Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 29, 2026

This policy explains what Chip Hosting Solutions collects when you use chip-hosting.com, why, who else handles it, how long it is kept, and what you can do about it. It describes what this site actually does today: the forms, the audit wizard, blog comments, and the analytics and advertising tags that load on its pages.

Who we are

Chip Hosting Solutions, LLC (“Chip Hosting Solutions”, “we”, “us”) runs chip-hosting.com and is responsible for the personal data described here. For anything in this policy, write to andrew@chip-hosting.com.

This policy covers this website and the services it runs on our own infrastructure: the analytics server at sensor.chip-hosting.com, the website scanner and the lead-management system behind the audit wizard. It does not cover Marver installations that our customers run on their own infrastructure; see Marver software.

At a glance

We do not sell personal data for money. This is what the site collects, in one place.

What we collect, activity by activity

Contact form

You choose an inquiry type and give your name, email address and message. The form sends them to our inbox through Twilio SendGrid, with your address as the reply-to so we can answer you. The site itself does not store the message in a database. A hidden field catches automated spam; real visitors never see it.

Marver trial request

On the Marver page and its pages for specific industries, you give your name, work email and company, where the server will run, and optionally what you use today. The request also says which of those pages you sent it from. If a search engine or an ad brought you to the site in the same browser tab, it also includes the campaign tags in the link you followed (utm parameters), the ad click ID (from Google Ads or Microsoft Advertising), the page you arrived on and the site that linked to it, so we can tell which searches and ads lead to trials. It reaches our inbox the same way as the contact form, and we use it to review the request and reply with a trial license.

Free audit wizard and website scan

The audit wizard asks which platform you use, your role and your main challenge, then your name, email address and company, and optionally a phone number. The answers you click are recorded by our site analytics as you go (see Analytics and advertising). When you submit, your answers, the website address you entered, whether you agreed to the scan, the page you opened the wizard from and the time go to our own lead-management system, so we can prepare the audit and follow up with you.

If you enter a website address and tick the consent box, our scanning service loads that address and records which analytics and marketing tools it finds, the contents of its data layer and how long the page took to load. The address and the results are saved in our lead-management system as soon as the scan finishes, even if you close the wizard before giving your contact details, and we may use them to contact that business about its analytics. Only scan sites you are authorized to have scanned. You can skip the scan entirely.

Blog comments and votes

To comment you enter your comment and, optionally, a display name (otherwise it shows as “Anonymous”). Both are public once the comment is approved, along with its date. Each comment is stored with a random ID. If your browser already has our anonymousId cookie, which is set the first time you vote, the comment gets that ID, and once one of its comments has been approved, later comments from it are approved without a wait. Otherwise each comment gets a new ID.

Each vote records that ID, the vote and its time on the comment. The random IDs do not contain your name or IP address, but the data the site loads to display comments includes each comment's ID and, for every vote, the voter's ID, the vote and its time, so anyone can see which ID voted how.

Blog posts use Google reCAPTCHA to tell people from bots. Google's script loads with the post and assesses your interaction with the page; when you post a comment we send Google a token and receive a score. We use the score only to flag likely spam, and we keep the flag, not the score. Comments held for moderation or flagged as spam are stored too. reCAPTCHA is subject to Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Embedded video and fonts

The Adobe Analytics page embeds a YouTube video. The YouTube player loads with the page, so Google receives your IP address and may set its own cookies even if you do not press play. Every page also requests its font stylesheet from Google Fonts, which gives Google your IP address and browser details.

What we do not collect

This site has no visitor accounts, no payment forms and no newsletter sign-up. Please do not send sensitive information, such as health or financial details, through the forms.

Analytics and advertising

Three measurement tools load on every page, without asking first:

• Marver, our own analytics. We run our product on our own site. A small script sends page views and clicks to our Marver server at sensor.chip-hosting.com. Each page view carries the full page address and title, the page you came from, your browser and operating system, device type, screen and window size, pixel density, colour depth, number of processor cores, touch support, language, time zone, Do Not Track setting, connection type, page-load timings and any campaign tags. Each click carries the clicked element's visible text, CSS classes and destination; that includes the answers you pick in the audit wizard, but never what you type into a form field. Every request also carries your IP address, browser identification and the cookies our site sets on chip-hosting.com, including the Google Analytics and Pinterest cookies.
• Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager, collects similar usage data, including the page address, for Google Analytics reports. Google states that Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. Our Google tag also sends requests to Google's advertising domain (doubleclick.net), which fall under Google's advertising policies; see how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
• The Pinterest tag sends Pinterest the address of each page you view with Pinterest's identifiers (its cookie, and your Pinterest account if you are logged in), so we can measure Pinterest advertising and show our ads on Pinterest to people who have visited. See Pinterest's privacy policy.

Our Marver analytics data stays on servers we operate. It also powers the live public demo that the Marver Workbench opens on first launch, so people trying Marver can explore how visitors use this site: pages, paths, devices and similar details, tied to random visitor IDs, never to names or email addresses.

