Privacy Policy

Data Controller

• Publisher and data controller: Ulysan, sole proprietorship (entrepreneur individuel) registered in France (see Legal Notice)
• Address: 18 rue Jean-Geoffroy Conrath, 67200 Strasbourg, France
• SIREN: 918 816 539 · SIRET (head office): 918 816 539 00020
• VAT: not applicable, article 293 B of the French General Tax Code
• Publication director and privacy contact: Bastien
• Email: legal@payloadscale.com (privacy requests) · contact@payloadscale.com

Ulysan has not appointed a Data Protection Officer; privacy requests are handled directly by the publisher at the address above.

Calculator Inputs Stay in Your Browser

PayloadScale.com is a static website. The payload, tongue weight, kingpin load, CAT Scale, and towing capacity calculators run as JavaScript inside your browser. The values you type (vehicle trim, passengers, cargo, trailer weight and scale pass inputs) are not sent to our server, are not stored in a database and are not linked to you. Our own code does not set cookies and does not use local storage.

Hosting, Delivery and Security Logs

Pages are served from a virtual private server rented from OVH SAS (2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France) and delivered through the content delivery and security network of Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). To deliver a page, these systems necessarily process connection data: IP address, browser user agent, requested URL, referrer, date and time, and response status.

Purpose and legal basis: delivering the site and protecting it against abuse and attacks, which is our legitimate interest (GDPR article 6(1)(f)). This data is not used to build advertising profiles. Technical logs are kept only for the short period needed for security and troubleshooting.

Advertising & Consent Script (Google AdSense)

PayloadScale.com intends to fund its free towing calculators with advertising served by Google AdSense (publisher ID pub-5437343570143633). At the moment no Google advertising or consent script is loaded on this site. The rules below apply whenever Google AdSense scripts are enabled.

• Google and its partners use cookies or similar identifiers to serve ads, limit how often you see the same ad, measure ad performance and detect fraudulent clicks.
• Where you allow it, ads may be personalised based on your visits to this and other websites. Where you refuse, Google serves non-personalised or limited ads, which still rely on technically necessary processing such as frequency capping and fraud prevention.
• Google explains how it uses data from partner sites at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can manage ad personalisation at adssettings.google.com or opt out of third-party vendors at optout.aboutads.info.

Legal basis: your consent (GDPR article 6(1)(a) and article 82 of the French Data Protection Act) where consent is required; legitimate interest for ad delivery and fraud prevention elsewhere.

Your Consent Choices

Every page sets Google Consent Mode v2 defaults before any Google script can run. For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, all four signals (ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization and analytics_storage) start as denied.

When Google's script is active, the consent message shown in those regions is Google's certified consent management platform operated through AdSense Privacy & messaging. Nothing that requires consent is stored or read on your device until you make a choice in that message. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time with the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page.

Audience Measurement

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views and measure Core Web Vitals loading performance. It does not set cookies, does not use local storage and does not build a profile of you; it records aggregated metrics such as the page visited, referrer, country and browser type. Legal basis: legitimate interest in understanding site performance and usage (GDPR article 6(1)(f)).

Email Correspondence

If you write to us, inbound emails addressed to @payloadscale.com are routed via Cloudflare Email Routing (Cloudflare, Inc., operating under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and Standard Contractual Clauses) directly to Ulysan's mailbox hosted in the European Union by OVH SAS. We process your email address, name if provided and message content solely to respond to your inquiry (legitimate interest, GDPR article 6(1)(f)). Correspondence is retained for no longer than three years after our last exchange.

Recipients and Transfers Outside the EU

GDPR & U.S. State Privacy Rights (CCPA / CPRA)

Under articles 15 to 22 of the GDPR you may request access to, correction or erasure of your personal data, restrict or object to its processing, request portability, and withdraw consent at any time without affecting earlier processing.

United States State Privacy Rights (California CCPA/CPRA & Equivalent State Laws): We never sell personal data to data brokers or third parties for monetary consideration. When Google AdSense is enabled, personalized advertising cookies may constitute sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Residents of California and other U.S. states with applicable privacy statutes can opt out of cross-context behavioral advertising at any time via Google's U.S. State Privacy message using the Cookie settings link in the footer, or via adssettings.google.com.

Send privacy requests to legal@payloadscale.com; we reply within one month. You may also lodge a complaint with the French supervisory authority, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL, www.cnil.fr), or with the authority of your place of residence.