Privacy Policy
Who we are and how to contact us
Software Choice Engine is the operating name of a Japan-based individual business running softwarechoiceengine.com, a free software comparison website. Contact contact@softwarechoiceengine.com about this policy or your information. The site is publicly available without sign-in.
Calculator answers
The seven answers are calculated in your browser. Our application does not send or save subscriber numbers, revenue, purpose or workflow answers on a server. It does not create a user profile from the diagnosis or make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects. Please do not enter personal or sensitive information in the calculator.
Optional visit and click measurement
Measurement is off by default and the calculator works without it. If you enable the checkbox below, we record one measured page visit for this document and subsequent result-link clicks. The payload contains the event type, a predefined page path, an allowlisted source category and a random event ID; clicks also contain the provider ID and result placement. We add a timestamp and the link type. Source categories are derived in your browser from recognised utm_source labels or a referrer hostname. The exact YouTube video_02 UTM combination is mapped to the fixed youtube-video-02 category. Other campaign strings are not stored. Non-consenting visits and clicks are unmeasured, not inferred or counted as zero. We do not send the original URL, arbitrary campaign values or full referrer. We use this information to test link delivery and understand which recommendations are used. Measured visits are page views after consent, not unique people or cross-page sessions. Events are not purchases, conversions or affiliate earnings. Optional measurement captures only visitors who enable it and is not a complete count of traffic. Search Console statistics are separate aggregate search data.
The event payload does not include your calculator answers, name, email, full referrer, IP address or a persistent visitor ID. However, hosting request logs can include IP addresses and other request details alongside the event. We therefore do not describe this measurement as fully anonymous. It does not use advertising pixels, cross-site profiles, measurement cookies or browser storage.
Your choice lasts for this page only. Disable the checkbox to withdraw permission for future measurement events; navigating away or reloading resets it. Turning it off does not erase events already received. We also suppress optional measurement when your browser sends a supported Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal.
Technical requests
OpenAI Sites and Cloudflare host and secure this website. Requests may be logged with IP addresses, browser details, requested URLs, timestamps and security information. Public browsing does not require ChatGPT sign-in. Our calculator and custom click payload do not use account identity for rankings or profiling.
Technical processing supports delivery, access control, abuse prevention and troubleshooting. Optional click processing is based on your choice. Where applicable law requires a legal basis, we rely on consent for optional measurement and legitimate interests in responding to enquiries and operating a secure website for necessary processing, subject to your rights.
If you email us
We receive your email address, message content, any attachments and email metadata. We use them to answer enquiries, handle privacy requests and investigate reported problems. Contact email is routed through Cloudflare Email Routing to a Google-hosted mailbox. Domain-sender replies use Resend, which processes the recipient address, reply content and delivery metadata for email delivery under its own privacy and retention policies. Do not send passwords, payment details or identity documents unless we agree on a necessary and appropriate verification method. We do not add enquiries to a marketing list. We do not provide product support, account access, billing, cancellation or refund services for the platforms compared here; contact the relevant provider for those matters. This does not limit enquiries about our website, operator information or privacy rights.
Recipients, international processing and retention
Our hosting and email providers process information needed to deliver their services. Processing may take place outside your country. Their applicable terms, privacy notices and transfer arrangements govern their own processing. We do not sell personal information or use it for behavioural advertising. Information may also be disclosed when legally required or necessary to address abuse or legal claims.
We store monthly counters by page, source category, provider and event type in Cloudflare D1 for the current UTC month and the previous 24 months. Random event IDs are retained for deduplication for up to seven days. Expired records are deleted when the next measurement event is processed; deletion can therefore be delayed while no events arrive. Event IDs are not persistent visitor IDs and cannot link your visits. Outbound-click events may also appear in Cloudflare Workers Logs, whose standard retention is at most seven days. Aggregate counters support monthly business analysis. Hosting and security providers may keep separate technical records under their own retention policies. Our enquiry-mail retention procedure is a monthly manual review: resolved correspondence is moved to Trash once 90 days have passed since resolution, and no later than 120 days after resolution. Gmail normally permanently deletes Trash after a further 30 days, so our ordinary mailbox retention is at most 150 days after resolution. This is a manual procedure, not an automatic deletion feature of this website or Cloudflare Email Routing. Unresolved requests are reviewed monthly and kept only while needed. Records subject to a legal preservation requirement or a specific dispute are retained separately for that purpose and reviewed monthly; we delete them when that need ends. Provider backups and security records follow the providers' own retention processes. Ask us for details about a specific record.
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Your rights and choices
Depending on applicable law, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction or portability of your personal information, object to certain processing, withdraw consent, and complain to a relevant data protection authority, including Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission. Send requests to contact@softwarechoiceengine.com. Requests for legally required business-operator information and requests concerning retained personal data, including disclosure, correction and deletion, are accepted at this same address. We will respond without delay as required by applicable law, including by providing legally required operator information on request. We may need proportionate information to verify a request. We respond within applicable legal time limits. Some records cannot reliably be linked to you, and some must be retained for legal or security reasons; we will explain relevant limits.
External links and updates
Following an official provider link takes you to a separate service governed by its own privacy policy. We use a no-referrer policy for outgoing links, but the destination still receives ordinary connection information. Our beehiiv links include an affiliate referral parameter. The destination and its affiliate programme providers may process referral information, connection details and cookies under their own policies to attribute sign-ups and purchases. Other provider links are regular official links. This external referral processing is separate from our optional click measurement; turning off our measurement does not remove the referral parameter or control the destination's cookies. We update this notice when our practices change and show the revision date above. A materially new optional use will require an appropriate notice and choice before it starts.