Our Privacy Policy
Welcome to the Gear Up / Knee Down website (the “site”). This site is an online blog that produces opinion-based reviews and articles. This Privacy Statement discusses our privacy policy with respect to the Site and any third-party services associated with use of this site.
1. Cookies and Analytics:
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the cookies Squarespace uses.
These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website
Google's use of the advertising cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the internet
Users may opt out of the use of the advertising cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ad Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info)
This website is hosted by Squarespace and runs both Squarespace and Google Analytics to track performance. Both Squarespace and Google collect personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
2. Webform Submissions:
When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google for storage and with Zapier for data porting.
3. Data Collection with host site:
Squarespace hosts this website. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
4. Sharing:
This website includes share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from this site to the following third party services: Meta, Pinterest, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Reddit, and Tumblr. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
Your IP address
5. Comments:
This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:
Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)
Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)
Your website URL (optional)
This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
Your IP address
6. Fonts:
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address