Privacy

• No accounts, no email. BidJolt does not ask for your name, email or phone to use any feature.
• The calculator and the quote comparer store nothing. What you type is used to answer that one request.
• A Bid Desk stores the bids you save and the business details you type, with the dates they changed. The desk key is stored only as a one-way hash. One cookie (__Host-bj_desk) keeps the desk open in your browser; one more (__Host-bj_csrf) protects forms.
• Making a desk counts against a daily limit per internet address; the address is kept only as a salted hash, used for that day's count and deleted within 3 days.
• Server logs (address, page, time, browser) are kept by the web server for security and are deleted on the host's normal schedule.
• Deleting a desk removes it and its bids at once. Copies of the database made before that go too: the nightly backups are overwritten within 14 days, and the backups taken when the site software is updated are deleted from the server within 30 days. An off-server copy of those update backups is kept by WeldonPC for disaster recovery and may last longer; it is never used for anything else.
• No tracking cookies, no analytics services, nothing sold or shared. The only outside service any page loads is the banner on the public pages from adengine.us, described under Advertising; it also counts one page view per page as a daily total. When checkout opens, PayPal handles payment details; we receive only the subscription status.

Advertising

The public pages of BidJolt (home, pricing, the guide, about, the bid calculator and the quote comparer) show one banner ad from AdEngine (adengine.us), the small ad network run by WeldonPC, the company behind this site. For now the ads are for WeldonPC's own services. Bid Desk pages, saved bids, printable bids, this page and the terms show no ad.

To show an ad, your browser loads a script from adengine.us, asks it for one banner, loads the banner image, and reports once that the page was viewed and once that the banner was shown. Like any website, adengine.us receives your internet address, your browser type and the address of this site with those requests. It never receives the figures you type.

• No cookies, no profile. AdEngine sets no cookies, gives you no ID and does not track you from site to site.
• How your internet address is used. adengine.us looks up the approximate city for your address in a location database kept on its own server (nothing is sent to anyone else), so that ads meant for one area are shown only there. It also uses the address to count each ad view or click only once and to leave out robots and WeldonPC's own office traffic. The address is not stored with the counts; the temporary entries made from it expire within six hours and are cleared from the server within two days.
• What is kept. Daily totals only: page views for this site, and views and clicks for each ad. The adengine.us web server also keeps a standard access log (internet address, time, address requested, referring site, browser) for security; it is deleted on a rolling schedule.
• Clicking an ad passes through adengine.us, which counts the click, and then opens the advertiser's site, which has its own privacy policy.
• Nothing about you is sold or shared.

Questions: through weldonpc.com.