This Privacy Policy explains what personal data Printer Test Lab (printertestlab.com) collects, why, and what choices and rights you have. We collect as little as possible: there are no user accounts, nothing to upload, and the test pages and PDFs work without giving us any information.
Who is responsible for your data
The data controller is Fernando Margareto, Yátova (Valencia), Spain, tax ID 53604383P. You can reach us at info@printertestlab.com for any privacy question or request. Full owner details are in the Legal Notice.
Because the site is run from Spain, we apply the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Spanish data protection law to all visitors. Visitors in the United States also have the rights described in the section on US state privacy laws.
What we collect and why
When you use the test pages
Printing a test page, switching between Letter and A4 or downloading a PDF doesn’t send us any personal data. To remember your paper size and light or dark mode, the site stores two small values in your own browser’s local storage (ptl-paper and ptl-theme). They never leave your device, and you can delete them at any time by clearing your browser’s site data.
When you contact us
If you use the contact form or write to us by email, we receive your name, your email address and your message. We use them only to answer you.
- Legal basis: your consent, given when you send the message (GDPR art. 6(1)(a)), and our legitimate interest in answering inquiries (art. 6(1)(f)).
- Retention: we keep messages as long as needed to deal with your inquiry and delete them within 12 months of the last exchange, unless the law requires us to keep them longer.
- Recipients: nobody else, except our email and hosting provider, which processes the data on our behalf.
Server logs
Like any website, our hosting provider, Hostinger, automatically records technical data when you visit, such as your IP address, browser type, the pages requested and the time. These logs are used to keep the site secure and working (legitimate interest, art. 6(1)(f)) and are kept for the period set by the hosting provider. We don’t use them to identify visitors.
Analytics
We don’t use analytics tools or tracking pixels.
Advertising
Printer Test Lab is free because it shows advertising from Google AdSense, provided by Google LLC and, for users in the European Economic Area and Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Google may also use cookies and similar technologies to measure ad performance and to prevent fraud and abuse. To learn more, see how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.
Advertising providers we use
| Provider | Purpose | More information |
|---|---|---|
| Google AdSense (Google LLC / Google Ireland Limited) | Showing ads, personalized or not, ad measurement, fraud prevention | Google Advertising technologies |
When personalized ads are shown in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, Google works with other ad technology providers. The consent message described below lists them, and you can review or refuse each one there. We don’t work with any other ad network. If that changes, we’ll update this table first.
Consent in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland
If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, a consent message from Google’s certified consent management platform appears before any non-essential advertising cookies are used. It is integrated with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. You can accept, refuse, or choose purposes and vendors one by one, and ads are still shown if you refuse, but they aren’t personalized.
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time with the Privacy and cookie settings link at the bottom of every page. Withdrawing consent doesn’t affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
US state privacy rights (including California)
If you live in California or another US state with a comprehensive privacy law, you have the right to:
- Know what personal information we collect, use and disclose, which is described in this policy;
- Access and receive a copy of your personal information;
- Correct inaccurate personal information;
- Delete your personal information;
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, including for cross-context behavioral advertising, and of targeted advertising;
- Not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
We don’t sell personal information for money. The use of advertising cookies by Google and its partners, described above, may count as “sharing” or “targeted advertising” under some state laws. Where required, a message from Google lets you opt out, and you can always opt out of personalized ads through Google’s Ads Settings and www.aboutads.info. We don’t collect sensitive personal information.
To exercise any right, email us at info@printertestlab.com. We may need to confirm your identity before acting on a request, and you can use an authorized agent.
Your rights under the GDPR
Wherever you live, you can ask us to access, correct or delete your data, to restrict or object to its processing, and to receive it in a portable format. Where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it at any time. Write to info@printertestlab.com; we’ll reply within one month.
If you think we haven’t handled your data properly, you can complain to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, www.aepd.es) or to the authority in your country.
International transfers
Google may process data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. Google relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and on standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission for these transfers.
Children
This site is not directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we’ll delete it.
Security
The site is served only over HTTPS. Contact messages are delivered to a private mailbox, and we don’t store them on the website.
Changes to this policy
We’ll update this page when our practices change, for example if we add a new advertising provider, and change the date at the top. For significant changes, we’ll add a notice on the home page.