Short version: we run no trackers of our own, we do not sell data, and your address is never handed to a contractor. Advertising on the site is served by partners who use cookies, and exactly what they do is spelled out below — the long version describes what the site actually does rather than what a template says.
Last updated 2 November 2026. AerialQuote is operated by 716Ventures LLC, 418 Broadway Suite R, Albany, NY 12207. Questions or requests: privacy@aerialquote.com.
No Google Analytics, no Facebook tag, no session recording, no cross-site tracking that we install. We do not build a profile of you. The one exception is advertising: ads on this site are served by third-party networks that set their own cookies, and that is described in full under Advertising and affiliate links. If anything else changes, this page changes first and the date above moves.
We do keep one anonymous count — which kinds of job people price, and roughly where — described in full under What we count. It carries no address, no name and nothing that points back to a person or a device.
You can measure and price anything without signing up. In that case we store nothing about you on our servers. Analytics is the one piece that is not ours — Google Analytics counts the visit, and is listed under Third parties the tool contacts below. On our own servers, specifically:
The map and the address lookup are not ours, so using them means your browser talks to somebody else's server. That is unavoidable for a mapping tool, and you should know who:
Each of these has its own privacy policy, and we have no control over what they do with a request. We send them the minimum needed to answer it and nothing about who you are.
The snow day calculator needs no account and sets no cookies of its own. Exactly what it keeps:
We publish results from reports only as totals, by how often schools closed when we called a given chance. The page shows no ads and does not load Google Analytics. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits without cookies, and our server counts how many forecasts were looked up, which kind of site sent the visit (for example a search engine or a social app) and which share buttons were pressed, as totals only, with nothing about who you are.
We keep a running count of what the tool gets used for. It is how the counter on the home page works, and over time it should show which jobs people actually price and in which parts of the country — the sort of thing a contractor would find useful and nobody publishes. When a measurement is finished, four things are recorded:
What is not recorded, at any point: the address you typed, the coordinates you looked at, the outline you drew, your name, your email, your account, your IP address, or any cookie or device identifier. There is no key in that record that could be matched back to you, by us or by anyone we gave it to. Nothing about this changes if you have an account — the count is kept entirely separately from accounts and is never joined to one.
While you are tracing, the page holds a random number in memory so that a measurement you keep adjusting is counted once rather than fifty times. It is discarded when you close the tab, is never written to your device, and is not stored alongside anything about you.
To show prices in the right currency and units, the tool asks our server which country your connection appears to be in (Cloudflare supplies this; we do not store it), and, if you paste coordinates instead of an address, which country that point is in. Currency and units follow the property’s country; if you change them, the choice is not saved anywhere.
If we ever publish anything drawn from these counts it will be in aggregate — totals and averages across many measurements — and never as individual records. Selling or sharing individual measurement records is on the list of things we do not do, below, and that is not a promise we intend to revisit.
AerialQuote is free to use and is paid for by advertising and by affiliate links. Here is what each one means for you.
Advertising. We use third-party advertising companies, including Google, to serve ads when you visit the site. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites — not including your name, address, email or telephone number — to show ads for goods and services that may interest you. Specifically:
Where the law requires it — the EU, the UK, and a growing list of US states — you will see a consent message before any advertising cookie is set, and you can change that choice later.
Affiliate links. Some links to retailers — for example a "buy this many bags" link under a mulch quantity — are affiliate links. If you buy through one, the retailer pays us a small commission. It costs you nothing extra, the price is the retailer's normal price, and it never changes the quantity we calculate: the number comes first and the link is added after. Affiliate links are marked where they appear.
Advertising and affiliate partners see the page you are on and standard browser information. They do not see the address you typed, the outline you drew, your account, or anything from the anonymous count above.
Accounts are optional, free, and exist so your work is still there tomorrow. We store:
There is no password. Signing in sends a one-time link to your email that works once and expires in twenty minutes. We never store a password, because we never have one. The sign-in link and your session are stored only as irreversible hashes, so even a copy of our database would not let someone sign in as you.
A share link from the countdown calculator keeps the name, the date, the time, the time zone and the picture (and your note, if you ticked the box) until 7 days after the event, and for no more than 400 days. You do not need an account to make one, and the link is not tied to your account. Three reports hide a link; write to privacy@aerialquote.com and we delete one. Facebook, X and Pinterest get the picture and the title when you share there.
