Reviewed September 30, 2026.
Who this covers
Published by Perks of Habit.
This notice explains how Perks of Habit handles information when you use the planner, follow product links or contact us.
Planner answers
Your written description, goals, budget, preferences and plan stay in this tab’s memory. They are not saved to browser storage, sent to our server or sent to an AI service. Reloading starts over. The browser receives product details with the page and requests site files. Those requests do not include your planner answers.
Hosting and request logs
AWS Amplify hosts this site. AWS receives connection and request information needed to deliver pages, including your IP address and requested URL. Hosting access logs can contain URLs and other request details, so avoid putting private information in a page address. AWS states that Amplify access logs are retained until the hosted app is deleted. Our separate CloudWatch compute logs are configured for 30-day retention; that setting does not shorten Amplify access-log retention. See AWS’s access-log documentation.
Optional Google Analytics
On perksofhabit.com, Google Analytics is on by default in the planner, product catalog, product pages and decision guides. You can turn it off using Measurement preferences or Turn off measurement in the footer. Opting out leaves the site usable. Global Privacy Control, Do Not Track and operator exclusions suppress measurement.
While measurement is on, GA4 can receive page views, product views, guide visits, guide-to-planner and guide-to-product clicks, planner starts, catalog browsing, provisional results, result categories and source or merchant link clicks. Events use a small set of identifiers such as product, merchant, guide, entry flow and application version. We do not send planner answers, exact budgets, free text or complete referral URLs. Google also receives cookie identifiers, browser/device information and connection information, including the IP address used to make the request. This is not anonymous-data collection.
Our configuration disables Google Signals, advertising personalization and enhanced measurement. Google explains its processing in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Storage and retention
- Your allow/decline choice is stored in local browser storage and honored for 60 days. When a choice expires, measurement returns to its default-on setting unless a privacy signal or operator exclusion applies; browser storage may retain the old entry until it is replaced or cleared.
- Enabled measurement uses first-party cookies configured for up to 60 days without extending their expiry on activity. Browsers may remove them sooner.
- When measurement is on, session storage holds activity flags, a bounded traffic-source label such as Google organic, and a timestamp, not your answers or complete referral URLs. This helps connect a visit to a merchant click as you move between pages. After 30 minutes without recorded activity, the remembered source expires. Turning measurement off clears it.
- GA4 event and user-level retention is set to two months with activity renewal off. Aggregated reports may be retained longer.
Change your choice
Use Measurement preferences in the planner, product catalog, product pages or decision guides to review your choice. Turning measurement off stops future collection and clears this site’s measurement cookies and tab measurement state. It does not erase data already received by Google. The decline preference remains so it can be respected; you can also clear site data in your browser.
Usage measurement is off for this visit. On a standalone policy page, measurement does not load. Your planner’s settings are available in its footer when measurement is enabled there.
Merchant links and contact
Verified affiliate products use Awin referral links by default. We may earn a commission if you make a qualifying purchase. Every shopping and product-source referral link tells Awin not to set referral cookies or pass a click identifier to the merchant. This applies to everyone, including with JavaScript disabled. We do not ask for or save referral-cookie permission. Following a link still sends a request to Awin and the merchant, which can process connection and request information. Product recommendations use verified affiliate destinations. Non-shopping research documents and privacy notices retain their original links. Google Analytics preferences are separate and do not change this referral setting. It does not control the merchant’s own cookies or remove cookies from earlier visits. Commission attribution is not guaranteed. See Awin’s privacy policy and Stumptown’s privacy notice and 1st in Coffee’s privacy notice for their practices.
For privacy questions, email hello@perksofhabit.com. Your email provider and the receiving provider process your address and message. There is no contact form on this site.