Under some US state privacy laws, letting Google and Pinterest collect data through our site for advertising counts as “sharing” personal information or “targeted advertising”. These tags run in your browser, so we cannot switch them off for you from our side, and the site does not yet respond to Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signals. You can limit them with the browser and account controls in Your rights and choices.

Cookies and browser storage

These are the cookies and similar storage the site sets or lets others set. Durations are the most a cookie lasts; some browsers shorten them.

Third-party tags also keep data in your browser's storage for this site (for example is_eu in session storage) and under their own domains, such as Pinterest's and reCAPTCHA's. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The site works without them, apart from comment voting.

Who else receives your data

These service providers process data for us, only as needed to provide their service:

• Twilio SendGrid delivers contact-form and trial-request messages to our inbox.
• Our email provider hosts the inbox where those messages and our replies are kept.
• Vercel hosts this website. Like any web host, it receives your IP address and request details when you load a page.
• Our database host stores blog posts and comments.
• Hosting and network providers for our own systems run the analytics server, the website scanner, the lead-management system and the download server.

These companies receive data directly from your browser and use it under their own policies:

• Google: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics (site measurement), reCAPTCHA (spam protection on blog posts), Google Fonts (every page requests its font stylesheet from Google's servers) and YouTube (the embedded video on the Adobe Analytics page).
• Pinterest: the Pinterest tag, for measuring and targeting Pinterest advertising.

Beyond these, we disclose personal data only when the law requires it, to protect our rights or someone's safety, or to a buyer or successor if the business is sold or reorganized, who would remain bound by this policy.

Why we are allowed to use it

If you are in the European Economic Area or the UK, we rely on these legal bases:

• Steps you ask us to take before a possible contract: answering inquiries, trial requests and audit requests.
• Legitimate interests: keeping the site running and secure, stopping spam, publishing the comments you submit, understanding how the site is used, measuring and targeting our marketing, and following up on business inquiries. Google Analytics, the Pinterest tag and the YouTube player currently load without asking you first, and we rely on legitimate interests for them. You can object to any of these.
• Consent: the website scan, which runs only when you tick the box.
• Legal obligations, where a law requires us to keep or disclose data.

How long we keep it

• Inquiries (contact, trial and audit requests, and their email threads): for as long as we are talking with you or working together, then for as long as we need them as business records.
• Website scan results: as a record of interest in our services, linked to any later audit request for the same website.
• Comments and votes, including comments held for moderation or flagged as spam: until we delete them or you ask us to.
• Our Marver analytics: as long as it is useful for understanding long-term use of the site.
• Google Analytics: according to our Google Analytics data retention setting.
• Cookies: for the durations in the table above.

Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you can ask us to:

• tell you what personal data we hold about you and give you a copy, including in a portable format;
• correct inaccurate data;
• delete your data, including a comment you posted;
• restrict or object to how we use it, including for analytics and marketing;
• withdraw consent you gave, without affecting what happened before.

To make a request, email andrew@chip-hosting.com with “Privacy request” in the subject. We may ask you to confirm the request from the email address it concerns. An authorized agent can make a request for you with your written permission. We answer within one month in the EEA and UK and within 45 days under US state laws, extended where the law allows, and we will not treat you differently for exercising your rights. If we decline a request, you can appeal by replying to our answer, and in the EEA or UK you can complain to your data protection authority.

The Google Analytics, Pinterest and YouTube tags run in your browser, so the most effective way to stop them, or their “sharing” for advertising, is with these controls:

• Block or delete cookies for chip-hosting.com in your browser, or use a content blocker. Blocking our analytics does not affect the forms.
• Install Google's Google Analytics opt-out add-on, and manage Google ads in My Ad Center.
• Turn off ads personalization from visited sites in your Pinterest privacy settings.
• Skip the website scan and leave the optional fields blank in the audit wizard.

Marver software

Marver is self-hosted. When an organization runs it, the customer and event data it collects stays on that organization's own infrastructure and never reaches us; that organization decides how it is used and answers for it under its own privacy policy.

A licensed Marver server checks its license with us when it starts and once a day. The check sends a license ID and an install fingerprint and, like any request, the server's IP address, never customer or event data. Air-gapped Enterprise licenses skip it. The Marver Workbench desktop app connects to our public demo server when it first opens. Marver downloads come from our download server, which sees your IP address and browser details when you download a file. Trial requests are handled as described above.

Security, children and transfers

The whole site, including every form and our analytics server, uses encrypted HTTPS connections, and form messages go to fixed recipients set on our server. Only our own staff can sign in to our inbox, database and lead-management system. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

The site is meant for business visitors and is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect their personal data; if you believe a child has sent us some, contact us and we will delete it.

We are based in the United States, and our service providers process data in the United States and other countries. If you visit from outside the United States, your data will be transferred there, and where the law requires it we rely on our providers' standard contractual clauses or equivalent safeguards.

Changes and contact

When our practices change, we update this page and the date at the top. If a change is significant, we will say so on this page before it takes effect.