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Effective September 27th, 2026

Privacy Policy

PackedUltralight (“PackedUltralight,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and how we protect it when you use the PackedUltralight website, web application, and mobile application (collectively, the “Service”).

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you use PackedUltralight, we may collect:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Payment information
  • IP address
  • Cookies and similar technologies

We may also store information and content you choose to enter into the Service, including gear lists, categories, gear items, notes, prices, product links, and uploaded photos.

If you use PackedUltralight without an account, the lists you make are stored only in your browser, on your device. They are not sent to us. They reach our servers only if you later create an account, sign in, and choose to import them; until then they stay where they are, and clearing this site’s data in your browser deletes them.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use information we collect to:

  • Provide and operate PackedUltralight;
  • Create and maintain your account;
  • Process payments and orders;
  • Store and display your gear lists;
  • Provide shared-list functionality;
  • Count visits and product-link clicks on shared pages;
  • Maintain and secure the Service;
  • Detect, investigate, and prevent abuse or unauthorized activity;
  • Respond to requests and provide customer support; and
  • Comply with applicable legal obligations.

3. Shared Lists and Visitor Counts

PackedUltralight allows you to create public links to your gear lists.

If you choose to share a list, information you have selected to display may be accessible to anyone who has the public link. You are responsible for deciding what information to include in a publicly shared list.

Shared pages may be monitored for abuse. Readers may report shared pages, and reported pages may be locked and reviewed.

We count visits and product-link clicks on shared pages and provide these counts to the list owner.

To help distinguish individual visitors without storing their IP addresses directly for this purpose, visitor information is converted into a pseudonymous, one-way code derived from the visitor’s IP address. This code is not considered anonymous information because it is derived from an identifying piece of information.

Pseudonymous visitor-counting information is retained for 180 days, after which it is deleted or otherwise removed from our active systems according to our retention practices.

4. Voting and Copying Shared Lists

If you are signed in, you may cast a net upvote or downvote on a shared list you do not own. Votes require a verified account; you cannot vote on your own list. The resulting score is visible to anyone viewing the shared page, and is recomputed from currently active accounts each time anyone votes, so a vote from an account we have suspended stops counting automatically.

You may copy a shared list into your own account (or, if you are not signed in, into a browser-only list on your own device) as a starting point for your own gear list. A copy includes the categories, items, trip details, and display settings you see on the shared page, and photos are copied as files you own. A copy does not include the original owner's gear-library links, their share link, or any affiliate tag added to a product link when the shared page is displayed — only the underlying product link you can see is copied.

5. Public Profiles

If you list at least one gear list in Explore, your account has a public profile page at /u/{your username}. Anyone can view this page, whether or not they have an account.

Your public profile may show an avatar photo, a cover photo, a short bio, up to five social or personal links you add, your username, and the lists you have listed. Adding an avatar, cover photo, bio, or links is optional. Any social link you add must use https:// and is shown to visitors as you entered it — we do not add tracking or affiliate tags to it.

Your username is derived from your email address when you register, and you may change it from Settings. To reduce the chance of a changed handle being used to impersonate you mid-conversation, you can change it again only after a waiting period, and we keep a log of past changes for moderation purposes.

Visitors may report a profile they believe is abusive, and a human reviews reported profiles. We may reset a profile’s photo, cover photo, bio, and links if it violates our terms; this does not affect your username or your lists.

6. Cookies

PackedUltralight uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, maintain functionality, and understand basic usage of the Service.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings, although doing so may affect certain features of PackedUltralight.

7. Third-Party Services

PackedUltralight uses certain third-party services to operate and protect the Service. These services may receive information such as your IP address when your browser interacts with them.

Cloudflare Turnstile

We use Cloudflare Turnstile to help protect forms, including our report forms, from spam and automated abuse. Cloudflare may process information such as your IP address and information about your browser or device to provide this security service.

Umami

We use Umami to understand basic usage of the Service, such as which pages are visited and which buttons and links are used. Umami does not use cookies. When you view a page or use a button or link, your browser sends Umami the page address, the referring page, the name of that button or link, your screen size, language and browser type, and Umami receives your IP address as part of that request. We do not send what you type, such as list or item names. We remove security tokens from page addresses before they are sent. When you are signed in, we also send an identifier for your account, which is a random code and not your email address, so that your visits can be linked together.

These third-party services process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.

8. Payment Information

If you purchase a paid product or subscription, payment information may be collected and processed as necessary to complete the transaction.

We use payment information for payment and order processing. We do not sell your payment information.

9. Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal information.

We may use third-party service providers when necessary to operate PackedUltralight, including providers for hosting, payment processing, authentication, email delivery, security, and other essential infrastructure.

These providers may process information, including IP addresses, as necessary to provide their services.

We may also disclose information when required by law, legal process, or when reasonably necessary to protect the rights, safety, and security of PackedUltralight, our users, or others.

10. Affiliate Links

Some product links displayed on shared pages may contain an affiliate tag.

The affiliate tag may be added when a shared page is displayed and is not saved as part of your original product link or list data.

11. Data Retention and Deletion

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Service, fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Pseudonymous visitor-counting information described above is retained for 180 days.

When you delete content, we may retain limited copies for a reasonable period in backups or where necessary for security, fraud prevention, moderation, legal compliance, or other legitimate purposes.

12. Children’s Privacy

PackedUltralight is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at hey@packedultralight.com so we can take appropriate action.

13. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

14. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including rights to access, correct, or delete information we hold about you.

To make a privacy-related request, contact us at hey@packedultralight.com.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

When we make changes, we will update the effective date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are responsible for reviewing the Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about our practices.

We do not guarantee that we will provide individual notice of changes.

16. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how PackedUltralight handles your information, contact us at:

hey@packedultralight.com