Effective Date: October 2025
Last Updated: June 2026

PortableHotTubGuide.com (“we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information when you visit our website.

By using PortableHotTubGuide.com, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

What Information We Collect

We collect both non-personal and personal information through the use of Google Site Kit, Google Analytics, affiliate links, affiliate tracking tools, cookies, referral technologies, and similar website tracking methods.

Automatically Collected Information

When you visit the site, we may collect:

• Your IP address
• Device type and browser
• Operating system
• Referring site
• Pages visited and time spent on site
• Clicks on affiliate/product links
• Broad geolocation data, such as city, region, or country
• General site usage and performance data
• Referral source and traffic source information
• Technical information used to measure affiliate link performance

This information may be collected via Google Analytics, part of Google Site Kit, as well as affiliate tracking tools used by Amazon Associates, Impact, Awin, FlexOffers, retailers, brands, merchants, and other third-party affiliate platforms.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Understand visitor behavior
• Improve our site’s layout and content
• Improve product comparison tables and filtering tools
• Track affiliate link performance
• Attribute affiliate referrals and commissions
• Optimize SEO and page speed
• Monitor website performance
• Identify broken links or outdated product pages
• Ensure legal, technical, platform, and affiliate program compliance
• Maintain website security and prevent misuse

Affiliate Disclosure

PortableHotTubGuide.com participates in affiliate advertising programs, including the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, Impact, Awin, FlexOffers, and other merchant affiliate programs.

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

When you click on an Amazon link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. We may also earn commissions when you click affiliate links that direct you to manufacturer websites, retailer websites, brand websites, merchant websites, or other third-party seller platforms.

Some tracking data, such as referral source, whether a link was clicked, affiliate link clicks, transaction-related attribution data, or other referral information, may be passed to Amazon, Impact, Awin, FlexOffers, retailers, brands, merchants, or other affiliate platforms to process affiliate activity, attribute referrals, prevent fraud, and calculate commissions.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience, track site analytics, and measure affiliate link performance. This includes:

• Google Analytics cookies via Google Site Kit
• Amazon affiliate tracking cookies
• Impact affiliate tracking technologies
• Awin affiliate tracking technologies
• FlexOffers affiliate tracking technologies
• Affiliate tracking cookies and referral technologies used by retailers, brands, merchants, and other affiliate partners
• Cookies or similar technologies used to measure link clicks, referral activity, site performance, and commission attribution

You can manage or disable cookies in your browser settings.

EU Visitors

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or another location where cookie consent is required, we rely on your consent to place non-essential cookies where required by applicable law. You may see a cookie consent banner upon your first visit.

You may be able to accept, reject, or manage certain cookie preferences through the cookie banner or your browser settings.

Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services, affiliate platforms, analytics tools, and merchant websites:

• Google Analytics via Google Site Kit: Tracks usage data, site performance, visitor behavior, and search-related insights
• Google Search Console via Google Site Kit: Provides search performance and website visibility information
• Amazon.com and Amazon Associates: Provides product listings, affiliate links, and purchase attribution
• Impact: Provides affiliate tracking, referral attribution, and commission tracking
• Awin: Provides affiliate tracking, referral attribution, and commission tracking
• FlexOffers: Provides affiliate tracking, referral attribution, and commission tracking
• Retailer, manufacturer, brand, merchant, and seller websites that users may visit after clicking product links

Each third party has its own privacy policies, cookie policies, and terms of use, which govern how they handle data. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and terms of any third-party website before making a purchase or submitting personal information.

We encourage you to review:

• Google’s Privacy Policy
• Amazon’s Privacy Notice
• The privacy policies of Impact, Awin, FlexOffers, retailers, manufacturers, brands, merchants, sellers, and any other third-party websites you visit after clicking links from PortableHotTubGuide.com

Data Sharing

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data.

We may share anonymized, aggregated, technical, analytics, cookie, click, referral, or transaction-related information with partners, affiliate platforms, service providers, retailers, brands, merchants, or other third-party tools where necessary to:

• Improve site performance
• Track affiliate earnings
• Attribute affiliate referrals and commissions
• Measure link clicks and user interactions
• Maintain affiliate program compliance
• Prevent fraud or misuse
• Improve website content, layout, SEO, and product comparison tools

This may include data shared with Google services, Amazon Associates, Impact, Awin, FlexOffers, affiliate networks, retailers, merchants, brands, or other service providers. Any data collected by those third parties is handled according to their own privacy policies, cookie policies, and terms.

Data Retention

We retain analytics data in accordance with Google’s default retention settings, which may typically be around 14 months depending on the settings used. You can manage your Google privacy settings through your Google account.

Affiliate platforms, retailers, merchants, and other third-party services may retain referral, click, cookie, transaction, or attribution data according to their own policies and platform settings. PortableHotTubGuide.com does not control the full retention practices of third-party platforms once data is collected or processed by them.

Your Rights (EU & California Visitors)

Depending on your location, you may have rights under privacy laws such as the GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, or other applicable privacy laws, including:

• The right to access your data
• The right to correct inaccurate data
• The right to request deletion
• The right to object to or restrict processing
• The right to withdraw consent
• The right to manage or disable cookies where applicable

To exercise any of these rights, please use our Privacy & Legal Contact Form.

Children’s Privacy

This site is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The effective date or last updated date will always be posted at the top of the page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please use our Privacy & Legal Contact Form.