There are three places to ask for tips, and none of the boxes is ticked for you: the “Send me deck and yard tips” box when you sign in, the same box when you buy a DeckIQ plan set, and “Email me the field guide” on the build-a-deck pages. From the field-guide box we email you once to confirm, and send nothing else until you tap that link. We store:
We send a few emails a season, from the AerialQuote tips address. Every one has a one-click unsubscribe link, and the switch on your account page does the same. After you unsubscribe we send no more tips; emails about your own account or a plan you bought still come, because they are about something you did. We send through our email provider, Resend, and the list is never sold, rented or shared. Our postal address: 716Ventures LLC, 418 Broadway, Suite R, Albany, NY 12207, USA.
On the results panel there is a button reading Find a pro for this service. Nothing happens unless you press it, fill the form in and send it. If you do, this is exactly what is passed on and to whom.
What goes onto the board, visible to any subscribing contractor: the job type, the measurement, our own estimate, the first three digits of your ZIP code, your town and state, whether you said you could send photos, and any note you wrote. There is no street address, no name, no email and no phone number at this stage, and no house-level coordinates.
What is released when a contractor picks your request up: your email address, your street address, your note, and your phone number only if you gave one and ticked the box next to it. Up to four contractors can pick up the same request; each one is recorded against your request with the date, so we can always tell you who was given your details. You get an email naming each contractor as it happens.
Your phone number is optional and always will be. If you give one we store the exact sentence you agreed to and the moment you ticked it. Leave it blank and contractors reach you by email. You can end the whole thing at any time by taking the request down from your account, and you can reply STOP to any text.
A quote request carries no photos. The “I can send photos” toggle is a note to the contractor that they can ask you for them — you send them directly, to them. (The one place you can upload photos to AerialQuote is the build log that comes with a DeckIQ plan set, described below.)
A request carries your outline, never a picture of the map. When you send a request we keep the corner points of the shape you traced, with the measurement. Before a contractor picks the job up, the board shows only a plain drawing of the shape with its side lengths, with no location. A contractor who picks it up gets your address and sees the outline on the satellite view, so they know where on the property the job is. We hold no copy of any imagery. (Requests sent between 2 and 16 October 2026 carried the measurement only.)
A request expires after 30 days. If nobody has picked it up by then it comes off the board automatically and we email you to say so. Details already released to a contractor who picked it up cannot be recalled — they have them, the same as if you had phoned them.
Contractors pay us a subscription, not a fee for your details. We take no cut of any work, we do not set the price, and we are not a party to anything you agree with a contractor. Some privacy laws, including California's, treat handing contact details to a business in exchange for anything of value as a “sale” of personal information regardless of what it is called. We are telling you plainly that this is what the feature does, so you can decide before you press send, and you can ask us to delete the record at any time using the address on the contact page.
A DeckIQ plan set comes with a build log for ticking off the build. Nothing goes into it unless you add it. We store:
Who sees it: only people who can open that plan, meaning you and, if you accepted a contractor’s quote on the design, that contractor. Build logs are never public, never shown to other contractors, and never sold. We don’t look through them; we open one only if you ask us to, if a photo is reported to us, or if the law requires it.
Where and how long: on our hosting provider, Cloudflare, until you remove a photo, delete the plan (which deletes its whole build log) or delete your account.
Reported photos: a photo someone reports is hidden from the build log while we review it. If it may be illegal, we keep a copy apart from the build log, with the account that uploaded it, for one year (or longer if the law requires), and we share it with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children or law enforcement where the law requires us to. That copy is kept even if the photo, the plan or the account is deleted.
Report a problem in the deck designer or the build log sends us what you write, the step you were on, the DeckIQ version, your screen size and browser, and your email so we can write back. If you tick the boxes, it also sends a copy of your design (its shape, sizes, answers and the address you typed, never anything from the satellite map) and a picture of the board. We use it only to find and fix the problem, it’s never shared or sold, and your saved plan isn’t changed. A report is deleted 90 days after the problem is fixed or closed.
Questions in DeckIQ are a conversation between a deck’s owner and one other person: a contractor who picked up the owner’s design request, or someone the owner sent a view link. We keep what you write, the marks you draw, a picture of the marked spot and when it was sent, so both of you can read it. The other person sees the first name you give (or, for a contractor, the company name), never your email or phone number. Before a homeowner accepts a contractor’s quote, the contractor sees the town, not the street. The deck’s owner can stop a conversation at any time.
Text alerts are optional. If you add a mobile number, confirm it with the code we text you and tick the box agreeing to texts, we send a short heads-up when there is a new message or a change on a deck you’re talking about: at most one per deck every 30 minutes, none between 9 pm and 8 am your time, and never the message itself. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to stop them, or HELP for help, or turn them off under My alerts. We keep a record of your consent (the wording, when, and the number). Your mobile number and consent are never shared with or sold to anyone for their marketing; we use them only to send these alerts, through our text provider (Twilio). Agreeing to texts is never a condition of buying anything. How the texts work, step by step: AerialQuote text alerts.
