use a dated snapshot of marketplace asking prices, collected through eBay's official Browse API or a reviewed manual sample. These are public asking prices, not completed-sale prices or proof that a phone sold for that amount. We store only the combined model-level price data used by the checker — never seller names, ad text, or listing links.

A result and its checklist completion state are saved only in your browser's local storage, tied to that specific browser and device. GadgetGauge does not operate a server-side account database of your results. A copied result link works only on the browser that created it — if a result cannot be found locally, GadgetGauge tells you so and offers to start a new check.

GadgetGauge does not ask for an email address anywhere in the product. It has no login, no newsletter, and no personalized request flow that would need one.

Analytics events use a fixed allow-list of non-personal properties only — things like the exact supported model, storage, verdict, confidence, counts of unknown answers or triggered risk rules, data snapshot ID, and rule-set version. Analytics never contains raw listing text, a listing URL, an email, a name, a phone number, a street address, an IMEI, a serial number, seller identity, meeting location, marketplace account information, or any free-text input you typed.

GadgetGauge cannot authenticate a phone, verify ownership, verify stolen status, confirm that a screenshot is current or belongs to the listed phone, guarantee part authenticity, diagnose hidden damage, validate the seller, or guarantee meeting safety. Treat every result as decision support, not a safety guarantee.