Privacy information

Information you enter

The guide search, category filter, and clue finder run in your browser. This build has no account system, comment form, or contact form, and it does not ask you to submit personal information.

Search and printable worksheets

Site search and glossary filtering run in your browser. The site search places your search words in the page URL so that you can bookmark or share the result. A visit or reload of that URL can include those words in the hosting request. Use ordinary pest terms rather than personal information.

Toolkit fields stay in the open page; our worksheet code does not send or save them. Print or save a PDF before leaving if you want to keep a copy. Your browser may retain page state, and downloaded or printed records remain under your control. The separate evidence log saves entries only when you choose Save.

Evidence log on your device

When you choose Save, the evidence log stores cases and dated entries in localStorage on this browser. Existing field notes are moved into separate cases when you first open the new log. Entries and photo filenames are not sent to the publisher, uploaded with photographs, or synced between devices. You can delete entries, download a JSON copy, merge a downloaded copy into the log, and print a case or all cases to paper or PDF. Import reads the selected file in your browser; it does not send its contents to the publisher. Printed and downloaded copies remain under your control. Clearing browser storage removes the saved entries. Planned check dates appear when you reopen the log; the site does not send reminders. Anyone with access to the same browser profile may be able to read the entries; avoid personal or sensitive details.

Advertising and analytics

This site loads Google AdSense for site verification and advertising. Ad availability depends on Google approval and account settings. If you choose “Allow analytics,” we load Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics 4 to understand visits and which pages people use. We also count fixed tool actions: submitted searches, clue-finder selections, saved evidence entries, backup requests and worksheet print requests. These events contain no search terms or entered text. We send the page path and title without the search terms or other query values in the URL. Google may set analytics cookies and process technical information about your visit. We do not send your evidence log, worksheet entries, imported files or photographs to Analytics. Read Google's privacy policyfor its data practices.

Your choice is stored in this browser so we can remember it. You can reopen the choice from “Analytics choices” in the footer. Choosing “No thanks” stops future Analytics loading; if it was already running, the page reloads and our code clears its cookies for this site. Revoking consent also stops analytics in other open tabs. We respect browser Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals for analytics.

Advertising choices

When serving ads, third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on prior visits to this and other websites. Google's advertising cookies allow it and its partners to personalize ads across websites. You can manage personalized advertising at Google My Ad Centerand participating vendors at YourAdChoices. Read how Google uses information from partner sites.

The current “Analytics choices” control covers analytics only. It does not provide advertising consent. Where required, separate advertising consent controls must be enabled before advertising starts. We will update this disclosure if additional advertising vendors are introduced.

Hosting

Vercel hosts this website and receives network requests, including technical information such as IP addresses and user agents, to deliver and secure pages. See Vercel’s privacy policy for its practices. Field-note text is not included in these requests by our code.

Contact

For privacy questions, email hello@pestevidence.com. An email includes the address and any information you choose to send; we use it to respond to your request. Avoid sending sensitive details. Your saved evidence log remains on your device and cannot be retrieved or deleted by the publisher; use the log controls or clear browser storage.