How RepairGauge handles personal data.
Last updated August 29, 2026
1. Controller
RepairGauge is operated by Felix Cozmolici, sole proprietorship, Brentanostraße 8, 30625 Hannover, Germany. Email: imodelly.agency@gmail.com. Phone: +49 172 4239611.
2. Website delivery and technical logs
The public website is hosted by Vercel. When the site is requested, Vercel may process technical information necessary to deliver, secure and troubleshoot the service, such as IP address, request time, requested path, browser/device information and security logs. For EEA/UK visitors, RepairGauge relies on legitimate interests in operating a secure and stable service where applicable.
3. Calculators and quote text
Ordinary calculator inputs remain in the browser unless you intentionally submit a provider-match request. The written text pasted into the Quote Checker is analyzed in the browser and is not uploaded to RepairGauge. Do not paste names, addresses, insurance claim numbers, financial data or other sensitive information.
4. Provider-match requests
If you request provider options, RepairGauge stores the project type, state, ZIP code, estimate range, name, email address, phone number, source page, consent version and limited campaign/referrer information present at the time of submission. We use this information to review the request, contact you and identify possible service providers.
Your contact details are not automatically broadcast or sold to providers. RepairGauge will not share your contact details with a provider unless you later approve that specific introduction. A provider proposal can be accepted or declined without obligation.
5. Provider introductions and consent records
When provider matching becomes available, RepairGauge may keep an internal record of the provider proposed, whether you approved or declined the introduction, the consent wording/version in effect, and the time an approved disclosure occurred. This record exists to prevent unauthorized sharing and to document the instruction you gave us.
The initial match-request checkbox does not authorize automated or prerecorded telemarketing calls or marketing text messages. Any communication method requiring separate consent under applicable law must obtain that consent separately.
6. Quote-data contributions
If you voluntarily contribute a contractor price, RepairGauge may store the project type, state, optional ZIP code, quoted total, optional repair method, source page and consent version. The pasted quote text is not included. Submitted observations are reviewed before they are used in public research and are not represented as local market statistics until the sample is sufficient.
7. Contact and privacy requests
Contact-form submissions may include your name, email address, selected topic, message and source page. Use the Privacy request / data rights topic for access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection or consent-withdrawal requests.
8. Analytics and performance measurement
RepairGauge uses Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights when enabled. Vercel describes these products as privacy-focused, aggregated and not tied to an identifiable visitor or stored IP address; Web Analytics does not use third-party cookies. RepairGauge does not send names, email addresses, phone numbers, quote text or ZIP codes as analytics event properties.
RepairGauge does not use a first-party attribution cookie or browser-storage identifier for marketing attribution. Limited UTM/referrer information visible on the submission page may be attached to a submission so we can understand where a request came from.
9. Legal bases for EEA/UK processing
Depending on the activity, processing may rely on: Article 6(1)(b) GDPR for handling a provider-match request and related pre-contractual steps; Article 6(1)(a) for optional consent-based disclosures such as a specific provider introduction or voluntary quote contribution; Article 6(1)(f) for security, fraud prevention, limited analytics, record integrity and legal-defense purposes; and Article 6(1)(c) where processing is required by law.
10. Data recipients and international processing
RepairGauge uses Vercel for website hosting/performance services and Supabase for the private submission backend. These service providers process data on RepairGauge's behalf under their applicable terms and data-protection arrangements. A service provider receives homeowner contact details only after the homeowner approves that specific introduction.
11. Retention
Inactive provider-match requests in new, reviewed or closed status are automatically scheduled for deletion after 180 days. Spam records are deleted after 30 days. Records connected with an approved/matched introduction may be retained for up to 24 months where necessary for accountability, dispute handling or legal defense. Contact messages are deleted after 180 days. Pending quote contributions are deleted after 12 months; rejected or duplicate observations after 180 days; accepted research observations after up to 24 months unless earlier deletion is appropriate. Short-lived anti-abuse fingerprints are deleted after 48 hours.
Legal obligations or an active dispute may require a longer period. You may request earlier deletion where applicable.
12. Security
RepairGauge uses HTTPS, a separate private Supabase project, private database schemas, row-level security, server-side validation, strict input limits, origin restrictions, rate limiting, hashed short-lived abuse fingerprints, CSP and other browser security headers, and an audit structure for provider approvals. Public visitors have no direct read access to submission tables.
13. U.S. privacy choices
RepairGauge does not use personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising and does not sell a visitor's calculator activity. Provider matching occurs only when requested, and contact details are disclosed only after approval of a specific provider. Where a U.S. state privacy law gives you access, correction, deletion, portability or opt-out rights, RepairGauge will honor applicable requests even when a particular statutory threshold may not apply to this early-stage service.
14. Children
Provider-match and contact-submission features are intended for adults who can make or authorize decisions about the property or repair request. RepairGauge does not knowingly solicit personal information from children.
15. Your rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to or receive a copy of personal data, and to withdraw consent for future processing. Use Privacy choices or email imodelly.agency@gmail.com. EEA residents may also complain to a competent supervisory authority; for the operator's location this includes the State Commissioner for Data Protection of Lower Saxony (LfD Niedersachsen).
16. Commercial transparency
Homeowners do not pay RepairGauge to use the calculators or request matching. RepairGauge may receive compensation from a service provider if an approved introduction leads to business. Compensation does not change calculator results, source selection or editorial conclusions and does not give a provider automatic access to homeowner information.