Privacy Policy

Effective date: March 16, 2026 Last updated: March 16, 2026

Barding Defense (“Barding,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the website at bardingdefense.com. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding that information.

Information we collect

Analytics data (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our site — which pages are visited, how long visitors stay, and where traffic comes from. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this data.

With Google Consent Mode v2, analytics cookies are only set if you click “Accept” on our cookie consent banner. If you decline or do not respond, Google Analytics operates in cookieless mode, collecting only anonymized, aggregated data with no cookies stored on your device.

Data collected by Google Analytics may include:

  • Pages visited and time spent on each page
  • Referring website or source
  • Browser type, operating system, and screen resolution
  • Approximate geographic location (city/region level, derived from IP address)
  • Device type (desktop, mobile, tablet)

Google processes this data under its own privacy policy. We do not have access to your individual browsing activity across other websites. We use this data solely to understand traffic patterns and improve our site.

Contact form submissions

If you voluntarily submit our contact form, we collect:

  • Email address — so we can respond to your inquiry
  • Message content — the optional message you provide
  • Timestamp — when the submission was made
  • IP address and country — collected automatically with the submission

This data is stored in Cloudflare Workers KV, a secure key-value store operated by Cloudflare. We use this information only to respond to your inquiry and evaluate interest in our product. We do not sell, rent, or share your contact information with third parties.

Cloudflare Turnstile

Our contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile, a bot-detection service, to prevent automated abuse. Turnstile may process browser signals to verify that submissions come from real users. This processing is handled by Cloudflare under their privacy policy.

Infrastructure providers

Our website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, and our form backend runs on Cloudflare Workers. In the course of delivering these services, Cloudflare processes request metadata (such as IP addresses and HTTP headers) as a data processor on our behalf. Cloudflare’s privacy policy governs their handling of this data.

How we use your information

We use the information described above to:

  • Understand how visitors use our site and improve its content
  • Respond to inquiries submitted through our contact form
  • Prevent spam and automated abuse of our contact form
  • Evaluate interest in our product

We do not use your information for advertising, profiling, or automated decision-making.

Data retention

  • Analytics data is retained by Google Analytics according to Google’s standard retention settings (14 months).
  • Contact form submissions are retained indefinitely unless you request deletion.

Your rights

If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR, you have the right to:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you
  • Correct inaccurate personal data
  • Delete your personal data (“right to be forgotten”)
  • Restrict or object to our processing of your personal data
  • Data portability — receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format
  • Withdraw consent at any time for processing based on consent (such as analytics cookies)

Our legal basis for processing analytics data is your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR), obtained through our cookie consent banner. Our legal basis for processing contact form data is our legitimate interest in responding to inquiries (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

If you are in California

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you have the right to:

  • Know what personal information we collect and how it is used
  • Request deletion of your personal information
  • Opt out of the sale of your personal information — we do not sell personal information

All visitors

You can:

  • Decline analytics cookies using the consent banner shown on your first visit
  • Clear your consent choice by clearing your browser’s localStorage for this site
  • Request deletion of any contact form submission by emailing us

Cookies

We use one category of cookie:

Cookie Purpose Set when Duration
Google Analytics (_ga, _ga_*) Site analytics You click “Accept” on the consent banner Up to 14 months

We do not use advertising cookies, tracking pixels, or third-party marketing tools.

Your cookie preference is stored in your browser’s localStorage (not as a cookie) and persists until you clear your browser data.

Children

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us and we will promptly delete it.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

Contact

For privacy-related questions, requests, or complaints:

Email: [email protected]

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