Privacy Policy
Last updated September 3, 2026
Welcome to Gear Priority. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username, or similar identifier if you create an account to save gear lists, participate in forums, or leave comments on reviews.
- Contact Data: Includes email address if you subscribe to our newsletter or correspond with us.
- Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform.
- Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, read our outdoor gear reviews, and interact with our content.
2. How We Use Your Information
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- To provide and maintain our website, including presenting detailed outdoor and backpacking gear reviews.
- To manage your account and your preferences, including saved loadouts, sleeping pad metrics, or gear comparisons.
- To notify you about changes to our service or updates to our content.
- To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the website’s performance and design.
- To monitor the usage of the website.
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.
3. Affiliate Disclosure and Third-Party Links
Gear Priority participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. When you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, the retailer may place a cookie on your browser to track the origin of the sale. This Policy does not cover the use of cookies by any third-party retailers.
Our website may also include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website, such as saving your gear preferences.
5. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
6. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
7. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us via the contact form on our website.