Under a result, the tool may show up to three listed businesses that cover the address on the map and, for material jobs like mulch, soil or stone, up to three nearby supply yards. Showing either box sends nothing about you to anyone: no address, no email, no measurement. Directions opens Google Maps with the yard’s address; what Google does with that is covered by Google’s own privacy policy. The businesses see only a count of how often their listing was shown and how often someone tapped Call or their website, with nothing that identifies who. Your details reach a contractor only if you send a request through “Find a pro for this service”, as described above.
Contractors and supply yards can ask to be listed from the List your business page. This is what happens to what you give us there.
What is shown publicly once you are approved: your business name, your trades, your business phone number, your website, your town and state, how far you travel, and the line you wrote about yourself. Your street address is shown only if you ticked the box that says so. Your email address is never shown.
What only we see: your email address, your full address, the name you gave, which link you came from, and the dates you signed up, confirmed and were approved. Jared uses the phone number and address to call you and confirm the business is real before anything goes live. Nobody can list another company in your name without that call.
Your account: confirming your email sets up a free contractor account with the same sign-in-by-link as everyone else, and fills your company details from the form. You can change them on your account page. To change a listing or take it down, reply to any email from us, use the contact page, or call or text 716-807-8439. We remove it and tell you when it is done.
If we invited you by email: Jared sometimes emails a business an invitation to list, with a link that opens this form already filled in with the name and email he used. We keep that address, when the email was sent, and whether the link was opened. Every invitation has a one-click “don’t email me again” link; after that we never send another.
Spam protection: the form may use Cloudflare Turnstile to check that a person sent it. We also keep a one-way hash of your connection's IP address for one day, only to stop the form being flooded. It cannot be turned back into the address.
When Pro opens, payments are handled by Stripe. Card details are entered on Stripe's own hosted page and never touch this site or our database. We keep a Stripe customer reference, your plan, and its dates — nothing that could be used to charge a card.
When a contractor sends you a contract to sign through AerialQuote, the signing is done by BoldSign, an e-signature service. The contract, your name and email (and your phone, if the contractor added it for a text), and the signing record (when you opened and signed, and the device’s IP address) go to BoldSign, which keeps them so the signature can be proven. We keep who signs, the dates and the status, plus when you agreed to sign electronically; we do not keep a copy of the contract itself. Your contractor gets the signed PDF. The contract is between you and your contractor: AerialQuote isn’t a party to it and takes no cut of what you pay them.
If you are a contractor and choose to contribute a finished quote, that figure enters the regional dataset under the rules on the methodology page: never attached to your company name, aged at least 45 days, and only published once at least three separate contractors have reported the same thing. Contributing is a choice, not a condition of having an account.
Listed businesses can also fill in a short rate card on their account page: a few of their going rates, a minimum charge and an hourly labor rate. Each figure is stored against your account so you can see and change it, and a copy goes into the same dataset under the same rules (aged 45 days, three businesses minimum, never by company). Once a figure has five or more reports, the single highest and lowest are left out of the published average. Changing or clearing a figure replaces your earlier one. We do not show your rates to other businesses or to homeowners, and we do not sell them. We send at most one reminder a week after your listing goes live if you have not added rates, and one a year asking you to check them.
Contractors signed in on the tool can also save their own rates and what they pay supply yards, so the tool can show their price, their material cost and what is left after material. These are stored against your account only so they follow you between your phone and your computer. Unlike the rate card, nothing here goes into the dataset: it is never averaged, never published, never shown to homeowners, other businesses or the yards themselves, and never sold. Clear a box and that figure is deleted.
We also keep an anonymous count of which job types are being measured in which region, with no email, no address and nothing tied to a person. It tells us that people in Erie County keep measuring mulch beds. It cannot tell us who.
Write to privacy@aerialquote.com and you can:
Without writing to us, you can delete one saved countdown event or all of them, and download them as a file, on the countdown calculator page (My events). Deleting your whole account also deletes your saved events.
We aim to answer within thirty days. Depending on where you live you may have additional rights under laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act or the GDPR; we will honor those requests regardless of where you are, because keeping two standards would be more work than keeping one good one.
This is a tool for pricing property work and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.
If this policy changes materially we will update the date at the top and, if you have an account, tell you by email. We will not quietly widen what we collect.