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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 7, 2026

Who We Are

At Off Grid Watts (offgridwatts.com), our mission is to empower you with reliable information and practical solutions for off-grid living, emergency preparedness, and sustainable energy, particularly through solar and portable power systems. We believe in total transparency and protecting your privacy. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website.

Affiliate Disclosures & Third-Party Links

Off Grid Watts is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

“As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.”

When you click on an affiliate link on offgridwatts.com, a temporary tracking cookie is placed on your browser by the third-party affiliate network (such as Amazon) to track and attribute any qualifying purchases made within their specified tracking window. Clicking these links incurs no additional cost to you and helps support the independent testing, guides, and practical calculators published on this site.

Once you leave offgridwatts.com via an external or affiliate link, the privacy policies, terms of service, and tracking practices of that destination website govern your activity. We encourage you to review their respective policies.

Email Newsletters & Toolkit Downloads

If you subscribe to our newsletter or request resources (such as our 72-Hour Emergency Power Toolkit), we collect the personal information you submit, which may include your name and email address.

This information is used strictly to deliver the requested materials, send periodic updates, and provide practical off-grid power insights. We do not sell, rent, or trade your email address to third parties. You can opt out or unsubscribe at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link located at the bottom of any email we send, or by contacting us directly.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on Off Grid Watts, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection and maintain community integrity.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to our website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images hosted on the site.

Cookies & Tracking Technologies

Our website utilizes cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience:

  • Site Operation & Comments: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
  • Account Login: If you log in to this site, temporary cookies are set to verify whether your browser accepts cookies. These contain no personal data and are discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we set up cookies to save your login information (lasting two days) and your screen display choices (lasting one year). Selecting “Remember Me” retains your login for two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
  • Content Management: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser indicating the post ID of the article you edited. It contains no personal data and expires after 1 day.
  • Third-Party & Affiliate Cookies: In addition to internal cookies, third-party partners—including Amazon Associates and web analytics services—may place and read cookies on your browser or use web beacons to track qualifying purchases, referral traffic, and site analytics. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on Off Grid Watts may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, interactive tools). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website directly.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who We Share Your Data With

We prioritize your privacy and data security.

  • If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email for verification and security purposes.
  • Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
  • We do not sell, rent, or lease your personal identifiable information to third parties. We may share anonymized or aggregate data (which cannot be used to identify you) for site analytics and optimization.

How Long We Retain Your Data

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
  • Registered Users: For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
  • Mailing List: We retain your email information for as long as you choose to remain subscribed to our updates or toolkits.

Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, have subscribed to our resources, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Your State Privacy Rights (CCPA / CPRA Notice)

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal identifiable information or consumer data to third-party data brokers for monetary or commercial consideration.

Residents of certain states (including California) maintain specific statutory rights regarding their personal data, including:

  • The right to know what personal data is being collected and how it is processed.
  • The right to request deletion of personal information held by us.
  • The right to correct inaccurate personal information.
  • The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising privacy rights.

To exercise any of these statutory privacy rights, please submit a request through our Contact page.

Contact Us

If you have questions, comments, or data requests concerning this Privacy Policy, please reach out through our official contact channels: